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Russian forces advance towards Ukraine’s Dnipro region (www.ft.com)

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[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Fusion-grade copium...

[The Russian] momentum has put them in a position to take the highway to the Dnipropetrovsk region, which would cut off Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk as well as forcing Ukrainian forces to defend from two directions at once.

“They are trying to get maximum territory so that when their forces are eventually exhausted (!), they have something to negotiate with,” said Cherniak.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not so much copium as projection. Ukraine's sole strategy now is to cling to as much territory as possible in hopes of getting a more favorable negotiation position. Which is why they assume that Russia wants the same, but nothing in how the Russians have approached this conflict so far indicates that they operate this way.

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

True, and since Ukraine's forces are on the brink of exhaustion, they'd love to believe the same is true of Russia's.

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