Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Zelensky would be wise to 'negotiate' a peace as Isreal suggested and quickly. Because he's running out of time. Most of his army is knocked out, surrounded or defeated. At this point, he still has something to give Moscow. Another week of two and he has nothing to negotiate over. |
What kind of nonsense pro Russian propoganda is this?
1) Just because they shade an area in as a color does not mean there aren't pockets, if not massive resistance in those areas still. There have been reports, on numerous occasions, of Russians losing territory they claimed as there's mere days later from Ukrainians.
2) The Russians have lost roughly 12,000 troops, the Ukrainians only roughly 1,500, not including injuries on either side. The Ukrainians, in addition to a massive military remaining functional, also have a tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of armed citizens and foreign legion soldiers defending numerous areas and more allies come in all the time. Their own military has started turning down new recruits because they have so many volunteers they don't have enough guns to give.
3) Kyiv alone has over 70,000 official Ukranian troops defending it, not including citizens with weapons, and they have the high ground. To take the cities with the defenses Ukraine has and the troops they have, the Russians would need an invasion force probably 3-5 times larger than they invaded with, unless Ukrainians were running away. But all signs point to Ukraine troops holding their positions and taking out 8 Russian soldiers for every 1 Ukranian soldier dying. And that's not including the massive amounts of Russian defections and self sabotage on their own equipment due to not wanting to kill people they identify as brothers.