> Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman for the Joint Press Centre of the Tavriia Defence Forces, on the 24/7 national newscast:
> “Fighting for Marinka continues. Our military personnel currently remain within Marinka’s administrative borders. But the city has been razed to the ground. But it’s wrong to say that Marinka has been completely captured.”
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The city of Marinka is all but captured by Russia, some nearby villages are still held by Ukraine
Why deny it? It makes them look kind of salty.
But denying reality is somewhat of a pattern for Ukraine. Force of habit mb?
So long as fightings continue it will be a question mark.
Russia seems to be incapable of capturing *cities*. All they seem to do is capture the ruins of cities they’ve utterly destroyed.
Doesn’t look like much of a city anymore yeesh
That’s not a city anymore. Its ruins that used to be a city. Its the Russian way, and its coming to more of Europe within the next 20 years unless they can be halted in Ukraine.
Cope is so high in Russia, tomorrow they will announce to have killed Godzilla twice
Maybe the Russians got lost.
But they have,whats the point of denying it?
They write city, but all I see is blown up bricks. This is just sad 😞
Congratulations to the Russians for taking a year+ to take razed city that you’ve expended 10s of thousands of people’s lives for. Second strongest military in the world btw with a navy and Air Force. /s
Edit: Forgot to mention Ukraine was supposed to fall in less than a month and Russia still has barely advanced in this almost second year of the war.
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> Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman for the Joint Press Centre of the Tavriia Defence Forces, on the 24/7 national newscast:
> “Fighting for Marinka continues. Our military personnel currently remain within Marinka’s administrative borders. But the city has been razed to the ground. But it’s wrong to say that Marinka has been completely captured.”
Highly editorialised title
The city of Marinka is all but captured by Russia, some nearby villages are still held by Ukraine
Why deny it? It makes them look kind of salty.
But denying reality is somewhat of a pattern for Ukraine. Force of habit mb?
* [Ukraine denies own missile hit Poland ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9iusfmgkdg)
* [Ukraine denies Russia claim to have encircled Severodonetsk](https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-denies-russia-claim-to-have-encircled-key-eastern-city-severodonetsk/)
* [Zelensky denies the fall of Bakhmut](https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-21-23/h_52861cc93adf8b366bc603a1158be996)
* [Ukraine denies Russia’s claim it has captured Soledar ](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-1-13-23/h_de54be1093f5a127defd5f35b6f1fa61)
So long as fightings continue it will be a question mark.
Russia seems to be incapable of capturing *cities*. All they seem to do is capture the ruins of cities they’ve utterly destroyed.
Doesn’t look like much of a city anymore yeesh
That’s not a city anymore. Its ruins that used to be a city. Its the Russian way, and its coming to more of Europe within the next 20 years unless they can be halted in Ukraine.
Cope is so high in Russia, tomorrow they will announce to have killed Godzilla twice
Maybe the Russians got lost.
But they have,whats the point of denying it?
They write city, but all I see is blown up bricks. This is just sad 😞
Congratulations to the Russians for taking a year+ to take razed city that you’ve expended 10s of thousands of people’s lives for. Second strongest military in the world btw with a navy and Air Force. /s
Edit: Forgot to mention Ukraine was supposed to fall in less than a month and Russia still has barely advanced in this almost second year of the war.