Looks grim for Russia

Now yes, the Russian terrorist force Army is making slow but steady progress in Donbas, but these comments from Vladimir Putin do not, despite their apparent bravado, bode well for Russia.  The reason here is that any officer worth his salt knows that the artillery is targeting mostly civilian targets, T-72s subjected to the "Jack in the Box" treatment by the Ukrainians are being replaced by T-62s (obsolete since the 1960s) with untrained crews, and the Russian Air Force Al Qaida is reduced to launching missile attacks (again, at civilian targets) from over the Caspian Sea, 500 miles from the border of Ukraine.

Any officer worth his salt knows the number of BTGs in the army, and that 70% of them went to Ukraine, and that there's no way in H*** that conscripts are going to replace the 30-40,000 soldiers who are dead, and tens of thousands of others who've been wounded or maimed.

And now the Russians are facing an enemy whose artillery has a far greater range than their own while they see a terrorist in chief making comments they know full well are BS.  As officers, at least those below the general staff rank, wake up to what Putin has done to them, there is going to be H*** to pay.

Putin delenda est!