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  Hopefully, but also hopefully Ukraine is smart about it. If they retake too much too quickly, Putin can use that to mobilize even more troops, and will also cause more Ukrainian casualties, since being on the offensive is generally more deadly. 
  However, if Ukraine can bide it’s time, let Russia push some, then counter attack, rely on drones and artillery while using the new tanks to protect infantry, they can drag this out and bleed Russia dry while minimizing their own losses. 
  Most of the eastern front line is in ruins now, so letting Russia take towns here and there isn’t a big deal. Even if Ukraine has to do a fighting retreat for months, it’s a win if they can inflict asymmetrical casualties on Russia. 
  Russia does have the manpower advantage, but that means nothing if the manpower is all untrained convicts with no supplies. The best way to really beat Russia is to draw them into a long guerrilla war that they can’t logistically or economically maintain. That’s how they got their shit wrecked in Afghanistan.
context: Russian forces have reportedly been using civilians to find safe routes through Ukrainian landmine fields in order to reach Ukrainian positions, the Ukrainian government's National Resistance Center reported Sunday.
  In addition to Russian forces risking the lives of civilians to ensure their own safety, the report further added that Iranian and Pakistani refugees are also sent into Ukraine's borders by Belarusian troops in order to find vulnerable areas on their shared border.
  
  You know Russia's reputation is kaput, when you hear them using refugees / civilians as mine cleaners and all you can think of is "sounds about right". >
  
  Natural resources.  There are plenty of countries who  wont particularly care when it comes to it.  Plenty will, plenty wont...  the next 2 years are certainly going to be interesting, hopefully I am wrong but this is not going to be over soon, as long as the RUS have bodies to throw at this they will endure and there is likely a lot more global pain (less than ukrainian pain admittedly) on the horizon i think.
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  Hopefully the new western equipment is going to let Ukraine take back most of the territories and drag a collapse of Putin's Army, Putin rule and military activities.