In their New Year's greetings, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin expressed the same wish: victory for their country.
For Ukraine as for Russia, there is no other option.
In the eyes of the Kremlin, the "special operation" in Ukraine now symbolizes a struggle to the death against the West.
But does Russia even have the means?
Since the summer, the Ukrainians have retained the offensive initiative.
“If the Russians were to have a territorial objective, it would be the complete conquest of Donbass, explains Colonel Michel Goya.
For now, they remain in a defensive strategy: they rely on the arrival of reinforcements to regain the initiative on a large scale, or simply lock the conquered ground.
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