Russia Is Not Losing In Ukraine

Contrary to the complacent narrative promoted by Western journalists, Russia’s invasion is not collapsing and Ukrainian victory is not inevitable

Allan Milne Lees
26 min readJan 5, 2023
Image credit: Moscow Times

In late February 2022, Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin ordered a massive invasion of peaceful neighboring Ukraine with the intention of overthrowing the pro-Western Zelensky administration and installing a pro-Kremlin puppet regime. Ukraine’s former, and now disgraced, president Yanukovych may have hoped to sit atop such a regime and thereby present the illusion of Ukrainian sovereignty.

As we all know, thanks to a mixture of advanced warning from NATO sources, enormous courage and rapid action, huge stockpiles of Soviet-era artillery ammunition, and no small amount of luck, Ukraine was able to prevent Russian invaders from entering Kyiv and so Putin’s dream of a quick and easy victory was shattered. Unfortunately for those living in areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation, countless atrocities were committed as a standard part of Russian operations. Untold thousands of unarmed Ukrainian civilians have been raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered by Russian rabble-in-uniform who, often drunk, are encouraged to perpetrate such war crimes and are subsequently rewarded after doing so. Russian forces terrorize civilians and…

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Allan Milne Lees

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