looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
My impression is that people often expect too much and base their expectations on those courses of battles as they may have seen in films on WWII. Those old-school battle formations are very rare these days and if they are seen, then they indicate the very end of an offensive and not the beginning. An offensive can have been going on for some time without spectators realising it. As you are saying, the Russians have had a steep learning curve by establishing three defence lines that will give the Ukrainians a headache since they are already having difficulty getting past the forward commands. OTOH, the Ukrainians have learnt where the weakest points of the Russians are and will be using that knowledge for the decisive breakthrough, which, however, won't be the final one. We'll see a series of attacks and counterattacks and it will be too early for real territorial gains. So we shouldn't be expecting too much in this phase of the conflict.
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we're having cooler weather at the min, much more comfortable for me.
