(STOCKHOLM) – Russia’s latest offensive in Pokrovsk has come at a heavy cost, with analysts warning that the Kremlin’s rush to secure a symbolic victory before economic pressures become unbearable may be backfiring. According to Dr Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Moscow appears to be “stomaching enormous losses” in the Donetsk region in a desperate attempt to deliver something the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin can sell…