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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Vladimir Putin’s army unlikely to make ‘significant advance for months’ in Ukraine, says UK

Vladimir Putin’s troops are so bogged down in Ukraine that they are “unlikely to make operationally significant advances within the next several months,” British defence chiefs said on Monday.

They believe his generals are at the moment unable to put together “an effective striking force capable of retaking” territory lost to Ukrainian counter-offensives.

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