@eugene_teacher@ChrisItalianJob@VolodyaTretyak "Poor Russia who invaded Ukraine with such incompetence that they sre not only failing their goals but also needlessly killing hundreds and thousands of people on both sides for the megalomaniac goals of a dying KGB agent."
Russia and Ukraine is being destroyed by Putin...
@ChrisItalianJob@VolodyaTretyak "Hopefully Russia murders tens of thousands of innocent people" is what you are saying.
Man, who tf abused you into thinking your attitude is somewhat healthy?
@Rebel44CZ@wartranslated You would be correct. WP leaves an extremely dense white cloud and smaller burning fragments. It has typically been used as a form of smokescreen, where the incendiary effects are secondary. One major advantage is obscuring thermals which are common in weapon system optics.
Several Ukrainians have told me in person and X that my original spelling of Kyiv is wrong. I said “Kiev” originally, which is the Russian spelling.
When the war started, on-air journalists gradually switched from saying Kee-yev to Keev. I never understood why. Until now.
Russia is waging a cultural war on Ukraine. They are indoctrinating kidnapped children to only speak Russian, forbidding the use of Ukrainian. Russian leaders claim Ukraine has no distinct cultural identity or history separate from Russia.
But last night I ate borscht, a Ukrainian dish, for the first time. I’m in a city originally named Kyivan Rus’. Muscovites took the name to create “Russia.” Even the underlying technology for Russia’s nuclear energy is Ukrainian.
Russia has appropriated Ukrainian history and culture since Russia’s founding. Ukrainians take pride in their history and identity. They do not like to see it appropriated by Russians killing their families every single day.
So if you’re an American asking yourself why this matters, you have your answer.
Reporting from KYIV with @LauraLoomer@LoomerUnleashed
@front_ukrainian Very glad this exists, but it can not be only rearward facing.
Just like the Zala had a "tailgunner" camera, Ukrainians quickly adopted to approach from different angles outside the detection envelope.