Comments by "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" (@DefensePoliticsAsia) on "[ Ukraine War SITREP ] Day 12 Summary - Severodonetsk offensive; Russian breakthrough in Izyum" video.

Yeah, its crazy. I personally wasnt aware how BIG everything is until I really scroll all the way in... then I realised... oh shit.. this is really a big country. It must be so tiring and demoralising just travelling along those roads as you say... just farmland after farmland endlessly.... Not able to go into the fields (mud) and that poor road networks... goodness...
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I update mostly from official sources. And actually, you really go scrutinize the Ukrainian's updates - whenever you see the big chunk of text says nothing about losing positions or gaining positions or even them making any offensive - you know their situation is shit. And you are right, should my plotting of the map is correct - the Ukrainians are in deep shit, especially their East Army. The problem with the East Army is, they are fighting all frontlines of the East front - and I'm only updating on where there are progress. The fact is, everywhere on the east front there are major fighting or exchange of fire. So for the Ukrainians to retreat from the East - first the road network is shit (Russia learnt it the hard way); 2nd, it will be a huge turkey shoot like what happened in Iraq where the entire convoy of retreating Iraqis over 1000 vehicles were destroy in what is now known as the highway of death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death - this can happen. So there is no retreat, and there is no win for Ukraine. Russia merely deployed around 10-15% of what they are fully capable of. Ukraine's only strategy left is to drag the war out, and hope that economic collapse or civilian rebellion or even military coup to stop Russia. On the battlefield - I dont think Ukraine have a chance.
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Yeah... there are 3 of them in the region between Kyiv and Chernihiv region. I would tentatively put it in the north first - as it is more conservative. It is less logical to have them south of Berezan (east of Kyiv) because there is already a major force at Brovary. But with more information, I will update it. At the moment, it is not clear.
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@charleskobold115 Totally. What western media isn't reporting is how Russian literally ran out of military targets to hit with their missiles and airforce - which is why we are seeing so much oil depots and storage getting hit. I mean, they even have time to target TV towers... thats just indication how few targets are left for the Russians to hit outside of residential areas. The war is going to speed I think, like you say.
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@charleskobold115 Everyone lies about their casualty numbers. Maybe a good way is to find the middle point between Russian and Ukraine numbers - add the two numbers up and divide by two. haha
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Yeah - but I think there are still resistance within the city - which is why Russia had not announced the capture of the city.
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Yeah, I actually doing both; but I dont want to waste people's time should a certain front's information is very very minor. This is why, I update major news/updates as quick updates - while the summary covers everything, including all the small tidbits of information.
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Sorry, which one?
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Oops... you are like the 4th person who said that... =x I need to remind myself that (because I already know the information.. so I was like just brushing thru... my bad)
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