@ivan_8848 What total unadulterated bullshit! Twenty US bases on Ukrainian soil? Firstly, the Ukrainian Constitution forbids any foreign troops to be based on its soil and secondly, the only US military personnel in Ukraine are those which guard the US Embassy!
@LuneNovice@gelunding I would suggest that your theory is merely conspiratorial. The Democrats didn’t need to campaign because the people were so fed up with the Trump administration that the result was inevitable. The polls were predicting it months earlier.
@0__a_y_a_s__0@gelunding It is you who speaks utter nonsense. If ruzzia has not been able to defeat Ukraine in 5 years at a cost of 1.5 million personnel, it’s hardly likely to withstand all of NATO. Had it invaded NATO then, the war would have been over in 2 weeks. Now, only 1 week!
@gelunding Your theory makes no sense. The war has left ruzzia’s economy on a cliff with Ukraine’s devastation of ruzzia’s oil infrastructure, but putler cannot backtrack because his economy is totally war dependent. He also knows that he cannot win the war without Trump’s help.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER SPENT 15 DAYS TRAPPED WITH THE ENEMY. THEY ESCAPED TOGETHER.
When Vadym Letunov entered an abandoned-looking dugout, he was desperate for shelter. He pulled back a curtain and found a Russian soldier pointing a rifle at him.
“You’re not one of us, are you?”
What followed was an extraordinary 15-day ordeal in which two enemy soldiers shared a cramped underground shelter, played chess and eventually left together.
Vadym, a 34-year-old infantryman from Odesa serving with Ukraine’s 118th Separate Mechanized Brigade, had become separated from his unit after a devastating bombardment.
His young comrade, on his first combat mission, had been fatally wounded. Vadym himself had been buried by an explosion and escaped without a working radio.
The Russian soldier initially searched and threatened him. Vadym had no way of knowing whether he would survive the night.
But the days passed.
They shared what little water they had. The Russian gave him socks and scraps of fabric for his injured feet. They talked about their lives and played chess with pieces fashioned from mud and clay.
Neither man could simply forget which side he was fighting for. Yet survival gradually forced them to cooperate.
Vadym’s condition deteriorated badly. His feet were injured, and at one point he became so desperate that he asked the Russian to kill him.
Then, after 15 days, fog rolled across the battlefield.
A Ukrainian drone appeared overhead.
Vadym rushed outside with an improvised identification sign, dropped to his knees and shouted:
“Cartman! It’s me!”
The drone delivered a radio, finally allowing him to contact his comrades.
He told them a Russian soldier was with him and wanted to surrender.
The Russian had one additional request:
“Order some food.”
And they did.
Ukrainian forces eventually arranged an evacuation. Vadym, barely able to walk, climbed into the vehicle alongside the Russian prisoner.
His first concern was that nobody harm the man who had held him captive.
But there was no uncomplicated happy ending.
Vadym had survived and brought back a prisoner who might eventually be exchanged for a Ukrainian captive. He was still grieving the young soldier who had died beside him.
That’s what makes this story so difficult to forget.
Two men sent to fight on opposite sides spent 15 days fearing each other, depending on each other and trying to stay alive.
One returned to his comrades. The other surrendered.
And somewhere between the handmade chess pieces, the shared water and that desperate request for food, they found a way out of a situation that could easily have killed them both.
@IuliiaMendel Cut the crap IuIiia! There will never be peace with putler in charge of ruzzia. He is on record as saying that ALL of Ukraine is “historical ruzzian land” and in any “peace negotiations”, that point is non-negotiable! Have you listed putler’s rejection of peace offers?
@LandM_Marius Just what sort of amoebic brain do you have? Who started the war, dickhead? Ukraine is bombing and ruzzia retaliating? Typical ruzzian propaganda tactic. Yell for long enough that black is white and white is black and idiots like you will eventually believe it or propagate it!
@StevenKerwin So your definition of “aggression” is JOINING a defensive alliance?
I would define aggression as the ruzzian INVASIONS of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Georgia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Ukraine.