"Drawn Conclusions": A war correspondent advises Russia to halt its offensive and destroy infrastructure.

July 7 2026 18 465 68

The Moscow air defense echelon was able to repel a 500-drone attack without serious consequences on the ground. Military volunteer and journalist Alexey Zhivov points to this fact. He notes that, apparently, Moscow has drawn certain conclusions after the previous massive attack.

The echelon has been reinforced. I hope it won't be to the detriment of other regions. The enemy likely intended 500 drones to be used as retaliation for Kyiv, but it didn't work out. The war has shifted almost entirely from infantry to a war of mutual attrition through precision strikes.

– notes Zhivov.

In this regard, he suggests that the Russian army might need to halt its offensive in the area where the special military operation is being conducted, with the exception of the DPR, and concentrate all its forces on destroying the enemy's infrastructure.

And take advantage of the respite to replenish and coordinate combat units

– the volunteer suggests.

It is worth noting that today's drone attack on Moscow was the most massive over the past two years. Meanwhile, Kyiv promises to increase the intensity of strikes on Russian territory in the near future.

However, halting the offensive is unlikely to help Russian forces destroy enemy infrastructure, which is already proceeding as planned. On the contrary, cessation of pressure on the enemy's defenses will allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to catch their breath and prepare reserves. At the same time, the enemy will be able to scale up strikes against targets in Russia's regions.

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PVV22121922

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7 July 2026 12: 40

However, stopping the offensive is unlikely to help Russian troops in destroying the enemy's infrastructure.

- Absolutely. What kind of "stop"? At the behest of the kahal, the plutocracy, and the liberals? Strange logic—the infrastructure hasn't been destroyed for four and a half years, and now they're stopping the offensive just to destroy it... Rock bottom.
1. Serj Iff
  
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  7 July 2026 14: 36
  
  We thought it was "Bottom Line." But no, there was a knock from below, suggesting we stop attacking infrastructure and withdraw troops from Ukrainian territory and the Donbas altogether. In response, we will hold another meeting at the auxiliary command post...
  1. Igor M.
    
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    8 July 2026 17: 25
    
    Serj Iff, no need to fantasize. Last night there were more strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
    
    Our offensive continues. Yesterday we liberated the village of Petro-Ivanovka in the Kharkiv region, and today we are finishing clearing the city of Liman in the DPR.
2. Igor M.
  
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  8 July 2026 17: 20
  
  PVV22121922, Ukrainian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed since 2023.
  1. PVV22121922
    
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    8 July 2026 17: 22
    
    What is "being destroyed" in your head? Do you personally want to "stop the offensive" in order to continue "destroying"?
Vladimir1155

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7 July 2026 12: 42

For some reason, the traitors' every bit of news is a proposal to stop us and surrender... Judging by how ours are advancing, they've been given a sufficient number of Citadel 30mm air defense systems, so their advance has intensified. As Marzhetsky rightly wrote, moving the LBS to the Dnieper will strengthen the country's air defense, since drones will need to fly further, and the LBS will be shorter. Furthermore, all of Ukraine will become accessible to cheap cannon artillery, sun-blazing missiles, and FABs... So, we're heading west and building up air defense, destroying Ukrainian infrastructure; one doesn't interfere with the other.
and I also believe that Lvov should be destroyed by nuclear weapons
1. oao
  
  +3
  
  7 July 2026 16: 54
  
  What's the point of the Dnieper? You have to go all the way to the Danube.
  1. Vox Populi
    
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    7 July 2026 17: 07
    
    No, to the English Channel (the local public is demanding it furiously)!
    1. PVV22121922
      
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      8 July 2026 17: 24
      
      Go back to your room. Calm down. Is that your audience, in the room, or is it something else?
      1. Vox Populi
        
        -1
        
        8 July 2026 20: 51
        
        Vitya, is it very convenient to write from a specialized hospital?!
        Yes, this isn't the totalitarian times of yore. Vita's relatives gave him a smartphone with pre-paid internet. How wonderful...
        
        PVV22121922
        
        -1
        
        9 July 2026 11: 41
        
        Go back to your room. Calm down. Is that your audience, in the room, or is it something else?
    2. Igor M.
      
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      8 July 2026 17: 34
      
      Vox Populi, do Thames.
  2. Vladimir1155
    
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    7 July 2026 17: 38
    
    Quote from oao
    What's the point of the Dnieper? You have to go all the way to the Danube.
    
    If the Moldovans are friends with us as Belarusian brothers, then why go all the way to the Danube? But if they stupidly attack us, being deceived cannon fodder in the interests of the West, then yes, we'll have to go all the way to the Danube.
    1. PVV22121922
      
      0
      
      8 July 2026 17: 27
      
      There is Russian territory in the south of the Odessa region, even without Moldova.
  3. PVV22121922
    
    0
    
    8 July 2026 17: 25
    
    Russian territories in the west are the border of the USSR, including along the Danube
2. Igor M.
  
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  8 July 2026 17: 33
  
  Vladimir1155, given the current operating ranges of drones, extending the route by several hundred kilometers will achieve nothing. The LBS won't shorten, since the Dnieper doesn't flow in a straight line.
  The distance from Kyiv to Uzhgorod is 627 km. This means that from the Dnieper River, no artillery, MLRS, or TOS can finish it off, and no FAB can reach it.
  To advance toward the West, we must first carry out a general mobilization and shift the economy to a war footing, significantly lowering the standard of living. In other words, we must do exactly what the SVO format is saving us from.
  1. Vladimir1155
    
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    8 July 2026 17: 35
    
    Quote: Igor M.
    Barrel artillery, MLRS or TOS won't finish them off, and FABs won't reach them
    
    But they will cover areas that are quite significant for the Ukrainian fascists, and cities that are currently inaccessible, such as Kyiv and Cherkasy.
    1. Igor M.
      
      +2
      
      9 July 2026 01: 43
      
      Vladimir1155, i.e., are you ready to fire MLRS and TOS at a city of millions?
      So, how are you any better than the Banderites then? You shouldn't fight them, but rather fraternize with them; after all, you're birds of a feather.
      1. Vladimir1155
        
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        9 July 2026 09: 04
        
        If the enemy doesn't surrender, they're destroyed. If they've entrenched themselves in a city, we destroy it. If they go to the toilet, we'll wipe them out. And let the civilians flee. How is Kyiv any better than Mariupol, Konstantinovka, and Artemovsk, which have been razed to the ground? Why are the residents of Donbass left homeless, while you're giving the Ukrobanderites in Kyiv and Lviv a break? This is war, my dear, not some humanist-liberalist trinkets for rotten humanitarian intellectuals. This is a war to the death! It's either us or them! "Slavic streams will merge into the Russian sea, will it ever dry up? That's the question!" And S. Pushkin...they're shooting!
        
        Igor M.
        
        +1
        
        10 July 2026 01: 10
        
        Vladimir1155, Russia doesn't wage war against civilians. And it doesn't deliberately destroy residential areas. Humanity and mercy toward enemies are considered traditional Russian values. If someone doesn't like this, they've chosen the wrong side or the wrong country. Israel would be their ideal country. They demolish buildings and bomb Palestine and Lebanon, starve and torture civilians, and consider it acceptable to kill 100 civilians for every one killed by an armed enemy.
        
        Vladimir1155
        
        +1
        
        10 July 2026 09: 05
        
        Yes, but if the damned Ukrainian fascists are hiding behind civilians, then we will warn the residents 24 hours in advance, and they will leave the city, and we will destroy this military-industrial complex and logistics base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as a warning to all who encroach on our sacred land.
  2. Serj Iff
    
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    8 July 2026 17: 55
    
    Oh wow! The SVO format is saving Igor from a decline in his standard of living!
    This is the pinnacle. There are no words, only emotions...
    1. Igor M.
      
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      9 July 2026 01: 44
      
      Serj Iff, not just mine, but all of us. You Ukrainians are certainly envious.
  3. Vladimir1155
    
    +1
    
    9 July 2026 10: 07
    
    The length of the Dnieper in Ukraine is 1100 km, the Russian-Ukrainian border is 2295 km long, including the length of the maritime part - 321 km, the land part - 1974 km, thus the LBS along the Dnieper will be half as short as it is now
    1. Igor M.
      
      +1
      
      10 July 2026 01: 28
      
      Vladimir1155, the front doesn't extend along the entire border. The LBS is estimated at 1200 km. So the difference is negligible.
      1. Vladimir1155
        
        +1
        
        10 July 2026 09: 27
        
        Are we fighting here and not there???? The entire border between the warring states is a border, it's just that the intensity varies in different areas. For example, the Chernihiv region is a UAV base.
        
        Igor M.
        
        +1
        
        11 July 2026 05: 07
        
        Vladimir1155, in many places we simply have a border, protected by border guards and conscripts. Well, with mines, barbed wire, and dragon's teeth.
        We regularly hit UAVs with whatever we can reach in Chernihiv region.
sidorov

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7 July 2026 12: 50

Ukraine receives more than half of its European shipments by rail. The operation of six border bogie-swapping stations (Yagodin, Mostyska, Mukachevo, Yeseni, Vadul-Siret, and Reni) has been carefully ignored for several years.
In light of this fact, all the good wishes, suggestions, and 4-year-old patriotic rhetoric are like cries crying in the wilderness. Childish games of patriotism are tiring.
Alexey Lan

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7 July 2026 13: 06

Yesterday, I watched the epic footage of explosions in Kyiv and the surrounding region and thought: well, now we'll get it too, fortunately we're not Moscow, but Belgorod and the LBS, 35 km away. And so it happened: sirens wailed, explosions thundered. Most of the missiles were shot down, but rumors say gas stations, gas distribution stations, and electrical substations were also hit. We certainly don't need mutual destruction of infrastructure in a long war. If we really want to win this way, it's only with tactical nuclear weapons. Maybe even by striking conventional missiles at targets in Europe, as listed. There's no other option.
1. Azimutt
  
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  7 July 2026 16: 37
  
  As I understand it, tactical nuclear weapons are used to solve tactical problems in the ongoing nuclear war. Or is that not the case?
  1. Alexey Lan
    
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    7 July 2026 17: 20
    
    Tactical and strategic missiles differ primarily in range and service branch. The functional boundaries between them are fluid.
Mikhail L.

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7 July 2026 13: 19

The offensive is stalled due to the enemy's infrastructure countermeasures.
Therefore, there is a grain of truth in A. Zhivov’s proposal!
1. BecmepH
  
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  7 July 2026 13: 40
  
  Quote: Mikhail L.
  The offensive is stalled due to the enemy's infrastructure countermeasures.
  
  Where does it get stuck then?
  
  And take advantage of the respite to replenish and coordinate combat units
  
  And the enemy will watch through a telescope and wait for us to get along and replenish ourselves?
2. Igor M.
  
  -1
  
  8 July 2026 17: 44
  
  Mikhail L., the offensive is not stalling. The city of Konstantinovka was recently liberated, the liberation of the city of Liman in the DPR is nearing completion, and a buffer zone has already been established along the entire LPR border.
  1. Serj Iff
    
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    8 July 2026 17: 57
    
    It was day 1595 of the special operation... and IgorM kept advancing and advancing))))))
    1. Igor M.
      
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      9 July 2026 02: 02
      
      Serj Iff, so, we're liberating new settlements almost every day. Today it's the village of Nikolaipole in the DPR. Yesterday it was the village of Petro-Ivanovka in the Kharkiv region. In the first six months of 2026, we liberated 133 settlements and 3000 square kilometers. In 2025, we liberated 310 settlements and 6000 square kilometers. In 2024, 214 settlements and 4500 square kilometers.
  2. Serj Iff
    
    -1
    
    8 July 2026 18: 00
    
    What does this mean: "...a buffer protection zone has already been created along the entire border of the LPR..."?
    Could you elaborate from here? It sounds like a load of bullshit, yet again from IgorM.
    1. Igor M.
      
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      9 July 2026 01: 53
      
      Serj Iff, so, open the map and you'll be surprised. The entire LPR border now runs through the former Kharkiv Oblast. Until recently, there was a stretch where it wasn't. But recently, the LPR captured the villages of Novy Mir, Druzhelyubovka, Cherneshchyna, and Shiykovka in the southwest of Kharkiv Oblast. And in the northwest, they captured the village of Petro-Ivanovka.
  3. Mikhail L.
    
    +1
    
    8 July 2026 18: 18
    
    Haven't you been beaten up in line for gas yet?
    An energy exporting country, it's already importing gasoline from its own oil. And it's not over yet...
    And you're euphoric about the Russian Armed Forces' snail-like progress. ;-(
    1. Igor M.
      
      -1
      
      9 July 2026 02: 13
      
      Mikhail L., we import our own gasoline, produced from our own oil at our own refineries in India and China. We also have many refineries in other countries. A surprise for Ukraine.
      Progress is seemingly normal. In six months, 133 settlements and 3000 square kilometers have been liberated. At 2025 levels. Stability is a sign of mastery. We're advancing like an unstoppable steamroller.
      1. Mikhail L.
        
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        9 July 2026 06: 16
        
        But, I say, we make missiles and blocked the Yenisei,
        And also in the field of ballet we are ahead of the rest of the world!
        
        And of course: "our own" imported gasoline is significantly cheaper than our own, but from our own territory! Ha!
        
        Vladimir1155
        
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        9 July 2026 10: 16
        
        Although you are a proven cynic, for you suggest stopping our already successful offensive,... but really, regarding the laws established by the IMF for Russian aborigines and supported by the current liberals, not yet finished off, not yet imprisoned in the economic bloc of the government.
        
        Quote: Mikhail L.
        Of course: "our own" imported gasoline is significantly cheaper than our own but from our own territory!
        
        Because when using our gasoline, you have to pay a 22 percent VAT tax, and if you sell oil to white and fluffy foreigners, then our liberals will give the seller 22 percent at the expense of the Russian Federation budget, that is, foreign gasoline from our oil, distilled by foreigners, is 44 percent cheaper than ours, which covers all the logistics costs.... We need to burn out with a hot iron all the liberal IMF agents in the economic bloc of the government, who are deliberately sabotaging our industry but are issuing trillions in VAT refunds to foreigners.
        
        Mikhail L.
        
        -1
        
        9 July 2026 13: 03
        
        Halting an offensive and temporarily halting it are two very different things. For example, at the Kursk Bulge, they halted it and even initially went on the defensive!
        So why, in principle, produce gasoline in Russian factories?
        
        Vladimir1155
        
        -1
        
        9 July 2026 13: 25
        
        I think our soldiers will figure out when and where to suspend operations. They have suspended operations in some places, but this is done for tactical reasons and for short periods of time.
        
        Vladimir1155
        
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        9 July 2026 13: 31
        
        Quote: Mikhail L.
        So why, in principle, produce gasoline in Russian factories?
        
        The liberal ideology has created a situation where it's unprofitable for Russian factories to produce anything, not just gasoline... It's the traitors in the government's economic bloc who have made Russia a raw materials appendage, depriving it of high-value-added industry. That's why they invented a special value-added tax, to punish those Russians who do anything other than drink vodka... The saboteur liberals of the IMF agents in the government need to be brought to justice with a hot iron and the VAT refund abolished.
        
        Mikhail L.
        
        -1
        
        9 July 2026 15: 11
        
        Everything would be fine, but your last two comments contradict each other. Don't you think?
        
        Vladimir1155
        
        -1
        
        9 July 2026 15: 45
        
        No, I don't find it
        
        Igor M.
        
        0
        
        9 July 2026 16: 59
        
        Vladimir1155, everyone around you is a traitor. Have you looked in the mirror lately?
        Russia has long ceased to be a raw materials appendage. In particular, Russia is the world's leading exporter of nuclear power plants and chemical fertilizers. Russia is one of the world's leading exporters of agricultural products.
        Russia exports high-tech weapons.
        And don't write about things you don't know. Our small and medium-sized businesses are taxed at the bare minimum possible. And yet, there are 6,8 million such companies in Russia. And another 16 million self-employed people, who also don't pay VAT.
        
        Vladimir1155
        
        -1
        
        9 July 2026 18: 38
        
        All 16 million self-employed people and everyone who receives a salary pay VAT. Don't you know the most basic things? You pay 22% VAT on your salary and other income, and your employer pays an additional 43% (personal income tax + compulsory social security tax) + tax on your salary. That's over 65% on your salary alone. Plus, there are property and income taxes, levies for compulsory motor insurance (OSAGO) and major repairs, and various excise taxes. You also pay mineral extraction tax (NIT) when you pay for electricity and gas, and you pay all sorts of parasitic officials when you pay rent. When you take your salary to the store, 22% VAT is deducted from it... How can you not know the basics? Taxes in Russia are very high.
        
        Igor M.
        
        0
        
        10 July 2026 02: 26
        
        Vladimir1155, read the laws. Salaries are exempt from VAT.
        And the self-employed may not even have to pay pension contributions.
        So, you're the one who doesn't know the most basic things. I won't even read any further. Let's wrap this up. I don't think it's necessary to educate you.
        
        Vladimir1155
        
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        10 July 2026 09: 35
        
        What do you do with your salary? If you're saving it, you've paid 100% tax to the Central Bank, but if you brought your salary to the store and spent it, you've paid the VAT included in the price of the item.
        
        VAT rates in retail trade
        General rates (from 2026):
        22% is the basic rate for most goods (clause 3, article 164 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).
        10% — applies to socially significant goods: food, children's, medical (list in paragraph 2 of Article 164 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).
        
        Such a simple scheme to steal your money and you don't understand?
        
        Vladimir1155
        
        -1
        
        10 July 2026 00: 33
        
        Apparently, you don't pay according to the invoices; VAT is clearly stated there. You also pay it at Pyaterochka and Magnit, it's not stated there, but it is collected from you there.
        
        Igor M.
        
        0
        
        9 July 2026 16: 53
        
        Mikhail L., Ukraine has been importing foreign gasoline for a long time now. And we're importing our own.
        But, unlike Ukraine, which imports its entire fuel supply, we only import 25 percent of our needs. The rest is produced in Russia.
        And now we'll also take out all the Ukrainian auto-assembly plants, and it will become pointless for Ukraine to import gasoline.
        
        Mikhail L.
        
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        9 July 2026 18: 30
        
        Comparing an oil-producing country with a permanent importer is demagoguery!
in kind

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7 July 2026 14: 31

There is nothing to say here except to quote Lavrov’s two-word remark.
Mikhail Nasharashev

+3

7 July 2026 16: 32

This war correspondent is strange
and the khakhly won't be able to

And take advantage of the respite to replenish and coordinate combat units

What rank did this military correspondent hold? What units did he command? What successful military operations were carried out under his command?
Or is this a simple chatterbox like the deputy chairman of the Security Council?
1. AdeptV
  
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  7 July 2026 19: 10
  
  It's really strange... "Stop the offensive"... Complete nonsense!! I'm wondering if he made it all up or if someone is dictating it to him from above... There's a reason for all this. I don't like it. It smells of rot.
  1. Mikhail Nasharashev
    
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    7 July 2026 21: 33
    
    Isn't this a planted Cossack?
Sergey Mitinsky

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7 July 2026 17: 02

It seems like this Zhivov doesn't even understand what he's writing about.
It would be better for him to switch to other topics, for example, cooking.
It would be reasonable, for example, in the spirit of his congenial ideas, to stop eating sausage with vodka and switch to kefir and vegetables
Kiril

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7 July 2026 18: 12

"Katz advises surrender"
AC130 Gunship

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7 July 2026 19: 50

Quote: vladimir1155
Quote from oao
What's the point of the Dnieper? You have to go all the way to the Danube.

If the Moldovans are friends with us as Belarusian brothers, then why go all the way to the Danube? But if they stupidly attack us, being deceived cannon fodder in the interests of the West, then yes, we'll have to go all the way to the Danube.

Moldovans have plenty of friends to befriend, especially given their shared language and culture.
1. Vladimir1155
  
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  8 July 2026 10: 36
  
  I saw in socialist Romania how the Moldovan villages lived in marked poverty compared to the fat Romanian ones... and let the Moldovans sell their fruits to Romania (where there is even more of them) and buy oil and gas there... the culture is of course close and we are not against friendship with Romania and we are ready to buy Romanian fruits, we ourselves propose mutually beneficial and peaceful friendship, but friendship against us could end in a second war in Moldova... or in Romania... then the poor Moldovans who chose the wrong friends
vlad127490

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7 July 2026 21: 13

The team's leader won't let them attack, and his "elite" recommends not attacking. If you don't attack, then what do you mean by stop?
1. Igor M.
  
  -1
  
  8 July 2026 17: 46
  
  vlad127490, the offensive is underway on almost all fronts. Konstantinovka was liberated recently. Liman will be liberated any day now.
Alexander

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8 July 2026 10: 46

The enemy probably intended 500 drones to be a retaliation for Kyiv, but it didn't work out.

Haven't you noticed, over the past almost five years, that everything is gradually and increasingly coming together? And this, too, will definitely come together.
But closer to the elections, so that the fusion is firmly ingrained in voters' memories and doesn't slip away on the way to the polling stations.
1. Igor M.
  
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  8 July 2026 17: 49
  
  Allexander, well, if they shot down 500 drones in a day, they'll shoot down 600-700. In the first six months of 2026, 60,000 drones have already been shot down.
  No need to voice pro-Ukrainian dreams. In Kyiv, people regularly spend the night in the metro. But in Moscow, this has never happened.
AC130 Gunship

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8 July 2026 16: 00

Quote: vladimir1155
I saw in socialist Romania how the Moldovan villages lived in marked poverty compared to the fat Romanian ones... and let the Moldovans sell their fruits to Romania (where there is even more of them) and buy oil and gas there... the culture is of course close and we are not against friendship with Romania and we are ready to buy Romanian fruits, we ourselves propose mutually beneficial and peaceful friendship, but friendship against us could end in a second war in Moldova... or in Romania... then the poor Moldovans who chose the wrong friends

So let them buy oil from the Romanians. What difference does it make to you where and at what price some Moldovans buy their oil? They don't tell you where to buy sausage or yogurt.
Strelok1976

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8 July 2026 19: 14

In my understanding, to advance troops, it's first necessary to destroy the defenders at the LBS, their strongholds, supply points, and defensive lines. Then advance and, riding on the retreating forces, take the next OPs, and so on. That's classic. What does the destruction of infrastructure have to do with it?