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News & Current Events Mar 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM

Ukraine’s paratroopers clear Berezove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, completing near-total reversal of Russia’s 2025 gains in the region

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Ukraine's paratroopers clear Berezove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, completing near-total reversal of Russia's 2025 gains in the region - Euromaidan Press
Euromaidan Press
Ukraine's paratroopers clear Berezove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, completing near-total reversal of Russia's 2025 gains in the region - Euromaidan Press
A senior Ukrainian general said in early March only three small settlements still needed clearing across the entire oblast — Berezove was among them. Units of Ukraine's 95th Separate Airborne Assault…
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witchbitchvivi Mar 27, 2026 +410
F*** em up 🇺🇦
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PoopsJohnson Mar 27, 2026 +2893
Well this is the first good news I’ve seen in a long while.
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PrrrromotionGiven1 Mar 27, 2026 +1568
Ukraine has had quite a lot of successes in the last like 2 months tbh
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Shockkdiamondss Mar 27, 2026 +1380
\- Russian loss of Starlink \- Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhza \- Ukrainian strike on Russian fiber optic facility (with 5 Storm shadows afaik), Russian fiber optic shortages. \- Deep strike campaign goes on, against logistics, oil, and military facilities/gear \- New ties to Gulf states by sending air defence/drone experts ...although this is still struggle. Ukraine constantly needs funding, military gear. air defences.
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historicusXIII Mar 27, 2026 +529
> Russian loss of Starlink Add to that Russia banning its troops from using Telegram, which they used a lot for communication.
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slirpflerp Mar 27, 2026 +277
It is backfiring in other fun ways too, like preventing domestic early warning notification systems from working correctly: https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-25-2026/
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beadzy Mar 27, 2026 +21
i think my heart just grew 10 sizes
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z500 Mar 27, 2026 +39
I read an article about how they weren't using the new government service but it didn't say why. Any idea?
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1percentstrongeraday Mar 27, 2026 +62
From a programmers point of view, probably a lot of systems and services tied to Telegram which take time to rewrite. Also a possibility that, like in any country, government created systems are just not as useful or intuitive to use. Probably a healthy combination of the two.
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VeryLazyFalcon Mar 27, 2026 +21
Add spying in DMs to that reason.
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BrainBlowX Mar 27, 2026 +4
Also less secure, which increases the risk of the SBU hacking them and monitoring their chats.
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naggert Mar 27, 2026 +19
Max? It's spyware. Camera and microphone turns on at random and the Kremlin gets access to all their texts, calls and photos.
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Gadgetman_1 Mar 27, 2026 +13
I heard the Ukrainian hackers used Telegram to reach out to Russian troops, pretending to be Russian hackers that could unlcok the Starlink terminals. They just needed a few details, such as the Terminal serial number and their GPS coordinates... Ukrainian Artillery was rather accurate in the first couple of weeks after the Starlink shutdown...
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Immediate-Unit6311 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Telegram has video chat yeah? I wouldn't be giving any info unless I see a face.
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AngryVorlon Mar 27, 2026 +3
I heard there were first launches of the Starlink "analog" called rassvet. Wonder how good does it work.
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notquite20characters Mar 27, 2026 +111
The importance of the loss of fibre optics cannot be understated. Those are needed for the jam-proof drones.
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svideo Mar 27, 2026 +11
Huh? Fiber is ludicrously c**** and available for sources around the world. I've never seen suggestions that russia or anyone else is running out, you got a source on that?
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JBWalker1 Mar 27, 2026 +24
>The importance of the loss of fibre optics cannot be understated. Those are needed for the jam-proof drones. I dunno. Sounds like one of the things which can be easily be replaced instantly by ordering from China in whatever capacity they need since its a fairly common item. Looking at Alibaba 1km of bare fibre optic cable it isn't even $5. Just one of the sellers say they have a supply ability of 100,000km a month. Would be one of the cheapest components for Russia to have to buy. Things like the loss of Starlink can't really be replaced any time soon, same as any oil production or refinery facilities.
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BrainBlowX Mar 27, 2026 +23
oh it can be ordered from China, and they do, but china increasingly price gouges russia for spools.
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Alarmed_Guarantee140 Mar 27, 2026 +2
If it cannot be understated then why are you even stating it? Did you mean overstated?
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spooooork Mar 27, 2026 +89
Iran might be needing the Shahed drones themselves, too, instead of selling them
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Shockkdiamondss Mar 27, 2026 +115
Russa is producing their own version, named "Geran", in domestic factories...which get bombed by Ukraine too.
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lungben81 Mar 27, 2026 +50
It is not known if Russia still depends on Iranian components for them.
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BigBananaBerries Mar 27, 2026 +23
I read there was still a couple of parts that they needed from Iran. Who knows if that's true. We can only hope they're not in abundance.
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Mechasteel Mar 27, 2026 +11
Only an idiot would depend on the gratefulness of Russia, so it makes sense for Iran to keep a few critical components in-house. Otherwise if, hypothetically, something were to happen to Iran then Russia would be "too busy" to help.
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spooooork Mar 27, 2026 +13
"Some disassembly required"
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Geo_NL Mar 27, 2026 +28
Russia hasn't been needing Iranian drones for quite some time. They took over the knowledge and are producing them in Russia.
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Sangloth Mar 27, 2026 +44
William Spaniel has argued that while the deal has been presented as such, there's a very believable scenario where Russia is producing the shaheds with the exception of a single difficult to reproduce part, which Iran supplies. In international relations, there's no recourse if Russia fails to pay for the Shahed designs. It's not like Iran can take them to court. Iran supplying a single piece of the design would be an easy way to enforce a contract.
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NeedsMoreSpaceships Mar 27, 2026 +30
As a layman it seems unlikely to me that something that is designed to be c**** and (relatively) mass produced like th Shahed would contain something that Russia wouldn't be able to reverse engineer fairly easily.
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in_one_ear_ Mar 27, 2026 +18
Tbh the most difficult to reverse engineer components are also the ones Iran is least likely to produce themselves.
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Sangloth Mar 27, 2026 +14
William Spaniel speculated the same, with the caveat that "relatively quickly" would include both reverse engineering the part and creating the necessary infrastructure to create the part at scale. I think his guess was somewhere between two to six months. There is an additional issue, which is that drone warfare has been evolving rapidly. Time spent getting back to square one would not be spent evolving.
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M-y-P Mar 27, 2026 +7
Well Carlos Cardoen (Chilean business man/arms dealer) was able to make a fortune with his particular cluster bomb invention, which was really c**** and effective, and kept the trigger and ensamble process secret for a long time. All this to say that it might actually not be trivial to reverse engineer some of the drone parts.
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HealthIndustryGoon Mar 27, 2026 +9
i learned so much from spaniel and perun, it's remarkable. how are they viewed among their peers, i.e. people with a relevant professional background?
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Trevor-Lawrence Mar 27, 2026 +11
They were both invited to an official NATO thing so pretty well I'd guess.
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HealthIndustryGoon Mar 27, 2026 +2
thought so but you never know. i found the first videos i saw of that asian dude to be pretty convincing only to [find out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyuZN07l0DQ) that he's a total hack who runs on conspiracy tales and bs.
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HarithBK Mar 27, 2026 +3
Russia makes there own version of the Shahed drones from the same Chinese parts. if anything the war in Iran might mean that Russia can trade drones for missiles since Iran has a massive stockpile but limited ability to launch as the US and Isreal has blown up all known sites and any new launches will then get blown up. the US thinking was we can bomb all your launch sites long before you run out of rockets to launch so the stockpile doesn't matter not understanding how drones have shifted warfare.
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Shattenkirk Mar 27, 2026 +22
Zelensky also personally went to the gulf to help allied nations with anti-drone strategy Which won't go very far in today's world, but is a powerful showing of good faith and international solidarity that might mean something and set the right example if we ever find ourselves in a better tomorrow
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iwantboringtimes Mar 27, 2026 +34
> - New ties to Gulf states by sending air defence/drone experts adding that UKR interceptor drones are 10% the cost of RU-Iran attack drones I just found out yesterday, and keep wanting to share it because it's been such a great stress-reliever for me.
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oopsallhuckleberries Mar 27, 2026 +7
>...although this is still struggle. Ukraine constantly needs funding, military gear. air defences. Government funding support that's held up by Hungary
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tjc103 Mar 27, 2026 +4
> Ukrainian strike on Russian fiber optic facility (with 5 Storm shadows afaik) Chip fab that makes ICs for use in Iskander and other ballistic and cruise missiles.
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filipv Mar 27, 2026 +9
> Russian loss of Starlink Whenever I read this, it always strikes me: "Russia had Starlink."
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Tirak117 Mar 27, 2026 +13
Not legally. Russia has been securing starlink terminals through various means but were not allowed to use them legally. In fact, some of the stories about Musk turning off starlink on the Ukrainians were actually because the Ukranians were operating them outside of the approved zone, which was set up to keep Russians from using them, and once that zone was updated they worked again. Now they've moved to a whitelist system so Ukrainian starlink terminals need to be activated and added to a white list so they work in the region. Makes it a greater hassle to manage but is having undeniable results. Unfortunatly it's also causing the russians to get desperate, and reports are they're trying to threaten family members of POWs to get them to get onto the whitelist.
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mhornberger Mar 27, 2026 +7
Terminals can be bought elsewhere and smuggled in. Now that Ukraine provided a whitelist of *their* terminals, terminals not on the list are useless.
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GemmyBoy999 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Now imagine what that would look like if Ukraine has proper support and funding.
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greenmachine11235 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Selling anti-Shada tactical lessons and training could be very, very, lucrative given the Middle Easts wealth. 
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Ancient_Ship2980 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Great comment!
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Ancient_Ship2980 Mar 27, 2026 +9
Go, Zelensky, go! Go, Ukraine, go! LONG LIVE A FREE AND INDEPENDENT UKRAINE!
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MarshyHope Mar 27, 2026 +91
I wonder if Russia is suffering from equipment shortages with Iran fighting a war too.
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howmanyones Mar 27, 2026 +125
My totally uneducated guess is it's more that Ukraine is starting to kill more Russians than can be replaced, and that creates cracks in the lines more and more. Drone warfare changed the dynamics of everything.
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MetriccStarDestroyer Mar 27, 2026 +85
It's Starlink. Only Ukraine can use internet comms and drones with it now, after all the region's terminals all got locked
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LobCatchPassThrow Mar 27, 2026 +55
Didn’t it also get reported that Starlink traffic reduced something like 75% after it got locked down so Russia couldn’t use it anymore? If true, it shows how reliant they were on it. And the difference between then and now shows the real quality of their military, and the difference that good comms can make. And it not good comms, comms whatsoever. I could believe that they’re now not using comms at all if they’re suddenly performing this badly.
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Johannes_P Mar 27, 2026 +10
Surprised that Russia wouldn't have developped its own version. Of course, a version of Russia competent enough to develop its own Starlink would also be less likely to start this "special military operation" to begin with.
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EMP_Pusheen Mar 27, 2026 +15
You would think that it would be a strategic imperative for a mliitary, especially one that is going to be an aggressor that invades a foreign country. The one thing that the war has shown is that Russia isn't close to a near-peer military to the entities it considers its enemies.
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red__dragon Mar 27, 2026 +5
Well, they've been a little busy trying to repair the Soyuz-capable launchpad at Baikonur after a catastrophic failure last year.
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cdoublejj Mar 27, 2026 +2
Having just listened to Spam Nation by Brain Krebs i could also see them having used S.L. for tons of spam lol.
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OtonomMilitan Mar 27, 2026 +9
Do we know why or how Russia lost access to Starlink? It is not characteristic of Musk to do this on his own.
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ours Mar 27, 2026 +60
Starlink locked it up in the region, but Ukraine provides a whitelist of its equipment, so it still works for them. Ukraine even ran a scam promising to unlock Starlink for a fee, targeting the Russians, and pocketed the money.
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BrainBlowX Mar 27, 2026 +5
it also let Ukraine round up quislings willing to actually do that for russia, and now russians can't trust any supposed would-be ukrainian traitor who offers help.
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Topgun58ge Mar 27, 2026 +30
This one isn't Musks fault... one of the very few things.....Ukraine wanted access but didn't have their terminals whitelisted so any terminal worked, there was no system in place for Starlink to know who was using the terminal. It took them a while but now Ukraine's terminals are each individually approved and whitelisted by the Ukraine defense ministry. Essentially Ukraine is now telling SpaceX which terminals are theirs and SpaceX can turn off starlink to all other terminals in the region, which they have.
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marshaul Mar 27, 2026 +12
It actually was, as far as I can tell. No doubt the man is history's most "successful" grifter, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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TheOtherHobbes Mar 27, 2026 +2
Yes, it makes no sense politically given Musk's and Trump's affiliations. It's a huge asymmetric boost for Ukraine, from an administration that has done little or nothing to help otherwise. Best I can make out was that Russia was using terminals without his permission, and Musk didn't like that. But given that Musk repeatedly complained about aid to Ukraine, it's still hard to explain.
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Nathan-Stubblefield Mar 27, 2026 +10
Russia is conning African workers with promises of high paying jobs and then using them as cannon fodder.
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AvailableYak8248 Mar 27, 2026 +7
No, the amount of people they lost is big but they still have a huge supply. It’s more starlink and just equipment shortages
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Kuraloordi Mar 27, 2026 +19
Not really. If i recall right they really struggle to replace lost men and eventually it's leading to another mobilization. 30k / month was something they could replace, but above that it gets iffy. Either Ukraine or Russia doesn't have endless supply of willing people. Russia has extremely low unemployment rate at the moment, meaning only way to ship someone frontline is to provide massive financial boost. Keep in mind Russia's recruitment ground is rural areas where poverty is common. Those places don't have endless amount of men. Ukraine has been ramping up the amount of russians being killed / unable to continue combat heavily past few months i would assume Russia has not managed to overcome to deficit completely. That being said if you can send 100 men less than last month, it does not have imminent effect but over extended period of time it will mean Russia has to start reducing attacking rate and focus it on only certain places. Edit: I'm well aware the total population of Russia, but that doesn't translate to men who can be sent to frontline or who are willing to go frontline.
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Traffodil Mar 27, 2026 +35
I heard that RU have lost Starlink access which has really impacted their ability to war-crime.
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Suspicious_Flower_0 Mar 27, 2026 +23
And they're soon to ban Telegram so f*** knows how they're guna communicate, carrier pigeons if they don't eat them first 
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Jamuro Mar 27, 2026 +14
even funnier, they force soldiers to install max. the government messenger, that only allows unencrypted messaging. ukraines intelligence services will have a field day.
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ours Mar 27, 2026 +6
Smoke signals. Drones would *love* those.
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spooooork Mar 27, 2026 +4
They kinda use smoke signals already, but they usually only mean "something went boom here"
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A_Sinclaire Mar 27, 2026 +3
Unfortunately they just launched the first 16 satellites of their own Starlink-like satellite constellation, Rassvet. It will have to be seen if it works as intended and if they can get the coverage in Ukraine. But their problems in this regard might just be temporary.
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Dubious_Odor Mar 27, 2026 +15
Last fall there was some reporting that Russias armor reserves were essentially gone. This was also around the time some laws were changed to pave the way for another mobilization. The thinking was that if Russia did not mobilize, Ukraine would start to retake ground in the Spring. If they did mobilize, Russia would ha e a political crisis developing. The fact they chose not to mobilize and are also losing ground is very telling. If Ukraine is able to punch through or a line collapses and routs Russia may have a hard choice in its hands. The Ukranian advances in '22 were in part halted by the mobilization
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VeryluckyorNot Mar 27, 2026 +16
I think they are in a good way to get 50K Russians killed per month.
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zoinkability Mar 27, 2026 +2
Someone was saying here on Listnook (yeah, I know, a terrible source) that Russia had been setting up their own drone manufacturing capacity with Iranian help, so they aren't super dependent on Iran any more. I can't confirm that, but it would track with Russia launching big drone attacks recently. If they were worried about their drone supply drying up they'd presumably be dialing back done attacks rather than ramping them up.
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keepitfriend Mar 27, 2026 +2
They did that a long time ago
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SnooPuppers8698 Mar 27, 2026 +4
they are still treading water out there, I personally wouldnt characterize it as "a lot of success". just look at the ISW map. doing that risks minimizing ukrainian losses which plays into putins hand. what ukraine needs is more aid now more than ever.
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wolfmanpraxis Mar 27, 2026 +4
with all the BS going on in my local politics and unrest ... I havent been paying as much attention to the Ukrainian War of Defense (Povnomashtabka). I needed some good news for my mental health ... is it still doom scrolling when everything is just one piece of shit news after another
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No_Feature_1184 Mar 27, 2026 +221
Every day Ukraine holds and especially when they push back they tear away at the paper tiger that is Russia's image.
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Aedeus Mar 27, 2026 +60
Ukraine "wins" by continuing to exist, something that vatniks cannot accept.
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pres465 Mar 27, 2026 +1082
We are reaching the point where, no matter your opinion on the war, on Zelensky, or on Putin... the Ukrainian army is the most deadly fighting force in Europe and Ukraine is going to be a major exporter of technology and military equipment when this is over. I am fascinated at how they have turned themselves into this-- while fighting off an invasion-- in just over 3 years!
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tophernator Mar 27, 2026 +456
Four years. Time flies when your world is a chaotic nightmare.
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DeSynthed Mar 27, 2026 +186
Four years into a three day operation
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hurleyburleyundone Mar 27, 2026 +32
D-Day +3 +1490
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4DollarsALB Mar 27, 2026 +22
At what point does Putin just say it's not worth it and give up? I don't see what Russia is gaining from this?
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OwlOfC1nder Mar 27, 2026 +73
What do you suppose happens if Russia ends this war tomorrow? The economy is completely fucked. Tens of thousands of soldiers return home to Russian cities where there is no work for them because the only industry is a war that is over Putin has sacrificed a million people and the Russian economy for nothing. The war is the only thing keeping Putin in power/alive.
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bluebelt Mar 27, 2026 +35
NPR just did a piece on this. It boiled down to the only thing keeping the Russian economy afloat was selling sanctioned resources at a d******* and the war itself. When the war ends they don't appear to have any plan in place to backfill for the decimation of their labor force lost as casualties in the conflict.
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Spugpow Mar 27, 2026 +12
They're currently bringing in thousands of guest-workers from Central Asia to plug labor shortages--something the Russian public hates.
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TheWorclown Mar 27, 2026 +31
Never. Putin will go to his grave fighting in Ukraine. Even putting aside his own personal beliefs (he’s a huge Stalinist, and craves reunification of the Soviet Union), he’s four years into a “special military operation” that was supposed to last three days tops. He’s sunk far too much into this war that if he pulls out, he’ll be viewed as weak in a nation that would have a bunch of vultures around him plunging in to feed.
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robertsihr1 Mar 27, 2026 +13
I don’t think he ever can/will. People are more willing to accept hardships during war, especially if they feel it is justified. If the war ends and the hardships continue it feels like a loss
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4DollarsALB Mar 27, 2026 +3
> I don’t think he ever can/will. People are more willing to accept hardships during war, especially if they feel it is justified. What do Russians think they are going to get out of it? Just territory?
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gooblaster17 Mar 27, 2026 +9
I imagine they're quite apathetic. Tmk the culture in most of Russia for a long while has been that one can expect the government to seek power for power's sake, and the role of the citizenry is to duck their head and try to get by.
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EMP_Pusheen Mar 27, 2026 +3
He can't. The second he does he is cooked. The aftermath of this war for Russia is going to be bad. The only acceptable outcome is they get significant amounts of Ukrainian territory.
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EvilWarBW Mar 27, 2026 +110
Necessity is the mother of invention, or so they say. Tough people with everything to lose to Mordor
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Gold_Interaction_432 Mar 27, 2026 +20
Agreed - honestly I think the hardest part of this conflict will be the cleanup at the end. The repatriation of POWs, the rural rehoming of refugees (both Russian and Ukrainian - if thats even possible given the state of most of their homes and farms as well as just the sheer amount of UXOs.) and thats not even touching on the possibility of war-crime trials if that even happens on any kind of scale to anyone at all.
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whatisabaggins55 Mar 27, 2026 +99
> Ukraine is going to be a major exporter of technology and military equipment when this is over. Particularly now that the Iran war has shown that even the traditionally overpowering U.S. military is vulnerable to c**** drone strikes and saturation attacks. Everyone is going to be lining up to place orders with Ukraine's drone manufacturers.
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Florac Mar 27, 2026 +44
This is what makes the US struggles there even weirder. They literally had years to study how to combat suicide drone swarms
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jscummy Mar 27, 2026 +52
This administration isn't the type to study or learn
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Pigeon_Breeze Mar 27, 2026 +3
But the administration isn't in charge of studying combat tactics - the military is. There's something fundamentally wrong with how it's operating.
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Kataphractoi Mar 27, 2026 +4
Well when you put someone who drinks his meals and has an inferiority complex in charge, what do you expect?
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jscummy Mar 27, 2026 +6
The two highest ranking officers are Trump and Hegseth, and they've been promoting and purging through the lower ranks for a while now
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Hungry-Register9960 Mar 27, 2026 +4
The admin in charge before was dealing with trying to clean up domestic messes and was working with a hand tied behind its back with Ukraine, and this one is filled with people who are generationally stupid. 
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Kataphractoi Mar 27, 2026 +4
It's the "exquisite weapons" problem. It's an argument that goes back awhile that the US prefers spending more for high-tech stuff than focusing on mundane weapons or solutions for general warfare use. Keep the good stuff for specific purposes, and then use general stuff for everything else. An example would be the US burning through something like 10%+ of their Tomahawk missile stock in the last month. Missiles that are assembled by hand and only a few hundred are produced per year. Or using anti-missile interceptors to take out drones. Drones that cost a fraction of what an interceptor does.
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angrysquirrel777 Mar 27, 2026 +5
What are the US struggles? The goal of the US war with Iran is unclear so it's hard to say if there is any struggle. The loss of soldiers has been super low, the loss of equipment has been low, and the Iranians leadership has been getting killed constantly. If you're framing the war as the goal is to topple the entire Iranians regime then you could say that is a struggle but that's entirely different than how the Ukraine/Russia war is operating. If you frame the war as the US attempting to set back the Iranian regimes ability to wage future wars outside of their borders and limit their ability to fund terrorist groups in the region then it's seemed successful.
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Florac Mar 27, 2026 +11
The loss of military hardware has been low. But when it comes to defending infrastructure from iranian strikes, the results have been a lot costlier than I think anyone expected.and reports say they're methods of engaging drones is more akin to prior to the ukraine war, so ecpensive interceptors used en masse against c**** drones
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svideo Mar 27, 2026 +6
The US military is beholden to their contractors who want to sell $M missiles, they fundamentally do not understand how to do anything economicly at scale.
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ACoderGirl Mar 27, 2026 +7
For sure, drones have completely changed things. While not a magical panacea, they are so incredibly effective for so insanely c****. The prices of traditional missiles and such are absolutely insane compared to the drones that Ukraine is using. From what I've seen, the short range suicide drones are literally just a few hundred dollars. Contrast with missiles that are costing hundreds of thousands each. They're not exactly the same in use cases, but in addition to being c****, the drones are extremely versatile in their ability to target and the cameras have changed how wartime propaganda works, by allowing for an incredibly large amount of frontline footage of your side's victories. Certainly as a Canadian, I want my country's military to heavily invest in such drones. I see us as being in a very similar position to Ukraine, where we have an aggressive nation bordering us that we could never stand up to in any form of traditional combat. And when talking about things like resisting the yanks, traditional missiles don't really work well because you can't really maintain frontlines the way that Ukraine has. You need guerilla warfare and that means needing to be able to hide. Drones can be hidden. Missile launchers less so.
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greenbud1 Mar 27, 2026 +16
This isn't something new, they were literally the backbone of the Soviet military-industrial complex for decades. Russia essentially picked a fight with the exact same people who designed their most advanced ICBMs and heavy armour. These were the wrong people to pick on, as they have the engineering expertise and industrial capacity to fight back.
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luigis_left_tit_25 Mar 27, 2026 +18
Me too! They are really amazing! I hate to praise war but Russia is a f****** bully and I hate bullies!
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OkArmordillo Mar 27, 2026 +21
It’s not praising war if you’re cheering for the guys defending against an invasion.
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luigis_left_tit_25 Mar 27, 2026 +3
That's true..🙂
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One-Elderberry-488 Mar 27, 2026 +4
Necessity breeds innovation. It has always been the case. A lot of major technological inventions were due to war or preparation for one.
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Narrow_Track9598 Mar 27, 2026 +10
Wasn't Ukraine the weapons manufacturer for ussr? I remember buying a bunch of Soviet surplus from them before the war
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Outrageous_Donut7681 Mar 27, 2026 +3
+experience. Feels like we had another paradigm shift and most armies would be fighting the previous war while Ukraine's the bleeding edge on a current/future war.
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a_b_b_2 Mar 27, 2026 +3
Both the Ukrainians and Russians have always had this in them, they've always had extremely intelligent, hardworking people who have made huge impacts on the world at large. They also seem to produce just as many complete shitbags who ruin everything and just want everything for themselves. It's an unfortunate curse. The Russians and Belorussians are currently cursed with the assholes running things and the Ukrainians seems to have chosen better for the time being.
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wolfmanpraxis Mar 27, 2026 +6
> major exporter of technology and military equipment when this is over And advisors in how to handle mass suicide drone attacks. The UAF has the most recent practical combat experience in a "traditional war" than anyone else, especially against an enemy that the West has been preparing to fight against for nearly 80 years
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ty_xy Mar 27, 2026 +2
It was hand in hand. Had to find ways to kill Russians more efficiently while preserving their fighting force. Had to find ways to manufacture drones and build the manufacturing capacity to build them.
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Drewdoesit Mar 27, 2026 +2
Ukraine was the source of innovation in the old USSR. The lumbering idiot Russia decided to attack their former brains.
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moritashun Mar 27, 2026 +3
i always wondered, back when USSR exist, were the best fighting force all Ukrainians ? so Russian always boast about being the strongest is a hoast ?
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Desperate_Project765 Mar 27, 2026 +16
USSR was always about "quantity is quality of its own", with no respect for lives of conscripts. Ukraine is closer to Western tactics, and undoubtedly the most experienced army of this type in the world by now. It's really a very different mentality. US population would probably not tolerate losing 2 million troops to win the war in Iran. But Russia, with half the population of US, already has over 1M casualties (killed and wounded) in Ukraine.
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AssistX Mar 27, 2026 +13
USSR never had a strong fighting force, just like Russia today. They have massive amounts of bodies that can throw at an enemy and most 'wins' they have in their history are simply from overwhelming numbers. For instance the Russians successfully defeated the more advanced German army in WW2 not because of winter, or weather, or superior snipers conveniently placed. They lost 26 million people when you count civilians as well. The two battles fought in Stalingrad and Leningrad had more military losses on the Russian side than the US military has lost in it's entire history. 2 million people died, that's over 100 metric tons of human flesh.
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nanoman92 Mar 27, 2026 +3
There weren't distinctions of origin when creating units, but pretending X people is best at something is the kind of thing the fair right does. The only thing it can be said is that Ukrainians were both most prevalent in 41, when the red army performed the worst, and in 44-45, when it performed the best. For obvious reasons the fighting in 1942-43 was mostly done by Russians as there were not Ukrainians or Belarusians to recruit.
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VallenValiant Mar 27, 2026 +3
Even their most decorated commander in WW2 was an Ukrainian. And their greatest military production was in Ukraine. In many ways Ukraine, as Kievn Rus, was the original Capital of the area until the Moguls came and burned it down. And future Moscow became more prominent as where the Mongul rulers focused on as their local base. It was a twist of fate that Moscow gained any importance at all.
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aboardreading Mar 27, 2026 +6
Zhukov was an ethnic Russian born about 100km from Moscow city center.
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nanoman92 Mar 27, 2026 +5
And Rokossovsky was born in Warsaw.
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solid_reign Mar 27, 2026 +4
If you're talking about Zhukov, he was Russian born in Russia. Not sure what the need is to try to change history just because you disagree with what Russia is doing.
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NOTRadagon Mar 27, 2026 +229
It's crazy how effective bricking Russia's Starlinks was.
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Slim_Charles Mar 27, 2026 +131
While that's a big part of it, the Ukrainians have also been refining their offensive tactics and figuring out how best to utilize a drone-based combined arms approach to assaults. So far these tactics have proven pretty effective on a small scale, the question is whether they can scale them up.
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Gall_Mistni Mar 27, 2026 +3
Adding onto the drone bit They've been using FPVs like creeping artillery in WW1. They send a wave of FPVs to either kill or suppress an area, then have troops moving up just behind the impact line. Then the rear follows and they start again.
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howtoloveadaisy Mar 27, 2026 +27
Well Russia is working on building its own satellite internet network to replace the lack of access to Starlink & it reportedly had a successful launch last week. We’ll see if this halts Ukraine’s success from the last few months
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Slim_Charles Mar 27, 2026 +51
Russia doesn't have the funds to even begin to put an adequate substitue to Star Link in orbit. Their best hope is the Chinese copy.
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ClausTrophobix Mar 27, 2026 +17
They're not planning to. All they want is a somewhat functional system that covers Ukraine from what I've heard. And even that will fail.
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Rosellis Mar 27, 2026 +12
Hopefully turns into a money pit for them.
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The_Motarp Mar 28, 2026 +2
That is not how low Earth orbit satellite constellations work, you don't get to pick a piece of the globe and only cover that, you pick a latitude (at least 51.6 degrees for launches from Baikonur) and your constellation will cover everything between those degrees to the north and south. Russia wouldn't need thousands of satellites like Starlink has to get basic communications going, but it would likely need at least hundreds like One Web has, which would take tens of launches that would need at least several years to complete, and they would first need to produce lots of high tech satellites to even start launching. And then the bandwidth and resistance to jamming would still be much worse than Starlink.
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Johannes_P Mar 27, 2026 +16
Too late. It should have been done years earlier.
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Scared_of_zombies Mar 27, 2026 +10
It won’t.
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kindanormle Mar 27, 2026 +5
It should be at least a couple of years for them to get enough satellites up there to effectively replace Starlink. In any case, I don't think the loss of Starlink is the biggest reason for their clumsiness. It has more to do with trying to shut off Telegram and replace it with an app that doesn't work and the soldiers hate.
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xionell Mar 27, 2026 +2
I would say it is the combination of the 2. Take away 1 and they adapt - take both at around the same time and it's much more crippling.
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Mean_Occasion_1091 Mar 27, 2026 +3
What satellites are they gonna use?
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PersonalitySenior360 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Where can I find more info about this, fascinating
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luigis_left_tit_25 Mar 27, 2026 +30
I gotta say the Ukraine people are tough! I have so much respect for them! It isn't *just* about adversary in the face of a huge and powerful foe, but they're doing the damn thing and it's like watching Goliath be defeated with a sling shot! I just hate that this is happening in the first place.. war is shit. But they are inspiring! ❤️💪
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altatoro123 Mar 27, 2026 +27
F*** yeah
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ndnblades Mar 27, 2026 +201
Kick ass! Ukraine fights for freedom, while u.s. fights for oil and Isreal
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eugeneorange Mar 27, 2026 +28
And to keep the diddler in chief's involvement in the epstein case on the downlow!
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wet-rabbit Mar 27, 2026 +45
I hate it when a war in which American soldiers die, is reduced to simply fighting for the interest of Israel. This is simply not true! We should keep in mind that MBS also has a stake in this, and that Americans are dying for his interest too.
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ClausTrophobix Mar 27, 2026 +20
It's to enrich about 500 people personally while creating enough death and destruction to distract from years of systematic sexual abuse of children and other things. Don't see how americans dying for it changes that.
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odaal Mar 27, 2026 +20
mostly for israel
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Grablicht Mar 27, 2026 +1
Ukraine: Look at me USA! I'm the land of the free and the home of the brave now!
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PraetorGold Mar 27, 2026 +58
Do it now, because they are getting their $$$. Russia is receiving a significant financial windfall from the Iran war, with estimated extra revenues of **$8.5 billion per month** due to surging energy prices. Oil prices above  /barrel have increased Russia's daily fossil fuel earnings by roughly 14%, bringing in over   billion in just the first two weeks of the conflict.
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jdmillar86 Mar 27, 2026 +13
I think you're missing a number, it currently reads "above /barrel" without actual price. edit: also "over billion"
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PraetorGold Mar 27, 2026 +4
Yeah. Sorry
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Nono_Home Mar 27, 2026 +34
Thank you thank you thank you! Fantastic news it’s the continuation of the Ukraine reaction to the Russian spring offensive backfiring! Now if the dump orange ape wouldn’t lift sanctions on his rimbuddy Putin they would run out of cash.
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bjarneh Mar 27, 2026 +21
All of Europe should chime in, and push out that horrid army. Where do we draw the line if shooting missiles into apartment buildings full of innocent civilians hasn't crossed the line?
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Madbrad200 Mar 27, 2026 +6
Countries don't enter wars for moral reasons.
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VallenValiant Mar 27, 2026 +26
Hopping this is Ukraine's "Battle of the Ardennes " moment. The turning point of the war. This world need good news more than ever.
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RG_Oriax Mar 27, 2026 +7
What battle of the Ardennes are you referring to?
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Yummy_Crayons91 Mar 27, 2026 +9
Yeah I was going to comment that most people think of Ardennes Offensive launched by Germany late WWIi, which despite having initial success was ultimately a failure for Germany.
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Reddit_2_2024 Mar 27, 2026 +5
Well done Ukraine paratroopers! Good hunting.
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Dry_Bullfrog2344 Mar 27, 2026 +12
It is good news for Europe, but the USA is completely helping Russia to start a war against Iran. The reason is that now Russia sells the oil and earn 100$ million dialy that money will help to Russia to win the war. If Russia conquers Ukraine, it will enter Europe. Then it will claim the other origin of Europe. On the other hand, a nil-minded president sitting in weight house that have not any awareness of global affairs.
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DangerousArea1427 Mar 27, 2026 +3
there is nothing i want to see more than Ukraine back in its 2014 borders. But hey, lets be dragged in Israeli war. So glad that Europeans didn't let themselves be involved
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LegalVeterinarian163 Mar 27, 2026 +3
Give ‘em Hell, Ukraine!
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Zen_Galactic Mar 27, 2026 +3
Sunflowers gonna grow real well with all that fresh fertilizer.
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big-bruh-boi Mar 27, 2026 +21
Paratroopers? I thought drones replaced everything!
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FuckHarambe2016 Mar 27, 2026 +20
Paratroopers rarely jump out of planes these days.
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SCII0 Mar 27, 2026 +25
They rarely did so even in the past. For example during WW2 even some of the most well known paratrooper formations like the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Division had maybe 2 major jumps: Overlord and Market Garden. They fought as regular infantry units for the majority of the time. Same for the Wehrmacht Fallschirmjäger after 1941.
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Mechasteel Mar 27, 2026 +3
If you can kick ass after jumping off a plane, being scattered and losing the element of surprise, no supply lines, behind enemy lines -- then you can also kick ass without those handicaps.
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big-bruh-boi Mar 27, 2026 +3
Okay, do they fight on the ground or what?
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Jamuro Mar 27, 2026 +13
sometimes they are used in helicopter raids, but for the most part you can think of them as elite light infantry units with special forces elements. on russias side for example the Spetsnaz are part of the vdv (their paratroopers)
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lesser_panjandrum Mar 27, 2026 +8
And the VDV are largely part of the dirt at Hostomel Airport now.
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Kijukko Mar 27, 2026 +26
Their parachutes are drones.
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razzyspazzy Mar 27, 2026 +10
Also were flown in by drones
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big-bruh-boi Mar 27, 2026 +8
Their ak’s shoot drones
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unclestickles Mar 27, 2026 +6
The drones shoot drones Literally though
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chiku00 Mar 27, 2026 +7
It's drones all the way down.
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OwlOfC1nder Mar 27, 2026 +3
Are you not aware that there are human soldiers on the front lines? What do you think the drones are shooting at?
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big-bruh-boi Mar 27, 2026 +2
Other drones
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Johannes_P Mar 27, 2026 +5
If you want to hold a territory then you have to use infantry.
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meglobob Mar 27, 2026 +13
Ukraine has finally been able to put some elite mobile force teams together, this is one of the hardest things to do in modern warfare. Especially, for former USSR countries that have a static defense / offense mindset. It means they can absorb Russian attacks inflicting massive casualties, giving up small areas of land to keep there own losses low and then when the enemy is exhausted send in a elite force to recapture all the lost land and inflict more massive losses. Demoralizing to Russian troops / commanders. Russia still has not got any decent mobile forces of there own.
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LothorBrune Mar 27, 2026 +7
I'll believe it when I'll see it reflected in the maps. For now, it's just corridor talks.
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pewpscoops Mar 27, 2026 +8
Wishing Ukraine continued success from Canada!
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No_Historian3349 Mar 27, 2026 +10
This could explain why Krasnov is in such a foul mood.
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michiganstrange Mar 27, 2026 +2
Damn can they come help us with our Russian invasion too
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Key_Statistician_378 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Absolute legends!
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ionised Mar 27, 2026 +2
Russia really showing the world how to lose, huh? F*** Putin.
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nathrek Mar 27, 2026 +2
Excellent! ❤️❤️❤️
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Succubuss_Smasher Mar 27, 2026 +2
SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦
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HR_DUCK Mar 27, 2026 +2
Awesome!
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1-randomonium Mar 27, 2026 +2
All the oil money coming in over the last month doesn't seem to have helped Russia make any gains in their war.
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GBF_Dragon Mar 27, 2026 +2
I really wish we were still helping out Ukraine.
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veryniceperson123 Mar 27, 2026 +2
For anyone else reading this who is heartened by the news, please consider donating directly to Ukraine. I just sent them another $200 personally. Every little bit helps.
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madlucas2026 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Do you have some contacts or places to donate to?
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veryniceperson123 Mar 27, 2026 +2
I'm donating to united24 which is the government's official fundraising platform
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LivingtheLaws013 Mar 28, 2026 +1
"near total reversal" brother you live in fantasy land https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375
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The_Horny_Gentleman Mar 27, 2026 +4
You love to see it
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martechnician Mar 27, 2026 +2
Moscow or Bust!
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wickedplayer494 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Nice, Gwynne Shotwell's people implementing a Starlink speed limiter is clearly making a huge difference.
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Jayken Mar 27, 2026 +2
Those who backstabbed Ukraine won't be forgotten. Slava Ukraini.
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PloppyTheSpaceship Mar 27, 2026 +2
Well done Ukraine, hopefully it continues and you can drive Russia out.
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Jaykwonder Mar 27, 2026
No air superiority, entire armoured columns made useless by drones, the small military operation turning into a pointless war of attrition.
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