@Aether 😳
17,000? I didn’t even know that. This is huge, this is like a second Mariupol without the Azovstal plant to drag things out.
What a horrible war. At some point someone has to drag Zelensky out of his office and redact him. This can’t go on. Tens of thousands of people encircled at a time, I mean this is how you get the dissolution of the Ukrainian army.
I almost can’t believe we’re witnessing it in real life. The dissolution of a modern military, encirclements in the tens of thousands, this war has been described as the equivalent of a battle in WWII, I’m starting to agree. This doesn’t feel like an old, 20th century, proxy war, it’s starting to look like a real war.
Eventually Russia is going to break through Donbass, and then I think Ukraine is going to feel some real pain. Zaporizhzhya is next besides Kharkov, and I don’t think they’ll be able to defend it as well, and once Russia gets into the interior, I think it’s over for Ukraine. Donbass was heavily dug in, I just don’t think they can do large-scale in the open fighting.