These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022, intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed, has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I. His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield; some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May. What gains the Russians have made have come at enormous cost: Last month, Anna Keast-Butler, the director of British intelligence agency GCHQ, cited new intelligence indicating that Russian war deaths had likely reached almost half a million; various Western sources put total Russian casualties at significantly more than 1 million.

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    3 days ago

    Oh no, again that analytics like “country X sinks soon”, “rockets stockpiles is almost depleted”, “warmonger Y is struggled in that wartimes”, “country A economics blows in X days, Y months”. You may paste here Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, USA or countryname_in_conflict and vary of self-pronounced intelligence or different countries and nothing changes, none of them is truth and works only on feelings of reader at the moment of reading and slightly after it forming subjects “own” point of view if that “intelligence” will be delivered constantly by some time to the same username.