(#4811) The battle for Ukraine is critical in the next week

      As Russia continues to reorganize its forces to attack with greater ferocity the eastern part of Ukraine, the Ukrainians are mounting their own assault on pushing back a Russian attempt to cut them off from their own troops in the east. The battlefield is coming to a head and whether the Ukrainian forces can repel the Russian horde of invaders is still questionable. I will never give up on the ferocity of the Ukrainian army to defend their homeland from the despicable putin led murderers. But the battlefield is being determined from a Russian advantage and although it is in Ukraine the Ukrainians have some steep odds too overcome.
     However, with the west supplying Ukraine with the armaments needed to succeed the Russian advantage is being dwindled. The will is on the side of the Ukrainian army and that cannot be overstated. When a people are cornered in an unjust way they have a tendency to fight with a wild eyed abandon that cannot be matched just through calculation. The Russian troops are green and not used to fighting to begin with. To me although the Ukrainian forces are tired and beat up from constant war over the last 8 years there is nothing like the adrenaline rush of possible final defeat to push tired fighters into a frenzied actionable state.
     This week or so will give us the answer to the question of whether putin can take Ukraine and stop the Ukrainian attempt to defend itself. Some say this quagmire in Ukraine will last for months but this coming battle will tell a different story depending upon who wins the force of will. Either putin's Russia will gain territory and destroy much of the Ukrainian force or Ukraine will stave off the Russian attempt and push the Russians back toward their own border. For me it is simple. the Ukrainian people are too fierce for the Russians and the Ukrainians will prevail making putin all that much more vulnerable from within with another humiliating defeat.