Shoigu added that Russia could achieve its military goals with “consistent implementation of the measures in the action until 2025.”

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin and allies like Shoigu have repeatedly stressed the need to keep Ukraine inside Russia’s sphere of influence, and to defeat what they describe as Ukraine’s “Nazi regime”.

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    1 year ago

    And that was followed by

    “They haven’t sent in their real elite forces yet, these are just conscripts to soak up the Ukraine forces and ammunition”

    And Then

    “They never wanted to capture Kyiv (of course it was not spelt this way…). It was just a feint”

    And so on as each new copium point replaced the last one.