This crawling pace of advance through mines, drones, and mile after mile of Ukrainian trenches, is slower than any other army in any other major conflict in the past 100 years, according to the CSIS report.
The reports depicts a vastly different image of the blood soaked conflict that’s often presented to the public, where Putin’s much larger army and war economy are treated as the inevitable victors in the war.
Instead, Ukraine’s against-the-odds defense of its territorial integrity and sovereignty against a much larger power appears to have been largely successful.
« A close look at the data suggests that Russia is hardly winning and, even more interestingly, that Russia is increasingly a declining power, » the report states.
Yet in a war of attrition, it is not your ability to win set-piece battles or kill enemy soldiers that ends the bloodshed, it is the capacity of you citizens to weather the horror of your losses. With the report estimating that casualty totals could reach two million by Spring this year.
Trump warns Russia of a ‘new step of aggression’ if it doesn’t end war in Ukraine
The POTUS threatened to send a new weapon to Ukraine to urge Putin to end the conflict
Emily Brown
Emily Brown
Donald Trump has warned Russia he may take a ‘new step of aggression’ in the form of hefty weapons if Vladimir Putin doesn’t put an end to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The POTUS issued his latest threat to Russia while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday (October 12), while still reeling from losing out on the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump has previously claimed he deserved the award after putting an end to ‘six wars’, but his loss hasn’t deterred him from trying to end another one.
As Russia continues its attacks, Trump warned the country that he could bolster Ukraine’s defences with Tomahawks – American-made missiles which can launch from the ground, ships or submarines.
The weapons are capable of striking targets precisely from more than 1,000 miles away, meaning Ukraine could use them to target Moscow.Sharing his plan to try and end the war, Trump said: “I might say, ‘Look: if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks’. The Tomahawk is an incredible weapon, very offensive weapon. And honestly, Russia does not need that.
