[Kazan]

That is exactly what has been going and the reason the Russians have been gaining almost a village a day for the past month or so.

Ukraine keeps losing ground, it will never get back.

[kiryandil]

The Ukies and their Western cheerleaders ALWAYS lie about the Ukrainian casualties, minimizing the actual toll, and lie about the Russian casualties, maximizing them.

When the curtain gets pulled away at the end of this play, there won't be any place far away enough for Little Vloddy zElenskyy to hide from the vengeance of his people.

[Petrosius]

The question is not are the Ukrainians being slowly pushed back but at what cost to the Russians. The Russians are taking serious loses. Can they sustain it? Is it worth it? The Russians are not in an existential war for their survival; the Ukrainians are. Are these territorial gains really worth it?