Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "War Archive"
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So even this video from pro-Ukrainian chanel basically shows that Ukrainians just had 2 times more manpower and this is why they succeeded, Russia fought against Ukraine without conscripts and without mobilization, while Ukraine was mobilizing 50 thousand men per month into military, and while there were two to three Ukrainian soldiers per each Russian, Russians were simply unable to fill all gaps when enemy have 2 times more men. And after initial Ukrainian breakthrough Russian command simply lost any hope to capture Kharkov region and Russian troops simply retreated from areas north and east of Kharkov without fighting while Ukrainian military even wasn't advancing there. Russia just rejected its goal on capturing this region and decided to double down in the Donetsk region, so Russian forces just regrouped and withdrew without fighting while Ukrainian troops even weren't advancing here.
There is no professionalism in what Ukraine did, Ukraine just overwhelmed Russia with cannon fodder, because Russia was fighting a special operation, not a war, without mobilization and without conscripts, so there were simply two to three times more Ukrainian soldiers per each Russian and Ukraine breakthrough Russian lines with cannon fodder, with numerical superiority and later Russian political command simply understood that it would be impossible for Russia to establish control over Kharkov region, where city of Kharkov have a population of million people, and Russian forces withdrew from Kharkov region in order to regroup to Donetsk region where Russia doubled down its pressure and annexed it few days after, while Kharkov region Wasn't annexed, so this means that Russia isn't aiming anymore to capture Kharkov region and Russian withdrawal in september 2022 wasn't due to Ukrainian offensive, most of the territories in Kharkov region were left by Russian forces without a fighting, Ukrainians originally even didn't advanced there, just Russians themselves decided for political reasons that they wouldn't capture and annex Kharkov and withdrew.
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