There’s a bunch of other threads around (check out the Death to NATO community for a few) that are full of a lot of people (myself included) handwringing about this to quite a big degree. Russia has withdrawn their “military” from Kharkov oblast almost entirely (they apparently were mostly composed of militarized police units like Rosgvardia that would never stand up in a real fight) some civilians were evacuated, and thank the gods for that, but not all, and there are already stories of the Ukrainians performing what they call ‘filtration’ on the locals who were left behind (read, genocide, rapes, murders, looting, etc.)

NATO has taken the opportunity to call once again for regime change in Russia, saying that just getting Ukraine back all the Russian speaking areas to genocide in isn’t enough, but Russia must be ‘de-imperialized’ (the fucking nerve of NATO to say something like that).

Today, Russia did hit Ukrainian power infrastructure, which has cause huge blackouts and even ancillary fires in power plants for technical reasons I don’t understand. Electricity, water and even internet went out in numerous parts of the country.

But the Ukronazis aren’t done yet and are apparently preparing another offensive near Ugledar, hoping to push to Mariupol, apparently their reserves were not fully exhausted by the Kharkov offensive. Hopefully the Russians can put some real defences in place for this one and we won’t have a repeat of the last few days. If for nothing else than for the sake of the Civilians in places like Mariupol.