[Dargo]

Again the "If the Russian take... then ...." (becomes very boring yawn) after several "if" cities they're still crawling in the Donetsk Donbas this Donbas will not be taken so fast but if they would who cares this Donbas is already lost shot into rubble and left by majority of Ukraine people there is no win in this region not economical or military. If it cost your economy and huge part of your military, it is for die buhne this does not make Russia great. Ukraine will stay be rebuilt, they have the resources to rebuild all industry that are destroyed and razed by Russian in the occupied regions. It was Ukraine that was the engine, brain and food supplier of the USSR, they can do it tenfold Russia not. Saying Ukraine has no reserves is not true, it still has reserves at this moment on route to the Prokovsk front and other critical areas. And they will be sooner at the front than Russia can send troops, Ukraine is still in the inner circle of the front line.

Russian advances … do not automatically portend the collapse of the Ukrainian front line if Putin had a couple of armored divisions we should be far more worried, but Russian do not seem to have a mobile reserve. When you get a breakthrough, you want to exploit it with rapid armored maneuver by trained and experienced people, but Putin’s putting barely trained people into the front. Russia would need to seize another 8,000 square kilometers if it is to take all the Donetsk region, which would take a year even at its current increased rate of advancement. About 700 square kilometers of Ukraine has been taken since November, an area the size of metropolitan Bangkok, but the price Russia is paying in troop and equipment losses is very high. This gain is likely to be possible for only another four weeks before the offensive culminates, Russians also get exhausted any army would.