From The Emerald City - Crisis in Ukraine

 

My Dear 'OZ'ians,

I have heard that Russia has stated that the first phase of the Special Military Operation (Putin's War) have been mostly completed and now they can shift their focus to free the Donbas region and "come to their rescue".

Shelling/missile strikes will likely continue in the rest of Ukraine. "Bad Putin! Bad Putin!"

I think it's more like they've lost the war in the west of Ukraine and are shifting their focus on something more attainable - just to protect Russian, and mostly Putin's ego. After all losing a war that you start with heavy losses in terms of casualties, something between 7,000 and 40,000  soldiers, killed or wounded, plus the immense loss of military equipment, is certainly no feather in Vladimir Putin's cap.  Its a humiliating defeat for Russia and they are shifting focus and saving face that phase one of the military objective has been mostly completed, when its quite obvious it has not!

Stay strong Ukraine! 

Слава Україні!

 

The Wizard 

Note: This post is the opinion of The Wizard of 'OZ' and no-one else and reflects as best I can tell from the available information out there.