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At the start of the war, millions of terrorized Ukrainians, mostly women and children fled Ukraine into neighboring nations. Largely because Putin thought the invasion would be a cakewalk, he hoped to quickly install a puppet regime and have the infrastructure of Ukraine largely intact in a relatively effortless takeover.
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Helped by serious tactical and logistics blunders on the part of Russia, Ukraine fought back bravely and succeeded in limiting the occupation of Ukraine from 27% to only about 20% of its territory now. In occupied Ukrainian territory, the residents suffered at the hands of the Russian occupiers and some who could not flee were forcefully removed to other parts of Russia.
The military situation for the past nine months has been largely a stalemate and a slow grinding process of attrition of troops and military hardware on both sides. Seeing that it didn’t have enough troops to continue the war, Russia recently went in for partial mobilization, but these unprepared, untrained, and ill-equipped soldiers are presently being used mainly as cannon fodder and are not contributing to a fighting force in any meaningful manner.
Putin and the Russian military are now desperately resorting to the destruction of the infrastructure of Ukraine and trying to make city living unlivable. So far Russian missiles have taken out about 40% of the electrical grid along with water towers, which has resulted in rolling blackouts and a water supply shortage.
