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He is. He is no different to putin, just wanted to take his throne. He fully supported an invasion of Georgia in 2008 and an annexation of Crimea in 2014 and said time and again that freeing Crimea is out of the question to him. The worst thing the West can do is support Russia once again after collapse like it did in the 90s. When Yeltsin waged bloody wars in Moldova, Georgia and Ichkeriya, full of warcrimes, leveled Grozny - the West was still feeding russians. Because the problem is not putin, the problem is russians themselves. There will always be 'putin' under any name. Only full and complete disintegration of Russia will make the world a safe place. There's 1 putin but 140 mln russians and they do nothing, like they did every other war - figure out why. Not learning the lesson that no dictator can exist without full support of his people will make the tragedy repeat again and again.

Nagorny-Karabakh was actually a russian occupied territory, on behalf of Armenia, kinda like a "blood pact" between them and Armenia - which is why russian relations with Azerbaijan are so lukewarm.

No-fly zone for everyone is perfect for us, as russian ground forces in their current state would be completely screwed and would most likely get routed in days

Shooting a traitor during war isn't a war crime. Just like a bystander shooting russian soldiers driving straight into Kyiv that didn't even get to their weapons before getting shot. When russians enter a city - they don't behave like the said West. They go full warcrime berserk. They mass murder, rape, torture - it becomes a living hell for anyone who didn't or doesn't want to get out. So I can guarantee you the thought of "would this look bad to a warm, cozy, peaceful West" in the face of russians quite possibly gauging one's eyes, while raping and murdering his wife - wouldn't even be on thought schedule. For whatever reason.

That happens too, but to Ukrainians this is a war of survival. Russians didn't come to just enforce some geopolitical decisions, they came to "solve a Ukrainian question" - remember? The increasing amount of violence against civilian population only enrages people and makes the fuse very very short when it comes to anyone who is OK with russians cluster bombing hospitals and nurseries. And that's what they do without entering the city. Try imagining the massacre e.g. Kharkiv or Mariupol would face if any one of those surrenders. Better to shoot one traitor than see russians murder thousands in that very town unopposed.

Today people shot dead a pro-russian mayor that had offered to surrender his town to russians when they were 15 km away. Our government said nobody will be prosecuted for such actions and congratulated the deed. Rules have changed after feb24. Ukrainians aren't forgiving people anymore after six days of increasing war crimes and russians murdering over 2000 civilians.

Budapest memorandum had zero security guarantees for Ukraine and zero requirements for some country to defend it. Read the text. It was literally "we give away our nuclear arsenal and you all pinkie-promise you don't invade us". And in case of invasion countries that signed it call on UN security council and... That's it. Really, that's it.

I guess you haven't been following the events of the past 8 years, let alone a few hundreds of years. Russians couldn't care less about Donbass or Crimea or "neutrality". They are a fascist empire from 20th century and, just like any empire, to merely exist they need to permanently expand. If they won't expand - they would disintegrate. It took a single war lost in Afghanistan for a vastly more powerful russian empire to crumble - so there's chance there will never be any Russia anymore ever.

Yugoslavia was an artificial country, with different cultures and ethnicities, held together by force and terror - literally like Russia always was. Also russian soldiers were doing genocide together with serbs in there so a bad bad bad example, don't do it again.

Low morale. You were told you are a part of a Chosen One ethnicity that can't be defeated and Ukrainians are nothing but lowly farmers - but you just saw half of the previous guys returning in body bags / not returning at all (or smell that mobile crematorium working day and night) - and then you are being send in there, see the tank crew nearby getting grilled on that very grill they installed by the NLAW, while your old soviet BMP runs out of fuel due to Bayraktars from another era ****ing up your fuel convoy - while your analog radio can't reach command and your food supply is 7 years past expiration date - so you only think "screw you guys, I'm going home".

Historical revisionism of what? There was no Rossiya (how they themselves spell and write it, not 'russia') until 1721 but there is literally 'Rus' in Grand Duchy of Lithuania and 'Rus' at the time of Muscovy - and the vast majority of Rus lands were a part of Grand Duchy. And Rus dynasties were highly represented and electing the the Duke/King of GD for centuries to come. The first real Rus territory that came under Muscovy control was Novgorod in 1578 after a really really bloody war that ended up in a genocide of Novgorod population. Muscovy itself, being the territory of Golden Horde, was muslim. Rus was christian. Rossiya itself has been doing historical revisionism since forever, their whole history is a lie - it's literally why they invented "tataro-mongolian yoke" in 18th century, while disregarding Grand Duchy fighting against muscovites and Golden Horde as a whole to begin with and kept on twisting and turning events since then. Or maybe you can explain to me why XIII-XVII centuries is a one giant hole in russian official history? It's almost literally "there was Rus, then evil mongols captured all then suddenly Russia out of the blue" Even talking languages - how come ukrainians, belarusians, poles and czechs mostly understand each other without vocabulary - but russians understand nobody? If we were the same and closely connected - wouldn't it make sense for languages to be similar? But russians instead spent 300 years trying to eradicate slavic languages of Ukraine and Belarus.

No. Our troops tested those against javelins way back in 2020 and they have zero effect

Stop calling us cousins please. Ukrainians are completely unrelated to russians. We share no history nor culture with them. Just because they occupied our territories on and off for 300 years before - makes us connected to then literally in the same way as Czechs being connected to Germans.

CMBS also has Ukrainians as the weakest ground force. Time to rebalance the game eh

They lob HE into urban areas because they want to punish Kharkiv for resisting and terrorize the population. With actions like this russians very much admit their ground forces are trash when their target actually shoots back

Russians specifically target dense civilian areas - it's how they fight wars. Unless every civilian is their enemy, which they certainly make sure to make very real. Russian modus operandi is to terrorize people so they stop supporting the defenders. Grozny and Aleppo are prime examples of how russians "fight"

Russians have prepared an article for Feb 26th in the largest state news outlet RIA Novosti and published it by mistake - where they went full nazi mode about how the war is over in just 2 days with the victorious russian army completely occupying whole Ukraine, proceeding to "solve Ukrainian question" (literally) and instating a new world order and a new 500 years old reich (by any other name). In 2014-2015 they clearly didn't yet have as much confidence and they didn't have an approach to Kyiv from Belarus (thus far it's the only way they've managed to reach it with... Only to lose most or all their elite units in the process - VDV, spetsnaz and kadyrovites getting badly obliterated). Other ways were too fortified. As for their plan B - there's no plan B. Their advances in the south are notable, but they entered Kherson today only by completely cancelling advances towards Mariupol and Mykolaiv - meaning they zerg rush the city and they don't have that shock force anymore to multitask in the south. What they were doing for the past 2 days however is non-stop warcrimes - which seems to be the only thing they can do right now - terrorizing civilian population. Which is still "better" than the ethnical cleansing russians have planned towards Ukrainians once again.

What are those "ethnic russians" even are? Certainly not slavs, as evidenced by how utterly alien both the culture and language of Russia is to Slavic nations. Case in point - look at the monument of Volodymyr Velyky in Russia - he's wearing a mongolian fur hat that was never the part of any Slavic culture and was never worn by Volodymyr himself. Even going through official russian history - it's a complete mess of lies and holes, especially XIII-XVII centuries seem to be just quickly breezed past. So I don't really think "ethnical russians" were ever a thing to him.

Russia is incapable of comprehending concepts like trade wars and economic pressure. That's a 21st century thing. Russian mentality is permanently stuck in mid-20th century where might decides everything. Also Russia never ever considered our military threatening, again - remember they fully expected full occupation in 2 days and were absolutely, fanatically convinced in their armed forces being the strongest in the world. Such delusions are a common thing among backwards nations.

Yeah it's all fine. I'm obviously being agitated. That '72' thing is actually in Brovary, not even Kyiv.

The logic of "russians warned you about bombing an SBU building on one side of the city so you should avoid a completely unrelated district" is quite flawed. Hence "you people" - as in the ones who would try to point out that victims shouldn't have done something based on very vague threats. Plus that's not how russians work. They would never do what they say they'll do. Their goal after blitzkrieg failure is their long-time classic - terrorism through maximizing civilian casualties. Just ask Grozny and Aleppo.

Their initial plan was full occupation of Ukraine in 2 days with forces prepared for a parade in Kyiv, remember? They even tried to destroy the TV tower because they genuinely believe that TV propaganda is what keeps Ukrainians resisting because they are projecting their own **** on us - being absolutely delusional about us being same as russians.

Didn't quarter of Americans think that 9/11 was an inside job? Seems to be it's a stable percentage of that kind of people.

Remind me when exactly did russians warn about attacking a TV tower? You people have no shame

That's how you insta-detect russians here too. They say "western Ukraine" and "eastern Ukraine", as if separate countries - they think in these extremely weird regional/directional ways.