• Shrike502
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    8 months ago

    That is not a lot, innit? Why is it newsworthy?

    • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      It’s part of the bigger trend of that front collapsing and indicates that they haven’t been able to stop the Russian offensive at their shoddy defensive lines beyond Avdiivka. If the Ukrainian strategy is an elastic defense it’s seemingly as effective as the last time Nazis tried it.

    • cfgaussian
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      8 months ago

      It seems the western media consider it newsworthy, and that in itself is interesting.

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        8 months ago

        Does it really? The 24 hour news cycle has really destroyed the value of the news being reported oftentimes. Anything to fill the airways.

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          It means they’ve stopped trying to hide Ukrainian losses. This news is fair game now. It’s Joever.