Vladimir Putin has delineated Russian conditions for a broad, permanent sustainable peace: No temporary ceasefires, no European "peacekeepers," no NATO in #Ukraine - and recognition of Crimea and the oblasts Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian territory.

As long as the US, EU NATO countries and Zelensky do not recognize these historical Russian oblasts as permanent Russian territory, the #Russia army will continue advancing beyond the four oblasts and toward the historical “Russian cities” of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv.

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At the rate they are dying they might run out of people before getting there

IOW, Ukraine is going to lose those next 4 oblasts as well (each of the 4 listed cities is in its own oblast).

Which is what many have predicted for 2+ years now, eg Will Schryver

At the current pace it would take the Russians a few decades to take all this land

The typical type of comment from someone who does not understand that Russia is fighting a war of attrition (and hasn't had enough discernment even after 3 years to work out who is worth listening to on this war and who is not)