It isn't behind a paywall for me. But anyway, here you are [0]. "But your quoted line suggests they got no help from the military not that they weren't there."

It isn't behind a paywall for me. But anyway, here you are [0]. "But your quoted line suggests they got no help from the military not that they weren't there." Seriously? "there was almost no response, no (Russian) military." suggests you that Russian military was there? It seems, English is not your native language either. "There is no promise there" That's why I didn't use that word. Azov's 'suggestion' to attack border towns like Chechens did is "a basis in reality" unless you think that NYTimes journalist invented this. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230613012141/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/world/europe/russia-war-belgorod.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230613012141/https://www.nytim...