The despair of the Ukrainian officers was heart-breaking, and the description of the Ukrainians preferring the Russian trenches over their own was eye-opening.
The Ukrainians don't even have enough ammunition - artillery or otherwise - to suppress the Russians while they're building their newest line of secure trenches.
The rasputitsa will break the degraded morale of the losing Ukrainians even further in the coming weeks.
No doubt Russian trenches are better built than are Ukraine's.
Perhaps Ukrainian troops will enjoy filling those trenches as they take them from Russia.
The real truth is 2023 territorial gains and losses are relatively minor, Russians around Bakhmut and Avdiivka, Ukrainians near Robodyne and the Dnieper left bank.
Russians have built and fortified extensive trench lines which Ukrainians were unable to breach.
Russians have also practiced repeated "Meat wave" assaults losing thousands of troops and hundreds of vehicles for the gain of a mile or two.
In the meantime, precision Ukrainian artillery and missiles have forced Russian support facilities -- transportation, ammunition, repairs, airports & headquarters -- out of the Donbas and even Crimea and back into Russia proper.
Ukrainians have also forced the Russian navy out of Crimea, destroying 21 Russian navy ships in the process.
So, as of today, nothing about the future is known for certain, but claims that it's all over now are still a bit premature.
kiryandil: "The Ukrainians don't even have enough ammunition - artillery or otherwise - to suppress the Russians while they're building their newest line of secure trenches."
There's no doubt that Russian ammunition supplies have always massively outweighed Ukraine's, thus leading to Zelenskyy's famous response on Day One, that he didn't want a ride out of Ukraine, he wanted more ammunition.
As of today, there are two changes of note:
So our pro-Russian propagandists have claimed repeatedly since February 22, 2022, and yet... and yet... somehow it hasn't happened yet.
Might you guys be right this time?
Even a broken clock tells the correct time twice per day, so maybe, maybe your time is finally here?
Naw, not today!