We’re well into mud season, right? So the front line should remain like this until the ground freezes solid, yes?
RihardsVLV on
This war will never end.
Internal_Sun_9632 on
At this rate they’ll take the rest of Ukraine after the sun has run out of hydrogen…..
optimizationphdstud on
This map does not show front-line changes in the Kursk region inside RF.
Sumeru88 on
The Russians are gaining. If they take over entire Donbas, they will have achieved their revised war goal objectives and sit pretty for Ukraine’s war exhaustion to creep up until they surrender.
DefInnit on
This manpower issue — it should be all hands on deck, “total defense”, for Ukraine by now. It’s incredible that adult under-25 Ukrainians still get a pass from defending their homeland. It’d be a very tough decision to have to make but if their country falls, Putin would turn them into his zombie soldiers anyway.
Carinwe_Lysa on
This will never end will it?
Ukraine isn’t going to back down and submit to Russian demands and cede land, and Russia is in no way going to stop the war and return back to their own borders.
Neither side has the means to effectively storm the other with large, far reaching gains. So it’s either going to be a slow grind forever with the biggest changes being random fields or the odd ruined village, or until one side hits it’s breaking point and collapses in days.
Judgedumdum on
There haven’t been major frontline changes for over 1 year now. Both sides are tired of this war. Putin forces more men to die there every day while Ukraine is slowly bleeding out economically and militarily. Ukraine can’t really conscript more men because of worker shortages. They try to find a middle way between keeping the economy from collapsing and keeping the military supplied but at some point both will collapse. However Putin learned to accept that he won’t be able to occupy all of Ukraine so when Ukraine starts falling apart there will likely be a truce effectively giving Russia control over the land they are occupying at that point (more or less the de facto border right now).
I hate to see how expansionism and nationalism are going to be rewarded. I hate to see Ukraine giving up territory. I hate to see the aggressor win a war. But sadly this is how it’s going to be. I can’t see a way for Ukraine to win this war.
We need to learn from this. By this I mean:
1. Create a European Army (~500k men) financed by 1% of each member country’s GDP (194B in total) in addition to the 2% for NATO
2. Build anti-air and strategic, offensive missile launching facilities in the Baltics and Poland
3. Have Georgia join EU and NATO asap
4. Isolate Russia diplomatically (no talks, calls etc)
5. Keep up the sanctions and place more in case of further aggression
Arkfoo on
Trading Land and time, the only Strategy Ukraine has with the lack of full funding and depleted army reserve. Sad to see, but for every 1km Russians might lose 1-5k Soldiers, can only hope Russia infighting starts.
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We’re well into mud season, right? So the front line should remain like this until the ground freezes solid, yes?
This war will never end.
At this rate they’ll take the rest of Ukraine after the sun has run out of hydrogen…..
This map does not show front-line changes in the Kursk region inside RF.
The Russians are gaining. If they take over entire Donbas, they will have achieved their revised war goal objectives and sit pretty for Ukraine’s war exhaustion to creep up until they surrender.
This manpower issue — it should be all hands on deck, “total defense”, for Ukraine by now. It’s incredible that adult under-25 Ukrainians still get a pass from defending their homeland. It’d be a very tough decision to have to make but if their country falls, Putin would turn them into his zombie soldiers anyway.
This will never end will it?
Ukraine isn’t going to back down and submit to Russian demands and cede land, and Russia is in no way going to stop the war and return back to their own borders.
Neither side has the means to effectively storm the other with large, far reaching gains. So it’s either going to be a slow grind forever with the biggest changes being random fields or the odd ruined village, or until one side hits it’s breaking point and collapses in days.
There haven’t been major frontline changes for over 1 year now. Both sides are tired of this war. Putin forces more men to die there every day while Ukraine is slowly bleeding out economically and militarily. Ukraine can’t really conscript more men because of worker shortages. They try to find a middle way between keeping the economy from collapsing and keeping the military supplied but at some point both will collapse. However Putin learned to accept that he won’t be able to occupy all of Ukraine so when Ukraine starts falling apart there will likely be a truce effectively giving Russia control over the land they are occupying at that point (more or less the de facto border right now).
I hate to see how expansionism and nationalism are going to be rewarded. I hate to see Ukraine giving up territory. I hate to see the aggressor win a war. But sadly this is how it’s going to be. I can’t see a way for Ukraine to win this war.
We need to learn from this. By this I mean:
1. Create a European Army (~500k men) financed by 1% of each member country’s GDP (194B in total) in addition to the 2% for NATO
2. Build anti-air and strategic, offensive missile launching facilities in the Baltics and Poland
3. Have Georgia join EU and NATO asap
4. Isolate Russia diplomatically (no talks, calls etc)
5. Keep up the sanctions and place more in case of further aggression
Trading Land and time, the only Strategy Ukraine has with the lack of full funding and depleted army reserve. Sad to see, but for every 1km Russians might lose 1-5k Soldiers, can only hope Russia infighting starts.