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Russia’s Revenge of the Losers Campaign is Losing Momentum

But it will not end. It will become a stop-start campaign-

Shankar Narayan
6 min readJan 2, 2023
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“I am convinced Ukraine has achieved irreversible momentum,” Lt. Gen. Frederick Hodges, the former American commanding general in Europe, said in an interview late last month. Pointing to the continuing Ukrainian strikes on supply lines, he said, “This is exactly how to set conditions for the next maneuver phase.”

As for irreversible momentum, I reserve my opinion since it will depend entirely upon the force regeneration capacity and supply side dynamics of both sides.

To terrorize Ukrainians, Putin has ordered a deliberate, indiscriminate attack on civilian infrastructure. He has no other cover to hide his continually failing ground forces.

Ukrainian president Zelensky described Russia’s attacks as revenge of losers.

“Almost every hour I receive reports of the occupants’ attacks on Kherson and other communities of the region. Such terror began immediately after the Russian army was forced to flee from Kherson region.

This is the revenge of losers.

They do not know how to fight. The only thing they can do is to terrorize.
Either energy terror, or artillery terror, or missile terror — this is all…

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.

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