BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 09:18:00
Winning would be to turn ukraine into a vassal state of russia. i think that would be his initial plan and he has failed and what he is trying to find is a face—saving solution and as your correspondent said a few minutes ago i think to be able to succeed in capturing mariupol, the ruins of mariupol, having smashed the city to pieces together with enough territory so the eastern donbas region and crimea region link up but it is nothing like he set out to achieve. russia holds about one third of the donbas region. mariupol defeated him before and he is