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Punched through a gap that wasn't well defended. Keep going, they kept going. There's a stall now around Izyum. Russians have reacted and brought in reinforcements. In a few days, this offensive will stall. They had to go on counteroffensive to justify all these billons send to them by US military complex. Everything will grind to a halt soon, just like Kherson. Ukraine is losing a lot of youth on a massive scale. Russia hasnt even used its main army here full of contract soldiers and DNR and LPR fighters. Russia views this fight as a special operation and not a full-scale conflict. Even with all the nonsense in west Russia has brought its full capabilities to the battle. Total war by Russia be WW2 scale of destruction..

Kharkiv wasn't captured by Russians. The held some regions in this Oblast was just a control point . It was like a month ago that Ukraine was winning there anyway, so what's the big deal? Some people make it out to be more important than it is. In Luhansk and Donbas, Russia has consolidated its forces here. In those places, Russia has taken a lot of time to win. When Ukraine gets some breakthroughs there, then something up. Since Russia has limited forces, pulling out of Kharkiv and taking the Donbas makes sense. If they want more Ukraine oblasts, they need to declare war and increase manpower to the fight . Putin trying to limit the destruction here, but he's also fighting Nato here. There's a risk of escalation declaring war and going after leadership, communications, water, railways, food, but Russia's at war,  

What's that? I'm sure the Kremlin's talking about beefing up its force in Ukraine right now. They've got reserves and professional forces. A massive counteroffensive by Russia would not surprise me in the slightest. How long it will take to assemble a force to be ready is anyone's guess. There is already a noticeable increase in Russian military traffic headed to Ukraine. 

All together, the Russian army has 900,000 soldiers. It's not a declared war so Putin isn't using them. What's fighting in Ukraine is the lowest level of Russian manpower, conscripts, and Wagner. DPR and LNR mobization forces. Need to remove tag of special operation and declare war and see the main armies of Russia fight here. A declaration of war is something Putin prefers right now to not  declare, it means total war on Ukraine and its people. 

Kherson was a massive failure. Ukraine attempted incursions and attacked weakest-held areas controlled by Russia. Kherson has better defenses as it s held since start of the war called it off.. A new counteroffensive was launched

So far, Kharviv has been more efficient. I wouldnt celebrate over the top because this will only wake up the Russian leadership. Russia despite what people online in west saying playing nice. Communications and energy grids are still up in major cities, so you wouldn't even know there's a war going on in some of these places. Some some decisions likely be made to put the country in darkness and start a total war. 

Looks like Russia struck key energy facilities tonight. There's an upset Zelensky. Is Putin finally waking up to the need for total war?