Ukrainian soldiers suspected they would invade Russia when they got new rifles, but still thought it was a joke when the orders came through

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Ukrainian soldiers suspected they would invade Russia when they got new rifles, but still thought it was a joke when the orders came through
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  • Ukrainian's shock offensive on Russia's Kursk region came as a surprise even to Ukraine's soldiers.
  • "We joked that it wasn't April 1st," a Ukrainian soldier toldĀ The Economist.
  • The country's troops did suspect that an invasion was imminent after they were issued new equipment.
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Which took 20 years after the country that fully occupied them decided to leave.

You should always do the right thing regardless of how much time it takes.

If you want to compare these two wars i just discovered something i didn't know, it seem so far more people died in the russia-ukraine war that in the latest afghan war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)

The US wasn't conducting a genocidal war in Afghanistan. The Russian government is explicitly attempting to erase Ukraine as an entity and anyone who calls themselves Ukrainian with it.

Sorry, what is the "right" thing here?

The right thing is fighting for freedom and not for authoritarian governments

Yeah cool, so if you're ukrainiaU kill as many Russian soldiers as possible in the most organized and efficient way possible.

The right thing would be for you to stop spreading all this false and cherry picked information. But here you are, running PR for Russia, who is clearly not doing the right thing.