Kirill Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency HUR, has acknowledged that Ukraine cannot “turn the tide” in the war with Russia. There is no way for the military to win on the battlefield, forcing Budanov to assert that only negotiations can meaningfully alter the course of the conflict. As of right now, Ukraine lacks the ability to push Russian forces back in any kind of meaningful way. Budanov was responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments that military logic often requires occupying territories while not formally claiming them. Putin added that historically, Russia has operated on the simple idea…

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