It's been almost two months since the offensive was put on pause and they reverted to pr00bing, and for the last month the headlines have been steady dooming as they try to spin the stalemate of an offensive while Kivv and the West blame each other for the lack of progress, Kivv that they didn't give enough and the West that Ukrainians are not carrying out their Superiorer tactics against Russian supremacy in everything but manpower. This only continues and this now can be classified as desperation by their own admissions. In the early days of "It's just pr00bing" the head of the Army, Zaluzhny, came out to declare that the offensive cannot succeed, but that wasn't desperation, he was only biffed, and despite the confession that it failed he said they will keep trying anyway. Now almost two months later without any significant progress there's an ever-growing awareness of the task at hand and the realization that they fucked up which is admitted by many Ukrainian Cannon Fodder who have talked to the mainstrem media when they whine about hyping up the offensive, not enough training and by the Butcher of Kivv, that they didn't have enough time. With this new perspective the doom and gloom has entered the final stage, despair, where the certainty of "it's Ovyr" is spreading through the infosphere like a bad covid.

This is Newsweek, they are reasonable, and certainly not desperate:

The blue area represents almost three months of "advances" and conveniently leaves out the recent territory taken back by RF in the south of Klishchivka:

They then go onto the Vremevsky Ledge where the gains are noticeable:

Measuring the distance at 8 km, so over two months of offensive and they are not even half way to the first line of defense, seen on the ISW map as the triangles(Russian field fortifications).

The most embarrassing part of this Newsweek article is that it doesn't even mention the Orekhov sector:

From the same ISW report

You know, the place where the numerous piles of burning Bradley, Leopards and MaxxPro of their vaunted "Marron" breaching Brigades were filmed having a fire time, the same sector where they haven't even managed to take the one settlement they've been fighting over, and this despite the main defensive line being less than 6 km from the Ukrainian positions at the start of the offensive, they still haven't broken through which is probably why Newsweek avoided mentioning it. Yeah, ghosted the one area where Ukrainians concentrated their main efforts and where they have almost nothing to show for it. While Newsweek isn't outright desperate they certainly don't care to be honest either.

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-map-counteroffensive-drone-strikes-zaporizhzhia-donetsk-1819367

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Rest here, very bleak, I'd say the desperation is palpable.

The Stooges at The Hill are the first MSM to cope with the Russian pushes in the east:

Some of the gains they break the "news" on as they try and spin them as "if", have been confirmed almost two months ago, and the most recent ones around Kupyansk are over a week old, meanwhile they make no mention of the more impressive and significant gains where the Russians crossed the Zerebrerzi River and have advanced more in two weeks than Ukraine has advanced in the entire month of July.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war-drones-dji-china-america-80a1e1f9

Not content with sitting down and doing nothing as the tsunami of mainstream media articles characterizing the efforts of the offensive as a failure keep mounting, Kivv Independent joins into the Doominghard as it seethes at the polls which show that the US is changing their minds on Aiding Ukraine while these "journalists" try to sell the myth that Bakhmut is Encircled and they are dooming so hard they compare the future of Ukraine should Biden stop fueling the fire, to the US failure in Vietnam, and I'm not kidding about the Bakhmut part either as you'll see:

I've spared you the cope and fantasy that follows but you can have a laugh at these imbeciles yourself if you want just mind the despair:
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/20425

In another tacit admission that the counteroffensive is a failure, Germany's Selected PM wants peace talks:

Next is some healthy Regret, I guess it's never too late to recognize your stupidity and acknowledge it:

Arestovich Explains Ukraine's Fatal Mistake: Giving Average Russian Reason To Fight By Dehumanizing

As I and many have pointed out throughout this conflict, the Ukrainians make the best Pro Russian propaganda, and Arestovich has come to this realization.

Next: "don't worry, next version will be even better".

Imagine the retardation you must be in to utter that without cringing yourself into a coma. They were hyping up a counteroffensive for months and the counteroffensive turned proob and now they're hyping the next counteroffensive as if that didn't fail completely.

Last, some good old fashion desperation:

Such unforgiving headlines, might as well say "Abandon all hope!"

They start with how fast news of failure and triumphs spreads because of technology after which they say:

It must be pointed out that Ukraine hasn't even reached the dragons teeth or concrete fortifications, they have been bogged down in the security zone by mines and have barely reached the first defensive line in one place, and haven't had any success breaching it. They continue:

They then go into a bit of a spin after which it's right back to the dooming where they conclude on "if":

As I said at the beginning of this news roundup, desperation is the mood, and this is by their own admission, either outright like above, or implicit, and the Washington Post is on a roll, this following article was from 4 days ago, lots of doomer Ukrainians in that article which can be quoted and categorized as Regret/Despair and Cynicism, I mean look at the title: