It has been 4 years, 3 months and 14 days since February 24, 2022, the start of the Russian invasion. It is as much as the first of the world conflicts which tore the 20th century aparte century.
There is this interesting fact, spotted byThe Great Continent Â: Since he came to power in Russia in 1999, Vladimir Putin has led the country in a state of war longer than in a period of peace. The head of the Kremlin is therefore, in some way, accustomed to the more or less distant sound of cannons. However, when ordering Russian tanks to cross the border with Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he probably did not imagine that the conflict he then triggered would still rage on June 10, 2026. And yet, 1567 days later, the observation is implacable: the war in Ukraine lasted at least as long as the First World War.
This began on July 28, 1914 with the telegram declaring Austro-Hungarian war in Serbia, and ended on November 11, 1918, the day the Armistice was signed. This is a second symbolic milestone for the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which last January had already exceeded the “Great Patriotic War”the Russian side of the Second World War.
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The war of 1939-1945 could just be the next important milestone. It was 2193 days between the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on 1is September 1939 and the capitulation of Japan on September 2, 1945. To reach this duration, the war in Ukraine would still have to be ongoing on February 26, 2028, that is to say in more than a year and a half. It is difficult, for the moment, to say that this will be the case. For six months, the military situation on the ground has been generally stable. According to the latest situation update as of June 8 from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, no notable Russian progress has been observed on the various fronts (Sumy, Koupiansk-Pokrovsk and Zaporizhia-Kherson) in recent weeks.
The Russians “are not losing the war”
At the same time, the Ukrainian army dealt real blows to the Russian system, through targeted strikes. Let us cite in particular the recent drone strikes on Saint Petersburg at the opening of the Economic Forum on June 3, or the various attacks on Russian logistics chains. “Yes, the Russians are having difficulties. […] But they’re not losing.”however put it into perspective with the Figaro General (2S) Olivier Kempf, in a recent interview. “When you look at the losses, with pretty much authenticated numbers, the Ukrainians actually had more material losses than the Russians. There are also questions about Ukrainian human losses.”
On the diplomatic front, Volodymyr Zelensky proposed a direct meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in an open letter on Thursday June 4. And the EU recently released the loan of 90 billion euros promised to Ukraine after the lifting of the Hungarian veto, in the wake of the defeat of Viktor Orbán. Vital support for Ukraine. On Tuesday June 9, the leaders of eight Nordic and Baltic countries expressed their support for the “irreversible march” from Ukraine to Germany, in a common declaration adopted by a regional commander in Tallinn, in the presence of Volodymyr Zelensky.
