The conflict dynamics are currently strongly in Russia’s favor.
What the fuck am I reading. 400+ days of war and Russia is nowhere near any kind of win while more and more NATO arms pour into Ukraine. NATO is expanding. Russia's economy is getting worse and worse.
How is that favorable to Russia?
And the conflict has steadily escalated?
Not really. In the beginning, Russia tried taking Kyiv, miserably failed, took some territory but lost large parts of it, and the whole thing has pretty much stalled for a while.
Keep up with the news.
Are you saying that an assassination attempt isn’t escalation?
Did you watch the video of the drone? It was a small civilian drone with some incendiary device strapped to it. How is that an "assassination attempt"? Do you think that could have killed Putin? Was he on the roof at the time?
Besides, Russia has been trying to kill Zelensky since day one.
If it was some Russian kid, it would be even worse. Imagine some kid being able to penetrate Kremlin's air defense with a fucking drone.
Then again, Kremlin's air defense was always shit. I remember when some German kid landed a plane on the Red Square.
Mighty Russia cannot even protect the Kremlin against some slow drones.
400+ days and they haven't won. Easy as that.
How are they winning exactly?