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Jan 31 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Interesting stuff. The Australian guy seems salty that Wagner has shock troops that can do the same costly high-intensity mass assaults the Ukrainians do with their mobiks, but better. Also shows how misguided RU high command was to think they didn't need a lot of infantry
The biggest Ukrainian breakthroughs occurred where the AFU could just use overwhelming numbers of low-quality units as assault troops with no Russian counter except artillery advantage; just shows that mass infantry assaults, whether mechanized or not, are still important
Also funny how the other guy desperately wants to hear about human wave attacks with one rifle for every three men but it's just not real

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Jan 24
- Minister of the Interior killed along with his team

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- Minister of Defence under scrutiny

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- Several heads of regional governments/governors resigning

Hm...
Forgot one.
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Jan 18
Crazy. The Ukrainian Minister of the Interior and his First Deputy were on board of that helicopter that crashed in Brovary. Either some serious internal conflict or a really really unlikely freak accident.
And right after Arestovich and the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk oblast stepped down...
Several children were killed, too, because the helicopter crashed into a kindergarten. Tragic.
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Jan 18
There is a qualitative difference between the discussion being "Should Szymon get some candy or should he go to bed without dinner?" and "Should Szymon live or die?"
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Jan 16
AFU attacking Kremennaya with renewed vigor & small successes. They need to pin RU forces so they can't go on offense elsewhere, also if RU starts pushing on Seversk they won't be able to realistically threaten Kremennaya anymore. We really need the main lines there to hold firm.
AFU mostly fled Soledar to the west and southwest, so small mercies - they're not gonna reinforce Seversk anytime soon. It's a game of cat and mouse now: can Russia hold Kremennaya, can Ukraine get more bodies to Seversk? Really some interesting irl chess going on there.
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Jan 16
Re: a common talking point - the War in Donbass didn't start when Strelkov entered Slavyansk. Strelkov & his men crossed the Ukrainian border on the early morning of April 12th 2014; Acting President Turchinov signed the "Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbass" decree on April 7th.
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