I said yesterday that the Putin apologists were full of shit when they were talking about oil being purchased in fucking rubles when there are contracts that set forth the currency, timing etc. "They're taking more defensive positions." "So it's not that they're not advancing, they're actually not trying to advance right now," said the official. "They're forcing them into a defensive position" the official told reporters on Wednesday. now assesses that Russian troops that have been stalled 12 to 15 kilometers north of the city are "digging in" and establishing defensive positions according to the official. "Ukrainians are not only in some of these places up sufficiently defending they're going on the offense in some of these places and actually pushing the Russians backwards, or in the case of Kiev, they're, they're basically forcing them into a defensive position," the official said Wednesday.
The ability to push back Russian forces nearly twice as far as where they had been for weeks is in line with what the official had said on Tuesday were indications that in some areas Ukrainian forces were attempting to retake territory taken by Russia. They are 20+ KM further from Kiev now than they were last week and currently taking defensive positions but Russia is winning. Kiev still has utilities because the Russians are ill-equipped, unmotivated and lack the tactical ability to take it. It is better to be a deserter than fertilizer." They destroyed the towers needed for their encrypted communication systems (seriously), so we can literally listen to russian troops complain about having no fuel, food and being attacked by their own all while the Ukrainians jam and shit talk their communications: " Go home. And when the war is over and Ukraine loses, you can think up an excuse about what happened. Keep believing that Russia is losing though.
Russia, of course isn’t even meeting with him, because theyknow that shortly they will take over the entire country and install a puppet as leader.
Zelensky has already agreed to stop pursing NATO and giving away parts of the country to Russia. We are not used to seeing a war fought this way, so we just follow the narrative that they are losing. The Russians are purposely not destroying the country, unlike what the US does in every war. Why is that? Because the Ukrainian defenses are so great that they are protecting the infrastructure? Or because the Russian army is so incompetent they aren’t able to disrupt it? Or that Russia is waging a war where they are trying to do as little damage as possible. You do know that the people of Kiev still have water, electricity, heat, and cellphone service.