Understanding Ukraine’s Counteroffensive

For months, much of the world has been watching and waiting as Ukraine prepares for a major counteroffensive in its war with Russia. That battle is now underway, and it’s not what was expected.
Andrew E. Kramer, the Kyiv bureau chief for The New York Times, reports from the front line.
Guest: Andrew E. Kramer (www.nytimes.co...) , the Kyiv bureau chief for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Military analysts said it would take weeks or months to gauge the success of the attacks Ukraine mounted last week (www.nytimes.co...) across a broad stretch of the front line.
• As Ukraine pushes to recapture territory, Russia has moved ahead with elections in occupied areas (www.nytimes.co...) .
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The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
The three memoranda were originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. The United Kingdom and the United States guaranteed that Ukraine would be a sovereign independent nation for giving up its nuclear weapons for world peace.
Russia had no right to ever have annexed Crimea. The United Kingdom and the United States had the right to protect Ukraine.

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