While, as per usual, NATO is bragging on its weapons systems, and describing how "rattled" Russia is, and is saying how, all Ukraine has to do is join NATO, and it would be "secure", and is touting the millions of Russian troops being killed on an hourly basis in Ukraine and Russia by its invincible missiles, Russia is continuing to take territory. Important territory. In particular, in just the last few weeks, Russia has just taken full control of both the towns of Robotyne and Staromaiorske, which it been fighting for, for almost a year, and which were the only two significant towns taken by Ukraine in its offensive last year. Remember the incredible noise that was made when Ukraine took these two towns last year? How they were now on the verge of cutting off Crimea from Russian supplies? How they would soon have all major roads and railroads in the region within artillery range, and the war would be over?

Fact is, the "attack" against Kharkiv is just a diversion, and, it's proving a highly effective one. Russia is taking back important territory in the South, reinforcing its control in the region, as Zelensky is forced to divert his remaining troops to the North. It's interesting how little attention the media is paying to these advances in the South by Russia. Particularly given how much attention was paid to them when Ukraine took them!

In addition, Russia is continuing to take territory and towns near Donetsk, the towns of Krasnohorivka and Neorhiivka now nearly under full Russian control as well. This territory in the South is critical to establishing full Russian control over Ukraine, since the northern territories near Russia can always be overrun by masses of well supplied Russian troops, whenever Russia sees fit. The fact that NATO and Zelensky are simply ignoring this fact, shows just how out of touch with reality they really are. While bragging on how NATO has "stopped" the "siege" of Kharkiv, and allowing far more important Ukrainian towns and territory in the South to be overrun at will by virtually unopposed Russian forces, NATO is allowing the war in Ukraine to tilt more and more overwhelmingly in favor of a dominant Russia, and guaranteeing that Ukrainian men will simply flee the country, and very possibly go over to the obviously winning side, Russia, rather than fight for the corrupt and incompetent NATO backed Ukrainian forces. We can see parallels to both the end of the Vietnam War, and the end of the Chinese Civil War, as Mao Zedong's triumphant, Soviet backed communists advanced on Beijing. Kiev is finished. Ukraine is Russia.