Originally Posted by
FUMR
Extract from a BBC report:
Mr Putin said he was not in a hurry, and the offensive in Ukraine's Donbas region remains on track.
He also noted that Russia had so far not deployed its full forces.
"Our offensive operation in the Donbas is not stopping. They're moving forward - not at a very fast pace - but they are gradually taking more and more territory,"
He seems pretty confident! Does he know something we don't know, or do we know something he doesn't know?
He may be using a GRU map to keep on track? I think there is a more certain trajectory in his future, assisted by the principia of Sir Isaac Newton.
He has some "hard" decisions in his near future. Kazakh's are starting to get uppity, and Chechnya seems to be running towards a change of heart, having publicly stated that the police can shoot any Russian military or police that enter Chechen territory without prior permission. It's not like Russia has that many smart munitions left to go target their dissafected and dispossessed. Having broken the VVS and much of the RW combat capability, they may have need for lots of Iranian drones top quell the borders. Sounds like a good time to buy shares in Raytheon Defence.