RatherBeBrewing
New Fish
No one outside the Ukraine really knows who is winning and who is losing in Ukraine.
I’ve been able to reach my grandmother a few times on her cell, she has an overly rosy view since she gets her news from Ukrainian TV and radio. She’s also in Kyiv, fairly close (~30 KM) to the Russian high tide mark they’ve been pushed back from. She says after the first week they thought the Russians might take the capital, but now the Russians have had to “withdraw” because they were getting slaughtered. They did a shit ton of damage to the outlying towns, though. Just destroyed everything out of spite.
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A friend, one of the few people there I trust/groomsmen level type friend, has a more realistic outlook based on what he’s doing. He also says Kyiv is safe for now, but the Russians aren’t going to stop trying to cleave the country. They’ve moved from taking land to terrorizing the people into submission. Donbas and particularly Luhansk - where it’s been going on for eight years- is an apocalyptic wasteland of fighting between elite units from both, bolstered by what they call “cannon meat”. He says both sides have shown restraint compared to what they’re capable of, because they don’t think it’s ending soon. It’s still much more bloody than one would think if they only watched BeeBeeSee or our other Western bitch pederast media.