Shoigu added that Russia could achieve its military goals with “consistent implementation of the measures in the action until 2025.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin and allies like Shoigu have repeatedly stressed the need to keep Ukraine inside Russia’s sphere of influence, and to defeat what they describe as Ukraine’s “Nazi regime”.
Are people ignoring that Russia is substantially more populated than Ukraine? Ukraine isn’t winning a war of attrition.
But Russians don’t want to fight. They want to win, just don’t want to fight. Those are different. Ukrainians want to take their homes back or defend their families.
Lots of Ukrainians could leave if they wanted. There are Ukrainian refugees in lots of countries, so the path out is paved. I know I would already have left. The Ukrainians left in the country are not going to leave for anything besides nukes.