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Russia was going to take Kyiv in 3 days. Now it’s installing concrete shelters at home

Reinforced concrete shelters will be installed across the Kursk region, local Russian authorities announced Thursday as Ukraine keeps up its daring attack on Moscow’s territory.

“Today we began to install reinforced concrete shelters in Kursk. On my instructions, the Kursk city administration identified key points for placing concrete modular shelters in crowded places,” Aleksey Smirnov, Kursk’s acting governor, said in a statement.

Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion earlier this month caught the Russians on the hop, and Kyiv’s forces have expanded their offensive, capturing more towns and territory with little resistance.

FlyingSquid ,
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Not too long ago, a Tankie demanded I find a quote of Putin saying the three days thing. As if he had to say it in some sort of press conference for pretty much the entire military leadership of Russia to say similar shit.

SkaveRat ,

Putin technically never said it. Just a lot of his allies and media people did.

Not that it really matters in the end. Russia was quite sure to take the country in less than a week and failed misserably

FlyingSquid ,
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Exactly. he didn’t have to say it.

MataVatnik ,
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To be fair, I listened to a lot of military analysts that studied the first few days of the war and Russia was really fucking close to decapitating Kyiv. Ukraine just came in clutch in the crucial moments, Zelensky survived multiple assasination attempts, Ukranian forces prevented the taking of the Hostomel airport, and Ukranian forces were forward deployed (without having being given orders) prevented attacks into the city. Any one of those failed and Russia could have actually taken Kyiv in a couple weeks.

rammer ,
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The best story I read about the defence of Hostomel was that UAF was handing out weapons to civilians in order to defend the airport.

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

handing out weapons to civilians in order to defend the airport

Wow.

KevonLooney ,

They were not that close, they just drove in from Belarus and dropped some paratroopers with no support. That’s a good strategy for losing your best troops.

They also didn’t use a few days of bombing to soften up the targets. Ukraine was surprised but all of their equipment was intact. That’s like number one in any attack plan.

They basically underestimated the Ukrainians and thought they would just run away. Those paratroopers were very good but they are only scary to local police, not to a trained military. Without heavy support, they were sitting ducks at the airport.

suction ,

I’d be careful with these analysts, they’re mainly in the self-promoting business so they make up the most dramatic stories to sell themselves to the media.

ours ,

And it’s also a famously common mistake. WWI initially had a bunch of countries happily go to a quick and decisive little war.

vxx ,

Nah, there’s leaked emails of FSB feeding Putin the info that they could take Kyiv in 3 days.

ChocoboRocket ,

Didn’t they March in with victory day parade attire in their backpacks instead of a second round of ammunition, or rations?

Said or unsaid, even if the war was going exactly as planned, it’s a shit war that’s executed poorly and will destroy the Russian economy and likely end up losing everything they took, even Crimea.

Ferrous ,

Show me where the entire Russian military leadership was saying similar shit.

FlyingSquid ,
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And like clockwork, they show up from lemmy.ml.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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If all the joint chiefs and secretaries of [thing] said “we will be marching in Ottowa in 3 days” it really doesn’t matter if the president said it. Because even if he hasn’t said it in a press conference to the world, he most certainly agrees with the people who DO think it’s a slam dunk.

I’m sure anything you said or linked would have been met with “that’s western propaganda” like they’re not shaking hands with MAGAts screeching fake news at things they don’t like.

el_bhm ,

Btw. Shelters are to guard against their own artillery and bombing.

MataVatnik ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/46ce7caa-e250-4d2b-b1a1-e2e3dfec49c0.jpeg

samus12345 ,
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https://i.imgflip.com/9132s2.gif

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

You had control, right?

…RIGHT?

FordBeeblebrox ,

Good. Slava Ukraini

tired_n_bored ,

I’m a simple person. I see a post about Ukraine I say Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

“I’m a simple man and i like simple pleasures.”

SkyNTP ,

The concrete won’t even be cured by the time they need em.

Kyrgizion ,

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer dictatorship.

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ChronosTriggerWarning ,

How do you spell “Maginot Line” in Cyrillic?

TheMightyCanuck ,
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сука блять линия

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

Thankee kind stranger!

suction ,

🤨

PriorityMotif ,
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It’s a ploy to villanize Ukraine and make the Russian people agree with the war.

jaschen ,

I haven’t heard any children’s hospitals getting bombed in Russia. Mostly young cadets who haven’t even finished boot camp.

Ukraine needs bargaining chips. How about you return our useful men and women POW and in exchange we give you useless cadets that have been semi brainwashed.

Or pull out of Ukraine and we will give you back your regions we took.

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