Senior Biden administration officials say Russia’s military operations in Ukraine will remain stalled well into next year, as recent Ukrainian advances upset Moscow’s hopes of seizing more territory in areas that President Vladimir Putin has tried to portray as historically part of Russia.
Although the officials say Moscow is likely to continue to attack Ukrainian troops, bases, infrastructure and the electrical grid, the coming winter is expected to bring a slowdown in military advances on both sides.
In a major setback in the war, the Kremlin announced Friday that its forces had withdrawn from the strategic city of Kherson in southern Ukraine and relocated across the Dnieper River. U.S. officials believe that Russia’s decision to pull out of the city was based in part on concerns that its soldiers would be penned in and cut off from supplies as winter set in.
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