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Russia Reverts to Positional Warfare


Main Image Credit Remains of a munition embedded in the ground in a shelled quarter of Mariupol, March 2022. Courtesy of Alamy / Vojtěch Dárvík Máca


After its coup de main and deep battle failed, Russia is reverting to a strategy of sequential sieges to overcome Ukrainian resistance.

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Dr Jack Watling

Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare

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