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The war in Ukraine: Revitalized Russia can still win, warns Western intelligence | News

President Putin can still “win” the war in Ukraine, which is now expected to continue until the end of the year, Western officials said.

The Russian army outnumbers Ukrainian forces in the east three to one and could encircle and “destroy” a significant part, officials warned. They said Russia could even launch a new attack on Kyiv or deprive the Ukrainian capital of access to the Black Sea in the worst case scenario.

Western intelligence suggests that Moscow has made tactical adjustments after its troops were “humiliated” during the first two months of the invasion.

The main theater of war in the region of Eastern Donbass is flat with solid terrain, which offers Russian artillery and tanks an advantage over the forests north of