The Russian Army has sent a strong signal how it believes the war is going to end.
A routine and seemingly innocent news release photo from the Russian Ministry of Defense, is rapidly becoming quite controversial. General Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, giving a briefing about the ongoing Russian “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. But . . . . . . . on the wall behind the man seated to the left of Gerasimov, is a map.
I’ve believed from the beginning of the war in 2022 that while Russia had no interest in taking the entirety of Ukraine, the Russians wouldn’t stop it without reacquiring Odessa. Not only is it strategically important, but the trade union massacre there on 2 May 2014 remains an important symbol of the inability of the Kiev regime to govern the Russian people justly.