Is Russia on the run?
Ukraine’s Kharkiv counter-offensive has the Kremlin on the back foot
UKRAINE’S SURPRISE counter-offensive, which began on September 6th, continues to overwhelm Russian defences in the country’s north-east. On the morning of September 11th, Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s military chief, announced his forces had retaken more than 3,000 square kilometres in 11 days—vastly more than Russia had captured in several months of grinding combat since April. Other accounts suggest the figure may be nearly 9,000 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of Cyprus.
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