Yeah, well...
The best estimates I can find say Russians in 2024 have captured a grand total of another 16 square miles of Ukrainian territories, including Avdiivka, at a cost of around 16,000 Russian soldiers, or roughly 1,000 Russian lives for every square mile of Ukraine they take.
In addition to Avdiivka, Russians have captured three other Ukrainian villiages -- Pobieda, Vesele and Krokhmaine -- with a combined pre-war population of around 300 individuals.
This still leaves Ukraine with around 200,000 square miles and 35 million people, of whom maybe 25 million are military age and another 35,000 reach military age each month.
Which side can keep it up the longest?
So, obviously, Russians have the advantages in massive overmatch of cannon-fodder, war materials and dictatorial brute force...
While the only thing Ukrainians have for certain is their stubborn knowledge that defeat means their own deaths and the destruction of Ukraine as an independent country.
Also, their knowledge that at least 80% of the civilized world supports Ukraine in spirit, if not always with enough money or weapons.
Further, Ukrainians are very resourceful, inventive and quite "western" in their beliefs in not throwing away soldiers' lives unnecessarily.
So, I think Ukraine's day of victory will eventually come, though as of today it's impossible to say when, or how.
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