Russia Ukraine war, page-238100

"If they don't keep their gains, would it be considered a failure?"

@tangs

So how much of a failure would you say that Russia "not keeping" 54% of the "gains" they had managed to occupy of Ukraine since Feb of 2022?

Ukraine removed the Russian cancer from 54% of land occupied since Feb 2022 by the end of 2022. We are now at about that same point in 2024 and Russia has managed to occupy approx. 1000 sq kms again (Russia net gain less Ukrainian net gain). That's 1000 sq kms of a 605000 sq km country, about 0.16% in 2 years, 2 YEARS!

That approx. 1000 sq kms/0.16% came at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dead Russia's, hundreds of thousands more injured Russians, tens of thousands of vehicles either destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured, an economy sliding into ruin, and the loss of control of the Black Sea because Ukraine humiliated Putin's Black Sea fleet when they don't even have a navy.

I'd love to see you spin Putin's failed war as a not a failure. This will be interesting!