Some excerpts from a good article here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/29/europe/ukraine-war-victory-hopes-dim-intl/ind...




Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 10:32 AM EST, Fri December 29, 2023


As December came to a close, Ukraine suffered the biggest Russian air attack since the start of the full-scale invasion. Russia fired 158 drones and missiles – including hypersonic Kinzhals – at targets across Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 18 people and injuring scores more. Zelensky said Russia used “nearly every type of weapon in its arsenal” in the strikes.


The Russian way of war, absorbing hideous losses of men and materiel but throwing yet more into the fight, has blunted the Ukrainian military’s tactical and technological edge, as its top general admitted in a candid essay last month.

The mood in Moscow seems grimly determined: the goals of the “special military operation” will be achieved, and the fighting will continue until they are.
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As the long frontline becomes ever more calcified, the Kremlin senses greater skepticism among Kyiv’s Western backers that Ukraine can recover the 17% of its territory still occupied by Russian forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is relishing the much more partisan atmosphere in Washington, where many in the Republican Party are questioning the purpose of sending Ukraine another $61 billion worth of aid as requested by the Biden administration, assessing that it will achieve little on the battlefield.

But the Russians’ vast reserves of manpower and hardware (Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu boasted that he could raise 25 million men if necessary) mean they can continue bludgeoning the smaller Ukrainian military, making incremental gains at enormous cost.

He won't tell anyone - it's a State secret - so he says.
Estimates are from 100,000 to half a million or even a lot more.

How much Ukrainian property and infrastructure has been destroyed?
I've heard estimates as high as US$ 1 trillion - and possibly more.

90% of the beautiful city of Mariupol has been destroyed as just one example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 30^th, 2023 at 4:33pm:



Did you read the article?


But the Russians’ vast reserves of manpower and hardware (Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu boasted that he could raise 25 million men if necessary) mean they can continue bludgeoning the smaller Ukrainian military, making incremental gains at enormous cost.

Baron -
Ukraine can't win any more than Hitler could win.
Russia is too large and has too many men to send into the meat grinder.

Russia doesn't care about how many of their own men are killed -
they have no respect for human life - they are not normal human beings -
they are psycho killers.
Stalin sacrificed 25 million Russian people to beat the Germans.
Putin is no different - Russians are crazy.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 30^th, 2023 at 5:23pm:


ukraine is taking far more losses than the russian federation is in order to defend.. uh... can't figure that out yet, but it's definitely worth dying over

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 30^th, 2023 at 10:03pm:


probs gonna be the same result eitherway

Quote:


The US Patriot missiles are shooting down Russian planes.

Israel is proving Russian air defences are no match for F35 in Syria.

Russian tanks are steel coffins when put up against decent ATGM.

Soviet comrades helped old ladies across roads in Poland and East Germany for 40 years. Six million others wanted to but were dead fighting Germans. Putin thinks krauts want to invade Russia again. Krauts want to use the big missiles and they have all Europe in NATO now. As Putin lost .3m troops for 150km in Ukraine, the whole country will take 2million Russian dead. 2mill for Poland. 2 mill for Germany, again. Then they can help old..