SalarHaqq
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Its going to be a lot. So much so that Russia hasn't even updated their 499 or something casualties. Cause it be eye popping to many including the Russian people thinking Ukrainians are welcoming them with open arms everywhere.
There's no evidence for Russia losing this many forces.
Now in response to the rest of the quote and more generally to the dominant mainstream narrative, allow me to paraphrase the explanations of a well-informed analyst with military background:
This war for all practical purposes is over. The Ukrainian army is defeated and completely encircled in different cauldrons, it no longer has any strategic initiative. Its only remaining option now is what the Germans did in 1945, namely to turn every city into a fortress, which at the tactical level is absolutely useless.
Especially since the Ukrainian army is extremely worn out, even the short range offensives over about 40 kilometers used to conduct are no longer within its capabilities. During the few attempts they made as of late, their entire columns were annihilated. Russia is now the only side with strategic initiative, and part of the western elites have understood this.
As for the notion that Moscow was miscalculating Ukrainians will welcome its forces with open arms, those who believe this omnipresent contention need to understand that we're still in the operational phase of the war. To follow up on France's example during WW2 which I evoked above, before De Gaulle could march in Paris, there was a week of military operations inside the city, so naturally residents weren't leaving their homes with flowers to offer to the soldiers.
Moreover, in most of the larger Ukrainian towns, reprisal battalions are still present and they are over-represented. For the past eight years, these have been instigating a reign of terror in the entire south-east of the country, where the majority of Russian-speakers live. Therefore, people are still expectant. Nonetheless, several cities of more than 100.000 inhabitants entirely relied upon the Russians: this is the case of Melitopol, Berdyansk, Kupryansk, etc.
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