Russia has no reserves beyond its mobilized forces; its units have dwindling morale; and those formations withdrawn from around Kyiv are trained to conduct armored, mechanized, and infantry operations and poorly suited for combat. Meantime, the Ukrainians are receiving heavier weapons from the West and have begun a counteroffensive around Kharkiv, which, if successful, will spoil Russia’s attack.

Ah yes, if the situation is so bad for the russians who are still dictating the pace of the war, what remains for the Ukrainians? Let's recap, their military bases, ammo depots, fuel depots, airbases, manpower gathering areas and various units are under constant shelling, they lost a fuckton of bases to simple Kalibr or Iskander missile strikes. It feels like it's them who have no reserves left... the russians despite their insanely bad logistics (evident in the first days of the war) still have the upper hand and I don't see the Ukrainians staging a Battle of Moscow-like counteroffensive to drive the russians off. Can they even launch something bigger than a small and local counterattack? they basically depend on the russians just bailing out of an area for logistical problems and (credit to where credit is due) strong resistence, but staying on the defensive is easy.. going on the offensive is something else.

Eh, I feel like westerners kinda forgot what a war between two developed countries really is. After all, they've been cheering for their side as they relentlessly bombed countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and so on, for years and without much opposition tbh. Their image of war is completely corrupted by what the US has done in Iraq or NATO in Lybia, "quick and decisive" strikes to destroy a big army armed with old soviet era tech from the 50s and 60s, without proper air support and/or air defenses, with a chain of command that basically is "the cousin of Saddam is now the Chief of Staff because family"....