So Putin gave interviews to international news in St. Petersburg and has just answered the question why Russia is moving so slowly in Ukraine.
He says that moving faster would be possible, but would inflict higher losses on them, which neither he nor the russian military leadership is prepared to accept.
If there ever will be an outer reason why Russia would need to make haste, they will, but until then they'll prefer to move slowly and focus on minimizing their losses. And this time may come, but its not now.
This gives time for the west to maneuver. But it also gives time for Russia to improve, and Russia is much better at improving than the west. They are actually improving, while the west is burning their reserves away.
Putin also said that everything is going according to their plans.
Rich wrote:Russia is still a long way from getting back to where they were at the end of August 2022.
This is again merely looking at territory.
But the primary goal of the russian forces is to destroy the ukrainian military. This has already been stated in October 2022 by one of the few statements from the russian military that we actually got about their plans, and more importantly it was a statement from the then head of the russian military (a General "Armageddon" - sorry I am not good at remembering these weird russian and ukrainian names). Therefore territorial gains or losses do not matter, because once the ukrainian military is grinded down, at some point there wont be any resistance anymore anyway.
This is by the way for example how WW1 was won. For the longest time hardly any territory was traded, then Germany collapsed, because it ran out of military resources.
For the record, this strategy also minimizes losses of civilian life, since the mostly static front lines in this type of war stay far away from most civilian areas.
Rugoz wrote:As usual, your posts are collections of made-up bullshit.
Swiss diplomacy tried hard to get Russia to come to that conference. Russia made it clear however that it doesn't want an invitation. I guess to avoid the "we weren't invited" propaganda crap, Switzerland should have sent one anyway.
That said, the conference is useless and we should be sending weapons instead. That's the only language Russia understands.
Not my state of information, but whatever. This isnt relevant. The conference is about Zelenskys maximalist demands. Which Russia would never accept anyway. And Russia wasnt invited to the discussions, thus would only receive the final result. Which would be again Zelenskys maximalist demands, which Russia obviously wouldnt accept. So whats the point of the whole event.
And nobody important shows up. Only the leaders of european countries, like Macron from France or Scholtz from Germany. USA, China, India, Saudi Arabia - they all didnt care.
I would like to point out that I have a regular job and my time to inform myself politically is limited. So no, I'm far from all knowing. I simply picked those sources of information which I consider best among the many, many options. There are many more options I could also consume but I simply dont have the time. And for that matter, I also dont have perfect memory either. Sorry if you feel personally insulted by that.
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