Baldrick,

The Ukrainian flag flying in Crimea was photographed and geolocated and admitted by Crimean occupation authorities.

As for the missile strike on Kyev, only one drone got through and hit a shopping centre all 22 cruise missiles were shot down and all but one drone. Whereas the Ukrainian drone attack on an airfield in Pskov destroyed 4 Russian IL76s badly damaged 2 more, destroyed the fuel supplies and hit the ammunition depot. Further attacks hit a chip factory and another airbase all in one night.

In the south, Ukraine has broken through the 2nd line of defence and is storming Verbove and Novoprokkopivka and is less than 20km from Tokmak.

"Russian forces have "suffered significant losses" over the past seven days, Ukraine said on Monday, as Kyiv presses on with its counteroffensive.

In the past week, more than 4,600 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded, Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Telegram on Monday.

Ukrainian forces have captured more than 80 Russian troops in the same time period, Maliar added. "Our defence forces destroyed more than 400 units of enemy equipment and weapons,"

Russia is losing this war.

"Russia is losing this war."
No they're not, Ukraine is they have no chance of winning,
and far more significant is that the West is losing its empire.

Baldrick,

Russian casualties are about 3x as high as Ukrainian especially since Ukraine started using its now nearly unlimited supply of cluster munitions. Also, the use of HIMARs and Western counter-battery radars has reduced the Russian superiority in Artillery to parity. Ukrainian troops have broken through the first Surovikin line and are taking Verbove. Russia has lost so many tanks and vehicles that 75% of the tanks and vehicles it is using were built in the soviet union.

Russia's economy is so bad that according to the Russian central bank, Russia is running a budget deficit of about US$1bn per day which it is funding from its wealth fund and the sale of its dwindling stocks of gold. The Ruble is crashing and since the US has increased its output of oil by 1mb/day and Iran is now selling oil, oil sales to India and China are beginning to fall.

Also since Putin has had the genius idea to confiscate Western assets in Russia, this has had the effect that no one will ever invest in Russia for decades. Secondly, Western countries are now looking to confiscate Russian assets in the West incl the $300bn frozen in Western banks.

Russia is losing this war.

"Russian casualties are about 3x as high as Ukrainian especially since Ukraine started using its now nearly unlimited supply of cluster munitions. Also, the use of HIMARs and Western counter-battery radars has reduced the Russian superiority in Artillery to parity."

You're dreaming.
Ukrainian news releases are a combination of complete bs and wishful thinking.
There's only one statistic worth mentioning.
The one that represents total failure.

Reznikov got fired.
That means Ukraines counter offensive is over, with no gains whatsoever.
You didn't even capture Robotyne, Russians built tunnels there.
Certain parts they could not capture, so they gave up and went around it, but it's not completely captured.

You think they're winning,
- But in truth they're extinguishing themselves thrown against Russian defensive lines.
Going in on foot stopped the armoured fighting vehicles being targeted and gained you a few hundred meters over a few days but Russia modified their tactics and the Ukrainian offensive is over - fizzled out, offensive fighting capacity largely degraded due to significant losses.

I hear Ukraine is trying to send 60,000 students to the front, as well as people with physical disabilities.
I'm sure that will be hugely popular, send in the kids.

Baldrick,

It appears that you post whatever BS pops into your head without checking. Robotyne is 100% occupied by Ukraine and the Russian bloggers are now worried that Verbove and Novoprokopivka are about to fall. Already they have captured more territory than Russia did in its winter offensive.

As for the war, Ukraine hasn't thrown troops at the Russian lines since the first week. The general tactic is to kill many of the Russians with cluster munitions and keep their heads down while they clear the mines at night and then clear the Russian trenches. When the Russians counter attack they are met with accurate artillery fire. I just saw a video where a convoy of Russian troop carriers was obliterated in less than a minute.

In the last week or so Russia has lost 1000s of soldiers, plenty of aircraft and way more tanks and AFVs than they can replace. The sight of TU22's burning was fantastic.

Russia is losing this war.