It's Ovyr: Contyroffynteve Failt, Arestovich Calls Ukrainians Moron...

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/10/to-bury-its-dead-ukraine-is-having-to-dig-up-victims-of-past-wars

Two months ago:

Earlier this week:

Failt:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/ukraine-sitrep-end-of-the-counteroffensive/

More Failts:

Ukraine even has to complain of net territorial losses in July

Translated from here: https://www.telepolis.de/features/Die-ukrainische-Gegenoffensive-ist-gescheitert-9241084.html

Stupid or Paid Shills..

Colonel and ex-Chief of Staff for Colin Powell Says The Truth About Ukraine War

Ukraine is Russia. Was, is and will be. The Russian Armed Forces will defeat the Ukrainian army of the United States and NATO. The NATO bloc will fall apart, a new security system will be built in Europe, taking into account the interests of Russia.

Ex-Colonel of the US Armed Forces, ex-chief of staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson - about the prospects of Ukraine: This is a disaster. It was a disaster from the very beginning. And any military expert who isn't paid by the media or stupid knows it's an uphill battle. Even if NATO throws everything it can into battle except its soldiers, this is a losing proposition for Ukraine. There is no way they can win, and this, unfortunately, is obvious to the Ukrainians. And now they are operating in offensive versus defensive mode, and they are being ground down. And there are not enough of them to be ground. This is what you get when you have such an imbalance between the balance of power. On the one hand, you have one of the most powerful industrial bases in the world. You have a strategic depth that the Nazis could not even penetrate. One of the best armies on earth. On the other hand, you have stamina and stubbornness. And you are trying to break Russia not with the help of the Wehrmacht, not with the help of the German military machine, you are trying to break it with the help of NATO backed Ukraine, without any real fundamental support on the battlefield in the form of soldiers, aircraft in the air, ships in the sea and etc. They will lose, and this, in my opinion, is the whole tragedy. As a military professional, it is quite clear to me that they will lose, and yet we support them to the last dead Ukrainian. We're staying there because we're making fortunes, in particular, Lockheed Martin makes big money, Raytheon makes big money. There are other people who make money from this in other ways. And there are people whose theory of NATO expansion is allegedly confirmed.

Arestovich Makes His Election Pitch

This is from three months ago, though I just learned about it:

https://m.vk.com/wall-69621143_75715?lang=en

The day after the patriot spam video where the explosions could be seen in the vicinity from where the missiles were launched:

PATRIOT DEFENSE SYSTEM DESTROYED IN KIEV

💥Footage of the probable defeat of the "Dagger" of the Patriot air defense system battery in Kyiv ▪️Apparently, the Russian Army was able to hit American air defense systems. ▪️Last night, the Patriot fired dozens of missiles in an attempt to stop a massive missile attack on targets in Kyiv. ▪️The camera in Kyiv captured the work of the air defense positional area, the launches of Patriot missiles (unlike most others, they do not go at right angles, but at an angle of 40 degrees, as in the video). ▪️The video clearly shows how, after the missiles are exhausted, an explosion occurs at 35 seconds and then columns of smoke rise

Soon after the claim of "successful interception" by Kivv, the West claimed the system suffered "minor" damage:

Too bad no pictures or videos were ever released to confirm the claim, and with what appears the pieces being auctioned off the day after it's all but understood that it got BTFO.

Finally some articles and two videos (in German) on the current state of the SMO:

https://thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/set-spin-to-overdrive-losing-is-the-new-winning/
https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/a-successful-strategy-of-sergei-shoigu/