The Kremlin has defeated its aims by diddle-dallying with war
Ukraine’s government has responded to Russia’s formal annexation of the four eastern and southern regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia by submitting an “accelerated” application to formally join NATO.
As I have said dozens of times, the Kremlin’s ill-advised limited drawn-out campaign is ever widening into World War III.