Ukrainian troops are back inside Luhansk, which means that after four and a half years, a mountain of dead conscripts and an economy held together by crude oil and press releases, Russia does not hold the whole of a single one of the four oblasts it claims to have annexed. Ukraine, meanwhile, is calmly burning through its refineries, fuel depots and airbases as though working from a shopping list.
So naturally the Kremlin gets louder everywhere else. The drones over European airports and the cut cables are not strength, they are the noise a losing side makes to remind everyone it still exists.
Which is where it becomes genuinely stupid. European NATO and Canada field roughly two million troops in uniform, several million more in reserve, and economies about ten times Russia's. Provoking that lot into joining Ukraine properly is not strategy.
the armed forces of Ukraine have reentered Luhansk oblast.
let that sink in for a moment.
this means that russia does not have 100% control of any of the 4 oblasts that he says he wants.