To me it’s so telling the effects of modern guided missiles and rockets on armor.
In WW2 or maybe even in the 70s-80s that entire pocket would have been enveloped by the Russian by now with their material advantage in AFVs, and with how many Ukrainians cut off. That’s good tank country, these new weapons just chew up armor when it gets close.
The guy who carries Putin’s nuke codes was found shot and in critical condition
That’s the reality. But as a US military intelligence observer notes, “in the meantime, there remains the cognitive dissonance from the [Western] reporting: The Russians are suffering from poor leadership, bad morale and poor weapons and the Ukrainians have superior weapons, superior leadership, off-the-scale morale and the home-field advantage. Yet the Russians are, at least for now, winning.”
You know Ukraine is losing badly when hearing the constant, desperate, public pleas for more help from Zelensky.