The war in Ukraine has now cost over a quarter of a million lives. All of them effectively attributable directly or indirectly to Putin.
The counteroffensive is coming: personally I’ll be surprised if anything major happens before June.
It was heartening to hear Col Ben (Hodges) and others talking to The Sun
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21948049/ukraine-russia-big-bang-counter-offensive/
Of course these guys are speaking from the outside looking in.
Rumours persist that Ukrainian pilots are training on F16s in Arizona. Which would suggest that there won’t be a quick victory but there will be one, in due course. Republican Lindsay Graham is supposedly one of those behind a US attempt to persuade the G7 effectively to end Russia’s economy.
One can only hope that these signals are pointing in the same direction: namely a strategy to force an end to the Kremlin regime in due course