As northern Europe slips into winter, which is particularly bitter in Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine has scored its fourth major military victory of the war, with the Russian retreat from the city of Kherson, the only provincial capital Moscow seized after its February invasion.
The earlier military successes were the lifting of the siege of Kyiv, the capital, in April, and the siege of Kharkiv in May, then the offensive that liberated most of the province of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, in…
