A Quick and Clear Summation of the Situation in Ukraine.

[Zavulon]

How do you explain how poorly Russia performed in combat?

It's not poorly. It's quite good, as for me.

How do you explain your inability to defeat a much weaker foe?

Mostly political reasons. The goal of the operations is denazification of Ukraine. It means, that all Banderlogs should be killed. And it is much easier to kill them when they are in trenches rather then they are among civilians in the now-Russian cities (and have all rights of the citizens of Russian Federation). If you annex territory with twenty million population, with ten million more or less openly hostile and significant financial support of the more or less united West - it means that you just got at least one million of potential terrorists, or one hundred thousand actual terrorists and saboteurs. So, it dictate the tactics - don't bite more than you can chew. Biting the pieces of few million, mostly pro-Russian population, with further careful chewing (meaning - searching and elimination of all potential terrorists), while the Army eliminate Banderlogs in the trenches and preparing other regions for annexation or "peaceful" de-nazification - is the way how the problem suppose to be solved.

What do you tell the hundreds of thousands of Russian mothers who have lost sons?

"Money talks, BS walks" as Americans say. 5+4+12=21 million roubles (plus additional bonuses if the death was really heroical) can't return her a son, but it can make uncomfortable situation a bit more comfortable. And, of course, Ukraine is neither Vietnam nor Afghanistan. Everyone knows why we are doing what we are doing.
I mean if the USA were fighting against Californian secessionists (who decided to join Shanghai block and deploy there Russian and Chinese forces, including medium range nuclear missiles) - one could take one side or another, but everyone understands why there is the fighting and why it is unavoidable.

 

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[Ringo]

An expert of the Center for Military and Political Journalism and a military blogger, Boris Rozhin, has said that more than 400,000 AFU soldiers have gone missing during the conflict in Ukraine.

“There may be some percentage of deserters and captured, but the majority of them are exactly the dead,” the expert wrote in his Telegram channel.

He referred to the data released by the Ukrainian media, and those, in turn, cited the words of the former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Gunduz Mammadov.

Rozhin recalled that Ukrainians whose relatives who served in the AFU are missing are not entitled to payments from the state.
“If the fighter by status is not killed, but missing, his family does not have to pay anything,” the blogger emphasized.

He added that the exact number of dead and missing has yet to be established.

 

[Ringo]

he terrorists deliberately waited for the passenger train from Moscow to be under the bridge before detonating explosives at two points to cause maximum casualties.