by Stephen Lendman 

Russia's SMO in Ukraine was triumphant before launched.

Militarily inferior Ukraine is no match against vastly superior Russian battlefield strength and tactical skills. 

Analysts Andrei Martyanov and Larry Johnson both call defeated Ukraine "a dead country walking."

Hiding in Poland out of harm's way, puppet Zelensky is mindless of reality on the ground.

He knows no more than what his US master prepares for him to publicly recite.

A buffoon-like caricature of a leader, a comedian/entertainer no longer funny, a fiddler while Ukraine burns, he's far-removed from leadership as it should be and it shows.

At the same time, the illegitimate Biden regime — nominally headed by an imposter — and Congress continue to waste countless billions of dollars for weapons, munitions and related equipment for dominant Nazis in Ukraine.

On arrival or shortly thereafter, Russian forces are systematically destroying them.

The same reality applies to what other NATO regimes are supplying Kiev.

At the same time, most Ukrainian forces are too poorly trained to operate what requires enough sophistication.

And much US/Western weaponry supplied to Ukraine is out-of-date Soviet era stuff, including what no longer works.

On Monday, Russia's deputy UN envoy Dmitry Polyanksy said the following:

It's "obvious" that what's going on in Ukraine is a US/NATO "proxy war (on) Russia."

Stressing that "(t)his is the reality we face," he added:

"Documents that we discovered at the beginning of our special military operation indicate with all clarity that there were concrete plans to strike Russia from Ukraine." 

"There were also concrete plans to strike Donbass, and (Ukrainian General Staff) documents (confirm) this." 

Because of the above reality and years of failed good faith efforts by Russia to end US-orchestrated and directed aggression on Donbass diplomatically, Moscow was forced to launch its SMO on Feb. 24.

Since begun, it's been in "full conformity with Article 5 of the UN charter, and we notified the UN about it," Polyansky explained.

Separately on Monday in his Victory Day address, Vladimir Putin said the following:

"We saw how the military infrastructure was unfolding (in Ukraine), how hundreds of foreign advisers (were) work(ing) there, with…modern weapons delivered from NATO countries." 

"The danger was growing every day" for years. 

"Russia offered a preemptive rebuff to the aggression."

"This was a forced, timely move and the only correct decision, one taken by a strong and independent country."

"Everything indicated that a clash with neo-Nazis, Bandera-followers — in whom the US and its allies had invested — was inevitable."

Russia acted to defend the nation and its people.

Its demilitarization and deNazification SMO also intends to liberate Donbass entirely from the scourge of US/Western-supported Nazified occupation.

Things are proceeding effectively as planned.

On Monday, Johnson explained that evidence on the ground in Ukraine shows that it's "headed for defeat."

There's no ambiguity about what's indisputable — no matter how repeatedly US/Western regimes, puppet Zelensky and MSM co-conspirators claim otherwise.

Given reality on the ground, Johnson asked:

"Is Ukraine abandoning its (battered and beaten) military units?"

Based on clear evidence, it appears so.

Even during Monday's Victory Day commemoration events in Moscow and other Russian cities, its SMO continued to degrade Ukraine's military toward eliminating its effectiveness altogether.

Its beleaguered forces continue to be battered with no reinforcements on the way.

At the same time, Ukraine's economy is in shambles, the vast majority of its people impoverished.

Situation hopeless defines reality on the ground.

It's reflected in remarks by captured Ukrainian forces.

Kiev abandoned them to die while pretending otherwise.

At this time, Russian forces are focused mainly on liberating Donbass.

After liberating Mariupol, Popasna was freed from Nazified control.

On Monday, the Donetsk News Agency reported the following:

"The Internal Flame, a symbol of the Victory in WW II, has been lit in liberated Volnovakha and Urzuf for the first time in eight years."

In liberated parts of Donetsk and Lugansk on Monday, Victory Day commemoration events were held.

It's just a matter of time before Donbass is liberated entirely from the scourge of US/Western-backed Nazified occupation.

The end game is clear — no matter how hard the US/West, Kiev and MSM press agents pretend otherwise.