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Russia claims full control of Avdiivka after Ukrainian retreat
(www.theguardian.com)
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Not from the US or Europe, but I kept hearing news about Ukraine countering Russia? What just happened?
They realized fighting a war of artillery and attrition against Russia is a bad idea
US Republicans are working towards autocratic facism in the US, and fundamental yet unspoken within that is their palpable relationship with other autocratic and autocratic hopefuls like Un and Putin.
US Republicans (and their voters) would rather live under theocratic facism than to have to share the world with people they don't understand. They believe by supporting Putin, they'll achieve their goals, which to date, has show to be an effective strategy.
Republicans, the elected ones and the ones that just vote R, have become the enemies of Democracy globally, and within the United States.
You have probably been reading propaganda. Russia has been clearly winning for over a year, and all indications are that time and attrition is on Russia’s side as well. This was quite obvious and clear from the start to anyone familiar with the history of wars involving Russia versus Europe; Russia has massive resources to tap into and an extremely educated population with extensive military and logistic legacy knowledge from the Soviet Union, which was the world superpower militarily in terms of land wars on the Eurasian continent. Russia is also a handful of kilometers from the frontline and capable of massive standardized domestic production of arms - Ukraine is getting a hodgepodge of expiring arms from all over the world in an uncoordinated piecemeal fashion. Of course Russia’s system of war is better. It’s also the soviet advantage in WW2, logistics and industrial production.
Pro-Ukrainian propaganda has been flooded through everywhere in the Western media world, so it’s likely all you have been exposed to. I recommend dabbling in Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern diplomatic and news sources to get a wider picture of what actually is going on. Ukraine is never getting back Donbas or Crimea, and they will be lucky to get out of this with Kharkiv or Odessa
Massive swell of people to make any progress to have something to campaign with for Putin's re-election. Ukraine has been generally running low on artillery and can't fully capitalize on countering large unit offenses. The Ukrainians have a lot of western equipment but are low on funds to supply them.
You can’t reload Western equipment with funds, and the West’s ammunition production capacity has proven to be lacking compared to Russia’s.
Tbf, Russia has been sourcing ammunition from North Korea.
and on top of sourcing ammunition from DPRK, Russia now has a massive advantage over the west in being able to produce it domestically as well https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/rate-of-russian-military-production-worries-european-war-planners
Karma for the US constantly treating NK like shit for the gall of existing. Their ideology is literally "leave me alone and i'll leave you alone" but that wasn't enough apparently, they had to slam them with murderous sanctions and constant warmongering propaganda.
How is it karma that Russians are killing Ukrainians with those shells? It's not like it's Americans dying.
Ukraine is basically the last thing Russia needs to reestablish the Soviet Union. The US is willing to let that happen just so that they can put all their chips into shooting at people who literally can't shoot back. When they eventually lose to the full might of communism, that will be why.
Basically they're prioritizing maximizing harm so much they don't even care just how stupid their actions are for their long term survival.
I'm not sure if you're joking or being serious. Russia is trying to reestablish Soviet Union..?
Yeah they are, because that was the one time in Russia's entire history where they actually had any level of real power. You can be the nastiest of power-hungry fascists and still see the value there. You really think they were going after Ukraine for fun...?
Russia is currently running on an agenda of Duginism, that should give a big hint on how they will act in the near future.
Hahahahaha, good joke. Well, I suppose it's true, if you think of rusty nails and pellets as being "ammunition".
The average age of Ukraine's army shot up by almost 10 years. They have depleted their troop count, a tragic example of killing off all the military aged males through war.
Russia has been trying to get this for a few months, estimates show ~30k Russian solider fatalities and over 400 tanks/infantry vehicles.
From what I know it was strategically important to the Donetsk region, which Russia would like to get back under control. It’s also a bragging point for the “election” because it’s the largest advance they’ve had since last May, they pushed a ton of lives through the meat grinder to take it.
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As to the counteroffensive, there’s a page about it on wikipedia! It wasn’t as successful as they’d hoped, they didn’t even manage to get the minimum goal. They’ve been focusing on taking out the Black Sea fleet, overcoming anti air in Crimea, and sabotaging fuel depots inside Russia since.
Russia finally admitted they were losing.