Wednesday, August 28, 2024

#putinswar #russia #ukraine - Russia increases glide bomb attacks on Ukraine's border regions | DW News

28 August 2024

To Ukraine now, where the head of the army says Ukrainian forces have captured nearly 13 hundred square kilometers of Russian territory. The Ukrainian incursion was launched three weeks ago, and raised hopes of a respite for Ukrainian civilians living in border areas. Instead, they’re facing a growing barrage of Russian glide bombs: cheap weapons that can wipe out a building in a single strike. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutsche...

What is this all about?

The War in Donbass (also known as the War in Ukraine or War in Eastern Ukraine) is an ongoing armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, together commonly called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government Prior to a change of the top leadership in August, the separatists were largely led by Russian citizensRussian paramilitaries are reported to make up from 15% to 80% of the combatants.
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