They weren't even killing the ringleaders. Just look how they pacified Kharkiv city (and with it the entire "Kharkov Peoples Republic") overnight with no loss of life.
I meant separatist ringleaders. Night 1 - they take over Kharkiv admin building and declare a People's Republic. Night 2 - SBU commandos raid the building, arrest some 70 (later exchanged), no one killed (some have died earlier in the clashes between protesters and counter-protesters and the attacks on police stations), the largest of the 3 people's republics is over.
propaganda everywhere of course, but in 2014 they were going in there to kill the rebels.
this time around Russia does not want to kill the native populace, Putin is doing this to snag the working population as much as the land.
with a mountaint of salt of course, the disinfo is a part of this conflict almost more than then the combat itself
They weren't even killing the ringleaders. Just look how they pacified Kharkiv city (and with it the entire "Kharkov Peoples Republic") overnight with no loss of life.
the whole thing around Cymi and Kharkov was weird. They had the city surrounded by morning yesterday Ukraine time, and then just drove around.
looks like they are avoiding getting caught in population centres and threatening to let the chechens of the leash to pacify those
I meant separatist ringleaders. Night 1 - they take over Kharkiv admin building and declare a People's Republic. Night 2 - SBU commandos raid the building, arrest some 70 (later exchanged), no one killed (some have died earlier in the clashes between protesters and counter-protesters and the attacks on police stations), the largest of the 3 people's republics is over.
This is recent? What's your source? Not doubting just would like to read for myself, haven't heard these kind of details at all.
Everything I come across is just mainstream propoganda with fog of war