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Search form Russia dedicated staggering amounts of manpower and equipment to several major offensive efforts in Ukraine in 2024 intending to degrade Ukrainian defenses and seize the remainder of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The United States can use the enormous challenges Russia will face in 2025 as leverage to secure critical concessions in ongoing negotiations to end the war by continuing and even expanding military support to Ukraine. In late 2022 and early 2023 Putin sought to suppress independent veteran groups fearing they could threaten his regime after returning from Ukraine. Some peace deals lead to peace others to more war.