JP Lindsley | Under Fire News
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Four Years Ago, Putin Claimed Kherson. Six Weeks Later, His Army Fled. (opens the original)
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On September 30, 2022, Vladimir Putin stood in the Kremlin and declared Kherson part of Russia. Six weeks later, as Ukrainian soldiers entered the city, thousands of residents flooded the streets to greet them with hidden flags, tears, songs, and embraces.Liberation did not bring peace, and the city still lives under Russian fire. But the scenes of that day remain one of the clearest answers to Moscow’s central imperial claim: Russian-speaking Ukrainians were never simply Russians waiting to be
MIL-TECH TUESDAY: Ukraine Is Air-Dropping Kamikaze Robots Behind Russian Lines (opens the original)
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The Border Was Supposed to Be the Boring Part (opens the original)
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Russian cruise missiles struck a Moldovan-Ukrainian border post while Nikolaus Muchitsch, an Austrian who is Under Fire News’s chief of staff and strategy, was crossing it by bus.Since the full-scale invasion, the only way into Ukraine has been long train rides, bus transfers, and hours at the border, because civilian flights are impossible. The journey was tiring but safe.Now Russia is striking the crossings and routes themselves. Recent attacks have killed people near a crossing into Moldova,
A Book for the Day After Your War (opens the original)
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I reached a Yorkshire village, seeking some temporary peace after four years in Ukraine. There, a British veteran, knowing war himself, gave me a book, A Month in the Country, about a man who comes to Yorkshire, shaken from the trenches of the First World War.Well, I had a week in the country, and we are in a war. So I read it. A Month in the Country understands the trauma of those who have been through war. Does it propose what to do with that trauma?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
"My Mission Is to Earn the Right to Say That I Fought" (opens the original)
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HOWARD HUNT went to Ukraine to serve as an evacuation medic and came back to Berlin with a problem: modern casualty evacuation still runs on a photocopied paper form.So he built The AO, an offline digital triage system. It works without transmitting, because anything that transmits can be found.Hunt describes the evacuation train that showed him who pays for this war, and explains what foreign volunteers get wrong — arriving expecting gratitude, and taking the first no as an answer.Nikolaus Much
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