Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC

The update

In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only "destroy Ukraine, not conquer it", with the war now in its fifth year

What shifts

For those following putin, longer, claim, victory, ukraine, this report from BBC introduces a variable that could shift existing calculations.

The wider picture

What precedes putin can no longer claim victory in ukraine, nobel peace prize winner tells bbc, according to BBC, is a sequence of decisions that narrowed the range of possible outcomes.

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The editorial line

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of putin, longer, claim, victory, ukraine: In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only "destroy Ukraine, not conquer it", with the war now in its fifth year.