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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Russia is doing fine in Donbas and Mariupol was won weeks ago for Russia. It was just a matter of when the holed up troops would surrender.
Russia shrinking their goals by about 100 times what they were to start means they can win the smaller areas they are left fighting over (that they pretty much had control over before the war even started).
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The other thing Russia is doing now is trying to consolidate the territory they have now so they can Annex it and declare it Russia, put it under its nuclear doctrine to see if the West will continue to support the Ukraine in “invading” what Russia declared as Russia/Independent.
It makes things like taking back Karkiv and the destruction of the river crossing to prevent encirclement very large victories for Ukraine.