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Replied to Ben Royce 🇺🇦

So let's recap:

In February 2022, #VDV forces landed at #Hostomel airport to pave the way for #Russia's quick decapitation of #Kyiv.

Apparently some of the #Russian #Paratroopers made restaurant reservations in Kyiv (as their joke), such was their certainty.

And, nobody thought #Russia would be this stupid, but if they did it, the world also thought #Ukraine would rapidly crumble.

How could they not? Russia was a major power and Ukraine was poor and puny.

The 🇬🇧 #Defense Secretary, #GrantShapps, has ordered an urgent review after it emerged there is a shortage of planes for a mass parachute drop to mark the 80th anniversary of #DDay

Hundreds of #paratroopers were expected to jump into #Normandy on the eve of #DDay to honour the actions of their predecessors in #WorldWarTwo, but plans have been scaled back due to a shortage of aircraft

The #MailOnSunday reported just one plane was left for the event

theguardian.com/world/article/ #Military #News

The Guardian · Grant Shapps orders review into plane shortage before 80th D-day anniversaryBy Jessica Murray

:twitter: Михайло Подоляк
#Podolyak_M

That's weird.

The Russian Federation is losing entire #military units. Elite forces – #paratroopers, #marines, #specialforces, contract. 87% of the "regular #army", into which an incredible amount of money was pumped before the full-scale #invasion and which was literally demonized in many countries, has been destroyed.

#Russia is panically withdrawing the remnants of its "#BlackSea Fleet" to the bays of #Novorossiysk and is already silent about total ⏩