Took them long enough, especially for what they called “an insignificant city with little strategic important”
Hopefully Artemovsk was as vital and important as people have been saying and its loss for the Nazis legitimately does cause them huge problems.
Does that mean possibility for peace talks?
Knowing Ukronazis, I don’t think so even after Bakhmut, at this point peace talks will be eventually possible when the whole Ukrainian military is exterminated and literally all equipment destroyed or unusable since. Sad but true.
according to analysts such as Brian Berletic, Russia is basically betting on Ukraine and NATO refusing peace talks, and is conducting a war of attrition to completely demilitarize Ukraine. The West criticizes Russia for being caught in a “quagmire”, noting their slow advance, calling the strategic withdrawal of Kherson a defeat, for example. In the beginning, Russia did plan a strategy of taking over the Ukronazi government by marching onto Kyiv, but after they realized that would be too costly in lives, would probably lead to nazified fighters engaging in guerrilla warfare, and bring about a war of occupation such as that of Afghanistan, have settled into a slower more steady war, death by a thousand cuts.
I think this is brilliant strategically, because it minimizes causalities of Russian military and of Ukrainian civilians, focusing on eliminating the Ukrainian military. And it exhausts the western war machine, who are now unable to match the demands of armaments, especially with artillery shells. Russia has taken advantage of the proxy war status by demilitarizing the west as a bonus.
No.
to withdraw from…
from where?
Bakhmut
