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Reality Check!
More like Zelensky continued to violate the internationally recognized (Minsk Agreements) in killing Russian speaking Ukranians in the eastern Donbas, and Putin came to their rescue, and here we are Putin wins against Europe and the US and their proxy war hands down
The idea that the Russians in the east of Ukraine were not fomenting rebellion and working to get Russia to invade ukraine is a difficult position to support in historic fact. And Russia's direct hand in funding and fomenting that action was not exactly a secret.
Your in denial of the fact that there were "Two Minsk Agreements" and Zelensky continued the violations, he had land mines surrounding cities in the Donbas, he denied local elections, and installed his police force in the cities, going so far as to remove Russian speaking books from libraries, and the language from banks, government buildings, and society
In the last year, Putin's greatest success is in only losing a little territory to Ukrainian forces, at the cost of thousands of Russian conscripts and equipment that will be extremely costly to replace. It's another Afghanistan for Russia.
Russia has lost equipment, but Ukraine as a nation was decimated. Their infrastructure was destroyed completely and unless
Your regurgitating the same Ole false MSM narrative in diversion, Zelensky is left out hanging and drying, Europe and the USA have abandoned Ukraine and their war,, Zelensky has a matter of weeks left
There isn't going to be Ukraine as a nation, Putting will remove Zelensky and the Military, and install his friendly government, Putin will rebuild Ukraine
All of that is factual. Ukraine is chewing up Russian troops and equipment at the same time the Russian economy is shrinking. That's not the worst of it:
www.wsj.com
Try reading the news, even the liberal channels are reporting it
Your posting a CNN article dated Mar 3, 2023 for support, "Big Smiles"!Russia could find itself with no money as soon as next year and needs foreign investment, outspoken Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has said.
“There will be no money already next year, we need foreign investors,” he said at an economic conference in Siberia Thursday, according to comments reported by TASS, a Russian state-owned news agency.
The remarks from the billionaire — who called for an end to Moscow’s war in Ukraine in the early days of the conflict last year — contrast with a more upbeat assessment of Russia’s economic fortunes by President Vladimir Putin last week. Putin praised the resilience of the country’s economy in the face of unprecedented Western sanctions imposed in the past year.
Russia’s economic output shrank 2.1% last year, according to a preliminary estimate from the government.
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Russia is cutting oil production this month — and Western sanctions could escalate further. Ultimately, Russia’s economic prospects are contingent on what happens in Ukraine.
Foreign investors, especially from “friendly” countries, also have a big role to play, Deripaska said. Whether they will come depends on whether Russia can create the right conditions and make its markets attractive, he was quoted as saying.
In a bid to starve Russia of funds for its aggression, Western countries have announced more than 11,300 sanctions since the February 2022 invasion, and frozen some $300 billion of Russia’s foreign reserves.
But China has thrown the Kremlin an economic lifeline by buying Russian energy, replacing Western suppliers of machinery and base metals among other products, and providing an alternative to the US dollar.
Still, Moscow has a steep hill to climb to replace revenues lost as a result of sanctions, not least from exports. Data released Friday showed that the European Union’s imports from Russia fell by 51% in value between February and December last year. The bloc was one of the main trading partners for Russia before the invasion of Ukraine, with 38% of Russia’s exports going to the European Union in 2020.
The Russian government’s revenue plunged 35% in January compared with a year ago, while expenditures jumped 59%, leading to a budget deficit of about 1,761 billion rubles ($23.3 billion).
So much winning, the Russian people are tired of winning.
All of that is factual. Ukraine is chewing up Russian troops and equipment at the same time the Russian economy is shrinking. That's not the worst of it:
Hundreds of thousands of professional workers, many of them young, have left Russia since its invasion of Ukraine, accelerating an exodus of business talent and further threatening an economy targeted by Western sanctions.
Those leaving the country include tech workers, scientists, bankers and doctors, according to surveys, economists and interviews with emigrants. They are departing for countries including Georgia, Armenia and Turkey. More are expected to follow.
A mid-March survey by OK Russians, a nonprofit helping people leave the country, estimated that around 300,000 workers had departed since the war started in late February. While precise counts of the number of people leaving Russia aren’t available, some economists have reached similar conclusions about the scale of the outflow. Around 500,000 people left Russia in 2020, according to Rosstat, Russia’s statistics agency.
Fleeing Putin, Thousands of Educated Russians Are Moving Abroad
Young professionals, often working in tech, have left the country after the Ukraine invasion: “I can’t live in a country that goes to war with its neighbors.”
You think Rosstat is "MSM?" You guys need to get your stories in sync.
He can't even rebuild Russia; it's gotten so bad that desperately-needed petroleum production will drop again this year. Do you think all those people fleeing Russia will come back for him? It's not just a declining economy; it's desperate attempts to hold things together that will make things worse in the long run.
Even your attached article from CNN is screaming to the world that the US is done in Ukraine, "US Exhausts Available Funding"He can't even rebuild Russia; it's gotten so bad that desperately-needed petroleum production will drop again this year. Do you think all those people fleeing Russia will come back for him?
Ukraine is getting another $250 million in military aid from America.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/politics/biden-ukraine-military-aid-package/index.html
Germany is sending much needed ammunition and demining equipment to help clear minefields as Ukrainians seek to push Russians back. The Netherlands is now sending 18 F-16s. That's critical since Putin's failure to control airspace has made it much easier for Ukraine to wreak havoc on the invaders.
Germany sends ammunition, demining equipment to Ukraine
The latest shipment includes ammunition for Leopard tanks, three additional Gepard anti-aircraft systems, and two more mine-clearing tanks.news.yahoo.com
This is why Putin's assets in the House of Representatives are trying desperately to cancel any further aid, and his trolls are pretending all that aid being sent isn't real.
The evening before Russia invaded Ukraine, it seemed to many observers – me included – nearly unimaginable that Putin would carry through with weeks of a threatened military attack. As I wrote at the time, Putin is not as erratic or rash as he is sometimes painted.
Until the next funding is approved. But that's the best straw to grasp, I suppose.
In English, you should write "he is left" And the bear seems unable to defeat even a small nation like Ukraine. Consider what a larger and better-equipped army, like those of Sweden or Finland would do to that bear. Thanks to Putin's invasion, both of those nations are now with NATO, and NATO is now right on Russia's border. And Putin did it all to himself.
