Ukraine, Moscow changes strategy: “We aim only at the Donbass. We are in Kiev to distract the enemy”. Then she brakes on the war: “Stop May 9”

LEOPOLI – Other than blitzkrieg. After a month of fighting, in Kiev, in Kherson and in other areas of the country, the pieces of territory reconquered and taken from the Russian troops by the Ukrainians multiply. And the military quagmire that is turning Ukraine into Putin’s Vietnam prompted Moscow yesterday to surprise announcement that it intends to downsize its military objectives.