@Fleur de Lis
I know that the Russians were said to have offered to partition
the western part of Ukraine to Poland Though I have not studied that incident in depth and not sure how serious I should take it. I have seen discussion/concern of Poland being prepared to go into Ukraine on its own (don’t have the link right now and the talk was a couple of months ago at this point) and though Poland might not see it itself as a partition. Russian thinking might consider the
other gestures between Poland and Ukraine to
lead to that in effect especially so if by the end of this Ukraine loses it’s coastline and thus would be a heavily dependent on external allies for imports, Poland would be the country that is most positioned to be a life support machine for a hypothetical rump Ukraine.
@ponypony221
Both sides have been fighting heavily and taking pretty heavy casualties in the current battle in the Donbass. Russia main encirclement efforts around Izyum and from the south of Ukraine were stalled
Note so they switched to a what appears to be a successful breakthrough in Popasna, albeit a smaller opperation. This is not a slam dunk for either side and will be long, slow and painful and not result in the destruction of Ukraine completely (or Russia for that matter if Ukraine wins).
Note: I suspect that the Russians in the south might be waiting to be brought in later as the Ukrainian troops there are a bit more ad hoc formations with lots of the inexperienced conscripts and milta reports being from that area. Though with how many troops they have stuck in Izyum I have seen some reports of units being drained from that front to support the breakout of Popasna.
@UrbanMysticDee
>Ukrainians are being sent to the slaughter to protect the ego of Voldomyr Alenski
Ukraine is a country in total war and their society is as well. If he surrendered tomorrow, I am not sure that he would be coup’d by that point. Perhaps some sections of the Ukrainian military are demoralized and being sent into the meat grinder but of any place in the world right now taken by war fervor with citizens willing to fight it is Ukraine right now.