Reinforced concrete shelters will be installed across the Kursk region, local Russian authorities announced Thursday as Ukraine keeps up its daring attack on Moscow’s territory.

“Today we began to install reinforced concrete shelters in Kursk. On my instructions, the Kursk city administration identified key points for placing concrete modular shelters in crowded places,” Aleksey Smirnov, Kursk’s acting governor, said in a statement.

Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion earlier this month caught the Russians on the hop, and Kyiv’s forces have expanded their offensive, capturing more towns and territory with little resistance.

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Putin technically never said it. Just a lot of his allies and media people did.

    Not that it really matters in the end. Russia was quite sure to take the country in less than a week and failed misserably

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      3 months ago

      And it’s also a famously common mistake. WWI initially had a bunch of countries happily go to a quick and decisive little war.

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        3 months ago

        Hell I remember Cheney (or was it rumsfelt) in 2003 talking about how Iraq would be ready for America to pull out within a year.

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      3 months ago

      Nah, there’s leaked emails of FSB feeding Putin the info that they could take Kyiv in 3 days.