A Report Card on Vladimir Putin's War

Has Putin done some housecleaning as the fighting in Ukraine becomes a slog?

A somber independence day in Ukraine.

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The Iliad begins in medias res — that is, in the middle of things, with the protagonists engaged in bitter feuds amid the fog of the Trojan War that is still a long way off from that wooden horse that ended it all.