>>1264332>Last thing I saw was Chernobyl got occupiedOkay so it's no longer. By the middle of Spring, UA managed to fully push RU away back to the border from the northern direction, which means they fully took back Kyiv, Chernigiv, and Sumy oblasts (regions) (this includes Chornobyl but I guess you aware). All the remaining RU forces were withdrawn from there redeployed to the eastern and the southern directions.
This was either RU biting MUCH more than they could chew, (assuming they actually had intentions to conquer Kyiv), or a tactical super move that ended up with WAY to many losses.
This essentially ended the active meatgrinder and made RU rethink their tactics a little. From what I know, the latter mainly consists of defensive play and heavily suppressing the enemy with extensive artillery fire (RU has by magnitudes more arty ammo than UA), thus making the battlefield look more like WWI than any other modern conflict.
UA keeps getting weaponry from the west and using it rather effectively. In summer RU had their ammo depots blown up one after another with HiMARSes, causing a huge seethe.
In the first half of September, UA had a chunky advance to the east of Kharkiv, gaining around 8000 square kilometers in land.
The most success RU has is near Bakhmut town, probably thanks to "Wagner's PMC", a famous formation that have broken news by beginning a prisoner recruiting campaign, showing that, while being somewhat effective, they are clearly had had their infantry thinned.
A few days ago RU probably realized that it's not going so well for their frontlines and announced state-wide mobilization aiming to get 300k more troops, which is roughly the same size army RU started the invasion with, if you include LDPR. How bad would it turn out for UA, only time will tell.
