This is why Putin needs Trump, desperately. Russia couldn't defeat the Ukrainian army and still controls less than 20% of Ukraine. Putin's demand to surrender the northern Donbas results from is failure to do so militarily. Not complying to those ridiculous demands is only logical.
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Putin knows that mobilization is not only deeply unpopular, but would also worsen the economic problems Russia is facing. Together with the Ukrainian air campaign against Russian energy infrastructure, it can result Russia to economically implode. The Soviet Union also failed similarly.
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...without even the assurance that those areas would fall to the Russian advance.
Despite the fact that the Russian dictator has no remorse sending countless of his compatriots to their certain deaths, he fully understand that Russia's resources, including human material, are limited.
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Russians lost more than 1 million troops, while Donetsk being their primary focus. Most of their losses originate from battles in this region. Only the attempt trying to take the heavily fortified cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk can easily double this number, ...
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No Ukrainian president will ever surrender an inch of Ukrainian soil and President Zelenskyy, expectedly, rebuffed even the notion that this will change, ever. Especially the heavily fortified areas in the northern Donetsk region.
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The result of the talks in Alaska are:
Nothing was agreed upon. No questions were allowed. The Russian delay tactics might be continued in Moscow.
Putin can return home avoiding more sanctions. Trump is returning with nothing. Clear win for Russia and a bad day for the USA.
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„Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.“
Winston Churchill
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The talks between Trump and Putin have begun.
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The successful operation was conducted by elements of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, 82nd Air Assault Brigade and the 1st Corps (Azov).
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Ukrainian forces are decimating the Russian battle group north of Pokrovsk. In the process substantial part of that latest incursion was liberated. A portion of the Russian army, probably parts of the 132nd Brigade, are encircled Kucheriv Yar.
