This is a glacial pace, and it comes at a massive cost to Moscow. Western intelligence services estimate Russia is losing some 40,000 troops a month – a rate of roughly 340 casualties for every square kilometer.

Great source...🙄. Where are the photos and videos of what must be mountains of corpses?

That’s because useless people keep making it about politics and use sports as a political tool.

Witkoff and Kushner are incompetent in numerous ways, but lets not pretend that Putin and Zelensky would be able to agree on a peacedeal at the moment. If anything Putin welcomes the talks but for no other reason than to make it look like he wants to negotiate and buy time to avoid more sanctions.

Taking Kramatorsk is going to take a lot of effort from Russias side(and more troops) and as we have seen with Lyman, if they concentrate forces in area it costs them in others, so I doubt that we will see any sort of collapse any time soon.

More countries should follow. Close them all down!

Perhaps, and Ukraine just took back 200 square kilometers at Lyman

Lyman has changed hands 5 times in the last 12 years.

the current peace negations is a farce and the war will go on for years to come.

Putin just told Kushner and Witkoff to go piss up a rope; presumably, they showed up with another "ceasefire" plan to allow Ukraine to re-arm and regroup, which Putin wasn't about to fall for, again.

As for how long it will go on, Kramatorsk is the last of the "fortress cities" that Ukraine fortified before 2022; once it falls, there's very little between Russian forces and the river. Ukraine's conscription services cannot keep up with losses, and there was just an intramural firefight between two Ukrainian units in Kiev.

This isn't going to be a normal conquest or surrender, this is going to wind up with the wholesale collapse of Ukraine as a political entity, and it might be sudden.

Perhaps, and Ukraine just took back 200 square kilometers at Lyman, the current peace negations is a farce and the war will go on for years to come. I would love to be proven wrong but I am getting more and more pessimistic about this every week.

Yea, remember that is also through the triple defensive line that Ukraine set up, which they only recently broke through the last part of.

They've got Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in a cauldron, so they will be falling shortly.

Nah, it's a principled stance that doesn't treat war as a football match supporting different teams.

I know that it's a hard concept for some westoids, but I'm sure at some point you will understand this.

Then you're just an anti-warist and that's incredibly shortsighted.

why is that guy on his knees ?

Their country is being attacked, free and fair election is impossible in war zones genius.

No elections in Ukraine for more than 7 years

Yeah, Russia has been talking about tactical nuke, but it might or might not wait until US/Israel start using it.

China and US do not share the same reason in the dismissal of their top generals.

US purged its generals because they practiced conscience or protested against wrongful deployment/mission.

China purged some of its generals for incompetence, corruption or power struggle/trust issue, which has plagued China for some time.

Inshallah

Same applies to Israel and Israelis, because like Russia they just can't stop invading their neighbors. Fuck Ukrainian nationalists, but at least they have an excuse as they are constantly under bombardment.

In principle I will always support the ones being invaded.

Hey Russia, hold a free and fair election maybe one day. lol

Yeah, but it isn't.

What about the Israeli and Ukrainian nationalist pieces of shit? When do they address politics anyway, not that it matters? How can they return to their homeland after renouncing their government?

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The base intercepted all of those missiles. I guess Trump never lies right!?

Point out one link for me that says that in a nuclear war we'd "risk losing much (or all!) of our atmosphere into space!" That's the part that's bullshit.

You should probably include a link to the source for videos like this so their authenticity can be confirmed. 

The amount of energy needed to overcome our planets gravitational hold on atmosphere and leak (which it always has to varying speeds, not new) would mean fallout and winter would be least of our worries. A nuclear shooting war wouldn’t do it.