What is going on here?

Still dont get why Russia isnt using its airforce?

Probably scared of all the anti air weapons that ukraine is allegedly receiving.

I genuinely think Russia will sue for peace once they obtain Donbass. If their army is as piss poor as the situation appears, they wouldn't want to risk further dragging the reputation of Russian strength.

It also technically completes the goals of what Putin originally claimed which was to protect the separatist groups from the "oppressive" Ukraine regime.

They also poked a massive hole in NATO, the EU, and the US's confidence that they're in charge of the world. Trying to fully conquer Ukraine would sweep all of that under the rug, as it could trigger a real war, which would disrupt the current trading system and thereby fucking up both China and Russia economically. You would simply push Europe into rearming the entire continent.

You do know that Ukraine has no air force

Because it adds nothing that their artillery and cruise missiles cant achieve already, and they are not interested in bombing the infrastructure of ukraine back to the stone age because eventually they will want to rule the place.

You dont need an air force to shoot down planes and planes are expensive af. Plus Putin is probably soft and doesn't want the bad publicity that stems from carpet bombing (which was normal until the 1960s)

>Why has this map not changed for 5 months? Why are small villages the only thing that Russia is capturing.
Because the war shifted into attrition war
>Are they actually losing the war?
On the contrary, Ukraine has absolutely no chance at actually sustaining this war. Attrition, static wars cause more losses than anything and Ukraine can't counter Russian artillery and support and is losing 100s of men and gear daily

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There will be no victor here. Only death.

I think Putin is prolonging the war into the winter, so he can cut all the gas and natural resources to Ukraine and Europe in order to freeze the entire continent. That way, the EU, or more specially Germany, will have two options: Revoke the sanctions and start the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or freeze to death alongside Ukraine.

nato satellites and intel

Maybe their goal isn't to take Ukraine, maybe their goal is to have NATO disarm themselves sending munitions to Ukraine, who sells it, so the real invasion of NATO can commence.
That or russians are retarded mongoloids incapable of conquest.

Russia only knows how to win wars of attrition, so they withdrew back to their most easily defended positions and hope to just wear Ukraine out

Invade and hold. Ukraine is attacking, Russia is defending its conquered territory. Things don't look good for Ukraine.
Russian war doctrine:
-Russia attacks.
-Russia loses 20,000,000 soldiers.
-Winter comes.
-Russia wins.

That might have been true until USA started giving them long range artilery. Previously they had only Toczkas, to which they didn't have amo outside of some cold war stock, so tgey weren't able yo shoot much

I agree, these are fucking Russians, not pansy ass Frenchmen. They don’t lose moral in cold
However, they do need to gain as much territory before automn when the mud sets in

>the EU and the US are destroying themselves with their own sanctions
lmao

They did, but it was ghosted over Kiev.
-Carlos

You must be a retard or a glowie to contest that.

Russia has always been the master at the war of attrition. Don't forget that this is the country that defeated both Napoleon and Hitler. I highly doubt Ukraine can survive a winter war.

Putin worked outside of the USSR in Germany. Which means years of low monitored contact with the west.

West installed Yeltsin, who installed Putin.

Putins job is to keep Russia on ice, with no independent ruling class or economy. So the west can strike it down or take it over when it needs to.

This war is making the west richer and bigger.

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why were they so successful in the south? Did the ukranian war plan dictate to fall back towards the Dnepr or were they just unprepared?

it wouldn't be fair

Gather round gentlemen, this is what a fucking retard’s post looks like

The Russian armed forces are absolute garbage full of gay anal orgies and drug addicts. They're capturing men in donbas, begging for help from China and North Korea for a reason.

A stalled conflict giving the jews in america enough time to sort their assets and pull out before we pretend ukraine never existed

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>schizo spindoctoring pilpul begins.

Because over half of ukraines heavy industry is there, along with oil and coal fields and close to 100% russian speaking population. They wanted it, so they committed and got them.

This is why zelenjew kvetching about how ukraine is going to get back everything, even Crimea is so fucking wrong and detached from reality. Russia would never, ever surrender those lands.

>Winter comes.
>Russia wins.

Winter will be absolute hell for the Russian-minded civilians who wanted to stay in the bombarded cities that have no heating, running water, electricity or proper food supply. Same goes for their army who has pushed forward.

Because they needed to be. The Crimea's water had been shut off. They needed to reach the reservoirs and canals connected to the Dnepr. That, and connecting up with the DNR and LNR in the east, were the main aims. Seems to me that the eventual territorial settlement won't be much different than what we see on the map now, despite extravagant talk of Odessa and Yekaterinoslav.

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>Russia
>loses in winter
peak mongol intelligence

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so russia is in ukraine with its entire army?
weird smo

if that was the case why wouldn't they have taken Odessa as well?

I read somewhere that 85% of the Russian army was committed to the Ukraine front. Don't know if that's true or "Russia will run out of ammo in two more weeks" news.