-244bc8c1d1d3a9349be35a7e601f364e.png "Does the Battlefield Stalemate in Ukraine Favor Russia?")
- Author
![Vadym Kovalenko]( "Vadym Kovalenko")
-b4369e8f26220e0f00ca16ef1955af34.jpg "Vadym Kovalenko")
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- War in Ukraine
A narrative of Russia’s “inevitable advance” has steadily taken hold in the information space, resting on a substitution: Moscow’s inability to sustain a rapid offensive is recast as evidence that its slow movement forward is strategically unavoidable.