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Ukraine’s battlefield optimism is ebbing as Russia threatens its ‘fortress belt’
A ground-level dispatch from Kramatorsk on how Russia's slow, grinding campaign is systematically destroying the strategic value of every city it cannot quickly capture.
- Everyone walks around with a rifle, goes out for a coffee with a rifle, heads to the store with a rifle — because drones are everywhere now and you never know.
- The Russian military cannot take over cities in a quick offensive that leaves infrastructure intact. Instead, Moscow wages slow, grinding warfare that renders them uninhabitable.
- Just last night, they bombed the house where I used to live. We moved out a few months ago and it's just completely destroyed there now.
- Russia is losing roughly 340 casualties for every square kilometer seized — a massive cost for glacial progress that ISW calculates won't take all of Donetsk until 2032, if ever.
- Evacuation is completely impossible; the whole area is mined and the number of drones is just insane.