✍️ Jobs Update ✍️ — September 19
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Hello everybody, hope we all had lovely weekends. Today we’re looking at the latest in Ukraine after 208 days of fighting since Russia invaded.
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The biggest news over the past couple of weeks is Ukraine’s stunning counter-offensive that’s seen their army oust Russia from the surrounding areas of Kharkiv, a pivotal city in the northeast of the country. The fact that it took Ukraine a matter of days to liberate what it took the Russians weeks to capture, poses the next critical decision for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: dig in or press on?
Amid calls for vigilance over uncertain Russian retaliation from the U.S. and UK, Zelenskyy yesterday vowed there would be no let up in its mission to regain all of its territory from Russia.
“Perhaps it seems to some of you that after a series of victories we now have a lull of sorts,” Zelenskyy said on Sunday. “But there will be no lull. There is preparation for the next series ... For Ukraine must be free. All of it.”
As for Russsia… When Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops rolling into Ukraine under the cover of darkness on February 24, it seemed that it would be only a matter of time before the Russian flag was hoisted in the capital Kyiv. But heroic Ukrainian resilience suggested this would be an incredibly bloody war that would last months, if not years.
Initial Russian offensives
After Putin abandoned his northern positions, his focus shifted to the southern and eastern regions surrounding Kherson, Mariupol and the Donbas region that Russian-backed rebels controlled before February's invasion.
What happens next? Well, Ukraine’s surge in confidence after its recent gains, combined with Putin’s renewed stated objective of complete control of Donetsk and Luhansk (and the political tension and backlash at home if he fails), suggest the end to this chapter of conflict is nowhere in sight.
Winter is almost upon us, and in Eastern Europe the cold weather is brutal and uncompromising. Average temperatures in southern Ukraine rarely reach above freezing — not exactly ideal for warfare — meaning strategy and tactics must change with it.
The risk of Ukraine keeping the foot on the pedal to reclaim more territory is falling victim to the environment, making its units easy for the Russians to pick off. However, if it chooses to put on the brakes for the winter, it will give its enemy breathing room to restock supplies and better plan its logistics in time for February and beyond.
For more latest information, check out our friends at Tangle who gave a detailed dissection of what the right and left are saying about the latest in Ukraine.
That’s all for today. We’ll be back in your inboxes later this week. Enjoy your week everybody! 👋
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