The summary of the seventh day of Russian invasion to Ukraine. Russian forces captured the first regional capital and are advancing towards Slovyansk from the west. Ukrainian recaptured a town near Kyiv but Donbas, and mainly Mariupol, is approaching a critical stage. Southern front Kherson...
I can only imagine what Russian troops feel when they hear the familiar obscenities from locals kicking and spitting at their vehicles, asking them why they’d come, telling them to get the hell out. It’s apparent by the sixth day of the war — and military analysts are largely in agreement about it — that the invasion’s foot soldiers likely weren’t told ahead of time where they were going and what would be expected of them. No normal Russian would voluntarily go and kill Ukrainians, soldiers or civilians. The common Russian-Ukrainian expletives, which they get in lieu of flowers as they pass through a village in a convoy or try to occupy a town, must sear their ears now.