Le Parisien said that Moscow was planning a quick war in Ukraine, but the Kremlin, after 300 days of fighting, is still officially presenting it as a "special military operation" despite President Vladimir Putin's own admission that the conflict could last "a long time." .
And the newspaper stated - in a joint report between Lucille Deccan and Marion Kano - that the war in Ukraine has reached its symbolic 300th day, and its results are still uncertain, and its latest developments on Christmas Eve, that there is no hope for a truce according to the Kremlin, so where are we after all this period?
A difficult situation
Although the fighting, in recent weeks, has tended to slow down, many hot spots remain on the front line, which is about 1,300 kilometers long, and Putin has admitted that the situation is "very difficult" in the four regions that Moscow claims to annex, and even the Ukrainian authorities expect That the Russians attempt to launch an attack at the beginning of the year on the capital, Kyiv.
And 10 months after the war, negotiations are still completely excluded by the Ukrainians, and Russia is silent about them, despite "the tendency of some Westerners to accept the idea of negotiating with Putin, while continuing their official support for Ukraine," according to researcher Jules Sergey Fedyonin at the Higher Institute for Political Research.
Huge human losses
Le Parisien explained that the human losses are great, despite the inaccuracy of the numbers provided by the two parties, as Kyiv says - in a report issued two days ago - that the dead of the Russian army approached 100 thousand (99 and 230 soldiers), while Moscow provides a death toll that does not exceed 5937 dead.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian presidency admits at the beginning of this month that 13,000 soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war, while the Russians provide statistics confirming the killing of more than 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers since last September, and the United Nations also provides proof of the killing of 6,114 civilians and the wounding of 9,132.
In the absence of major victories on the ground and in the face of the Ukrainian advance, the newspaper believes that the Russians have developed a strategy of sabotage of the electricity network, targeting the institutions that supply Kyiv and other large cities, so that "nearly half of the energy system was down" in mid-November, According to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Chmygal.