Russia’s 30-Day Blitz

“The next four weeks — leading up to an annual Victory Day celebration in Moscow — are a crucial and intensely dangerous period in Russia’s war on Ukraine,” Axios reports.

“May 9 is a major holiday in the Russian Federation, with the country closing down each year to mark its World War II victory over the Nazis. That makes it a deadline with significant symbolism in Russian domestic politics.”

“Russia either may be repelled in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region by then and forced to claim false victories — or have used a brutal assault to cinch a strategic win.”