Putin, After a Year of Bucking the West, Takes Control of Maryinka and Counts His Other Gains

It’s now a mad, mad, mad Vlad world in more ways than many in the West care to admit.

Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP
President Putin attends an Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral at Moscow, April 15, 2023. Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP

On Christmas Day one of the world’s authoritarians, President Putin, received a small gift — news that Russ forces had taken control of Maryinka, a town in eastern Ukraine just west of Donetsk and due north of Mariupol, the Ukrainian city the Russians flattened in 2022. If Mr. Putin hoped the West would forget about the calamity that he authored there, he would be right. 

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