For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar.

Now, some say, following an audacious attack by Ukraine that saw hordes of drones smuggled into Russia and then deployed on June 1 to wipe out dozens of long-range bombers, it has arrived on their doorstep.

In the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, drones struck air bases, shocking Russian authorities and citizens.

“It was a fiery hell,” residents of the Irkutsk region told RFE/RL’s Siberia Realities.

In Siberia, some 4,000 km away, residents appeared to be shaken.

“Now the war has reached us too,” residents told Siberia Realities.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      You realise you’re still avoiding insanely simple questions, right?

      Unlike some, no matter what I say here, I don’t have to fear physical reprisal. Unlike Russians. In Russia, being a journalist is extremely fucking dangerous, and that’s why most Russians are afraid for their lives and would never admit what a small-cock authoritarian Putin is.

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          13 days ago

          Eugh. Such a bore, just vomiting the names of fallacies, not even understanding how one uses them.

          Well, make it clear for everyone. You admit that Putin is a war criminal who should be seized and trialed for crimes against humanity, IMMEDIATELY? Right?

          • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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            03 days ago

            Obviously, you’re the only one who seems to think anyone in this thread thinks otherwise. Creepily so.

            • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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              Why on Earth would you imply I “think otherwise”? Oh right, your verbal skills aren’t enough to answer a single fucking question in English.

              I forgot, izvini comrade.

              edit just a reminder, this is my personal knife, and it’s explicitly for killing Russian war criminals;

              • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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                03 days ago

                The only thing I can conclude from your behavior is you’re trying to manufacture defense of putin out of nothing with performative anger and a refusal to comprehend responses to it.

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                  Stress on the pronoun “I” there.

                  I’m manufacturing defense of Putin? Me? A member of the Finnish Defence Force? A Finnish reserve member, trained to kill cyka ruskis?

                  Me who’s saying Putin is a pathetic balding whore afraid to even appear in public because his country hates him so? Putler, who has an ICC warrant ouf for his arrest?

                  https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

                  I bet you don’t dare to say any of those things.

                  Please, prove me wrong in that aspect. Please

                  ps how much military training you have?

                  • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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                    03 days ago

                    Yes, manufacturing. Because everyone responding to you just must be defending putin no matter what they actually said. And you’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.