It’s something we have seen continuously, if anything, the fact that they have made massive progress in the south highlights some of their weaknesses, especially in the urban environment.
They’ve moved much slower in the last few days, primarily expanding on gains made in the first few days of the offensive.
Plus the Russians kind of are being incompetent. But that’s more the amalgamation of failures at a number of different levels and places.
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Russian forces continue to consolidate their positions, but haven’t made any major offensives in the past few days. Ukrainian forces around Chernihiv risk encirclement at the moment as the Russians move east of Kyiv.
I expect the forces west of Kyiv will try to cut the city off from resupply, but the Ukrainians are using this period to stock up on munitions, including a number of ATGMs.
Lol, didn’t realize that @billroggio started a thread a half hour before me, go read it.
I know there are going to be a lot of those SimpsonUSSRjoke.gifs being posted about this, but the Russian government is currently trying to rally the people against a common enemy in order to prevent general unrest.
It’s great when you can just point at McDonald’s and say “bad western company” instead of admitting the mess of a war you started is having some pretty bad consequences.