• rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    12 days ago

    He is very much doing this on purpose to distract russian citizens and his allies from the sorry state his country is in.

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      12 days ago

      I mean, at one point they very nearly occupied Kyiv. Thank fucking god they didn’t, but I think this is a little more than a distraction.

      • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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        12 days ago

        There was fighting near Kyiv, yes, but never in the city itself. They couldn’t do it even with the element of suprise and after that it was just downhill