Putin invades Ukraine

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8 minutes ago, Dennis said:

Donetsk city is so close to the frontline, imagine if Ukraine liberates it at some point in the future. It'd be a huge blow to Russia since it's probably the most important city in the Donbas region.

Yes, it is the biggest in Donbas! However, all that purple border (unchanged since 24th February, basically in place despite all the fighting in the last 5 months) is there because is super, super fortified. Retaking Donbas would also be hard because this is the place where the pro-Russian Ukrainians moved after the start of the war, making an already pretty pro-Russian even more pro-Russian. The biggest victory Ukraine can get now is to take Kherson, but so far it isn't having much succes in that direction because the Russians also fortified their positions there.

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Update 01-02 August

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Update 02-03 August

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Update 3-4 July - August made gains in the east, everywhere else the situation is in a stalemate.

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Update 4-5 August. Pro-Russians have been saying the front is collapsing for month straight but what they actually mean is Russians are taking a couple of villages and towns.

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During the entire month of July, the Russians occupied about 0.02% of Ukraine's territory.

 

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1 hour ago, FfFfFfFF said:

During the entire month of July, the Russians occupied about 0.02% of Ukraine's territory.

 

Yet these people are supposed to be the "second strongest military in the world" hmmmm...

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Update 6-7 August.

 

I am starting to think Ukraine never intended to counter-attack in Kherson (information is a super valuable tool in warfare). Perhaps they wanted to distract the Russians from the east, however, now the Russian build up in Kherson is so big that many are saying Russia will be the one go to on the offensive toward Mykolaiv. Some pro-Russians started to say Ukraine might try to open a new front in Russia proper, but the idea of Ukraine moving into the territory of the nukes-armed Russia is still not likely by any stretch of the imagination.

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On 8/6/2022 at 2:19 AM, theidlerwheel said:

Yet these people are supposed to be the "second strongest military in the world" hmmmm...

Pro-Russians love to point out how Russia is not only fighting Ukraine, but a country backed by the whole of NATO (except Turkey ).

Coping or legit claim to some extent, I'll let you decide..

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On 8/5/2022 at 4:19 PM, theidlerwheel said:

Yet these people are supposed to be the "second strongest military in the world" hmmmm...

I mean if you look at the invasions America did to other countries and terrorist group territories, America couldnt take everything easily, and in some cases couldnt even win against weak terrorist groups. World powers have power, but its never that easy unless you use nukes and kille everyone. Saying Russia is weak is just not realistic, and it doesnt even help America to say something like that. Most probably Russia wants to invade but they are still scared of America and western world powers, they are just testing the waters now, its still a cold war.