Martin Jay
Ukraine will eventually face the same fate German units in northwest France faced during the Allied invasion of 1944.
Who was it who said that the first casualty of war is truth ? In the Ukraine war, could it be that Pokrovsk-a crucial town in the Donbas-is the epitome of that adage ? Many Western analysts sympathetic to Russia, even Americans, have been claiming for weeks that this strategic town has fallen to the Russian army, when the reality is that it is very close to falling-but not yet.