This city is the key to Krym. Here war can be decided this winter.

What will be the next big phase of the war in Ukraine? Analysts believe that the city of Melitopol will play a very special role.

After two convincing battlefield victories, at Kharkiv and Kherson, the war in Ukraine is at an unpredictable stage. The Russians still occupy 18% of the Ukrainian territory.

But the initiative now belongs to the Ukrainians. Even conservative Russian military bloggers think so. Many of them are frustrated with the setbacks of the Russians in recent months.

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