Despite their overwhelming numerical and material superiority, the Russian forces failed to take a decisive ascendant on the Ukrainian army, during this third year of a war of wear that ended while Donald's return Trump in the White House, on January 20, seems to have accelerated negotiations for conflict resolution.
And this, even more since Wednesday, February 12, when the new President of the United States was spent at length with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and that they agreed to launch negotiations “Immediate” peace, in the absence of Ukraine and its European allies. At the end of talks in Saudi Arabia with the Russians, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, however said that everyone should have their place at the discussion table, including kyiv and the European Union.
If Russian progression has been continuous in Donbass, it remains slow and costly. Between February 24, 2024 and the end of January 2025, the Russian army certainly entered 4,666 square kilometers, according to the calculations of the Institute for the Study of War, located in Washington, but none From his breakthroughs was not sufficient to lead to any collapse of the Ukrainian defensive system. Only four medium -sized cities fell into his hands. At this rate, it would still take a little more than two years to seize the entire Oblast de Donetsk, first of its priorities, assuming that it takes the large urban areas as easily as small and That the Ukrainians do not lead to a major counterattack, according to the American reflection circle.
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Source: Lemonde