Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I am not even debating the point that Ukraine have been wronged.

The reality I am suggesting is that Ukraine don't have enough shells for artillery, or rockets for tubes.

Let's see how the next few months go. I hope I am wrong and Ukraine can make decent inroads into occupied territory.

As Reuters article points out, Kharkiv had little fortifications at all, and a very small grouping of Russians were stupidly tasked with holding the entire very large area.

They were lucky that their under staffing of that front wasnt noticed sooner.

And Kherson as pointed out umpteen times was a failure of Russian supply lines due to the fact they had only 2 bridges they could use, and were repeatedly being hit. The land offensive to north and east of Kherson didnt achieve much for an entire summer of fighting in the non-muddy season.

Hopefully this summer is not as much of a stalemate for Ukraine as Kherson was at the line of conflict.

Do the Russian casualties include only those of the official armed forces of the Russian Federation? Or do they also incluse the militias of the DPR and LPR, the so-called "peoples' republics" which have recentyl been "officially" incorporated into the RF? Do they incluse groups like the Wagner Group? Both of these categories have apparentyl had very large casualty rates, so their inclusion would make a big difference.

Also when it comes to numbers killed, do the Russian numbers include missing in action (i.e. no death benefits payable to family) or even the severly wounded left to die by the wonderfully caring Russian Army?

The WSJ published a BS article about Ukraine planning mass attacks on Moscow on the anniversary of the invasion. US media should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Those estimates - are they compiled by the same lot who assured the world of WMDs in Iraq? I'll take Danilov's assurances of Ukrainian losses over any US 'estimate'. Just look at the 10 changes of story over the non delivery of Abrams tanks. The US are not to be trusted unreservedly, IMO.

But then again who's to say that they weren't,

Everything you don't like is all propaganda, every story is bs unless you share it ,

Blinkered opinions don't help anyone

Blinkered opinions? - That's rich coming from someone who stated they are right and Admiral John Kirby is wrong, when it comes to training requirements to operate switch blade drones.

Not to mention your repeated denials that the A50 AWACS had been attacked and damaged, despite several media outlets posting the story.

John Wick, or maybe the Mission Impossible team....there was a story on here a few pages back, i don't know if you have seen it, but here goes. Putin ( the real one) had a bad accident, and his leg had to be amputated, it was unavoidable. All of Russia was in a state of shock, and none more that Putin's look alikes......

Yes and I'm right ,

It's all propaganda unless you post it,

You Can't even see the argument of course you can't see the point blinkered..

when this war started the Ukrainian army more or less had duct tape,vise grips and wd40 and not much more but they have vast quantaties of motivation,they dont want to be part of fookhead in the kremlins country,they have their own and want to keep it and now they have much more weapons of all kinds,tanks,artillery,small arms and ammunition,id guess that anything the Ukrainian Army is doing at the moment is probing the front line,seeing whats weak,strong,reasonably easy,hard and making their plans as to when and how they move next...to quote the Rolling Stones 'you cant always get what you want...but...sometimes...you get what you need' i think the Ukraines will get what they need...

Not exactly true no,

The Ukrainan military had come along way compared to 2014 ,they have also been training with Nato and other forces for the last 10 years at least,they also had thousands of tanks and armoured vehicles and an airforce.

These daily arguments between the two most active posters are becoming tiresome.

Yeah I get that,

But this is Russia we're not losing men but the other republics are suffering heavy losses, with there mosin nagant bolt action rifles from WW2 and tin helmets,

This is part of the misinformation the Kremlin use ,come the end of the war they Will categorise their losses to the different republics and tell us Russians didn't die and Wagner is made up of foreign recruits meaning even less Russians died and people will believe them

The 19 French made Caesar artillery pieces donated by Denmark have arrived. A magnificent gesture, their entire inventory.

And the 6 Spanish Leopards arrived in Poland.