Signs at the end of this week that Russia might be withdrawing large portions of its offensive and concentrating on the East.
Although this is more a strategic shift than a withdrawal, it does show the scale of the problems they are having (considering they boasted on state TV about how they would be in Kyiv by lunch time on the first day of the invasion)
Outdated equipment, supply problems, lack of success with disinformation all seem to be key failure points, but I think in the end analysis will show an inability to suppress air defences with SEAD missions will be considered the fatal flaw. Russia doesn’t have airspace control, without that they are unable to defend tank and personnel columns. SEAD missions take a huge amount of pilot skill and specialist equipment - seems Russia lacks the capability to carry these out.
In the next stage, seems they will try to move a front steadily forward from the East and South East with more concentrated power. This could still be a long conflict. It’s horrible to see what’s happening, but also good to see Ukraine stopping Russia from simply getting its way.
If you believe the Russian government, which I suspect Ukraine and most others don’t.
The only time I recall one side truthfully telling the other in advance, what was going to happen in a conflict was the Battle of Goose Green during the Falklands War - when the Argentine were told the British were about to attack (it was on the BBC) - and, yes, they didn’t believe it…
That is what they told the russian people they were doing in the first place. They could plausibly withdraw there then try to get Ukraine to concede that area and claim victory at home.
Of course Ukraine would probably never concede those areas…
Well, what the Russian government said was that the first part of their mission was ‘generally complete’ and they could now move onto the ‘second stage’, which is obviously absolute rubbish. It does seem to be laying the ground for trying to sell the failures as some sort of success.
I think the the thing with Kyev is it’s less a strategic choice and more they may be running out of things to throw at it.
And now they are actually withdrawing, their latest reasoning being it is to ‘facilitate peace talks’, even though they will keep fighting in the places they think they are winning 
“Ukraine urges countries to make ‘Z’ symbol illegal”
Well that’s Zorro buggered then.
Won’t somebody think of General Zod?
What shall I replace the Z symbol with on my wall?
The alphabet in my class will look a little different with it banned!
My chances of speeding up my Race-to-Z times just got 1:26 times faster. Every cloud…
Shocking pictures, videos and reports coming from Kyiv suburbs as the Russians retreat 
Extremely graphic, but if you scroll through the recent feed of this account you get to see some of it, not even the worst of it.
The thing that really really shocked me about it (not sure if it’s on that Twitter account), were the pictures and stories of finding bodies with their hands tied, murdered in the street. Sometimes shot at point blank range.
That, and the mass grave of 250+ people they’ve found, and the attempted burning of 4 women in the street too.
The behaviour has been beyond words, and I think it’s made ever more real by the availability of social media within Ukraine for these images to be shared candidly etc. 
Yeah alot of it is shown on that account.
I saw a comment, we keep saying never again but here we are again.
Spoiler 
‘Upsetting’
It is very sad what’s happening.
I was gonna ask that you tagged it just in case some people find these disturbing, but you already did 
I’ve been following r/Ukraine on Reddit and that’s been extremely graphic and somewhat uncomfortable to watch at times.