For those who are saying that Russian economy is doing fine: Their budget deficit in 2022 was 3.35 trillion rubles or $47.3 billion. Only year when it was worse was covid affected 2020. But everything is fine, nothing didn't happened and only Europe is freezing to cold this winter
https://t.me/donbasscase/10205Russian general "Armageddon" Surovikin, who was supposed to turn the shitshow around but ended up giving up Kherson and wasting missiles on transformers, has been
demoted from the position of the commander of the "special operation". The new commander is Valery Gerasimov (Chief of the General Staff), who seems to get a lot of hate in the Z-channels for alleged corruption and incompetence. I doubt this will improve anything for the Russian forces. Maybe Gerasimov will be the fall guy.
Also, they promoted Aleksandr Lapin to cheff of Ground Forces. I just remind that Lapin got lot of hate in Russia after retreat from Lyman
As I understand it, a cauldron was formed there for at least 400 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who heroically continue to resist without much chance of success after losing control over the dominant height. Good job Wagner.
After long months of negative success and some glorious retreats, Russia finally achieved something... Do you still dream about taking Kyiv?