re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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How much longer does everyone think before Russia gets a break through in the lines?
I think it is getting worse by the day. At some point Ukraine is going to crack. It may not be over run but I think they will give up some big areas.
Ukraine is being smart by reacting to Russian attacks but it will only take one mistake and Russia will exploit it. Not enough men on the lines for Ukraine.

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I am starting to wonder if Russia's advances are more just moving the lines to include certain towns/villages rather than really trying to gain much ground.

Once they take some of these contested towns there is a lot of open ground between them and the next town..... it doesn't really make strategic sense to push too far and end up sitting out in the open.

Given Russia's tactics historically haven't always been exactly "stand up" in a moral sense, I could see them just taking the nearby towns and using the people still in them as human shields, i.e. Gaza. If there are even many residents left... I don't know which areas have been totally evacuated, if any.