Its a YEAR later in Putin's invasion and he has LESS Ukrainian captured territory than he had at the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Posted on 02/24/2023 7:50:48 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked the somber anniversary of the Russian invasion by vowing to bring his country to victory as battles raged on in the east with no end in sight to the conflict.
At a solemn ceremony on St. Sophia Square in Kyiv, a visibly emotional Zelensky handed out medals to soldiers and families of those killed and held back tears when a military band played the national anthem under Ukraine’s yellow-and-blue national flag fluttering in the wind.
“We have become one family. There are no more strangers among us. Ukrainians today are all fellows. Ukrainians have sheltered Ukrainians, opened their homes and hearts to those who were forced to flee the war,” Zelensky said in a video address titled “the year of invincibility”.
The 45-year-old first-term president sat at a desk and recalled how he addressed Ukrainians a year ago in a brief statement, as Russian troops poured into the neighboring country, hoping to bring it to heel in three days’ time.
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Its a YEAR later in Putin's invasion and he has LESS Ukrainian captured territory than he had at the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Did Ukraine's people exist in the 1980s when they were part of the Soviet Union? Or did they not exist then?
Speaking of Mariupol, didn't you say the war would be over for Ukraine when the Russians took it?
Putin wanted Crimea and the Donbas, then a land bridge to Crimea after the bridge connecting it to Russia was sabotaged. After Biden declared he wanted regime change and had no interest in negotiations, it’s likely the Russians surmised that the US is going for all the marbles so he needs to acquire further Ukrainian territory as a buffer. Russia hasn’t the manpower to occupy and control anything more than that even if they wanted to. Thinking they are trying to resurrect the old Soviet Bloc is ridiculous neocon propaganda.
You’re ridiculous.
we will defeat everyone’
Sure. Lets see you take on Afghanistan, tough guy.
Russians are now saying they will de-Ukrainize the people.
Russian state website RIA Novosti published an article entitled “What Russia Should Do About Ukraine»
The narrative of “denazification” has been replaced by “de-Ukrainization”: the author of the article openly declares the entire Ukrainian people wrong, promoting the need to destroy Ukrainians and the Ukrainian language and culture through mass repression.
Well, let's take a look.
“We withstand all threats, shelling, cluster bombs, cruise missiles, kamikaze drones, blackouts and cold. We are stronger than that,” he said. “We were not defeated. And we will do everything to gain victory this year!”
Hmm 99.99% of sane people in the world wouldn't notice any sign of Adolf here. By the way, he was giving that speech in pubic in the city center. The bunker is where the rus nazi pigs are squatting, occasionally soiling themselves.
“We will defeat everyone.”
No need to worry about us, the USA will defeat itself.
Including America
Biden is taking care of that part.
When in reality the rus nazi pigs have been unsuccessfully trying to take a single town since half a year.
Wow... are you out of step here.
“Russia hasn’t the manpower to occupy and control anything more than that even if they wanted to.”
You are spot on, it is unquestionably clear that Russia cannot even hold a portion of Ukraine, a nation made up of people, according to Putin who are yearning to be part of Russia.
“Steiner will come.”
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