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![Putin Wants Ukraine to Hand Over the Donbas. Now Russia Is Losing Ground There Instead]( "Putin Wants Ukraine to Hand Over the Donbas. Now Russia Is Losing Ground There Instead")
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![Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi]( "Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi")
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- War in Ukraine
For 11 years, Russia has tried and failed to fully capture the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Now Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to hand over what his military still cannot take. And with Operation Vivaldi underway, Russian forces are losing ground.![A member of a local electoral commission inspects a polling station ahead of the upcoming election to the Russian State Duma (lower house of Russia’s Parliament) in central Moscow on September 17, 2026. (Source: Getty Images)]( "A member of a local electoral commission inspects a polling station ahead of the upcoming election to the Russian State Duma (lower house of Russia’s Parliament) in central Moscow on September 17, 2026. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Residents cast their votes in sham referendums in the temporarily occupied city of Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on September 23, 2022. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Residents cast their votes in sham referendums in the temporarily occupied city of Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on September 23, 2022. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Illustrative image. Russian Bastion missile launcher.]( "Illustrative image. Russian Bastion missile launcher.")
![Russia Turned Crimea Into a Missile Launchpad; Ukraine Is Now Dismantling It. Here’s How]( "Russia Turned Crimea Into a Missile Launchpad; Ukraine Is Now Dismantling It. Here’s How")
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![Joseph Place]( "Joseph Place")
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- War in Ukraine
As Ukraine works to isolate Crimea from Russia and disrupt logistics on the southern front, its strikes on the peninsula serve as a form of proactive air defense, eliminating Russian missiles and drone salvos at their source before they can be used against Ukrainian cities.![Epron rescue ship with some other Russian Black Sea Fleet assets in one of the naval bays at Sevastopol, 2026.]( "Epron rescue ship with some other Russian Black Sea Fleet assets in one of the naval bays at Sevastopol, 2026.")
-f14be43f0648c4b4c92dc8a933010e69.jpg "Putin Wants Ukraine to Hand Over the Donbas. Now Russia Is Losing Ground There Instead")
-29a1a43aba23f9bb779a1ac8b98d2121.jpeg "Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi")
-981a23656b217c1cf54c145ac1a7a30f.jpg "Residents cast their votes in sham referendums in the temporarily occupied city of Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on September 23, 2022. (Source: Getty Images)")
-605be766de04ba3d21b67fb76a76786a.jpg "Joseph Place")
