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Avdiivka is Russian!
Ukrainian forces withdraw from Avdiivka to avoid encirclement, army chief says
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Doubledee@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Is there any plan in the works to take this stuff back? Like, they spent months hyping the spring offensive (do they still have any of that territory? I thought I read Russia was retaking it) but I’m not hearing anything about their plans to regain the initiative. If their position is only going to degrade from here they might want to consider negotiations.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Well, they need countries like the US to send them supplies to host any kind of offense or defense, but Putin’s puppets are doing a great job of killing all our aid bills over imaginary crises.
420stalin69@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Trusting the west was their key mistake, I agree.
mihor@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Those ‘Putin puppets’ seem based enough, tho…
Jaytreeman@kbin.social 8 months ago
A year ago there was a lot of talk about how winter would force defensive posturing and advancement for either side could only happen outside of winter.
There's few spots where Ukraine is gaining ground. North of Tokmak there seems to be a decent offensive. There's a lot of places where they're losing ground.
Bakmut isn't even a front line anymore.
Ukraine had a chance when they were being supplied by the West. Any hiccups there are disastrous.
Besides the initial counteroffensive, Ukraine has depended on Western aid to stay in this fight. I've seen a lot of talk about how weak the Russian military was/is, but they've effectively taken on NATO. This should be a wakeup call. Not whatever other type of propaganda this is