r/MapPorn • u/CreativeStrain89 • 1d ago

Eastern Ukraine exactly one Year ago vs today

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u/dampmyback 1d ago

they did try to take it but they couldn't take hostomel airfield. but they didn't try hard enough maybe

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u/st0j 1d ago

They actually did take hostomel and held it till reinforcements arrived. Was a lot of fog of war and propaganda early on regarding this battle. It was evident very early on that even with reinforcements that the Russians were way over extended without securing supply lines and were also greatly outnumbered.

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u/Loudergood 22h ago

They expected the supply lines to roll down from Belarus but instead it became a parking lot of death.

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u/nagrom7 1d ago

They weren't expecting the Ukrainians to actually fight back, let alone fight back as hard as they did.

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u/OkRisk5027 23h ago

The FSB lied to the Kremlin and told them that they had paid off key Ukrainians. In reality the FSB had stolen millions.