Understanding War | Russian Offensive July 8th, 2023, Day 500

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1278985

I rarely read this sort of thing. It's honestly just very dense and I can't motivate myself to read it every day. That said, with the new cluster bombs getting shipped to Ukraine and some Western pundits accusing the Counteroffensive of stagnation I kind of just wanted to know, "What the actual F is going on in Ukraine right now?"

So my partial TLDR is:

• It's very early in the counteroffensive to say who is "winning".
• The source publication believes that the Ukrainian Army is focusing on inflicting disproportionate casualties onto the Russian Military in lieu of focusing on taking back land as quickly as possible.
• There's a lot of uncertainty inside the Russian political sphere and the upper echelons of the Ministry of Defense.