Putin doesn’t have the forces to take the big cities. Urban warfare is a meat grinder. He know his armor and troops will be slaughtered. He has to complete operations by the thaw and spring rains.
This war is weird....the 40 mile truck convoy makes no sense on either side
If Putin was was so hot and heavy to Slaughter Ukraine... why would he have then just sit there... but the flip side why we’re the Ukranian not riping the hell out of these Russian just sitting there
For all the talk of the Vicious Russians and the Ferocious Ukrainian defense these two sides sure do tiptoe around each other a lot
It sounds like the Russian going light and slow and the Ukrainian forces being not that Ferocious
And his stated purpose was to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. So going into the cities isn’t a big part of that.
In any case, the spring thaw is not as big of a deal as you say.
In 2014 Kiev launched the attacks on Donbass and Lugansk through April, May, and on through the summer.
Hitler’s Germany launched their attack on June 22nd.
The “general mud” theory is severely overstated.