Russia Eyes Gains in Ukraine’s East After Kherson Withdrawal

Moscow’s forces have hit Ukrainian positions in the east while retreating elsewhere, and analysts expect Russia to bolster efforts there with redeployed troopsRussian forces have been shelling the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, which is near Kherson, the city they withdrew from last week.

Senior U.S. officials have begun nudging Kyiv to start thinking about peace talks in the event winter stalls its momentum, following Ukraine’s recapture of Kherson in one of its most stunning triumphs of the war.

The imminent onset of winter—coupled with fears of inflation spurred by mounting energy and food prices, the billions of dollars of weaponry already pumped into Ukraine, and the tens of thousands of casualties on both sides—has prompted talk in Washington of a potential inflection point in the war, now in its ninth month.

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