Russian President Vladimir Putin staked a large part of his war strategy over the the past few months on betting that Mother Nature would be on his side.
According to analysts, that plan failed to produce the results the Russian leader had desired and instead allowed Ukraine to regroup and mobilize against Russian forces.
Putin’s war in Ukraine reached its one-year mark on February 24, with intense fighting continuing throughout the war-torn country.
Putin illegitimately annexed four Ukrainian territories last September, but his forces have lost control of communities it had occupied early in the conflict.
Russia then planned on the cold season to reverse its fortunes, some observers reported.
“Putin’s hopes for this winter did not pan out,” Mark Katz, a professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, told Newsweek. “Europe did not freeze, and the Russian military offensive did not gain much ground.”
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