It looks to me like Putin is happy to host the Ukrainians in that back end of nowhere (while steadily destroying their fancy Western kit and reducing their numbers, sort of like a cat playing with a mouse) for the time being. Keeps them off the front lines in Ukraine. Smart move on his part, if true.
I do feel so sorry for those Ukraibians, though.
Humm, an aweful lot of “top shelf” Russian stuff has been dismantled as well. Wouldn’t look for Russian military exports to return.
Breakthrough has been renamed blownup…..