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The unprecedented assault entered its fourth day Friday with Moscow rushing reinforcements and bombing its own territory to try to contain the Ukrainian advance.

A convoy of burnt-out military trucks, some bearing the "Z" symbol of the Kremlin’s war and appearing to contain bodies, sits along the side of a highway.

The video, circulating on social media Friday and geolocated by NBC News, doesn’t show a beleaguered section of the front lines in eastern Ukraine. It is a village in Kursk, across the border in southern Russia.

For days now Vladimir Putin’s forces have struggled to put down an incursion into Russian territory by Ukrainian troops, after a surprise attack that threatened to upend the war’s status quo and open a new front in a daring challenge to the Kremlin.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 126 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It sucks to have your country invaded, doesn't it?

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

It's not an invasion!

It's a special military operation....

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They should concede Kursk oblast in the name of peace

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I hear they had a vote and 140% of the people wanted to join Ukraine 😉

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

TBH I think this is why Ukraine has dont this. It makes all the "freeze the conflict in its current state" calls mean that Russia would have to give up territory too, which would infuriate the ultra-nationalists in Russia and possibly destabalise Putin's rule.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That's called "karma"

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

They should surrender. Putin is sending all those to die defending their territory for selfish reasons. \s

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

So far they are invading Putin's senile ass

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you can’t take it, don’t dish it.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

If you can't take the heat, get out of Ukraine.

So my nephew was talking mad shit the other day about gymnastics and how it's "not a sport" and it's "for weak girls".

I asked him "If it's so easy, why don't you go do a couple flips and prove how easy it is?"

His sister answered saying "Last time he tried that he broke his foot!" and started laughing.

My nephew immediately glared at us and started crying.

Russia acts like my 10 year old nephew.

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Godspeed Ukraine.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Already happened once this war, how many times can we get a march on Moscow this decade?

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

As many times as it takes for them to get the message

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

In ~~Soviet~~ Russia, invaded country invades you!

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, that doesn't sound like something the Kremlin will take lightly.

Too bad they sacrificed an insane number of troops just to get their shit pushed back in.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is how you run a 3 day SMO.

I think they should have done a practice run and taken Belarus.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That would have been a liberation. And a real one, not just a propagandized liberation. If they did, the Russian forces there might find themselves contending with both Ukrainian forces and the Belarusian army that refused to join the Ukrainian invasion.

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Well well well, how the turn tables...

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dont start nothing if you dont want to finish it

[–] And009@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

I can finish nothing

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Many people are saying how many Nazis are in Russia.

See how easy it was to justify that Putikins?