It is a fact that any day this war continues, major damage is done to both Ukraine and Russia. Russia leans heavily on its oil industry and its refineries are being hit pretty much daily.
Each night, another refinery goes up into flames.
We’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. Sometimes it takes days for the fire to die down. Damage is massive.
When it’s “only” a fire, sometimes things can be salvaged. When the drilling towers themselves are blown up, repair may be out of the question, the whole refinery will be out of order for years to come.
Ukraine does not want to strictly rely on America and Europe any longer and now produces thousands of drones each month. It also developed it’s own long-range Neptune missile, capable of hitting targets a thousand miles away — Ukraine can now hit Moscow with domestically produced weapons.
All Russia can now do is whine impotently about how Ukraine is “escalating the war”, as if Russia isn’t hitting the Ukrainian powergrid like crazy and doing exactly the same thing. Or maybe they can cry that getting European peacekeepers involed is “provocation”, as if thousands of North Korean soldiers aren’t helping Russian forces in pushing the Ukrainians out of Kursk as we speak…
Ukraine, failing? That’s an interesting way of reading the situation. If this is what “winning” looks like on Russia’s end, I don’t want to know what “losing” would mean… Russia may still be limping along but, much like Ukraine, Russia has been badly battered and hurt by this war. And the hurt is far from over — victory won’t come quick, but leaving Ukraine can be done practically overnight. Onus is on Putin.