I read on the Coli that Putin already won and that Ukraine was days away from falling.
That was like a year ago
They recently launched one of the largest armored assaults of a war and they got destroyed so bad Forbes had to comment on it
The Russian Army Just Launched The Biggest Tank Assault Of The War
Forty-eight tanks and fighting vehicles attacked along a single road west of Avdiivka—and got massacred
On Saturday, the Russian army launched what may have been one of the largest-scale tank assaults of Russia’s 25-month wider war on Ukraine.
It ended in one of the largest-scale tank
massacres of Russia’s 25-month wider war on Ukraine. When the smoke cleared, the Russians had left behind—on a road west of the ruins of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine—a third of their tanks.
The costly assault underscores two clashing trends as Russia’s war of choice grinds into its third year. For weeks prior to the Saturday assault, Russian regiments and brigades—apparently short on vehicle after losing hundreds of them capturing Avdiivka back in mid-February—mostly deployed foot-borne infantry to attack west of the city.
That changed in the recent days. “On the Avdiivka direction, the enemy has reintroduced the employment of armored vehicles, including tanks,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies
noted on Friday, the day before a battalion or two of those vehicles rolled into a bloodbath near Tonen’ke.
That the Ukrainians could defeat such a large and heavily-armed Russian force points to the
other trend. Despite struggling with inadequate supplies of key munitions, Ukrainian brigades still are capable of mounting a fierce defense—often with a combination of mines, artillery, anti-tank missiles and explosive first-person-view drones.
“Sometimes it is amazing the amount of stupid, mindless ... meat that dies in bundles due to the ambitions of a small [man],” the Ukrainian air-assault forces’ 25th Brigade
mused in a social-media post following the Saturday battle west of Tonen’ke on Avdiivka’s western outskirts. That small man is, of course, Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Thirty-six tanks and 12 BMP fighting vehicles from the Russian army’s 6th Tank Regiment—part of the 90th Tank Division—attacked along a road threading from Russian-occupied Tonen’ke toward the free village of Uman’ske, two miles to the west.
'It is amazing the amount of stupid, mindless ... meat that dies in bundles,' the Ukrainian air-assault forces’ 25th Brigade mused after it wrecked the Russian column.
www.forbes.com
Ukraine has been essentially fighting solo as well because if the Republicans.