Krakenzero
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Practically all reports say so. We are almost one year after the invasion and Russia controls less territory than after the first week of the invasion. Winter stopped all warfronts, even Bahkmut were Wagner has been months throwing everything they have and haven't been able to secure it. It's bad that Ukraine is having 100 a day losses, but Russia's apparently are 700-800 a day right now.Who told you exactly that the Russian have lost far more? All the western intelligence recently hinted that the causalities are very much comparable while withholding the real causalities of the UKR for obvious reasons. Even if the Russians are losing twice as much as the UKR, look at their population.
And the Russians may have limited capacity to replenish troops and weapons but they are using tons of missiles which were produced very lately, plugging holes in their frontline while gaining lands lately. Now, the UKR are preparing to resist the Russians offensive while not being able to make their own to regain some territories.
The initiatives are very much coming from the Russians. That's after people here talked about how they would be on the backfoot for months. The reality here is that the Russians adapted and seemed to be dedicating the momentum here.
The UKR does NOT have limitless resources from the west. I am not sure how people are not taking consideration of the fatigue that the UKR are having or will have very soon.
I don't think I am the one who is consuming anyone's propaganda too much here. Not to mentioned how I pointed out the Bekhmut was very important for both sides weeks ago while everyone was saying it was useless. Well, it was so useless that there were reports of UKR losing triple digits of men daily defending it because according to some western intelligence that if the UKR loses it, it will be harder for them to defend the cities around behind that line. And the Russians are gaining some foothold there little by little with their army of convicts.
Initiative seems to have varied during the conflict, but to date none of the RA offensives have resulted in a significant breakthrough since the beggining of the war (maybe Severodonetsk/Lyschansk?). On the contrary, Ukraine actions so far have been more indirect (Kharkiv, Lyman, Izyum, Kherson) and more effective. By the way, the only big Ukranian city that Russia captured and retained during the conflict is Mariupol, which was esentially indefensible. Kiev, Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporzhizhia and Kherson are in Ukraine's hands.