The war in Ukraine was over as a conventional matter by the summer of 2022.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim that the war was over as a conventional matter by summer 2022 is contradicted by sources describing conventional fighting continuing well beyond that point, including a 2026 CER analysis stating that four years in Ukrainian forces are still fighting a largely conventional war.
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… It didn't surprise a lot of people. And keep in mind, you know, the trilemma of counterinsurgency, which essentially is what what's happening in Ukraine. That war was over as a conventional matter by the summer of 22. They've been artificially maintained not just by Putin's conservatism here, but by intelligence and mercenaries and everything else that are shipped in from the Western world, who now, with the Israeli situation, can't even defend itself. …
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Contradicts. A 2026 CER analysis states that four years after the February 2022 invasion, Ukrainian forces are still holding out and fighting a largely conventional war, with an estimated 1.2 million Russian casualties.[5]
Contradicts. A 2026 CRS report says the Donbas fighting after mid-2022 resembled a more traditional conventional conflict of slow but intense fighting with heavy artillery use, not a war that had ended as a conventional matter.[3]
Contradicts. A 2025 futures assessment notes that fighting concentrated in eastern Ukraine through summer 2022 and continued back and forth along the front into winter 2022-23, with front lines largely unchanged since late 2022.[4]
Contradicts. A 2026 Army lessons report states that the war in Ukraine is far from over and that Russian forces were still conducting operations, with no sign of hostile intent subsiding.[6][7]
Context. The Lead Stories and PolitiFact fact-check listings concern specific viral claims from 2022 and do not address whether the conventional war ended by summer 2022.[1][2]
Sources
7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 3 not rated
- 1War: August 2022 | Lead Storiesleadstories.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Latest Fact-Checks In Ukrainepolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Russia’s War in Ukraine: Military andcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 4Futures Assessment of the Russo-Ukrainian Warideaexchange.uakron.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 5Four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Four lessons for European leaderscer.eu · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6[PDF] Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia's ...oe.t2com.army.mil · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s ...jstor.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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