Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Russia's Kharkiv offensive – what is the plan?" video.

I mean, if they keep moving the goalposts from Kyiv in 3 days to Avdiivka in 10 years, they can pretend the campaign wasn't a complete disaster, when Ukraine was expected to hold out for 72 hours and instead russians fail to take even a single major city (like, ANY regional capital) after 2014 apart from Kherson. MAYBE russians should look at reality on the ground and admit they wasted half a million troops and will never, ever, have Kherson or Zaporizhzhia cities, and should just capitulate instead. I have never seen something as embarrassing as declaring to annex cities you cannot even besiege. This is like a extra level of cope.
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@dpelpal I think this is the one think people don't understand: current performance of gains in style of Blackadder (outside of undefended gray zones), and WW1 style casualties, the russia underperforms so much they're actually going much worse than in Afghanistan, which they lost, and they had lower casualties than locals there, which isn't the case in Ukraine if you even take a cursory look at Oryx.
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2:00 Not criticizing just clarifying the pronunciation, the "y" in Sumy is и/ы like the first Y in Sydney or Lynch. So closer to Soo-meh than Soo-mee. I know you have great pronounciations otherwise! The russians can't pronounce that city's name either. Despite russian having a word that sounds exactly like it (сумы - bags).
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I agree completely, but even if they had double the force there, it would be impossible to surround (not even take, just besiege) Kharkiv even in theory... as in, even in best case scenario and super luck, they don't have enough manpower to do it. And the idea that Ukrainian forces are stretched more than russian because of Kharkiv is kind of debunked by basic geometry (inner circle is smaller than the outer).
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He did it from the start. Someone with enough brain power persuaded him to retreat from Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy so they managed to save a chunk of their army (and Sumy retreat was almost orderly... almost), but they kept staying in Kharkiv and that led to Izium and Balakliia and Lyman disasters. Right now, when Ukraine didn't have large victories since Kherson, putin decided to have an encore of that embarrassment and attacked the one city that's too big to encircle even if entire russian army does a daisy chain around it.
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This feels like sour grapes again. The russians either acted on false intel of were stupid as usual, and Leeroy Jenkinsed towards Kharkiv same way they did in 2022, but got nowhere as far, and now their manlet is complaining he didn't try to take the city again, like how after they were defeated two years ago, he screamed about "feinting". Maybe they genuinely thought Ukraine ran out of ammo and rushed the offensive because they didn't expect the aid that was blocked since last August to already get through?
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US directly disallowed the attacks inside russia. Their speaker and Pentagon repeated that, again. I assume Blinkin was hinting at Ukraine breaking the conditions set, like Israel always does... and gets away with it. As Terry Pratchett wrote: “if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.”
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