Is Ukraine Turning the Tide in the War?

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Over the weekend, Ukraine’s military stunned the world. After months of a kind of stalemate, its military took hundreds of miles of territory back from Russia — its biggest victory since the start of the war.

How did the war reach this critical point, and what does Ukraine’s success mean for the future?

Guest: Eric Schmitt (https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-schmitt%20?smid=pc-thedaily), a correspondent covering national security for The New York Times.

Background reading:


A lightning Ukrainian offensive in the country’s northeast has reshaped what had become a grinding war of attrition (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/world/europe/ukraine-offensive-izium-donbas.html?smid=pc-thedaily).
Stunned by a lightning advance, Russia has acknowledged the loss of the northern region of Kharkiv, which cast doubt on the premise that Ukraine could never defeat it (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/world/europe/ukraine-kharkiv-russian-retreat.html?smid=pc-thedaily).
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