LONDON/KYIV: n President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that his army could be fighting in e for a long time, but for now there will be no second call-up of soldiers.
Putin has rarely spoken about the likely duration of a war that he began more than nine months ago, and in a televised meeting with loyalists on Wednesday, he said, "This can be a long process."
has been forced into a series of significant retreats in the face of ian counter-offensives, waged with increasing stocks of Western weaponry, in the east and south since July.