"We joked that it wasn't April 1st," a Ukrainian soldier identified only by his first name, Serhiy, told The Economist.
  • Ukrainian’s shock offensive on Russia’s Kursk region came as a surprise even to Ukraine’s soldiers.
  • “We joked that it wasn’t April 1st,” a Ukrainian soldier told The Economist.
  • The country’s troops did suspect that an invasion was imminent after they were issued new equipment.
  • indexEnglish
    232·
    6 个月前

    Did you read my comment? what is it not clear?

      • indexEnglish
        234·
        6 个月前

        First open and read the article, there they talk about receiving “orders to invade russia”

        Doesn’t this make you rise an eyebrow?

          • indexEnglish
            230·
            6 个月前

            I guess i do. Do you not realize that receiving orders to invade another country is not a good thing?

            • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
              241·
              6 个月前

              So you are against the Russian military invading Ukraine in 2014? And again in 2022? And Syria in 2015? And Georgia in 2008?

              Russia can end the fighting just by leaving Ukrainian territory. You are “against war”, so why not advocate for that?

              Edit: just ignore this guy. His posts are mostly downvoted.

              • indexEnglish
                218·
                6 个月前

                Russia can end the fighting just by leaving Ukrainian territory. You are “against war”, so why not advocate for that?

                You are replying under a comment in which i said that receiving orders to invade another country is not a good thing. I’m advocating against other countries invasions, what exactly are you advocating for?

                • sudo@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  171·
                  6 个月前

                  what are you advocating for?

                  Probably a conversation, composed of logic, not tongues, riddles, idiocy and lunacy.

                  If you’re here saying Ukraine is bad because it’s forcing people to go invade another country, and you’re going to make no effort to acknowledge the situations that have put them in a position to even need to have considered doing that, you’re an idiot.

                  • indexEnglish
                    216·
                    6 个月前

                    Probably a conversation, composed of logic, not tongues, riddles, idiocy and lunacy.

                    you’re an idiot.

                    At last give it a try.

                    If you’re here saying Ukraine is bad because it’s forcing people to go invade another country

                    This is never a good thing, a government should never have the authority to force someone to go invade another country. Russia is doing exactly that, it’s forcing people to go invade another country.

                    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-preparedness-the-road-to-universal-slaughter

                • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  21·
                  6 个月前

                  You are replying under a comment in which i said that receiving orders to invade another country is not a good thing.

                  Bending over backwards to avoid explicitly saying Russia did something bad lol

            • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              6 个月前

              “Not a good thing?”

              So when we invaded Germany in WW2, that was a bad thing. We shouldn’t have done that? Jesus you are thick lol.

              Let’s just ignore context and nuance, just make sweeping statements like a 13 year old who thinks they’ve figured out the world.

        • wildcardology@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          6 个月前

          Turnabout is fair play. Russia has no immediate intensions to stop the war, so Ukrainians took the fight to them.