[georgesedlak]

In light of the fact that the Russians were thin on the ground to begin with (except artillery) and a lot of the troops aren't regulars but Militias, Chechens, there was even supposedly a Cossack unit out there, they haven't done as badly as western media are reporting. We'll have to wait for the the dust to settle for a final analysis, but there has been so much baloney from both sides that this might indeed be impossible.