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<p>Mr Putin could declare Western arms supplies to Ukrainian forces are an act of aggression that warrant retaliation. He could threaten to send troops into the Baltic states - which are members of Nato - such as Lithuania, to establish a land corridor with the Russian coastal exclave of Kaliningrad. By early summer Ukraine will be able to use US-made F16 fighter jets for the first time, which it hopes will improve its ability to counter Russian aircraft and strengthen its own air defences.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Just ask Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose improbable assassination in Sarajevo sparked World War I. As a result, Russia essentially stopped flying fighter jets over Ukraine. Numbers are hard to come by, but Russia had an estimated 1,500 fighter jets before the war began and still has the vast majority of them, probably 1,400 or more. After Russia first invaded in 2014, the U.S. military stepped up training for the Ukrainian military in western Ukraine. U.S. trainers continued working in Ukraine right up until the full-scale Russian invasion a year ago. Many Russian nationalists, though, perceive Ukraine as a breakaway region of greater Russia.</p><br /><br /><h2>Ukraine: what will end the war? Here’s what research&nbsp;says</h2><br /><br /><p>But they note it's crucial for Ukraine to be able to show at least some gains in order to maintain Western support for the war into 2024 — and perhaps beyond. He judges that continuing the war may be a greater threat to his leadership than the humiliation of ending it. China intervenes, putting pressure on Moscow to compromise, warning that it will not buy Russian oil and gas unless it de-escalates. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities see the continuing destruction of their country and conclude that political compromise might be better than such devastating loss of life.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The Wagner mutiny, and Mr Prigozhin's denunciation of the Kremlin's justifications for the war have, they said, removed what remained of Mr Putin's chances of hanging on.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>As a consequence of the resilience of the brave people of Ukraine, and with the support of the vast of majority of this Forum, Ukraine remains resolute in the face of aggression and continues to thwart Russia’s malign intentions.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Few can predict the future with confidence, but here are some potential outcomes.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>And even once Russian forces have achieved some presence in Ukraine's cities, perhaps they struggle to maintain control.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>European countries have largely outsourced much of their military capacity and thinking on strategy and security to the States through NATO. Phillips P OBrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, wrote in an analysis piece&nbsp;that the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House could see the US "neuter" the Western military alliance. Alexei Kulemzin said Ukraine was behind the strike on the eastern Ukrainian city, which is currently under Russian occupation. Many in the international community feared that the conflict could spread outside of Ukraine’s borders. Andrew Cottey, a professor in the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork, gave Euronews three possible outcomes for the war.</p><br /><br /><h3>Sky News Footer</h3><br /><br /><p>In response, companies on both sides of the Atlantic announced plans to restart production lines for artillery shells and other weapons considered somewhat arcane until recently. One key question that could determine the war’s end game is how long Ukraine’s backers can keep up their arms donations to Kyiv. But another McCarthy concession — a procedure allowing 218 members to force a House floor vote on any bill — could present an opportunity for pro-Ukraine Republicans and Democrats to pass additional funding for Kyiv. Smith indicated he disagrees with the Biden administration’s decision not to send long-range missiles, noting every Ukrainian official assured him they would not use them to attack Russia.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>The fierce determination of the Ukrainian people up to this point suggests that this will not occur any time soon. To a lesser extent, Putin is dependent on the support of the general population. The public is bearing the costs of war in the form of inflation, economic decline and battlefield deaths. This suggests that the two sides will have difficulty ever resolving the information problem. When this happens, countries often end up fighting wars of attrition that last until one side gives up. It was largely apparent that Russia’s army was and is far superior to Ukraine’s in terms of stockpiles of weapons and number of personnel.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Many experts I consulted, however, advised girding for a struggle that could last a lot longer, even if the war in its more acute form resolves sooner. His message was that progress has been slow, painful and limited, though he expressed hope that might change. Mykhailo Podolyak, another close adviser to President Zelensky, agreed there were "several groups of people who want to take power in Russia". The drama over the border in Russia has hardened the view in Kyiv that Mr Putin's time as Russia's president is coming to an end.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Ukraine would be free to receive arms and military training from any country, but foreign troops and bases would be banned from its territory.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Putin might count on these movements as the trigger for political instability in Kyiv.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Ukraine is assembling a force of more than 100 western Leopard 1 and 2 tanks, plus others, and a similar number of armoured vehicles that it hopes to use whenever the spring muddy season eases, to smash through Russia’s defensive lines in a D-day offensive.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Russian forces may try to push again along the entire front, at least to secure all of the Donbas region.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>One ex senior minister suggested to me that there was a generational divide between those who had lived with the threat of the Cold War era, and those who had not. The former minister, currently a serving Conservative MP, pointed out that the prime minister grew up without that existential threat. Yet the Army is already looking at how it might create a citizens' army. One Whitehall source told the Times that the training of Ukrainian civilians on UK soil could act as a rehearsal for rapid Army expansion. [https://anotepad.com/notes/m8fp9drn https://anotepad.com/notes/m8fp9drn] have already seen the size of the British Army fall from more than 100,000 in 2010 to around 73,000 now. Gen Sanders said that within the next three years the British Army needed to be 120,000 strong with the addition of reserves.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Yet it would be so much more likely than the present one to renounce its post-invasion territorial gains, though perhaps not Russian-majority Crimea, which, in the era of the Soviet Union, was part of the Russian republic until, in 1954, it was transferred to the Ukrainian republic by fiat. Ever since the war began, commentators and Western leaders, including President Biden, have intimated that it should produce, if not “regime change” in Russia, then Putin’s departure. And there have been no shortage of predictions that the invasion will indeed prove Putin’s death knell. There’s no evidence, however, that the war has turned his country’s political and military elite against him or any sign of mass disaffection that could threaten the state.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Russia's military strategy has at times been beset with logistical problems, confusing the picture of what Russia's main or immediate goals are. The analysts predicted refugee flows of 5 million to 10 million people from Ukraine to Western Europe. However it's widely expected that Russian President Vladimir Putin, loathing Ukraine's current pro-Western government and its aspirations to join the EU and NATO, wants to install a pro-Russian regime in Kyiv. Close watchers of the Russia-Ukraine war say the fluid and rapidly changing nature of the conflict makes it hard to gauge what will happen next in Ukraine, with both Moscow's and the West's next moves unpredictable.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Ultimately, it appears that this war will not end quickly, as it will take a considerable amount of time for either side to make the other give up.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Retired Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, a former commander of the U.S.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Second, he controls the state media apparatus and has censored other media organisations, limiting the information available to the general public.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>Polls in Ukraine show that the public overwhelmingly rejects concessions to Russia. “Essentially once the West made a decision that Ukraine is important … it had to support them to the end, and that means the Ukrainians are the ones who will decide when they’re going to stop,” he said. The war and Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s society and economy, but Moscow has blunted the worst effects and is unlikely to be left so weak as to be unable to pursue the war.</p>