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> Aren't they occupying something like 20% of the country? Temporarily occupying. As we are currently seeing in Kherson, Ukraine continues to attempt to recla
by threeseed 4y ago
> Aren't they occupying something like 20% of the country?
Temporarily occupying.
As we are currently seeing in Kherson, Ukraine continues to attempt to reclaim held territory.
And there is widespread doubt about Russia’s ability to hold them over the long term with the limited troops they have. Russia needs a full scale mobilisation to do this and unfortunately for them it’s politically toxic.
- jeffreyrogers 4y agoWe'll see, pundits have been predicting a turning tide since a few weeks into the war. Hasn't happened yet.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> We'll see, pundits have been predicting a turning tide since a few weeks into the war. Hasn't happened yet. Yeah, it did, which is why Russia radically changed focus and apparent strategy from decapitating and pacifying the regime to trying to seize a continuous arc through Eastern and Southern Ukraine to connect to the enclave they also clearly want to seize in Moldova.