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Ukraine running out of options to retake significant territory (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem of that approach is that winter is coming soon and battles will soon ground to a halt. Which will give Russians the time to build up their defensive layers again.

Spring offensive of 2024 will commence afterwards. And then the spring offensive of 2025, 2026, 2027...

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus tanks work better in the winter and Russia has quite a few of them which are cheap and easy to deploy.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Had quite a few of them.