Baldrick,

Russia is whining like a little girl when it gets a taste of its own medicine. Because Russia is so large, it is extremely difficult to protect its assets and now fuel depots, oil refineries, power stations and factories are being blown up several times a week.

Russia's finances are dire after the US and EU started fining shipping companies for purchasing oil above the price cap. Also, banks in Turkey, India, Cyprus and China are closing Russian bank accounts when threatened with secondary sanctions. Russian oil tankers are floating off India and Sri Lanka as banks won't transact with Russia.

At the same time, Russia's expenditure on the war is consuming over 40% of its annual budget.

From your claims that Avdivvka was operationally surrounded on Oct 2023, Russia has lost about 20,000 men, 1000s of tanks and armoured vehicles about 10 fighter bombers etc just trying to capture a small suburb of Donetsk that used to house about 15,000 people.

Russia is now running out of tanks and is fielding T55s and T62s from their antique storage areas.

Russia's economy is crashing which is probably why the idiot Putin is so desperate to negotiate because even he recognises that Russia is losing this war that Putin started.

Ukrainians have committed their last reserves.
They face collapse within weeks if things don't change
And Zelensky faces a political crisis losing Avdeevka.

Central Avdeevka has already been captured, the city will fall.
I think the Russians mite be having a crack at Chasiv Yar as well, amongst other places they are making gains.

Every single time Russians are advancing, we get all this bs narrative so the Ukrainians can cling to hope.
Sell your winning bs story to them, even they don't believe it anymore.
No-one's volunteering to fight for the country.

Losing Avdeevka means no more tagetting civilians in Donetsk City.

And as for losses, Russian losses are weighed against military gains.
Ukraine doesn't have any on the battlefield only pointless pinprick attacks for propaganda that have no strategic objective.
Ukraine's losses are for nothing.

If Ukraine was winning Biden wouldn't be panicking and saying failure to support further funding for Ukraine was criminally negligent.
The wars over, but determination and desperation will keep the killing going for a little while yet.

Russia's not willing to negotiate on any other terms than the ones they set in the beginning.
Demilitarise, Denazify, and no NATO.

Furthermore, I don't think Republicans want to inherit this losing Democrat sh*tshow of a war in November, and if Biden loses, the wars over for Ukraine anyway.
Probably why they can't let Trump win.

Tick-Tock, times running out, and so are Ukranian men who are able to fight.

Bold Ukrainian Soldiers Defect To Russia, Joining The Frontline Battle Against Ukraine!
http://youtu.be/bGBc6Pza3G8

They know whos winning SM, they even say so.

Ukraine is rushing to reinforce the Avdeevka cauldron with it's best forces, providing Russia an opportunity to remove these fighters from the battlefield.
i.e meatwaves having fabs dropped on them.

Also they are rounding up anyone they can and send them to the front.
Some villages are fighting back against these recruiters.

Bakhmut cost Ukraine 90,000 troops to defend.

Baldrick,

Lying again I see. Where do you get these figures from? your mates in Russia I guess. Ukraine's casualties in Bakhmut were closer to 5000 far less than the 40 000 that Russia lost.

You have been claiming for 2 years that Ukraine have committed their last reserves, yet they continue to massacre the Russians whose main function is to fertilize Ukrainian soil.

Russia has lost about 350,000 troops, 4000 tanks 8000 AFVs, 300 odd fixed-wing aircraft 1/3rd of the black sea fleet.

Russia is going bankrupt and is fielding antique equipment to try and replace all the tanks etc that they have lost.