Russia faces "difficult fight" to retake Ukraine-held area, says top US spy
Russia faces "difficult fight" to retake Ukraine-held area, says top US spy
"We can be certain that Putin will mount a counteroffensive to try to reclaim that territory," Cohen said. "I think our expectation is that that will be a difficult fight for the Russians."
Putin, he said, "is not only going to have to face the fact that there is a front line now within Russian territory that he's going to have to deal with, he has to deal with reverberations back in his own society that they have lost a piece of Russian territory."
The greatest thing about this is that Putin can’t just carpet bomb the areas to rubble like Russia does when attacking.
I am skeptical.
Remember, the area that Russia hit is area that Russia intends to annex; i.e. they want it to be part of Russia. If they're willing to hit that, I'm not at all sure that hitting area in Russia is off-limits.
Also, currently the area that Ukraine holds in Russia isn't terribly populated. I haven't been watching closely, but I think the largest was Sudzha.
It has a population of 5,127 people.
That's probably at least partly evacuated and not exactly a metropolis.
You sure about that?
Ask Chechnya how unwilling Russia is to raze their own cities.
Chechnya was independent at the time, you know.
lol uh… yeah, that is kinda obviously one of the primary motivations for taking as much of Kursk oblast as possible.
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