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Or will 2026 be another year of grim attritional war, with Moscow and Kyiv treating the U.S. mediation effort as another battlefront?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
The most likely is a fifth year of grinding attritional warfare, while talks go round in circles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
British researcher Jade McGlynn, who studies the Russia-Ukraine war at King's College London, predicted a "bloody, attritional winter" of fighting.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
"It has been relentless for him. He is a very capable leader who has driven real change, but at some point it becomes unsustainably attritional."
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
The attritional effect of repeated raids may be very great.
From Sound Military Decision by Kalbfus, Edward C. (Edward Clifford)
