@Bobko
No need to panic and no need for a defeatism.
Andrei explains it plain and simple.
youtu.be/v7pW_KqX8QA
Btw the pro-Russian civilians were evacuated, those who stayed are mostly pro-ukrop.....
Please post maps - keep us updated.
The main goal for Russia is not territory gains, that's secondary. The main goal is (as they say it) "demilitarization and denazification", in other words their main goal is to physically exterminate as many ukrops with anti-Russian sentiment as possible, Russia doesn't want an Anti-Russia on it's borders with high military capabilities and potential NATO membership.
youtu.be/UGLTEsJHcF8
They had to lure them out in to the open, out of cities like Kharkov, Nikolaev, Odessa, Kiev, Lvov etc because it's much easier to destroy them on the open fields.....
In these 3 days during this ukrop offensive the Russians killed around 3k and wounded some 7k ukrops, so that's around 10k incapacitated in 3 days while the Russian losses are extremely low. Ukrops are calling this victory.....
As about the numbers, the total number of RAF in Donbass is around 125k (professional soldiers) plus some 80k from the DPR and LPR but those are mostly volunteers without military background.
The ukrops, if they mobilize everyone they can (let's not forget the almost 200k AFU losses so far) they can pump up their army to around 1.2mil but most of these would be forcefully mobilized civilians who have zero combat experience and who in most cases are unmotivated, scared and are unwilling to fight.
Russia at present has 1.4mil professional active military personnel and they used only around 9% of them during the whole special military operation so far. If they would turn up this number from 9 to 20%, they could take the whole ukropland before new year's eve. However, this way they would not reach their goal because if the tempo would be too fast, most of the ukrops would flee to the west. Russians don't want them to escape to the west, they want them on the frontlines so they can grind them slowly. So they have to move slowly with lower numbers to make the ukrops believe that they have a chance.....
Oh and btw Russia has 70mil manpower of whom are 47mil fit for service, if they would need another million mobilized, they could do it in a week (also, Russia has conscription so every man in Russia knows the military basics) just so you know and have some perspective on the dimensions of the raw numbers.....
And let's not forget that Russia controls the skies over ukropia, they see every movement with satellites and with high altitude military drones, the GRU is infiltrated in every pore of AFU and they are spying most of ukrop communication lines too. Russia's artillery resources are almost infinite, they have mountains of artillery from the Soviet era and the production is active non-stop, day and night in this very moment, they produce more than they can use on a daily basis.
So with all due respect, if after all these facts someone still thinks that ukrops surprised the Russians and that Russians didn't know about this offensive and that they couldn't stop it if they wanted to, than this person/persons have no clue about the situation.....
Now, the information war is a totally different story. On that field Russia doesn't want and even if it would want to, it could not race with the western-jewish media machine. So even the most of the kosher nationalists who are sympathizing with Russia, even they fell for the zio-media propaganda. However, I hope that members of this forum are smarter than that and that we can see through the kike's lies.....