Posted on 05/24/2025 4:49:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Moscow’s advantage on the Ukraine battlefield is waning, experts say. But President Donald Trump seems disinclined to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin to engage in ceasefire talks.
Russia’s battlefield strength in Ukraine has started to wane and it could run into serious shortages of manpower and weaponry by next year, even as President Donald Trump retreats from pressure on Moscow to end the war, according to senior U.S. and European officials and military experts.
In recent days, Trump appears to have abandoned the threat of harsh financial sanctions he repeated as recently as two weeks ago if Moscow doesn’t agree to a ceasefire with Kyiv. Instead, after a two-hour phone call Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he touted potential new trade deals with Russia.
Rather than the U.S. leadership he promised, Trump has mused that he might just walk away and leave the negotiations to the Europeans — perhaps even the new pope — to sort out. His administration has not committed to additional military or financial aid to Ukraine.
But the timing for putting pressure on Moscow may be more advantageous now than at any point since the early days of the conflict, according to more than a dozen officials who discussed the current state of the war and the sensitive politics and diplomacy surrounding it, most on the condition of anonymity.
Absent a negotiated settlement or “robust” Western assistance, the war “probably will continue to slowly trend in Russia’s favor through 2025,” according to a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment presented to Congress 10 days ago by DIA Director Lt. Gen Jeffrey Krause. But Russian gains “are slowing and continue to come at the expense of high personnel and equipment losses.”
Since its February 2022 invasion, the DIA assessment said, Russia has “lost at least 10,000...s.”
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Yes Russia is running out of missiles and troops
AGAIN
If fact they are now using shovels in combat (that was a real article in 2023)
“experts say.” Which “experts?” Name them. This is nothing more than media refusing to accept responsibility for their leftist propaganda. Nonsense.
WAPO....worthless jargon...as usual
The propaganda PHD’s Piling It Higher and Deeper.
“Experts.”
They want to twist and turn the analysis to make Trump always appear wrong.
It may be that if Russia is about to experience less battlefield success, Trump feels there is less need for extreme sanctions.
And since the European hardliners (against Russia) want to see Russia weakened, they are in no rush to end the fighting (rightly or wrongly).
As always, I’ll trust in Trump to navigate this.
I was listening to Alexander Mercouris today, and he was saying that the Ukies don’t have enough actual soldiers to man the entire front line - they have to use drones instead in certain sectors.
Too many people have died on both sides already.
War pigs.
“Yes Russia is running out of missiles and troops
AGAIN”
This is how the Neocons plan take down Trump - they will say that Ukraine was right on the edge of seizing Moscow, and all they needed was ONE MORE TANK, but Trump refused to give it to them, and because of that, Kiev was lost the next day.
...just watch.
Red fascist Yellow Journalism.
In the past hour, Russia launch ten bombers, and they are releasing their missiles; just prior to that the Russia navy unleashed missiles, and the drones are already on the way.
23 May was called a big night for Ukraine. Tonight, it is going to be the biggest yet.
Ukraine is going to run out of air defense artillery.
Putin is one patient SOB; Zelinski unleashed over 2,000 drones and missiles towards Moscow, and it Putin is sending the same number per night for the same number of nights at Ukraine.
My how I love a Parade;)
“I hope that there are no people in this hall who are still hoping for some miracle… that will bring peace to Ukraine and will bring back the borders of 1991 or 2022,” the former commander, now serving as Kiev’s ambassador to London, said at a defense export forum on Thursday
Zaluzhny was referring to Kiev’s claims over Crimea and four other regions that have since joined Russia. Crimea voted to return to Russia in the wake of the Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev in 2014, and the two Donbass republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, followed suit in autumn 2022 following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February of that year.
****Kiev has never recognized the referendums’ results and continues to claim sovereignty over the regions****”
https://www.rt.com/russia/618071-zaluzhny-cold-water-kiev-ambitions/
Zelensky needs to face facts!
So does the EU, UK and certain agitators in the US.
The Compost is amazing, their Urinalists can talk directly into Zelensky's Speaking Tube without missing a beat!
You remind me of Baghdad Bob.
You beat me to it!
How many times have we heard these stories in the last three years? Combined with all the new "game changers" like javelins, HIMARS, Abrahms, F16s, training thousands of new Ukie troops a month, and so many other wonder weapons.
The bottom line is it's all a bunch of BS. The simple fact is that Russia has captured over 20% of former Ukrainian land while demilitarizing the Ukrainians and the West/NATO.
That there is the real facts.
Then, why does it appear Russia is planning an offensive in Sumy?
You remind me of an ostrich with it’s head in the sand.
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