Russian disinformation that it is winning war in Ukraine debunked by top thinktank as diplomatic bid to end the fighting intensifies and Kremlin chiefs try to project victory result

Russia's repeated lies that Ukraine is about to be beaten have been dismissed by a major US thinktank, the Mirror can reveal. It also asserts that Russia ’s attempted advance on and taking over of key town Pokrovsk is proving immensely costly to Moscow, despite battling for it for three months.

Kremlin war chiefs are desperate to convince it is winning, in a bid to persuade the US and the west it must accept Ukrainian concessions. It comes as an unnamed NATO officer warned Russia it could come under pre-emptive attack from the alliance. And Michael McGrath, European commissioner for justice and democ

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