Do You Think the Russians Will Seize Back the Initiative?

It's dangerous to get too pessimistic, from moscow's point of view, on how things are proceeding. What will determine the level of resistance is how ukraine is able to adapt to urban warfare when russia really is able to encircle kiev and essentially siege that city. western intelligence officials tell me as there are effectively three sonarias there still believe as possible. The first is a complete capture of kraine with a decapitation of the leadership or perhaps mister zelensky taking his administration into exile. The second option would be some kind of rump ukranian state left in the west, with or without kiev. And the third would be