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Anywhere on Lemmy to follow Ukraine conflict that is often updated? Trying to free myself of Reddit.
I use Denys Davydov's YouTube channel for updates....[channel link] he tries to keep a positively hopeful tone for Ukraine but is a realist when Ukraine does well or poorly.
The main Ukraine community: [email protected]
The main community for memes, jokes and stupid, silly takes coming out of the special military operation: [email protected]
If tiny little Ukraine can de-stabilize Russia, Russia was not that stable to begin with
Storm Shadow to the Ministry of Defense, please.
That would make a statement
You reap what you sow, motherfuckers.
Frankly, just getting to fight in an area of the front where you can set all the terms must be very liberating. Sure, they could have deployed those troops to the east, where they'd slowly get ground down trying to stop the Russians from inching forward. But being able to go back to some maneuver warfare, take significant numbers of prisoners and make Putin look bad is definitely nice.
This action will probably reduce pressure on the defensive lines in Ukraine, too, as Putin has to redeploy troops the defend Kursk and any supply lines that run through it.
Although Ukraine is being very quiet about all of this, if you listen to the interviews and read between the lines it basically sounds like they were saying the original point of the incursion was to cutoff supply lines. It also seemed that the mission has evolved after the original goal was accomplished...