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Originally Posted by CroFlames
What is the probable strategy for Ukraine and the west then?
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Many of the towns on the Ukrainian side of the border are very pro-Russian, and there'd already been a civil war going on there for a decade. When Ukrainian forces cross into that territory, they lose their main advantage, which is a fiercely anti-Russian civilian population ready to take to the hills for guerilla style warfare. If anything, they face the opposing problem in those areas.
Before all this conflict happened many of those areas were already under de facto Russian control anyways, with puppet governments declaring independence. IMO, it just illustrates what a colossal waste this whole invasion was. Russia will likely walk away with some territory in Eastern Ukraine, but it's all territory they already controlled anyways.