r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine ‘We Were Mistaken’: Putin Admits Russia Was Unprepared for Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Refineries

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83674
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u/nickiter 13h ago

That's during an active frontline assault.

But yeah, the fighting in Ukraine has been incredibly bloody. Urban environments along with the advent of drones ... Slaughterhouses.

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u/bstiglets 12h ago

You think Russia would have an understanding of the difficulties of asymmetrical warfare

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u/Ok-Relief-462 3h ago

They have an understanding of the difficulties, as do most nations; he just made the often repeated mistake of assuming you wouldn’t have to deal with an asymmetric conflict. Putin was working on the assumption that this Ukraine was the same one that rolled over in 2014 with crimea

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u/Lutrana 4h ago

It’s still, like, a month or less after signing.