Russia now controls a fifth of the Ukrainian territory. And without intelligence he uses the army hammers from heaven

Kiev – The block of American military aid wanted by Donald Trump He is creating a deep moral and material crisis in the Ukrainian front. The Russians attack, take advantage of the lack of anti -aircraft missiles and ammunition in the opponent's field and especially now They know that Ukrainians are more blind « : The lack of vital information provided by American intelligence offers a strong advantage in Moscow. At the moment, The Ukrainian General Staff tries to make up for the lack by resorting to the European onesespecially from France, Germany and Great Britain, but to Kiev no one hides that The situation on the ground is becoming very difficult. The most serious clashes take place today in the Russian region of Kurskwhere the Ukrainians seem on the eve of a general withdrawn from the area occupied last August, and in Donbass disputed since 2014.

To understand the gravity of the picture, it is useful to remember the events of recent years. In 2014 Russia invaded Crimea and fomented an armed revolt of separatists in Donbass which in 2020 guaranteed him to control about 10 percent of the Ukrainian territory as defined at the time of his independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. The dramatic invasion ordered by Putin on February 24, 2022 It allowed the Russians to occupy over 30 percent of the country: for a moment in March they seemed to have taken Kiev herself. But Ukrainians reacted with courage and generous determination: already in early April they had been able to reject the siege around the capital. Then the occupied area reduced to the current 20 percent thanks to the Ukrainian counter -offensive In autumn 2022, which allowed to free the Kharkiv region to the northern lugansk, in addition to the Kherson area and large areas on the Zaporizhzia front.

In the meantime, About 8.2 million Ukrainian citizens escaped abroad and 8 others became indoor displaced people. The country had about 41 million inhabitants before the war, today they are around 25. The annual gross national product dropped to about halfthe country is shaken by a serious economic crisis fueled by the lack of work: the army uses over a million men whose costs are barely covered by allied loans, European species. Instead, it is difficult to precisely estimate the numbers of the dead and injured. The most credible evaluation is around 100,000-150,000 soldiers who died since February 2022. Western experts of military things speak of over 700,000 Russian fallenwith a current average of about 1,000 per day, but they are numbers that no one can verify and manipulate from propaganda. It is not at all excluded that the Russian figures are in truth relatively lower, perhaps just more than double the Ukrainian ones.

The chronicles from the battlefields continue to indicate the salient of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk, as one of the bloodiest, where, however, the Ukrainians, after the continuous and lens withdrawn for over a year now, have earned some positions in the last few days. The Kiev staff admits that he is short of soldiers and tries to make up for it by resorting to the use of drones of all kinds. In the nearby Kurakhove area, the Russians claim to have occupied the village of Andriivka. Further north, in the Kupiansk sector, The battles for weeks have been held for the check of a few hundred meters. But the Ukrainians are losing to Kursk. Between 6 and 10 August 2024 they had managed to occupy about 1,300 square kilometers of Russian territory that Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to exchange at the time of negotiations to have part of the Donbass back. But today his men now control less than 400 square kilometers.