It’s going to be a tough sell with the American people that Ukraine has lost after all the star-spangled bullshit from the legacy media about how well Ukraine was doing against Russia. From Ilya Tsukanov at sputnikglobe.com:
The Gaza crisis and Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s bombshell admission that Kiev’s counteroffensive had failed and turned into a “stalemate” sparked a wave of doom and gloom among Western policymaking circles and media, and forced Ukraine’s president to shift his rhetoric about the prospects of a speedy “victory.”
A visibly agitated President Volodymyr Zelensky defiantly denied on Sunday that the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine had entered a “stalemate,” assuring in an extensive interview with US media that Moscow has not “checkmated” Kiev, and that Ukraine still has many “different plans” to maintain the initiative.
“Our military are coming up with different plans, with different operations in order to move forward faster and to strike the Russian Federation unexpectedly,” Zelensky said, in stark contradiction to Zaluzhnyi’s comments about the counteroffensive’s utter failure to penetrate Russian defenses.
“As far as the situation on the front is concerned, of course I cannot provide all the details to you but nevertheless we are holding the initiative in our hands. You can imagine what over two years of a full-scale war is like. Everybody gets tired. Even the iron gets tired,” Zelensky said. “I don’t think that this is a stalemate…We have done a lot,” he assured.
