“Rumors Strelkov-Girkin was found hanged in his prison cell”
The Revolution eats itself.
Totalitarianism seems to be emerging.
Putin becomes more like Stalin and Hitler, as he gorges on blood and power.
However, the victory came at a high cost - Ukrainian military officials estimate that up to 47,000 Russians were killed or injured in the battle, along with scores of tanks and fighting vehicles.
By comparison, up to 25,000 Soviet soldiers are believed to have been killed during the entire Soviet-Afghan war.
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 24, 2024
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-24-2024The situation today is grave, but it is far from hopeless. Russian forces have regained the initiative across the theater and are attacking and making gains. Those gains thus far are very limited and extremely costly. More Russian soldiers have likely died to seize Avdiivka than died in the entire Soviet-Afghan war.
Ukrainians are weary and worried that American military assistance will cease, but they continue to fight with determination, ingenuity, and skill. Ukraine’s air defenders are dropping Russian planes from the sky while Ukrainian drone- and missile operators sink Russian ships.
And Ukrainian soldiers are fighting for their positions against Russian “meat assaults” using drones in novel ways as well as the artillery, tanks, and traditional weapons of war available to them.
But the war is far from over. Ukraine has not lost and there is no reason for Ukraine to lose. Russians are adapting for a long war effort in Ukraine, but they are not the Red Army hordes wrapped in the triumphant banners of World War II victories that Putin and his propagandists pretend them to be
The Russian military suffers from many flaws that Ukraine has learned to exploit.
And the combined economic power of Ukraine’s allies is many times that of Russia.