Russia's new strategy: Brainwash their population into believing that this is a neverending war.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/4/2145287/-Ukraine-update-Russia-is-losing-it-knows-it-s-losing-and-it-plans-to-keep-losing-Forever
On Tuesday, the Kremlin announced that all Russian schools would now teach students how to interpret international military-political and domestic events and facts from the position of a patriot of the Fatherland." And when they are not being dosed with propaganda, Russian high school studentsall Russian high school studentsare now to be taught how to march, salute, dig trenches, and conduct combined arms tactics. It doesnt say where they would get the teachers, which could be an issue,since no one in the Russian Army seems to know how to conduct combined arms tactics.
"I know the USA are planning a demonstrative strike on Moskva-city" - Yevgeniy Fedorov, deputy of Russian parliament.
Russia has been claiming for about 20 years now that they are under attack by the West. With sanctions, with libel about the evil things Russia has supposedly done, with NATO expanding into Eastern Europe...