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Tarnavskyi: Russian forces lost almost 50,000 soldiers in 4 months of fighting for Avdiivka - Euromaidan Press
The Russian army has lost almost 50,000 soldiers and over 1,300 units of military equipment during the active…
euromaidanpress.com
This was Russia's winter military campaign objective and they achieved it. They were willing to pay the price. They don't care how many soldiers they lost, they don't care how many vehicles they lost, they don't care what price they're paying, to advance on a relatively insignificant town. The pr-war population of this town was 32000 and Russia lost over 50000 just in the last 4 months fighting for it.
And let's put into perspective how incompetent the Russian military is. Prior to this invasion, everyone said Russia was the #2 military in the world and Russians have had to beg the Iranians and North Koreans for military help. Meaning that the combined assault of Russia, Iran and North Korea spent 4 months to capute a small city of 32000. How is Russia ever gonna take Zaporizhzhia, a city of 700000? How are they going to take Kharkiv, a city of 1.5 million, or Odessa, a city of over 1 million?
The right one is where they started and the left one is where they've gotten in 2 years. 2 years of fighting and they've advanced 7 km.
Russia's territorial objective is to get to the left one, the borders of Donetsk, that's another 60km. At the rate they're going, this is gonna take the Russians another 10 years to get the entirety of the Donbass region. Russia doesn't have 10 years.
Russia is incapable of taking a city and not completely ruining it.
Russia's Avdiivka losses higher than entire Soviet-Afghan war
Russia sustained more than 47,000 casualties in the monthslong onslaught around the Donetsk city of Avdiivka, Ukraine's military has said.
www.newsweek.com
Russia's Avdiivka losses are higher than the entire Soviet-Afghan War. The Russians spent a decade fighting in Afghanistan and Putin lost more soldiers in the last 4 months taking a small city.
Washington Insider: New Poll Shows US Support for Ukraine Is Strong
Despite congressional inaction to send much-needed military support to Ukraine, 73 percent of Americans say the war in Ukraine is important to American interests.
www.kyivpost.com
Most (73%) Americans say the war is important to American interests and this has gotten higher over the last 6 months.
Ukraine ‘shoots down six Russian fighter jets in three days’
Kyiv claims it has destroyed two more warplanes on top of the four that were downed at the weekend
www.telegraph.co.uk
Ukraine is never going to surrender. This is a genocide, Russia is coming to steal children, destroy their cities and enslave their people, so Ukraine is using everything they can and they're never going to stop. These planes were most likely shot down by Patriot launchers and Russia refuses to realize that. They keep sending their pilots to the combat line to get shot down by these roaming Patriot launchers.
