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Losing land yes, troops and equipment? evidently not. I posted this elsewhere, but ASB points out

There were no Russian regular Armed Forces in any of the settlements that Ukrainians have taken in the last 7 days. None of the settlements in the Kharkov Region had Russian Armed Forces regulars in them. There was Russian Rosgvardia — which is not designed nor trained to fight combined arms / face a military; as well as other Russian security forces— literally the police. There were no troops there.

This was the fundamental mistake of the Russian Armed Forces. They did not reinforce the territories they captured in Kharkov with their actual troops. They sent secondary forces in there. This is why we see no losses of Russian troops spread by Ukrainian channels — because there were simply no Russian Armed Forces soldiers present.

An important point that needs to be said.

but also

The tactical success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is directly related to increased cooperation with American intelligence, - New York Times

From the very beginning of the special operation, the United States provided the Ukrainian side with the information they had on the movements of Russian troops, the location of command posts, ammunition depots and other key facilities. Now, US intelligence not only shares information, but also directly participates in the planning of offensives, writes the New York Times.

The success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was influenced by the operational training of the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the organization of the operational exchange of intelligence between the United States and Ukraine. In July-August, the infrastructure for collecting and analyzing intelligence data was greatly adjusted.

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However, we call bullshit on this report. From the very beginning, Americans and Brits planned every move of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and also shared every bit of information they could get their hands on. Basically any successful move of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this war was immediately declared an American win by US media, this is simply propaganda.

The success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is thanks to 6 months of hoarding of equipment and reserving trained forces for this exact purpose. They were sending territorial defense civilians into the meat grinder while reserving the remainder of their trained forces preciously behind the front lines.

It took them half a year to accumulate the equipment from the west, most of which they have now lost.

The difference between Russia and Ukraine in this successful pushback of the Russian military is that Russia can advance again, they have the hardware, ammo & weapons — pretty much endlessly. Ukraine, not so much. They’re giving it everything they got, quite literally. Everything they were able to mass up over the course of the war. They will eventually run out of the hardware and troops and will be back to square one. They’re currently outnumbering Russian Armed Forces troops 4 to 1. (Or were, when they started the Kharkov counter offensive)

We’ve seen the Ukrainian Armed Forces counter offensive start strong in Kherson and eventually run out of steam, the same will happen in the eastern direction. As men die, hardware is decimated, Ukrainian Armed Forces have no comeback; because it’s all they got.

Russia can risk falling back to their own borders, Ukraine cannot take free fire from Russian missiles