Ukraine's intelligence is not only playing a pivotal role in helping to liberate their country against an imperialist power, but also in weakening the Russian Federation to where they no longer pose a threat to their nation for the near future. Already gaining the ability to conduct raids deep inside enemy territory, along with high-value assassinations, Kyiv's intelligence apparatus, like America's, Israel's, and Britain's, will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.
gives them some presence there, but i think when you take a step back and you look at that and your description of this as strategic, it is primarily because it gives russia the narrative that they re not losing. look, i could tell you right now putin is not winning this engagement. he simply doesn t want to lose. that s the significance of bakhmut. when you look at it strategically there is very little that s important about bakhmut. that s horrible to say because of the devastation, the destruction, the death the deaths that have been incurred there, but there is nothing to be gained that will alter fundamentally the strategic outcome from what we re seeing now. why is that, spider? can you go into that a little more? here is bakhmut, it s in the east, the donbas region, a region where the russians want total control. if they now control all of this how does that not impact what could be this spring offensive from the ukrainians coming up? it certainly gives the
Since Russia invaded Ukraine 15 months ago, the West has delivered ever more powerful weapons to Kyiv to help it defend its territory and recapture lost ground. A look back at how the type of weaponry supplied evolved over the course of the war