Operation Vivaldi: How Ukraine’s Latest Counteroffensive Changed the War

Over the last four months most of the world knew nothing of the secretive ukrainian counteroffensive known as vivaldi but if you watched ukraine really really closely over the last several months you might have seen the shadows that vivaldi left behind closely guarded by ukrainian intelligence and hidden under the fog of war operation vivaldi has been

Churning along since may its effects were unclear any territorial changes weren't made public and every so often well-connected experts in the open source intelligence world would say some version of the same thing there's something going on near lyman but we aren't supposed to talk about it indeed ukraine has taken the last four months to create a

Masterwork the kind of performance that its operations namesake the 18th century composer vivaldi would have had to stand on his feet and applaud northeast of the critical fortress city of soviets or where russian victory would have meant catastrophe for kiev ukrainian forces have managed to take back hundreds of square kilometers of territory the full