Ominous Turn In Russia-Ukraine War

After two-and-a-half years of relentless attritional warfare, the Russian-Ukraine conflict escalated to a new height when an elite Ukrainian military unit mounted an unexpected incursion into Kursk region of Russia on 6 August. Just when Russia entrenched its position in eastern Ukraine aiming to bring entire Donbas region under its control, Ukraine's audacious strike deep into Russian territory appeared that the tide of war might be turning.