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US sees 'war of attrition' in Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has turned into a war of attrition with potential for further escalation as Moscow is failing to achieve its military objectives, senior US intelligence officials said today. The US intelligence assessment of a prolonged war is guiding President Joe Biden's administration in providing increasingly large amounts of military and economic aid to Kyiv and in its push for its European allies to gradually cut oil and natural gas imports from Russia. The Biden administration is also more explicitly tying potential relief from US sanctions targeting the Russian economy and energy sector to Kyiv's ... (full story)