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Analysis: Is Ukraine starting to win the war again?
The embarrassing optics of Moscow's threadbare Victory Day parade come at a time where Russian advances on the battlefield have stalled.
May 10, 2026 5:57 PM
(Updated: May 11, 2026 1:16 am)
Francis Farrell
Reporter
Francis Farrell is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. He is the co-author of War Notes, the Kyiv Independent's weekly newsletter about the war.
"Analysis: Is Ukraine starting to win the war again?
The embarrassing optics of Moscow's threadbare Victory Day parade come at a time where Russian advances on the battlefield have stalled.
Who is winning?
Since the launch of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the information space around the war has been obsessed with this deceptively simple question, and the constant new iterations of answers to it.
In the hands of those fighting the narrative war, from officials on both sides, online cheerleaders, armchair generals, and a certain world leader who likes to talk about who has the cards, the answers differ radically, but all are delivered with consistent venom, emotion, and intellectual assuredness.
Russia has already been defeated, their human wave attacks are stupid and hopeless, and at this rate they would take a century to take Ukraine, says one camp."...
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