Everywhere else, the fighting is getting bogged down.
The front line is no longer advancing.
Worse, the enemy is nibbling away at ground.
The cold beats the trenches.
Ammunition is running out.
Men too.
So, in Ukraine, the rollers of the Black Sea carry the hopes of an exhausted army.
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Worn out by the failure of a counter-offensive launched in June, the strategists of the armed forces cling to the terrain that smiles upon them: this stretch of water surrounded by Ukraine to the north, Russia and Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south and Romania and Bulgaria to the west.
President Volodymyr Zelensky now wants to see it as the next “center of gravity of the war”.
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