Russian troops have initiated a sustained offensive, effectively "encircling" the Ukrainian armed forces, as reported by The Economist. (www.economist.com)

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's also fitting since ravenwing is part of one of the worst marine chapters out there, known for massacring whole planets for nonsensical paranoic reasons, and ironic since they are the fast attack formation, not known for months-long bashing heads against against prepared enemy lines.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

-Spend months fighting over the same 6 inches of ground

-Army is replenished by forced conscription

-Constantly losing bodies in forced charges on hardened positions because theres a guy with a gun in your back

Wear space marine patches, are clearly guardsmen

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