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Ukraine’s surge has Russia reeling — don’t give in to Putin now

After four years and unfathomable amounts of wasted blood and treasure, Russia not only isn’t winning its war on Ukraine — it’s facing its worst setback in some time.

Last Monday, Ukrainian drone attacks on the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk brought an estimated 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity to a halt, a catastrophic development for a sputtering economy that’s heavily dependent on its energy sector.

The Primorsk strike capped off a tremendous breakthrough in Kyiv’s efforts to push back Russian forces in the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian mines, mortars, artillery and unmanned aircraft reportedly killed 6,000 advancing soldiers between March 17 and March 20.

Yet according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the United States is now pressuring Ukraine to cede the critical Donbas region to Russia in return for security guarantees.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has denied Zelensky’s assertion, insisting that the US is merely acting as a neutral interlocutor between Russia and Ukraine.

I pray that it is so. 

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