UKRAINE WAR TRUTH 359: The war is one year old. Now what? Victory 5: One year ago, on 24 February 2022, Russian tanks, jets, missiles and infantry, crossed the borders of Ukraine, trying to quickly engineer regime change in Kyiv, so a new government could start to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, protect the Russian speaking minority in Donbas, and steer the country away from the EU back into the embrace of Mother Russia. To the surprise of Vladimir Putin, this didn't work. The Ukrainians, between 1922 and 1991 united with the Russians and other nationalities under the umbrella of the Soviet Union, rejected the Russian plans and vigorously defended their independence. Russia's blitzkrieg on Kyiv failed miserably. Putin's storm troopers succeeded in advancing somewhat in the East and South of the country, occupying Mariupol, Kharkiv and Kherson, before being pushed back by an Ukrainian counteroffensive. For some time there has been a stalemate, despite Putin throwing more conscripts into the meat grinder and Zelenskiy dragging more sophisticated western-made weaponry into the fight.
24 February: The war is one year old. Now what?
24 February: The war is one year old. Now…
24 February: The war is one year old. Now what?
UKRAINE WAR TRUTH 359: The war is one year old. Now what? Victory 5: One year ago, on 24 February 2022, Russian tanks, jets, missiles and infantry, crossed the borders of Ukraine, trying to quickly engineer regime change in Kyiv, so a new government could start to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, protect the Russian speaking minority in Donbas, and steer the country away from the EU back into the embrace of Mother Russia. To the surprise of Vladimir Putin, this didn't work. The Ukrainians, between 1922 and 1991 united with the Russians and other nationalities under the umbrella of the Soviet Union, rejected the Russian plans and vigorously defended their independence. Russia's blitzkrieg on Kyiv failed miserably. Putin's storm troopers succeeded in advancing somewhat in the East and South of the country, occupying Mariupol, Kharkiv and Kherson, before being pushed back by an Ukrainian counteroffensive. For some time there has been a stalemate, despite Putin throwing more conscripts into the meat grinder and Zelenskiy dragging more sophisticated western-made weaponry into the fight.