It’s a war, if they want it their land back they’re going to bleed for it like any other country in a war. I would hope thecoli would have the heart to do the same.
Part of the answer to your question is that 2 mayors of 2 larger cities, in the south, gave in immediately. Early in the war this allowed a large portion of Russian follow on parties to effortlessly pass through Crimea and support the Eastern, Northeastern offensives from the south. Momentum is swinging the other way now.
The other part is that Russia is about to try to push more reserves through Crimea to support their Defense/withdrawal at Kherson now that they realize how badly Severodonetsk and Lysychans’k hurts. Everything people have been hyping up the last few weeks is about to start playing out over the next 6 months with increasing momentum and spreading violence from the black sea to Melitopol.
Beyond headlines. Russia keeps fukking itself over when they try to fix old fukk ups. They’re reactive because they aren’t able to be proactive. They keep attacking one concentration of the AFU and missing the bigger concentrations attacking new gaps because Russia keeps trying to reinforce pushes at what it thinks is a last stand. That’s not a good look. The material bleeding is getting worse and they don’t have the nearly unlimited human and material resources of the US but they keep trying to pull from our old playbooks.
Part of the answer to your question is that 2 mayors of 2 larger cities, in the south, gave in immediately. Early in the war this allowed a large portion of Russian follow on parties to effortlessly pass through Crimea and support the Eastern, Northeastern offensives from the south. Momentum is swinging the other way now.
The other part is that Russia is about to try to push more reserves through Crimea to support their Defense/withdrawal at Kherson now that they realize how badly Severodonetsk and Lysychans’k hurts. Everything people have been hyping up the last few weeks is about to start playing out over the next 6 months with increasing momentum and spreading violence from the black sea to Melitopol.
Beyond headlines. Russia keeps fukking itself over when they try to fix old fukk ups. They’re reactive because they aren’t able to be proactive. They keep attacking one concentration of the AFU and missing the bigger concentrations attacking new gaps because Russia keeps trying to reinforce pushes at what it thinks is a last stand. That’s not a good look. The material bleeding is getting worse and they don’t have the nearly unlimited human and material resources of the US but they keep trying to pull from our old playbooks.
