How long did the Russians say this war would last again? A week?
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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72 hours is the usually quoted figure. To be fair, this was also the western estimate for how long until Kyiv fell before we knew quite how big Zelensky's balls were and quite how shit the Russian military was.
Credit to the UAF too, they did a tremendous job with very limited resources in the early days.
And credit the mud!!!
Don't forget the tractors
And fifteen billion mile long unsupported columns of armored vehicles which ran out of gas
Using Zelenskys massive balls of steel as a tank barrier was kind of ingenious
Remember how all of the Ukraine's military was paid off anyways, so Russia could just march right in unopposed! 😅
They will be welcomed as liberators!
Anyone who thought this war would be over in a matter of weeks or even months was living in fantasy land. It's going to be a long haul conflict, neither side is going to give up. Eastern Ukraine has been a conflict zone since 2014 and it will probably remain that way for many more years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
KYIV, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Ukraine struck Russian air defence systems near the town of Yevpatoriya in the west of occupied Crimea in a long-range overnight attack on Thursday, the Ukrainian military said.
A video circulated on social media showed powerful explosions and a plume of smoke rising in the night sky illuminated by a blaze.
A Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters the attack destroyed a "Triumf" air defence system in a joint operation of the Security Service of Ukraine and navy.
First, the source said, drones blinded the air defence system by attacking its radar and antenna, before two Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles were fired at the system's launchers.
Ukraine has modified the Neptune anti-ship missile to attack ground targets, military analysts say.
The attack comes a day after Ukraine launched missiles at the Crimean port of Sevastopol, home to the Russian navy's Black Sea Fleet, in an attack that signalled Ukraine's growing missile capabilities.
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