Muratov: Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine0

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• August 13, 2026

What the Kremlin had assumed in 2022 would be a short, successful “military operation” has become the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Yet a confident President Putin continues to predict victory for Russia. “There will never be ‘victory’,” counters Dmitry Muratov. “Because what has been going on for nearly five years