Or is he just going to double down and invade Transnistria or something like and make a bad situation much worse. As in Kursk, Zelensky is just burning through troops to run around in circles trying to delay the inevitable hoping some miracle turns up (NATO troops arrive, which they won't).
Reminder that if the Russians get to the Dnipro river then western Ukraine will have no industry and therefore cannot survive as an independent state, it will be the end of Ukraine.
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