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"For a few weeks I’ve been in Kyiv, partly as a visiting fellow at leading
Ukrainian thinktank the Transatlantic Dialogue Center. Kyiv is an astonishingly
elegant and beautiful city; a premier league European capital. The regular air
raid warnings delivered on your phone, as well as by the baleful second world
war-style sirens, are largely ignored now – despite the occasional missile
strike.
Cafes and restaurants are open and largely busy. It was in one of the latter
that I met a senior Ukrainian government official who had contacted me,
expressing approval for something I had said in the international media.
“You know, don’t you, that this time next year, a Russian soldier could be
sitting right where you are,” he said after a brusque introduction. “We are
losing this war.”
He is right. There were the great victories at Kyiv, Chernihiv and Kharkhiv.
But with setbacks in Donetsk and Luhansk, the appalling realisation is sinking
in that this is likely to be a very bloody war, lasting years. The country’s
coastline is in the invaders’ hands and its ports are blockaded. A serious
economic crisis is looming both in Ukraine and more widely. While Ukraine is
not winning, it is losing."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
