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Has Ukraine lost the war with Russia?

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 from Quora (Oct 6) The African American perspective ·  Follow Answered by  Geoff Titchener  -  2y Has Ukraine lost the war with Russia? 16%. It’s lost 16% of its territory, down from almost 25%. And 5% of that is Crimea, so in real terms you’re taking about a 10% loss. The big great mighty Russian army has been beaten to a standstill by little Ukraine and has managed to achieve about 10% in almost 3 years. Just to compare, US led allied forces took Iraq in a few weeks. No Ukraine has not lost. Far from it. But more importantly, Russia has no capability to win it. Militarily, strategically, diplomatically. The states goals are undefinable and unachievable. Even if Russia was to somehow occupy Ukraine, they’d never give up. Russia will run itself dry trying to manage it and ultimately have to give up. It’s a fools errand. And Putin is the fool.
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Russian troops may have lost this holy relic. Is it a sign?

Opinion Jim Geraghty The Washington Post October 6, 2026 at 7:00 a.m. original article contains links A saintly hand fragment sent from Moscow for inspiration seems to be missing in action. Russian Orthodox Church clerics carry the relics of the Holy Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy during a religious procession in Moscow on Sept. 6. (Pavel Bednyakov/AP) Whether the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in the headlines or not, the war just keeps grinding on. Last month, British intelligence updated its estimates of the total number of casualties suffered by Russia — killed, wounded and missing — to 1.5 million troops since February 2022.  Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, chief of the U.K. defense staff, noted that most of the losses occurred since January 2023, and in that time, Russia gained just 2 percent of Ukrainian territory. The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated this summer that Russia had suffered as many as 450,000 battlefield deaths over the course of ...
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Trapped in a Kill Zone, a Ukrainian City Is Begining to Starve

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Evacuation is almost impossible and food is running out in Russian-occupied Oleshky, a city menaced by mines and drones. A protester in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, last month calling for help for Oleshky, a city in southern Ukraine. Credit... Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Siobhán O’Grady, Liubov Sholudko and Yurii Shyvala  Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine The New York Times Oct. 5, 2026, 5:24 a.m. ET Little news trickles out from the besieged city of Oleshky, a frontline wasteland severed by mines and drones from the rest of Russian-occupied Ukraine. But one thing is clear from what has emerged: A humanitarian calamity is unfolding. There is no food, no safety and no escape. “In the autumn, we will definitely die,” one resident wrote this summer. “I am already dying. I am getting weaker with each day.”/ “We’re cooking our last borscht,” wrote another, “with one beet, five potatoes, one onion, a zucchini, a tomato and a little barley groats to make it thicke...
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