The numbers game 1:4 was clear day one.

Russia knows that their second best friend is the renown Ukrainian corruption. On Telegram the Russians are joking about it as they recognize it (out of experience). Miles of paid for trenches around Kharkiv not dug, just an occasional digging machine lying about idle, piles and piles of dragon teeth never positioned, etc. War, as usual, means huge get-rich-quick profits for some.

Between the lines you can also read that the Russians feel sorry for their Ukrainian bothers. Unlike at the start of the war, you can now also see that their orders have changed: to take as many soldiers as possible out of the equation permanently. The consequences are horrid.

I hope one day Zelensky and all his enablers at home and in the West will be held responsible for refusing the extremely reasonable Russian peace proposal at the onset of this war. A war Russia did all it could to prevent (The controlled reaction to the CIA sponsored Maiden Putsch of a democratically elected president who's only sin, like now in Georgia and Slovenia, was not to be anti-Russian, to uphold the Minsk agreements, which Holland and Merkel have now admitted were a Western lie) and once started, did all they could to prevent escalation (the refuted peace proposal, an initial limited assault, etc). So sad.