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The Tide Has Already Turned in Ukraine’s Favor

Military analyst Jack Watling unpacks Kyiv’s lightning offensive against Russian forces.

By , a national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy.
A boy wrapped in the Ukrainian national flag stands on top of a Russian military vehicle displayed in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 21.
A boy wrapped in the Ukrainian national flag stands on top of a Russian military vehicle displayed in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 21.
A boy wrapped in the Ukrainian national flag stands on top of a Russian military vehicle displayed in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 21. Alexey Furman/Getty Images

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Over the past week, Ukrainian forces stunned the world—and the Russian military—as they regained control over swaths of territory in the country’s south and east in a lightning offensive that forced Moscow’s forces into retreat. 

Amy Mackinnon is a national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @ak_mack

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