The Russians have managed to claimsince the middle of last week and are currently battling for Vovchansk, a town straddling the Ukrainian-Russian border. The situation got so serious that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskythan Ukraine did during its six- monthlong counteroffensive last year. Indeed the Ukrainian town of Robotyne, one of the few areas the Ukrainian army captured last year, is now apparently back in Russia’s hands.that the situation has “significantly deteriorated.
The Biden administration might be tempted to greenlight a crunch-time training program on Ukrainian soil. Instead, it should lie down until the feeling passes. There are three major problems with a program like this. If, on purpose or by accident, NATO trainers died at Russia’s hand, the alliance would then have an unenviable decision to make: retaliate and risk stepping up the escalation ladder or refrain from retaliating and look listless. Both choices are terrible, so why go there?