From failures on the front to blows in cities: how the Russian Federation went from catastrophe to catastrophe in the war with Ukraine
And the Russian Federation went to the long war for exhaustion. Then the eternally drunken Gerasimov began the classical war. They began to fight in the best traditions of the twentieth century (where the Russian Federation was stuck, because "grandparents were fighting" and "can repeat"): large tank and motorized rifles, massive use of artillery, invasion of human bodies in the style of "storming by storm".
Which led to critical losses of personnel, complications of logistics and loss of initiative, as well as the loss of initiative in technology (the Armed Forces were the first to offer strikes with drones, rockets, the technologies of production of which to the Russians will not soon open, although they are lifted at the speed of light). This is the number 2 catastrophe for Putin and the entire Russian people (which does not understand it yet).
Thus, the personnel army of the Russian Federation was erased and the offensive capabilities were eliminated: landing, Marines, all other parts of the breakthrough "murdered", mobilized do not have time to gain full experience and replace the broken professionals, combat armored technique is burned, it is not enough. Therefore, the Russian Federation is no longer able to conduct classical operations (efficiency, focus, flexibility, fire and maneuver) with great forces.
This is the number 3 catastrophe for Putin and the entire Russian people (which does not understand it yet). Therefore, the eternally drunken Gerasimov misleaded Putin and introduced the transition to the tactics of small assault groups: he threw the moths that is so modern.
From the end of 2023, the Russians began to throw a group of 3-15 people, with minimal equipment, with minimal artillery support (because the counter-banking in the Armed Forces turns out better), mainly in difficult conditions and at dusk (because Ukrainian drones burn orcs) and with maximum dispersion (tactics). They tried not to use the tactics of rapid impulse, but to demand Ukrainian units with constant meat pressure.
Realizing that it was impossible to win on the front, the Russians began to beat rockets and drones on "Mirnyak": cities and infrastructure. It is an effort to loosen the economic situation, to form horror and moral terror, to frighten the event in unity to support Ukraine. This is the number 4 catastrophe for Putin and the entire Russian people (who does not understand it yet), because he is a bloodthirsty maniac and made his own population.
Therefore, after a certain list of catastrophes for Putin and the entire Russian people (this is not the whole list of catastrophes), the Kremlin focused on not so much the capture of territories as the depletion of Ukraine resource, destabilization of society,… to the eyes of Trump, to break the support of the West, to force Ukraine. The Kremlin tries to endure Ukraine and the West. But even Trump's patience can go (I hope).