Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Ryuu96 said:

Potential shift in Russia's military operation after month of things going very wrong for Moscow & fierce Ukrainian resistance: General Staff says not ruling out "storming" Kyiv, Kharkiv, other key cities but with 1st phase complete will focus on "complete liberation of Donbas"🧵

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 25, 2022

Rudskoy said Russia chose to attack across all Ukraine in order to stretch Ukrainian forces thin so they couldn't reinforce forces in the Donbas. But that goes against what we've seen & seems to be face-saving comment after an embarrassing performance, failure to secure victory.

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 25, 2022

Rudskoy says "Kherson & most of the Zaporizhia region are under full control." Again, he claims this was planned all along, and that controlling these areas now will help as Russia focuses its attention on capturing all of the Donbas.

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 25, 2022

We'll see if changes on the ground in coming days indeed show a shift in Russia's focus and switch to more limited goals after a disastrous military performance that's seen 1000s of troops killed & wounded, 1000s more weapons destroyed & lost, & goal of Kyiv's surrender fail.

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 25, 2022

Embarrassing.

Got our asses kicked, can't take any major cities, lost over 10,000 troops, lost over a thousand vehicles, lost multiple high ranking officers, lost high tech equipment, can't encircle Kyiv - Phase One Complete. Also, storming Kyiv and other major cities would be absolutely fucking stupid, I know they've been dumb but they can't be that dumb, I think...

Ukraine should take back everything at this stage.

Russia: When life gives you lemons, you make a lemon shit show out of it