Ukraine! (Title too short or invalid)

Russian advances (and retreats)
since February 24

Today (18 June) the lines stand in much the same place -- small Russian gains have taken place but they would be imperceptible on this map scale.

Russia is losing this conflict and has been since the end of the first week. It's stated goals when entering Ukraine were two-fold:

1) Denazification of Ukraine, a country with a democratically elected Jewish president.

2) Demilitarization of Ukraine, a country that had one of the smallest and oldest armies in Europe (that was then; today Ukraine has one of the best equipped armies in Europe and is growing stronger every day).

Those were the stated goals, but Russia's authoritarian leader has written much in recent years about Ukraine. He claims all of Ukraine for Russia and denies Ukraine's right to exist. He seeks to rebuild the Russian empire to the former Soviet borders. And he likens himself to Peter the Great, a cruel and tyrannical dictator.

Russia is losing this conflict and for all of Europe it needs to lose this conflict. As goes Ukraine, so will go Eastern Europe.

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Yulianna · 26-30, F

🇺🇦❤🇺🇸 let us pray that you are right... those of us who are fighting for this outcome, fighting Europe's war, and the war of western liberal democracy, against statist tyranny, are ready to die in the cause. many have already made the ultimate sacrifice. we have the will to fight and to win. we need the means, the weapons that will enable us to turn the tide.

don't be fooled by optimistic reporting, maps that are too vague to show the destruction. day by day, metre by metre, body by body, we are losing this war. and we are losing the opportunity to turn it around.

Ukraine's war is existential, there is no peace but victory.

SW-User

@Yulianna lol there's no real democracy to fight for in the west

Yulianna · 26-30, F

@SW-User ok...

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@Yulianna Yulia, my love, you see first-hand the cost your country and your people are paying in this conflict. And from your perspective up close, witnessing that cost, this must seem unwinnable, untenable, unjustifiable.

But pulling back the lens a bit, seeing it from my admittedly safe distance, I see also the cost being paid by the aggressor. Please take some small solace in knowing that they are paying an unsustainable cost right now. You are extracting a price that they cannot continue paying.

You are losing some battles, but you are not losing the war.

And you will not run out of ammunition.

tindrummer · M

@SW-User 🙄