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> I'm not exactly sure what makes you doubt this well for starters the fact that there is no record of him saying that
by medo-bear 4y ago
> I'm not exactly sure what makes you doubt this
well for starters the fact that there is no record of him saying that
- mcv 4y agoThere's plenty of record of him doing it, though.
- medo-bear 4y agoso at best you are just inferring
- mcv 4y agoI'm looking at his actions, rather than believing the words of a liar. Just before the war, he said he was not going to invade. Then he did it anyway. His words are meaningless. His actions are what counts. And he obviously did try to take Kyiv. There were paradrops intended to take Kyiv in hours, even. There was a push by more forces to take Kyiv in days. It all failed because they encountered far more serious resistance than they expected, and it turned out they lacked the supplies for a longer operation, and couldn't get those supplies organised in the face Ukrainian defense specifically targeting Russian supply lines. Eventually they couldn't make any progress and withdrew. Though not before murdering lots of civilians in Boucha.
- medo-bear 4y agoin 2014 in odesa ukranian nationalists burned protesting students alive. please dont pretend this war is a holywood good vs evil film
- defrost 4y agoThis would be the building fire: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-odessa-building-fire https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o... that started after both sides hurled molotov cocktails at each other? The world is complicated, yes, but your comment reducing this to "one side burned the other side alive" is disingenuous at best.
- medo-bear 4y agothe people trapped in the building were either prevented from leaving or beaten up as they tried to leave, while ukranian nationalists chanted "burn! burn!" on the street