And yet this amazingly powerful hypersonic military force is stuck in the mud and getting smoked with rotten capitalist Javelins. How many missiles does Russia make per day? I bet it's less than they launch.
I see you are far from understanding such things. The Kinzhal hypersonic missile was recently successfully field-tested to demonstrate the capabilities of modern Russian weapons. And I think that the Pentagon's generals correctly interpreted this message (and it's not hypersonic missiles that European generals need to worry about, if an old Soviet reconnaissance drone launched from Ukrainian territory flew unhindered through several European countries and self-destructed). There is no good reason to fire cannons at sparrows in normal mode, so they mainly use proven reliable weapons and ammunition with an expiring shelf life, which are more expensive to dispose of than to use for their intended purpose.
Just like they "minimized" Grozny to a pile of rubble. As I said, that's the only "winning" strategy they have when the population doesn't want to be "liberated".
These are not democratic elections, when the population is asked about something. Ukrainian soldiers can lay down their arms at any moment and go home.
Donbass and Lugansk asked Russia for help and they will receive it in full.You really don't know what is actually happening in Donbas. Right now, RUSSIANS are taking young men at gunpoint from the streets
(literally) and enlisting them in the RUSSIAN army, and sending them off to the front line to use them as cannon fodder. They are used to
locate Ukrainian army positions.
Independent republics my ass.The population of Crimea, Donbas, and Luhansk have been terrorized by Russian gangs and the regular military for 8 years.
Right now, and probably never, the Russian army does not have any strategy. The only 'strategy' is to level everything and drive-in, rape, and plunder. Kill unarmed civilians.
They don't know how to fight, that is why they are losing big time in this conflict.
The way they are equipped looks like they were teletransported from WWII.
It looks like this was done on purpose so that Putin can re-live his denazification WWII movie.
We all know the answer: rampant corruption in the Russian army.