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News & Current Events Apr 6, 2026 at 9:31 AM

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

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Ukraine takes back 480 sq km near Oleksandrivka as Russia pushes for Dnipropetrovsk "buffer zone" - Syrskyi says - Euromaidan Press
Euromaidan Press
Ukraine takes back 480 sq km near Oleksandrivka as Russia pushes for Dnipropetrovsk "buffer zone" - Syrskyi says - Euromaidan Press
Ukraine recaptured 480 sq km and 12 settlements on the Oleksandrivka direction since late January, Syrskyi reports after a front visit.
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Reasonable-Oil7707 Apr 6, 2026 +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 Apr 6, 2026 +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 Apr 6, 2026 +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 Apr 6, 2026 +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 Apr 6, 2026 +10
But what is it in banana ^2 ?
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A_Nonny_Muse Apr 7, 2026 +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 Apr 6, 2026 +1
480km out of 600000km
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wadowitz2138 Apr 7, 2026 +1
america will use anything but metric system smh
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Mac62961 Apr 7, 2026 +2
Slava ukraini!
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Aedeus Apr 6, 2026 +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 Apr 6, 2026 -13
God forbid someone doesn't just shit propaganda and make an objective observation
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ridelance Apr 6, 2026 +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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