“mainstream media”
Well it seems to me the media you and your fellow putards are reading is truthy enough for you all to make BS predictions that never came to fruition:
“The Ukes are down about 75% of the army they started with. They’re in no position to stop anyone.
75 posted on 7/21/2022, 2:46:49 PM by FLT-bird”
“While Establishment Media Pushes Delusional Narrative on Ukraine, US Military Brass Now Recognizes The War is Lost”
https://sonar21.com/while-establishment-media-pushes-
81 posted on 8/1/2022, 12:27:32 PM by cranked”
“I will continue to sit back and watch as Ukraine daily crumbles as the Russians take their sweet ole time grinding up the Ukrainian military. Do or die is fast approaching for the ZelenskyyIdiot government and Ukraine.
117 posted on 8/1/2022, 2:11:35 PM by cranked”
And of course FLT still waiting on those 60K troops surronded and cut off in the Donbas to surrender! LOL!
‘Russia Advances in Bakhmut, Defends in North Donetsk; EU Leaders Split on Gas Crisis’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PGkz08hzSg
‘Russia ‘Encircling’ Bakhmut, Putin Sticks with SMO, Rebuffs Scholz, Macron’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RdTnaP5plk&t=5s
‘Russia Encirclement of Bakhmut, Parries Ukrainian Counterattacks; Putin, Modi & Xi Meet in Samarkand’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyqhulOaKQ
And what exactly proved it wrong?
How is that Kherson offensive going?
So let us consider some actual facts:
Russia and its allies captured the major industrial port city of Mariupol from frontline Ukrainian troops and are still in full control of that city.
Russia and its allies expelled the Ukrainian Army from the Luhansk Republic and are in full control there.
Russia and its allies are continuing to retake cities and villages in the Donetsk Republic and pushing Ukraine to the west.
Russia carried out a tactical retreat from the Kharkiv Oblast and moved those forces to the Donetsk region. Yes, they surrendered territory. They retreated.
During the current offensive, according to Ukrainian sources, Ukrainian troops are suffering at least 5 times the casualties of Russia and its allies.
Russia’s Air Force is intact and has suffered minimal losses while Ukraine’s Air Force has been erased.
Russia is producing its own missiles, rockets and artillery shells and is not dependent on another country to continue its fire missions while Ukraine is totally dependent, now, on western supplies.
In its current offensive in the Kharkiv oblast Ukraine has failed to carry out an operation in depth–its attacks have been confined to the frontlines while Russia’s artillery and missiles continue to rain down on exposed Ukrainian troops.