The question now dominating Russian discourse is how to respond to this humiliating setback, which is just the latest in an increasingly damaging war.
Russia’s humiliating pushback has triggered a frenzy of commentary on social media, with some commentators calling for Mr Putin to step up attacks on infrastructureSeptember 13, 2022 3:45 pmlightning counteroffensive
As Ukrainians celebrate the raising of their flag in Izyum and Kupiansk in the country’s east, Russian commentators have been left to contemplate a costly collapse and the abandonment of towns and cities recently proclaimed to be “The question now dominating Russian discourse is how to respond to this humiliating setback, which is just the latest in an increasingly damaging war that was framed to the domestic public as a limited operation that would swiftly achieve all of its objectives.