Ria Novosti accidentally posted the "We won" article too early

[joluoto]

Because it probably was on a timer and no one thought to change it. It was captured by the Internet Archive before it was removed.

Here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226224717/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html

You can read an English translation here: https://mil.in.ua/en/news/brave-new...be-published-after-the-occupation-of-ukraine/

So it basically gloats about how Russia has unified with Belarus and Ukraine, and the West is clueless and weak.

 

[RabidAlpaca]

This is my biggest fear. I don't think Russia plans on just toppling the government and installing a puppet, they want to absorb Ukraine entirely and erase their existence. If we allow them to get absorbed into this evil, it's unlikely they'll ever come out of it.

 

[Felis Leo]

This is my biggest fear. I don't think Russia plans on just toppling the government and installing a puppet, they want to absorb Ukraine entirely and erase their existence. If we allow them to get absorbed into this evil, it's unlikely they'll ever come out of it.

That would be even more insane than my prior supposition of "freeing" the Ukraine of its corrupt "Nazified" government. That would mean incorporation of Ukraine into a Greater Russia, and a permanent military occupation. That is beyond Vietnam and Afghanistan levels of vainglorious stupidity.

 

[joluoto]

That would be even more insane than my prior supposition of "freeing" the Ukraine of its corrupt "Nazified" government. That would mean incorporation of Ukraine into a Greater Russia, and a permanent military occupation. That is beyond Vietnam and Afghanistan levels of vainglorious stupidity.

Considering they seem to have used Lukashenka's weakness and inability to keep himself in power on his own, to basically occupy Belarus and turned Lukashenka himself into a powerless non-entity, they have already started absorbing Belarus, so to think the goal wasn't the same for Ukraine is at this point naive.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Considering they seem to have used Lukashenka's weakness and inability to keep himself in power on his own, to basically occupy Belarus and turned Lukashenka himself into a powerless non-entity, they have already started absorbing Belarus, so to think the goal wasn't the same for Ukraine is at this point naive.

Belarussian troops have crossed the border into Ukraine and Russian cruise missiles have been fired at Kyiv from the Belarus side.