ليتني كوري شمالي

Machine translated, can’t confirm the accuracy since I don’t know German and English is my 3rd language:

It’s time to face the facts – sober, ruthless, in pain. Ukraine will lose the war against Russia. The country is in a war of wear and tear against the Russian attacker, which is slowly but surely dwindling its strength.

Not the admission you’d expect from a German source. The article concludes with the following:

So it’s going to be uncomfortable in the coming year. The facts are depressing – especially just before Christmas. But how does Thomas Mann write? “In the long run, a harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”