Wagner Group suffers significant losses in Bakhmut, threatening their role in Russia-Ukraine war.

Ukraine is preparing for a spring counteroffensive against Russian forces occupying its land, with an influx of Western weapons including tanks and fresh troops trained in the West. Russia's military prowess has been exposed by the war, with setbacks including its failure to reach Kyiv and take the city of Bakhmut. Moscow's strategy is to drag out the fighting in the hope that Western support for Kyiv eventually frays. The stakes are high, with defeat for Ukraine having global ramifications and no such thing as European security as we currently understand it.