Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Based on what solid Intel ?

You connect the dots like a true propagandist....... and you might not even be wrong by pulling this out of your arse.

Whether Bahkmut holds at this stage is irrelevant. The main concern is an orderly retreat should it be needed where you take the least casualties possibly. After that it can be isolated by artillery strikes and surround it in the counter offensive once the bradleys etc are in position. Hopefully the Russians will have packed it with 10,000 troops by then and they'll lose another 10k of their army in a matter of days.

We don't need to hope. The orcs are losing around 1000 a day.

Another failed orc assault in Kreminna.

Ukraine counter attacked and pushed the orcs back at Bakhmut.

Bye bye.

War is a profoundly nasty and regrettable business. In that sense, there are no winners, but allowing that wars have happened, are happening, and will happen throughout human history, Russia will fail in more of its objectives than Ukraine will.

China isn't that interested in directly supplying a losing war effort while also trying to keep some sort of diplomatic/business relationship with the West. There's even an argument to say that China benefits from a weakened Russia which then must prostrate itself to China in order to stay afloat.

Ukraine is not losing a 1000 men a day at Bakhmut or anything comparable to the Wagner zombies. The Ukrainians are sitting in gun nests while mowing down Wagner who are essentially trying to Normandy their way across open ground, gaining however many yards each time.

It could be, but there may be new phrases popping up such as 'Leopard', 'Abrams', 'Fall of Donetsk to Ukraine' and 'Putin falls out of 17th storey window while golfing'.

@farmingquestion

Those are unverified claim of 'explosions', and could as easily be Orc accidents or partisan attacks. What should tell anyone, with any nouse, that these are not the same is that the air defence systems didn't light up and start hosing the sky, as they did for the attacks on from Feb 21-23.

Of course there are no winners, but every inch of land Putin has he sees as a win.

Your "solution" to the war is to reward Putin with more land. That's not a solution, it's encouragement. Weakness like that to a tyrant rebuilding an empire is a red rag to a bull.

I'm sure the war will go on for a long time. However in just one year we've seen Russia having to rely on prison convicts, mercenaries, Iranian drones, equipment from the sixties, they've thrown the kitchen sink at Bahkmut for 6 months and still haven't fully taken it, at extraordinary cost, i wonder where they'll be in a year.