In seinen Augen sieht es momentan nicht gut aus,
Russel Bentley „Texas“:
„I do not say that Russia will lose the war. That is simply impossible. But these are bullshit excuses. The Russians were smashed in the Kharkov area because of strategic mistakes and failures of the Russian Army General Staff.
their stupidity is beyond imagination and excuse. And thousands of innocent people will die because of it.
Not only have they been shamefully defeated, their idiocy continues - They have moved the 15,000 man 3rd Corps from Donetsk to Izium, which leaves Donetsk almost defenseless. If ukrops now advance on Donetsk, even get a small foothold inside the city, it will be a blunder of strategic proportions.
I am in Donetsk. I got back from Moscow yesterday. There is a serious shortage of motor fuel (propane and gasoline) and drinking water in the city. Ukrop shelling is heavy and continuous. Our home is in Petrovsky District, less than 10 Km from the front lines in Mari'inka. We have been staying for the last few months in a friend's apartment in the city center, about 20 Km from the ukrop frontline positions, about an hour's drive by tank. I do not think they can make it to the city center, but taking Donetsk is the ukrop's main strategic objective, and even if they get a small foothold inside the city, they will have tens of thousands of civilian human shields and can create another Mariupol scenario.
The question is not whether Russia will liberate Ukraine, that is a given, the question is how many soldiers and civilians will have to pay with their lives in the process for the fuckups of the General Staff. It looks now like the answer will be "Too many."