Hardly borne out by said military's performance. The Russians love to BS about their military might. Looks to me like they believed their own BS.
And what provocation? You mean throwing out Putin's puppet Yanukovych? No one was being killed in Donbas until Putin sent his gangsters in supported by the Russian army.
“Hardly borne out by said military’s performance. The Russians love to BS about their military might. Looks to me like they believed their own BS.”
The Western media is now running plenty of TRUTHFUL stories about how Ukraine is now doing, but I guess they haven’t made it yet to CNN.