As Ukraine seizes first chance to win, war horrors come home to Russia

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News Source : Al Jazeera English

News Summary

  • Russian locals are panicking about dwindling food supplies, a nosediving economy and dire shortages of petrol.
  • Russia’s summer offensive, designed to occupy the Kyiv-controlled part of the southeastern Donbas region, has failed.
  • Instead, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to renew peace talks that stalled because of US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
  • “For the first time since the autumn of 2022 Ukraine has a chance to win the war,” says a Moscow-born researcher.
Kyiv, Ukraine For centuries, the Russian phrase behind the Urals Mountains meant safe from a foreign invasion.

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