Funny I recall the compost telling us just a few weeks ago Russia was loosing miserably and Ukraine was going to start the new super secret spring offensive and crush Russian forces.
Now the new story is the Russian victory is actually a defeat, ya nothing says losing like winning.
Damn it is almost summer, one might think the compost was just propaganda.
Sounds like another Pulitzer award-winning story. How Ukraine defeated Russia and caused the downfall of Putin. Facts? They don’t need no stinkin’ facts.
The term you’re looking for is Pyrrhic victory. e.g. spending 9 months and losing 10s of thousands of soldiers to advance 3km.
More ‘victories’ of this nature will require the Russians to refurbish even more of their 70 year old T-55s and send them to the front.