https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/33920
“As of today, 28 settlements are under enemy control, the depth of penetration into the territory of the Kursk region is 12 kilometers, and the front’s width is 40 kilometers” - Kursk region acting governor told Putin. Putin interrupted him and said not to mention numbers.
I think they mean that 28 previouslty occupied settlements in Kursk have been de-Nazified and reincorporated into the Kyivan Rus by their rightful owners.
Nothing good will come of this.
At best this is a risky incursion which the Russian people will forget about in the coming weeks, that’s if the Russian propaganda machine hasn’t already spun it in their favour.
We seem to forget that making Putin look bad is a fool’s errand when we’re talking about a country where the state controls the media and where dissenters are either locked away in a remote gulag, or punted off a third-storey window in a way to vaguely look like suicide.
And at worst… this could lead to an escalation…
The closest we’ve had to a decisive blow against Russia was Prigozhin’s revolt.
You’re assuming that the goal is to shock Russians. Other possible goals are:
- Force Russia into a “dilemma” where it has to stop the offensive in Donetsk to deal with the attack
- Strike targets deeper in Russia
- Cause economic strain for Russia by capturing/disabling key infrastructure like the Kursk powerplant
- Flank Russian forces in Luhansk
- Capture and hold Russian land to use as a bargaining chip
- Humiliate Putin
Which of these goals are the reasons for this incursion are unknown outside of Ukraine’s command structure.
I heard they had elections already and they voted to join Ukarine.
Lol, this is a parody of the rushed elections in Ukraine.
Da comrade. Western society is weak. Can only get 100% of the vote. In glorious mother Russia, we vote extra hard.
This will lead to nothing good. Russia will now play the defense card and this war will continue even further and deadlier.
Lmao are you even paying attention? The whole point is to keep Russia on the offensive. They took Russian land and dug in.
Now Russia has to get them off their land or look like even more of a fucking idiot
Lmao are you even paying attention?
I took a peek and as rheinmetall profits are ramping up smoke is coming out from Zaporizhzhia.
Now Russia has to get them off their land or look like even more of a fucking idiot
This isn’t a videogame, many people will die an horrible way and the war will just get fueled.
Well damn, maybe Russia should stop invading a sovereign nation and commiting genocide. That would stop the war instantly, I’m sure going back to the 2012 borders would suit Ukraine just fine.
Smoke from Запорізька АЕС (Запорожская АЭС) (not запорижжия or whatever) is questionable for the black smoke we’d seen is pretty weird for that kind of facility.
What can end this war in your opinion? As it seems, if Ukraine give up, after a period of violence and filtration against locals, it won’t stop Russia from planning another SMO on Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldavia or other countries state officials officially threatened. If Russia give up in this war and stop this bullshit there wouldn’t be any conflict and it’s own standards of living would slowly return to pre-Crimean levels.
added Ukrainian naming as the first one because for some reason I thought it’s in contested russian territories, because, well, why our news scream about it that much?
The people’s republic of Kursk?
