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Reasonable-Oil7707 5 days ago +131

“Buffer zone” is such a polite phrase for “we want more of your land.” Ukraine taking territory back at the same time is a good reminder that even now, this war is still moving in ugly, expensive increments instead of any clean one-way story.

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glmory 4 days ago +26

Does feel like we should help Ukraine take a couple hundred miles of Russia because they need a buffer zone to feel safe from their agressive neighbor.

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A_Nonny_Muse 4 days ago +30

The buffer zone should be everything west of the Ural mountains. Not one Russian should live anywhere west of the Urals.

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fleranon 4 days ago +38

I was trying to figure out if this is a lot and to put it in perspective. 480sq km is 70'000 football fields. It's exactly the size of oslo, a bit smaller than the size of chicago. It's a big chunk of land But it's still less than 0.01% of ukraine territory

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RobertJ93 4 days ago +10

But what is it in banana ^2 ?

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A_Nonny_Muse 4 days ago +3

Average length of a banana is 0.175 meters. So there is 17,500,000 sq. bananas per sq. kilometer. times 480, that's 8,400,000,000 square bananas. Or 8.4 billion sq. bananas.

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Large-Example1665 4 days ago +1

480km out of 600000km

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wadowitz2138 3 days ago +1

america will use anything but metric system smh

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Mac62961 4 days ago +2

Slava ukraini!

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Aedeus 4 days ago +15

>6 year old account that just started posting a little over three weeks ago How is it that you guys are so ass at this? 😭🥀

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IndividualNo69420 4 days ago -13

God forbid someone doesn't just shit propaganda and make an objective observation

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ridelance 4 days ago +7

And not just territory, they are also losing people, including children, to genocidal Russian aggression. The world looks away as Russia vies to destroy the Ukrainian nation and people. It’s disgusting.

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Ukraine takes back 480 sq km near Oleksandrivka as Russia pushes for Dnipropetrovsk “buffer zone” – Syrskyi says

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