Kiev is 140kms from the border with Belarus, in the week since Russia invaded its not managed to take a city two hours drive from one of the borders it invaded from!
Do you have any difficulty walking, with that hand of Putin so far up your butt that he's controlling your lips?
Soviet tactics. Establishing air superiority was never part of the strategy because they didn't think they needed to waste the resources. Now, neither country can establish it because the whole place is chock full of various AA weapons. Russia is doing what they can to attack Ukrainian air fields but that does little to stop all the Stingers floating around in the forests. Speaking of which...
I'm fairly positive that it was less of a feint and more of a 4th quarter adjustment. There is little evidence to suggest that much of their strategy has panned out very well at all. Every move they're making appears to be compensating for prior mistakes and ultimately they're going to have to increase their numbers to make up for much higher losses than anticipated.
Plus this is literally fighting on their own doorstep. They've not transported huge divisions halfway across the world to an area with very different climates and terrain to what they're used to. This is Eastern Europe, they even have roads that lead from Russia across the border straight into Ukraine. If they can't get their act together in their own backyard, no country is going to feel much fear from them elsewhere in the world.
What, that the Russians have poor logistics? With a proper supply line, Russia would've already won, but instead, they're floundering pretty bad. I mean they've had a 40-mile long convoy driving towards Kyiv for two days now and it's only about a 200-mile hike down a well-maintained highway.
www.bbc.com
Hasn't this been one of Ukraine's strategies all week? Basically, let the armor and troops through then obliterate the supply lines then just wait until the military hardware runs out of gas? I mean it's simple, but it seems like a military power as great as Russia claims to be they'd protect the supply line a bit better. Guess they didn't get the memo.
The peace talks are Russia taking what it can get because it hasn't been able to take what it wanted. Their primary objective was to oust the Ukrainian government and install their own pro-Russia officials and they've failed miserably at that. They were counting on a lack of morale among Ukrainians allowing them to plow right through with little conflict and they wildly underestimated that. Forcing talks has been a huge success by Ukraine and a failure of Russia.
Newsweek is reporting that it was by the Ukrainians:
www.newsweek.com
I'm sure my opinion is too hopeful and optimistic to be the current majority opinion.
