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Russia Reverts to Positional Warfare

Dr Jack Watling

22 March 20226 Minute Read

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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