Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 2)

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Patience is starting to run short. I’m not sure what can be done if Russia is willing to accept a stalemate.

I linked the CNN article. There’s much more information. Ukraine’s losses are bad.

The Guardian feed

Senior US and western officials describe increasingly “sobering” assessments about Ukrainian forces’ ability to retake significant territory in their counteroffensive, according to CNN.

A senior western diplomat told CNN:

They’re still going to see, for the next couple of weeks, if there is a chance of making some progress. But for them to really make progress that would change the balance of this conflict, I think, it’s extremely, highly unlikely.

The US representative Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat who recently returned from meetings in Europe with US commanders training Ukrainian armed forces, said:

Our briefings are sobering. We’re reminded of the challenges they face.

This is the most difficult time of the war.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-briefings/index.html