Reddit is losing its mind over Ukraine victories. Is russia losing? Whats next for this war?
I saw a video of ukrainian troops literally carrying around a border post to take photoshoots, so as far as I’m concerned all of the “pushed them to the border” crap is fake
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Literally doesn’t matter as far as I can tell and as far as I’m aware there haven’t really been any major battles in that area, likely small numbers of troops on either side. If you look at a map and trace the frontline from north of Kharkiv all the way down to south of Izyum it pretty much just follows the rivers there (also between Izyum and Severodonetsk, but that’s beside the point) apart from the small salient straight north of Kharkiv. Comfy position to secure your flanks, avoid shelling from inside the city and focus on the actual battles down south. They weren’t going to assault the city anyway, so why sit there.
That’s my interpretation at least.
Russia can’t really lose because this was never a campaign of conquest. From my understanding, the objective was to secure Donbass and wipe out the Nazi units. Any withdrawal is just being spun as a retreat.
It was all thanks to the heroism of the Kharkiv kid finder
I can’t get over it, did they know what they were doing?
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Did the Kharkov Kid Finder know what he was doing? Yes, he is always prowling the streets looking for lost young boys
“FORMER primary school teacher” I wonder why
<span style=“font-size:6px”>I can’t tell if you know that the tweet is fake</span>
okay that makes sense, but you can’t tell these days, lol
I believe the Kharkov Kid Finder is related to V*ush
oh thats it, yep see it now. I my defense they all look the same. Why is that?
Russia never held the city of Kharkiv so the Nazis can hardly retake it. I’ve also seen a funny video of the Ukrops carrying a border post around and then engaging in photo shoots with it for Propaganda purposes. They haven’t reached the border
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It’s genuinely eerie. This is what a war in the digital age looks like I guess: Biased reporting, propaganda taken as fact, barely any legitimate video of fighting being seen. I’m still not entirely sure if there even is a war considering how many world leaders are popping in to check on Zelensky on a weekly basis.
UAF advanced into territory abandoned by RuAF. The units up there were most likely shifted to the Donbass front or taken off the line for rest and refit. This leaves a relatively small force to hold the line and it has contracted in the face of UAF advances to where it is now:
However, this has only resulted in the UAF taking territory north towards the border and stopping for the most part on the Siverskiy Donets river. In other words, the most that was accomplished was definitively securing most of Kharkiv from RuAF artillery fire. In exchange, now the UAF must defend territory that does not offer them the benefit of hiding in cities (cover and human shields).
Here’s a railroad map of Ukraine as to why taking territory the RuAF did not fight for was useless:
See that blue line east of Kharkiv and far away from UAF front lines? That’s a railroad line that operates free of UAF fires. There is that green line from Belgorod but most likely it’s something that’s nice to have from the RuAF perspective but not necessary compared to the thick blue line heading down towards Kupyansk from Valuyki. It does show the weakness of the RuAF in that it has less mass in general compared to the UAF and that choosing to preserve military force will by necessity mean abandoning people now.
Speaking of railroads, there’s that mass of railroad lines in Donbass. It’s something that’s just as, if nor more, valuable as the UAF forces holed up there along with the people and land of the LDPR. This infrastructure can easily fuel the RuAF advance across the rest of Ukraine east of the Dneiper if/when it is captured.
