• Ducks@ducks.dev
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    1 year ago

    Very good article. And very powerful statements from the colonel. I hope that our governments can get them the weapons they need which are wasting away in storage.

    Slava Ukraini

  • canadaduane@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    OMG:

    He disclosed that in December Ukrainian authorities had been on the brink of ordering the complete evacuation of Kyiv due to the intensity of Russian airstrikes. “Not many people know this, but Kyiv was on the verge of evacuation,” he said. “There was one battle that, in my opinion, determined the fate of Kyiv and the Russian campaign to destroy our energy sector, when 49 cruise missiles were launched at Kyiv.”

    In a desperate 15 minutes on December 16, Ukraine fired dozens of missiles from its Soviet-era S-300, American Nasams and German Iris-T systems to save the city from total blackout in freezing temperatures.

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    The other I watched a video about the brand new Russian tank flagship. So badly made it was hilarious.

    Putin is making a cardboard army to lure his people into the Great Russia trope. Unfortunately they take the lie.