These were former victims of Holodomor while being a part of Poland

All Ukrainians are really Russians, right?

Soviets

Weird i thought they were nazis already.

Then it was love

In recent days, Russia was able to seize additional front towns. Most notably, Russian troops recently were able to get a foothold in Ocheretyne, west of Avdiivka. This happened unexpectedly, as apparently Ukrainians tried sloppily to rotate troops, leading to an opening, with Russia seizing the trenches & key parts of the town. Russian accounts on Twitter celebrating today as they were able to seize the center of the town, pushing Ukrainians to northern outskirts. It's indicative of how stretched the front has become for Ukraine. Both lack of weapons and general men attrition is becoming evident.

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1782448606164762792

Pro-Ukrainian accounts up in arms about it.



https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1782408007583711616

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Apr 22 2024 10:56am

Hardly a sweeping offensive.

More like a grinding and costly advance.

There really wasn't that much grinding or costliness to this town being taken, and that's kind of what the alarm about it is. Russians basically in a day or two just showed up and overran poorly manned 1st line front line defenses. I'm sure in other areas it's very costly but the real game changers in the last few months have been the FAB's retrofitted with glide kits that are absolutely wrecking Ukrainian lines. Also the fact that they were out of AA and artillery and other hardware slowed from the west is playing a significant role.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Apr 22 2024 11:02am

Merely a flesh wound