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>from November 2022 of fighting Russia has sacrificed its economy and hundreds of thousands of its men for 0.97% of Ukraine as of today.
>hasn’t been capable of large scale pushes since May 2022 (most of the Southern land bridge and Northern Luhansk was captured in the first weeks of the war when Russia was at its strongest and Ukraine at its weakest - when Germany and France were still only sending helmets as military aid)
Russia missed its opportunity to win anything more long ago. The best they can hope for is de facto control of the land bridge to Crimea for a few years until Putin eventually dies or is replaced when the conflict will unfreeze - just like how HTS hid for years in a tiny poclet before breaking out to mug the Assadists or how the Azeris spent three decades arming up to became more powerful militarily and geopolitically than Armenia to take back their land. Plus with the US openly backing security guarentees for Ukraine and Europe rearming Russia won’t be able to restart the war without dragging the whole West in directly next time. Russia should have said it was ready to end fighting in May 2022 when they at least held the regional trans-Dnipro city of Kherson - would be a far better position of them to end the war than now