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How Ukraine is weaponizing Russia’s size against itself | DW News

Russia’s vast territory has long been one of its greatest military advantages in the war against Ukraine. But is that strength becoming a weakness? DW Kyiv correspondent Nick Connolly explains how Ukr

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Very true
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You can kind of compare this to fishing. It's hard for someone to catch a fish that is fraction of your body weight because while you're fishing for fun or food, fish is fighting for its life. Also, it is always more difficult to attack abroad than to defend in your backyard.
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A happy man doesn't go to war.
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Running out of people is so dark
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This makes afd people sad
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0:46 hommie flyin an X-wing into the death star
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A country that’s been colonizing itself for centuries has always had a size problem. Ask the natives in Siberia being drafted for a war they know nothing about thousands of miles away while a oligarch’s son picks which yacht he wants to race in St. Petersburg
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4:18 I adore that helmet sign
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Nice winking to the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once 😊
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@OzAshley From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 110
Russia…. No fuel, no military, no air defence, no internet, no cash, no free speech, no sleep at night, limited food in places
And the walls come tumbling down. SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦 from Australia 🇦🇺 💪💪💪
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Hey 🇷🇺 Those with gas houses should not throw matches
Thanks 🇺🇦!
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Imagine being the leader of the largest country in the world and constantly whining that you don't have enough territory..
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Lead engineer of Firepoint wrote on X that the latest generation of their drones (those that attacked the Omsk refinery) has a maximum range of 3400 km which means most of Siberia's pipeline infrastructure is now in range, too.
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True irony in being the largest country open earth, sparsely populated, and sending the citizens out to be killed in droves. What they gonna do with more land if they have no people to live there?
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The lesson that Russians taught us is "if you invest enough cheap ressources, some get through." Ukraine just uses drones instead of humans.
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A $10,000 drone can blow up a $100 million factory or refinery. The long-term economics of this war is not on Russia's side.
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@Bdub1952 From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 312
The three-day special military operation became a five-year special military obliteration.
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@1imesub From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 529
In other words, Russia's taking it deep in the rear.
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What do we learn from all this? Don't EVER start a war! 🤷♂
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@dwnews From YouTube ↗ 8 Jul 2026 132
Analysis by the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies found that Russia has suffered 450,000 battlefield deaths and 1.4 million injuries since it started its full-scale war. Its estimated casualty rate of over 30,000 per month exceeds its recruitment rate of 27,000 soldiers per month. This year Russia is calculated to have lost 8 soldiers for every 1 Ukrainian casualty, up from a rate of 3:1 during the first years of the war, according to the CSIS.