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Putin and Russia are losing — the least desperate move is to accept a truce

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Vladimir Putin is losing his brutal war on Ukraine; what will make him accept a truce?

Kyiv’s “Operation Vivaldi” keeps pounding away, driving Russian forces back and liberating villages in the Donetsk region, erasing most of Moscow’s (meager) gains of the last year.

The offensive has so far liberated nearly 68 square miles of territory from Russian forces, taken 250-plus Russian prisoners and inflicted 2,000 casualties.

Even his hold on Crimea is weaker than it was.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s drones are striking deep inside Russia and occupied Crimea, disrupting supplies to the front and slamming Putin’s oil refineries.

With his battlefield strategy a total bust, he’s falling back on terror — targeting airstrikes on innocents far behind the lines and........

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