We have specialized in the geography of Ukraine, we follow the development of the war and we watch with amazement the serious mistakes made by the Russian Armed Forces, which gives a very different image from the flawless machine we assumed. After the failure of Zelensky’s offensive against Kiev to replace the “Nazi regime”, the Russians had to change their strategy and reduce their ambitions for the Donbas region and create a corridor to the Crimea. They already control 20% of Ukraine, albeit at a very high cost, as the heroic defense of Mariupol shows.
Despite the enormous number of increasingly sophisticated and deadly weapons and the intelligence assistance it receives from Western governments, Ukrainian heroism translates into huge casualties. Washington assumes it has provided information allowing the sinking of the cruiser Moscow or the killing of an unusually high number of Russian generals. State-of-the-art Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles are another weapon used with great success by Ukraine. But such modern material needs care and training of the Ukrainian soldiers who are supposed to handle it, and this leads us to become more involved in the conflict, this went unnoticed by Putin, who said that we had crossed the common border. or when he confirmed to Minister Lavrov that NATO and Russia are already at war for the intervening country, Ukraine. All this increases the risk of prolonging the conflict.