[Red6]

Sure, Ukraine is winning, I forgot. (Sarc)

Every month, Ukraine loses a little bit, ~168 square miles.

https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-ukraine-war-report-card/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-oct-8-2025#:~:text=In%20the%20period%20of%20Sept,gain%20of%2013%20square%20miles.

Russia’s just keeping the pressure on.

They already have most of what they want, you can’t seem to get that fact in your head.

Ukraine is not in NATO. Political objective.

Most the largely ethnic Russian areas are under Russian control. Military objective.

Russia is running a low risk, casualty averse game, aimed at being able to sustain a long fight (partial mobilization, 7.1% GDP on war). Russia “is” balancing guns vs. butter and how they see this war can beat be summed up by who they put in charge more or less, an economist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Belousov

[kiryandil]

To: TexasGator
Do you have to be an ass every day?
84 posted on 9/26/2015, 6:24:20 PM by Jim Robinson

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3341298/posts?page=84#84

[TexasGator]

“Most the largely ethnic Russian areas are under Russian control. “

Interesting that those regions did NOT want to be under Russian control.

[TexasGator]

“Every month, Ukraine loses a little bit, ~168 square miles.”

Russia captured less than 1% in 2025. Almost no gains in the last three years.

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Russia inches ahead in Ukraine as report says 90,000 troops killed in 2025

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/9/russia-says-hopes-for-peace-wane-as-ukraine-strangles-its-fuel-supply#:~:text=Putin%20claimed%20that%20Russian%20forces,has%20come%20at%20great%20cost.