On the market within the mainstream media and inside some political circles within the west, you continue to hear supposedly critical analysts speak about how the warfare in Ukraine ‘is in a stalemate’.
There’s a Cognitive bias generally known as ‘anchoring’, by which somebody depends too closely on the primary piece of knowledge they obtain (the ‘anchor’) and struggles to regulate their beliefs even when offered with new, contradictory proof.
That’s precisely what at play right here – folks utilizing ‘2022-information’ three years later, when it’s out of date.
To start with, it’s true that the Russia-Ukraine warfare has turn out to be a warfare of attrition, by which territorial beneficial properties, whereas essential, are second to the work of grinding down the enemies’ troops and gear, until you break down its defenses to the purpose you possibly can conquer it, or it is going to capitulate.
However that doesn’t imply that Russians haven’t made any progress: simply in Could, they conquered Lysovka, Lipovoye, Kotlyarovka, Mirolyubovka, Mikhaylovka, Torskoye, Novoaleksandrovka, Volnoye Pole, Alexandropol, Bogatyr, Novoolenovka, Maryino, Novaya Poltavka, Radkovka, Otradnoye, Stupochki, Loknya, and Romanovka.
That’s NOT a stalemate.
Alleged footage of Russian Iskander strike on Ukraine’s Chernigov in a single day
Russia’s MoD studies a surgical hit on Ukraine’s protection business — focusing on drone, missile, and explosives manufacturing pic.twitter.com/vdbsWmV0GE
— RT (@RT_com) May 25, 2025
The one purpose why the ‘attrition’ hasn’t but damaged Kiev’s defenses down, bringing a swift finish to the warfare, is as a result of NATO international locations are pouring in unprecedented quantities of army help – and Ukrainians are catching folks within the streets ‘like canine’ to forcibly ship them to the warfare.
Watch: Geran drone arrival in Kiev.
Arrival of “Geran” in Kiev. pic.twitter.com/ocWPcJFtQ7
— Intel Slava (@Intel_Slava) May 25, 2025
Whereas plenty of consideration is being paid to the foremost mixed assault on Kiev, Odessa and elsewhere, by which Geranium (Shahed) drones and Iskander missiles are pounding army targets, MSM can’t assist however report on the Russian advances – in their very own crooked method.
So, when Reuters says that Russian troops are ‘advancing slowly on the jap entrance’, it’s the ‘anchoring impact’ in play (‘It’s a stalemate!’).
Watch: Large air raid – with UMPK glide bombs – of Ukrainian positions in Volchansk within the Kharkov course.
A Ukrainian quadcopter filmed a large bombing of Ukrainian positions in Volchansk within the Kharkov course.
Russian Air Power unleashed a large air raid with UMPK glide bombs on Ukrainian positions. pic.twitter.com/F6L5ZEW2UT
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 24, 2025
It’s a drone warfare, and advances are sure to be gradual, lest you see scenes just like the 2023 Ukrainian summer time offensive, by which lengthy traces of tanks and armored automobiles had been sitting geese for Russian artillery and drones.
Now, the information company studies, Russians have ‘captured two settlements in Donetsk area in addition to one in Ukraine’s northern area of Sumy’, as they concentrate on finishing the conquest (they might name the ‘liberation’) of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas.
Reuters reported:
“In latest months, Moscow has additionally tried to advance in Sumy area, significantly after Russia’s army stated it had ousted Ukrainian troops from the Russian border area of Kursk.
A Russian Protection Ministry assertion stated its forces had captured the village of [Stupochki] in Donetsk area, east of [Konstantinovsky], a city underneath latest Russian strain.
It additionally stated it had taken management of [Otradnoye], a village additional west alongside the 1,000-km entrance and introduced the seize of Loknya, a village […] in Sumy area.”
Intense fight footage captures liberation of Bogatyr
Flag flies over newest DPR village underneath Russian management https://t.co/i667ilOVai pic.twitter.com/uRpiaVEAml
— RT (@RT_com) May 18, 2025
As for the much-rumored upcoming Russian summer time offensive, so far as we will inform by Open-Supply Intelligence, it is going to goal to create a ‘buffer zone’ in Ukraine to stop strikes on civilian populations.
Intel Slava reported:
“Putin specified for which Russian areas a safety buffer zone will likely be created.
We’re speaking in regards to the Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod areas, the Russian chief said.
These areas border on the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv areas of Ukraine.”
“The enemy chooses targets that don’t have any army significance. It targets ambulances, farm equipment, ladies and youngsters. We’ve taken a call to create a buffer zone alongside the border of the Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod areas.”
You didn’t anticipate anything, did you now. pic.twitter.com/t4natuRrqH
— Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) May 22, 2025
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