A war of attrition between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the east of the country could drag on for months if not longer, a top US expert has warned.
As reports suggest Russia is shifting some of its forces away from Kyiv and apparently abandoning for now its dream of capturing the capital, it appears Moscow will seek to regroup in the Donbas, an area of eastern Ukraine that has for eight years been the location of low-level conflict between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukraine army.
