The war has entered a fresh phase. The West can thwart Putin's long-term plans in Ukraine

Zdjęcie: Wojna weszła w nową fazę. Zachód może pokrzyżować długofalowe plany Putina na Ukrainie


If the country is to survive, it must be strong and armed adequate to form the end of the war on its own terms. While Ukraine is preparing to celebrate another independency Day on August 24, Kiev has a deep resilience and increasing uncertainty. After more than 3 years of full-scale invasion of Russia, the war entered a fresh phase - 1 in which neither triumph nor fall are visible to either side. However, it became clear that the Kremlin re-calibrated, increasingly convinced that even if it could not win, it could not lose either - writes for Politico Dan Sleat, elder political advisor for Russia/Ukraine at the Tony Blair Institute.