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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Ukrainian forces staged an overnight ambush on a Russian convoy 25 miles inside the international border in Russia’s Kursk province, as the Kremlin declared a federal emergency and said it was transferring extra forces to try to snuff out a four-day incursion that has badly damaged its credibility.

A video circulated by Russian military bloggers showed a destroyed convoy, with bodies just visible inside some trucks, on the E38 east-west highway at Oktyabrskoe, a location far deeper inside Russia than any previously confirmed fighting since Ukraine’s forces crossed the border on Tuesday.

Commentators said the attack, reminiscent of Ukrainian attacks on Russian troops besieging Kyiv in the first weeks of the war, demonstrated an effective hit-and-run strategy, but the incursion appeared likely to draw an escalating response from the Kremlin, and its overall outcome remains profoundly uncertain.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Complain at the UN about how this is totally unfair and they’re not allowed to do that?

That is not a joking suggestion; I predict that sometime next week, that exact thing will happen.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago
[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 45 points 1 month ago

Your faith in the fleshed out ness of the Lemmy bot ecosystem is an inspiration to us all

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

There's no way that works.

!remindme 1 week

[-] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

At least the cake day bot seems to be working.

Happy cake day and many pleasant returns!

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

you tagged a community, remindme bot doesn't seem to exist, and even if it did federation would brick it half of the time

answer is already there, don't even try beeping at me

I thought they more or less already did that? Although perhaps not at the UN.

They've already been making out that it's an unacceptable act of aggression by Ukraine.

Next up:

  • someone falls out a window
  • Putin with mysterious illness, photos of him sitting many metres away across a stupidly long table.
  • they will launch the nukes if other countries don't stop supporting Ukraine.
[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm, seems like it didn't after all. They are too busy scrambling their defenses and trying to tell their own people that everything is normal.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 1 month ago

They did. Everyone just ignored it.

this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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