...had.
With each day, Putin is scrambling to find all the help there is.
The only people fighting for him now are psychopaths and conscripts. The latter don't want to be there, and Russia is running out of the former.
With each day, Putin is scrambling to find all the help there is.
The only people fighting for him now are psychopaths and conscripts. The latter don't want to be there, and Russia is running out of the former.
Part of the sluggishness has been the desire for the "targeted strike", something that appears to have been reversed with the less discriminate bombing of the last 24 hours.
Conversely, they don't need as much time, given adequate allies.
This is an unwinnable war for Russia, because Ukrainian infantry is armed and not willing to lay down their arms. Russia has learned nothing from e.g. Vietnam.