Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive is nearing, and the deadly gamesmanship between Kyiv and Moscow is intensifying. While Bakhmut ostensibly has fallen to Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ensured any sense of a Russian victory was fleeting by enabling, if not orchestrating, a Mission: Impossible-like raid into Belgorod.

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