You keep saying Russia can't win this war like a violin, but one thing is for certain.
Ukraine certainly can't win it.

Russia may not have done so well militarily, but it's done well enough and it sure has weathered the economic war, which backfired on the west spectacularly.

"Russia is also desperately short of ammunition with ammunition arriving rusted from stocks that were previously deemed unusable. Tanks and APCs from the 50s and 60s are being delivered to the front to cover battlefield losses."

Even if that's true, it doesn't matter, because China, North Korea and Iran will all help Russia before it sees Russia lose, and the west can't make up the shortfall in weapons Ukraine lacks.

Half of those 'so-called' tanks don't even have tracks, apart from the Bradleys which won't fare that well against modern weapons, all they've got is a fair amount of Leopards, of which Ukraine will lose more than its getting before it even gets them and a handful of Challenger 2 which the UK is too scared to actually bring into combat lest they might be captured.

And as I told you before, those KIA and casualty numbers are doctored.
They are Ukraine and the Wests 'official' numbers meant to keep Ukrainian troop morale high and western citizens supporting the ongoing war, They never give you the Russian numbers because they don't want to inform you, they want to sell you.

"Then I showed him the actual Ukrainian legislation which makes clear that the Russian language hasn't been banned. By extension therefore it shows that Russian officials were lying to poor AC and that Russian claims that they had to wage war to save their brethren from this fate were false."

No you said it, and even then I went over and translated it and read part of it, but it's the updated version from 2019, it doesn't talk about 2014, and I saw the news what they were reporting at the time about it. The country was taken over by NAZI nationalist Banderites, yet you expect everyone to believe they haven't targeted the Russian language at all. In Banderastan, I mean Ukraine, they purged millions of Russian books.

Maybe you can show which of the BRICS countries have all these qualities?
- It's all about oil, which the world still needs plenty of.

Pretty funny US lost a 130M drone, doing targeting surveillance in Crimea for Ukraine.
Routine flight... yeah right.

The Russian Su-27's dumped fuel on it first and tried to light it up with afterburners, but it didn't work, so they rammed the prop.
The Russian story is 'we did nothing wrong, pilot error' Lol

Russia is going to try to retrieve the drone now, but it's in deep water.
US was trying to sneak into Russian Air Defense Identification Zone with it's transponder off, and got what it deserved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_defense_identification_zone

It was actively involved in the fight against Russia.
Looks like Russia sent them a message.

So let's get this straight AC.

You say, based on what you "saw the news" in 2014, that the Russian language was banned. Your evidence for this assertion is that "they were reporting at the time about it". This is based on your recollection.

THEN in 2019, the Ukrainians (according to your claim) changed the law to NOT ban Russian. (Makes perfect sense). Then (according to your claim) the greatest foreign minister in the world, said they had banned the Russian language even though they'd not banned it, and that proves they are NAZIs and he's the greatest foreign minister in the world (does this still makes sense to you??).

THEN in 2022, Russia decides to invade Ukraine because they'd banned the Russian language in 2014, even though they'd UNbanned in 2019. (does this still makes sense to you??).

I don't know AC. But it looks very much like you really don't care what the truth is...you're just going to regurgitate the Russian propaganda no matter what.

If you think that's the story I've been telling here for years,
- then maybe it's time you just went back to sleep.
Time for your nanny-nap mate.

And btw, the war in Banderastan started in 2014, not 2022.