Nearly two weeks into the war, it is clear that Russia has failed to seize and control almost any major cities or population centers — including the prize targets of Kyiv, in the center of the country, and Kharkiv in the northeast. Odessa, a vital port city in the south, is bracing for an assault but the Russian land advance in that direction has been thwarted repeatedly.
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Satellite imagery analyzed by military analysts suggests that roughly 950 Russian vehicles, including 140 tanks, have been destroyed or damaged, according to Justin Bronk, a research fellow for air power and technology at the Royal United Services Institute...That represents only a fraction of the invasion force, but is still striking.
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The Kremlin...has forbidden the media in Russia from calling the invasion a war — it is a “special military operation,” in President Vladimir V. Putin’s phrase, and officially, everything is going according to plan.
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Taken together with witness accounts from the battlefield, it is increasingly clear that Russia has sustained heavy losses.
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