It begins: NYT admits Ukraine on back foot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-kursk-incursion-pokrovsk.html
NYT says, as "Kursk offensive slows", Pokrovsk - critical hub in East - gets ready to fall.
We been here before.
Prighozin "coup". Ukraine "counteroffensive" of 2023. Navalny death. "Ghost of Kiev" airplane ace who never existed. Same pattern.
Phase 1: as West media print triumphant propaganda, society's low-level jaroontards get delirious with their own bloodlust
Phase 2: Here & there, West media leak, maybe things aren't on target.
Phase 3: jaroontards go silent, try to forget subject. Zelensky cancels more elections, ups his doses of coke & meth
Phase 4: West ups its dose of Putin-hate, says Putin set trap
Strategy wise, Ukraine invade Russia couldn't be greater mistake.
Ukraine loses its reserve, best-equipment units & thousands more lives 
Russia people now see stakes & support Putin more than ever 
Putin drops negotiations & will seize more of Ukraine than before 
possible nuclear war 
the more so, as insane NATO libs go "He didn't respond with nukes! We can push farther!"
No you can't. "Yet" is key idea - he hasn't responded with theater tactical nukes, yet, you utter dumbasses. He still plans, waits for moment. He thinks....unlike you NATO children
all very bad developments