JohnRawls wrote:Taking 5-10 kilometres in 2-3 months while loosing offensive capability and sending 20-30 btgs for recovery is not exactly ass kicking while Ukraine just retreated in the end.
As much as you want to pretend like it's a great victory of some sort, it is just a village in the middle of nowhere in the end of the day. Nobody even knew it existed before the war.
At this pace Russia will run out of all of its ammo and equipment faster than it reaches any noteworthy city, heck they will run out of everything even before Kromatorsk/Slavjansk by the looks of it.
>Takes 5 cities and numerous towns total pop 300,000 in 8 weeks in ukraines most densely populated region with 8 years worth defensive fortifications and 120,000 defenders, inflicting over 10,000 casualties/captures on ukrainian defenders
You: muh ukrainium winning
At this pace they will take the entire region before the end of the year and then it's nothing but open plains with all roads leading to the dniper.
Update:
You have realized by now that losing these cities and the line of towns just beyond it means losing all of eastern ukraine, right? These are/were strongholds.