“It’s certainly an important accomplishment to get a foothold east of the Dnipro, less for the pure military value than the ability to argue that they are still making progress and can still evict Russia from their land by force,” Ben Friedman, policy director of the think tank Defense Priorities, told Yahoo News.
But, he added, “it’s not likely to be a prelude to any breakthrough. So I think it’s a bit helpful politically to buck up Western supporters but won’t matter much.”
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