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But david D., the allies had a massive industrial base, far more men, and overwhelming force focused on a small area!
>That is true, however Ukraine is getting massive occasional drips of freshly produced equipment, catching all the meat they can, and are already focused in small areas.
But david D., they are surrounded by a much larger and better equiped force and are getting picked off like fish in a barrel, so doesn't the logic of time being irrelevant apply to the Russians?
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>Zelensky refuses to hand over the last remaining 30% of Donetsk in the name of a hypothetical ceasefire because it would compromise Ukraine's safety as all its defensive positions would be lost and would allow Russia to just swarm into the open plains of inner Ukraine with nothing to stop them.
>Compares it to the disaster of the western allies forcing Czechoslovakia into giving the heavily fortified and easily defensible Sudetenland to Germany in the name of peace, when in reality its consequences directly led to war across Europe one year later. Had they held their ground the Reich would have lost a war against Czechoslovakia.
>No territorial discussion can be held until there is a ceasefire in the first place and security guarantees as a necessity for any ceasefire or long term peace.

Confirmed on Sky News. So basically nothing will happen, its business as usual.

So he's adamant that it will be a fight to the very last man. Every Ukrainian soldier knows what losing the remainder of Donbass means for the future of the state.

What remains of the region are all dense urban cities and Zelensky is banking on those cities all next to each other(literally share the same road) being impregnable fortresses.

Trump is now tempering expectations over the Anchorage meeting on Friday amid the ongoing operations across the eastern front that are threatening multiple cities simultaenously.
Lavrov and Rubio have spoken in last couple of hours.

US now seeing the talks as a "listening exercise" to Russian concerns,demands and aims rather than an actual peace talk. It'll be the first time that the US has sat down and saw the opposite viewpoint alone with no foreign involvement like whenever they meet Ukraine and Zelensky has other NATO representatives with him in the same room.