And a growing amount are joining to defend Ukraine as well. Turns out, bombing the people you claim to be "liberating" is a poor way to get them on your side. Especially since many of them actually changed sides after Russia took Crimea.
Yep. I remember that that was one of the cities they cited as being able to just waltz in and take it over while being welcomed as liberators. Then the second they stepped foot in there, they heard boss music start playing an never recovered.
Hell, even more than that, look at Mariupol. Its right on the border, and half the damn city was ethnic Russians (not Russian speakers, ETHNIC RUSSIANS). According to the Ruskies and their online simps, they should have been giving them bouquets of flowers like it was the damn Americans rolling into Holland. Instead, it resisted full scale siege warfare for months and only surrendered because they had literally nothing left to fight with. And the Russians had to leave behind forces to garrison the place they thought they would control easily.
They didn't even send soldiers first, they sent a column of Russian interior ministry troops in police trucks like if to deal with a riot in their own city: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z1vQTPQohMA
And a growing amount are joining to defend Ukraine as well. Turns out, bombing the people you claim to be "liberating" is a poor way to get them on your side. Especially since many of them actually changed sides after Russia took Crimea.
Russia totally lost Kharkiv. It used to just apathetic after early 2014 (https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2015-06-09/kharkiv-oblast-a-fragile-stability) but now the population is very anti-Russian (as in anti-Russia). Which is due to https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/ukraine-hundreds-killed-in-relentless-russian-shelling-of-kharkiv-new-investigation/
Now, for example, https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/24/everything-russian-must-go-ukraines-kharkiv-renames-streets-a77792
Yep. I remember that that was one of the cities they cited as being able to just waltz in and take it over while being welcomed as liberators. Then the second they stepped foot in there, they heard boss music start playing an never recovered.
Hell, even more than that, look at Mariupol. Its right on the border, and half the damn city was ethnic Russians (not Russian speakers, ETHNIC RUSSIANS). According to the Ruskies and their online simps, they should have been giving them bouquets of flowers like it was the damn Americans rolling into Holland. Instead, it resisted full scale siege warfare for months and only surrendered because they had literally nothing left to fight with. And the Russians had to leave behind forces to garrison the place they thought they would control easily.
They didn't even send soldiers first, they sent a column of Russian interior ministry troops in police trucks like if to deal with a riot in their own city: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z1vQTPQohMA
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