that's a huge cap. yes, they removed tochka-u from their combat service "officially" in 2019 (factually in 2021), but they still use it. it's been spotted in warzone several times already and in their parades and military training right before the invasion, check the date: m-tvzvezda-ru.translate.goog/video/news/20222151813-0szlM.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp

the most ironic part of this story is that originally the division that's responsible for missile strike proudly announced that they destroyed strategic "nazi" object in kramatorsk. but when the information about victims surfaced, they completely changed the narrative (as usual)

all russian official statements are complete bs, they just deny everything. word "war" is banned in that country, they just called it "special operation" and any media that called it war is getting banned. there are a lot of clueless people here. you'll do a big favor if you stop spreading misinformation or at least do some a***ysis

Ukrainian nationalism has become inherently reactionary in the 20th century, it says a lot that Ukrainian nationalists today would rather uphold the historical example of a Nazi like Bandera than Makhno as a fighter for Ukrainian sovereignty.

Ukrainian nationalism in response to literally being invaded isn't reactionary. Bandera s*** is bit russia is a much more reactionary s***hole than ukraine

I'm talking about its ideological tendencies, an increase in nationalist sentiment because of an invasion isn't inherently reactionary.

turkey, georgia, albania, macedonia, montenegro all just like

it doesn't mean they want to live in nazi country or have nazi ally like today russia, that literally doing ukrainian
genocide now. historically ukrainian nationalists are the actual reason why ukrainian culture still exists. you can't even imagine how moscovia tried to dilute and erase it for centuries

you should trace ukrainian history way before ww2 to see the actual trajectory

Yeah instead they want to live in a "big Israel" with everybody having guns in the words of Zelensky

it was a s***ty quote

issue is ukrainians have more in common with palestinians if anything

It was a s***ty quote that reflects Zelensky's s***ty vision for Ukraine in the future

who "they"?

if you think zelensky is nationalist, you don't know anything about ukrainian climate at all. when he started his presidency, he and kolomoisky (the oligarch who was behind him back then) slowed down eurointegration, denied the threat of futher russian occupation & did nothing to free donetsk and lugansk. his political party was consisted of random incompetent people and some of them even supported russian actions back then in 2014. this is not something ukrainian nationalist would do

I know Zelensky ran his campaign on détente with Russia, but during his presidency he completely flipped on that, he ran on ending the war in Donbass but he didn't take any steps in that direction at all.

What Soviet propaganda the Soviet Union hasn’t existed in 3 decades

no s***, and this "nationalists = nazis" narrative was created just yesterday

Nationalism doesn’t make them Nazis but it enables fascism as a whole when it’s unabated, which is exactly what’s happening in Ukraine

thoughts on the bucha massacre?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre

You and I know nothing of what happened outside of what each side reports and thus the only reason anyone itt would point fingers this far in this horrible situation is to advance their own biased agenda that stems from each countries’ own biases

fascism is happening in ukraine? pretty interesting, tell me more

i understand you know nothing about ukrainian culture and history (not saying you should) and despite the fact that many users here clowning you for your unnecessary takes on every subject you have no idea about, i hope you get this right: if there were no ukrainian nationalists, there won't be ukraine today. moscovia tried to suppress them for centuries, even named ukrainians officially as malorosy back then (that's literally russian a***ogue of the word untermensch, so who you called nazi again?), and when they failed, they called people who fought for saving ukrainian indentity nazis

Literally spilling nationalist rhetoric save it fam I’ve heard this from afghans against Pakistan and Iran the same way I’m hearing it here

So many British left wing journos have redeemed themselves lately

It's all true

Ukraine got treated by Russia how Ireland got treated by Britain

not really, if you actually knew something about ukraine not from twitter

are you pakistani, dweeb?

I’m afghan

so what's the point of your parellel then?

You've never lived and worked in middle east as an adult. You will learn what it is actually like one day when you grow up bro. You just confused. You lived in a bubble in a privileged environment you don't know what it's like. You buy into ideologies blindly, you are so blind that you shill for the Iran regimme and think Taliban can utilize the young Afghans well!! You need to go and experience being an Afghan refugee in Iran. The ayatollah never done nothing for the afghans but the afghans built them everything with their hard (3 bucks a day) labor.