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Posted on 02/17/2026 9:43:31 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
Ukrainian forces managed to liberate over 200 square kilometers of territory from the Russian troops last week, marking their most successful breakthrough in 2.5 years, AFP reports.
According to the outlet, these gains are confirmed by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Between February 11 and 15, Ukrainian troops recaptured 201 square kilometers from Russian forces.
AFP reports that Ukrainian soldiers took advantage of disruptions in Russian access to Starlink terminals.
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Guess any article that favors Ukraine isn’t welcome
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“before Russia loses its willingness to settle.”
You are assuming that Russia ever had a willingness to settle.
Kiev in two weeks!
...or five years
...or something.
Ah, yes. The old Institute for the Study of War. Ehhhhhh, just one question, Chief. What is The Institute for the Study of War?
Only 120,000 square kilometers needed get back to even.
Ever spent time there? Ever talk to guys that got out?
“Russia - We Got ‘Em This Time!”
Season 18, Episode 47
“Only 120,000 square kilometers needed get back to even.”
Since summer 2022 the have gotten 45,000 back!
“What is The Institute for the Study of War?”
Neocon lies ?
“Season 18, Episode 47”
Strategic withdrawal by Russian troops.
“Neocon lies ?”
I didn’t know that Putin used that term in his emails.
As of today, they need 120,000 sq kilometers back.
Wait, have heard for three years from Russia bots that Ukraine is out of men, and their soldiers are surrounded.
The Ukrainians are very unlikely to approve transfer of the heavily fortified Donetsk areas in exchange for what are worthless security guarantees from the US and Europe. Trump has destroyed any confidence Ukraine or the Europeans might have had in US security guarantees. While that may have secured a valuable US objective in forcing the Euroweenies to pick up their own defense, it has only encouraged Russia to prolong the conflict.
Russia will refuse any agreement with security guarantees & European troops anyway. Putin is riding the tiger, and as one German commentator noted, the last thing he needs is an apparent defeat and lots of disgruntled and unemployed former soldiers hanging around Russia, so even the current casualty rate suits him just fine.
His hope is that Trump will somehow canoodle a Ukrainian capitulation splitting the US and Europe entirely. However, the recent preposterous $12 trillion deal has not been picked up by the Trump administration, and Trump continues to strip Russia of its allies in Venezuela and maybe Cuba and Iran and has applied secondary sanctions and pursuit of some of Russia's shadow fleet to good effect. Those are not insubstantial actions that are clearly taken for US interests but which help Ukraine incidentally for which he gets zero credit, mainly because they violate the phantasmagorical "rules based international order" so beloved by Europe.
Both Ukraine and Russia have good reasons to prolong the current negotiations indefinitely, with both maneuvering with delays carefully calculated to avoid making an enemy of the Trump administration while resolving nothing.
“As of today, they need 120,000 sq kilometers back.”
LOL! Since summer, 2022, Russia has lost 45,000 sq kilometers.
You take great pride in that strategic withdrawal!
The ISW interactive map confirms a recapture of territory in the southern part of the line of contact. It represents a salient that Ukrainian forces will be called upon to hold in the face of counterattack, surrounded on three sides by Russian held territory. It will be instructive to see what response Russia is able to make.
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