When will the war in Ukraine end?
Bessma Momani is professor at the University of Waterloo and senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation., there is a lingering question: When will this end? After all, it is a senseless war of Ukrainian suffering, and the invading army is showing
Analysts who are optimistic about it ending soon point to the great attrition in the Russian military operation. Estimates of potentially 10,000 Russian troops killed – and conservative estimates that this implies another 40,000 troops have been wounded – are significant blows. Consider that Russia had deployed 190,000 troops to invade Ukraine and this accounts for approximately 75 per cent of all of its active military personnel.
the political elite are insulated from these pains and Russian coffers continue to swell thanks to oil and gas sales not yet being widely sanctioned. With no independent media left in the country and international outlets forced into silence with new media laws, the Russian population is consuming a perverse narrative: Russian identity is under global attack and the war in Ukraine is being fought to prevent it from coming to Russia’s doorstep.