Has anyone more information about those in Melitopol keeping up a good fight even though they are already occupied since the beginning of the war? They seem to manipulate and sabotage Russian supply chains like every day

Interesting analysis of the recent major battles in Donbass by the Austrian military academy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEbLuAPobao&t=1s

Edit - The video is in English.

Finally some realistic analysis. Especially about the value of taken or to be taken areas

With point 3, as much as I want to believe that I have to recognise I may just be being told what I want to hear.

And those are just high-profile ones. On a newspaper website I frequent, there are a handful commenters who could easily be paid Russian disinformants. Then there are also the appeasers who also continually pop-up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62103506

Also, trouble at the Russian McDonalds replacement.

They love Putin because he does everything they wish their messiah would have been allowed to do. 

The funny or sad (not sure yet) part of it is that these people support a system in which they would be the first to be in jail if USA would adopt it....just imagine this Tucker Carlson would live in Russia and support USA and blame Putin...

Sadly looks like a long war ahead. The soviets lasted 10 years against Afghanistan and lost between 32,000-46,000 troops (killed). The operation was overall much smaller though, so not directly comparable.

I think Russia will last a maximum of 5 years. 1 or 2 years maximum of offensives and then defensively defending their gains for a few more years.

Let me guess: is Jimmy Dore one of them?

While it is somewhat crass to speak about the conflict in such terms, would it be accurate to say that America significantly benefitted from this war even if Russia does eventually gain ground in Ukraine? It seems the military and economic losses of one of our prime adversaries combined with the strengthening of NATO and increased military contributions of many European allies are important gains, furthering Americas foreign goals while the American cost of this war is primarily monetary. I'd argue that we have gotten more from the billions we have spent on Ukraine than we often get from the Trillions we spend on our own military budget.