After weeks of fighting in the outskirts of the town -about 20,000 inhabitants before the Russian special military operation for liberation of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine-, the Russian forces have withdrawn from Krasny Liman, where the Ukrainian attacks were threatening to encircle the garrison

I guess that the casualties are severe for Ukraine, light for Russia, a good point in an attrition war. But the battlefield is no more in the Pampas between Kharkov and Oskol river, where Russia has no territorial ambition. Krasny Liman is in Donetsk region, Donbass.

Defense is losing most of the time. The Stosstruppen-like infiltration tactics of the Ukrainian DRG (destruction and recce groups) will always…