Ukraine has 33 million people. Russia has 140 million people. It's not an overwhelming advantage in manpower. The difference will be who has more courageous fighters and who has more drones. Russians grew up in the harshest climate on the planet and they are expected to be more courageous than Ukrainians who grew up in relatively nice climate. Russia has more drones and better drones, especially fiber optic ones.
Another advantage Russians have is they are on home turf in Donbas. The vast majority of people of Donbas are Russian speakers and are pro Russia. Only the part of Ukraine west of Dnipr river is majority Ukrainian speakers.
New footage of the Russian Yolka interceptor drone in action in Ukraine. The video shows the destruction of a Ukrainian DARTS UAV and two drones of an unknown type.
The Russian army launched a second Iskander missile strike on Kyiv on the night of July 8. The strike hit the Ukrainian company Samsung-Ukraine, which produced and stored components for FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles. A drone assembly plant, a motor depot on the territory of Kyivmetrobud, and warehouses used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kyiv's Desnyansky district were also hit.
Kirill Budanov - “Everyone realizes that this is a collapse.
Putin has reached a dead end: he cannot end the war, nor win it.
Victory is no longer possible for objective reasons.
But ending the war means admitting that Russia is not as strong or great as he wanted.
The essence of Budanov's position lies in the fact that Putin fell into the trap of a war of his own making. He could not achieve the promised victory, but the end of the war revealed the failure of the myth of the Russian Empire.
For this very reason, Moscow continues the war meaninglessly. Not because it has a real path to victory, but because to admit defeat is to admit that Ukraine has destroyed the image of Russian power, around which Putin built his regime.
Ukraine strikes deep into Russia..Targeting the Saratov refinery, Borisoglebsk airport, Taganrog oil tanks, and the Nizhnekamsk petrochemical complex..
- “Everyone realizes that this is a collapse.
