Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "FINALLY! Ukraine BEGINS MASSIVE OPERATION Across Dnipro. 40,000 Russians PREPARE TO BE SACRIFICED" video.
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Some people, particularly those cheering for the Russian position, are claiming the relinquishing of Bakhmut, by the Ukrainians, as a significant victory for Russia. However, I would offer a few points for consideration in order to bring this "capture" of territory into some sort of perspective.
The capture of the place where the city of Bakhmut lay has been referred to as a Pyrrhic victory; that is, a victory with little or no value to the "victor" and at a an immensely disproportionate cost in terms of the lives lost to the "victorious" army.
"A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress. Wikipedia"
Perhaps, Bakhmut has, in this way, served the Ukrainians well from a military perspective, and protected other towns and cities further away from the front lines.
When viewed in relation to the retreats, withdrawals, and routs of Russian forces from Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson, which some seem to have conveniently forgotten or deliberately overlooked, the location of Bakhmut was always of relatively little value except, possibly, to the people who once lived there. There certainly appears to be nothing of value to the victors where the city of Bakhmut once stood. In fact, it may even be considered a liability and a sponge for resources. The Russians, early in the full-scale insurgency and invasion of Ukraine, illegally occupied about 28% of internationally recognised Ukrainian territory. They now illegally occupy less than half of what they had previously claimed.
All these retreats occurred despite Russians and their insurgent and insurrectionist, so-called "separatists", holding Crimea and much of the Donbas region since 2014.
POPULATIONS: Bakhmut Population: ~70,000; Avdiivka Population: ~32,436 (2020)
Kyiv Population: 2.884 million (2017) Kharkiv Population: 1.419 million (2017)
Kherson Population: 289,697 (2017); Sumy Population: 264,753 (2017)
** KYIV, ** 4 April 2022
With heavy losses and the inability to make further progress, Russia withdrew its forces from Kyiv and Zhytomyr oblasts in April 2022, and Ukrainian forces retook control.
Kremlin officials have announced plans to withdraw troops from the Kyiv region in what is widely being seen as tacit recognition of Russia’s failure to seize the Ukrainian capital. The Russian retreat from Kyiv is the strongest signal to date that Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War is not going according to plan.
Speaking on March 29, and in an apparent attempt to spare Putin’s blushes, Fomin said the move was aimed at “increasing mutual trust, creating the right conditions for future negotiations, and reaching the final goal of signing a peace deal with Ukraine.” What an absolute parody of the real situation that Russia had created and continues to pursue.
** SUMY, ** 4 April 2022
The Battle of Sumy was a military engagement which began on 24 February 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, as part of the Northeastern Ukraine offensive, and ended on 4 April 2022 when Russia withdrew all of its forces from Sumy Oblast.
** KHARKIV, ** 13 September 2022
Russian forces have been 'ordered to retreat' from Kharkiv and the advancing Ukrainian troops, as some Russians leave weapons behind in ‘apparent panic’.
The Russian troops are to focus instead, on defending their position in the eastern Donbas region, according to western intelligence sources.
Ukrainian forces have reclaimed more than two thousand square miles of territory as they continue their counter-offensive, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, regaining key locations in the Kharkiv region.
** KHERSON, ** 9 November 2022
After Russian troops seized Kherson in March, they were ordered to retreat from Kherson in face of Ukrainian advance. Loss of the only regional capital captured by Moscow since invasion began will come as significant blow to Vladimir Putin.
The retreat occurred only weeks after a high-profile ceremony in Moscow in which he announced the “forever” annexation of the Kherson region, along with three others.
Even before they pulled off their jaw-dropping counter-offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian troops had thrashed Russian forces in the Kherson region 600 kilometres to the southwest, aided by powerful and precise Western weaponry.
The same powerful and precise weaponry, that Ukraine has in inventory and available from other countries, has increased massively in quantity and qualitative value since November 2022. While I do not think it is possible to accurately evaluate what is Russia's present military strength, it is, most likely now, significantly less than it had available in the fourth quarter of 2022. While Ukraine's capacity is increasing, I believe that Russia's capacity is decreasing at an unsustainable rate.
🇺🇦 Victory for Ukraine 🇺🇦
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