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A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in an apartment building in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new U.S.-supplied weapon that Kyiv used to execute one of the most damaging attacks on the Kremlin’s air assets since the start of the war.

Putin told reporters that Russia “will be able to repel” further attacks by the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS.

Ukraine claimed it used those missiles to destroy nine Russian helicopters, as well as ammunition, an air defense system and other assets at two airfields in Russia-occupied regions on Tuesday.

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[-] hogunner@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Big difference between these two wars: in WW2 Russia was being invaded and they had one of the worst winters on record which is what really stopped the Germans (and also Germany fighting on two fronts) but I’m not a historian so please correct me if I’m wrong.

[-] AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germans were not prepared for winter fighting and had stretched their supply lines thin. It was more then just the cold that stopped the Germans.

Fun fact, Nazi Germany was more reliant on horses then armour throughout ww2 for transport.

Public opinion to the contrary, so great was the dependence of the Nazi Blitzkrieg upon the horse that the numerical strength of German Army horses maintained during the entire war period averaged around 1,100,000. Of the 322 German Army and SS divisions extant in November 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. Of the November 1944 total of 264 combat divisions, only 42 were armored or motorized. The great bulk of the German combat strength—the old-type infantry divisions—marched into battle on foot, with their weapons and supply trains propelled almost entirely by four-legged horsepower. The light and mountain divisions had an even greater proportion of animals, and the cavalry divisions were naturally mainly dependent on the horse

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/germanhorse/index.html

That said, the Soviets being invaded was the decisive factor in the war. The invaded will always fight harder then the invader. For the most part anyways.

The Germans were already loosing by 1943, wasting tons of resources doing the holocaust as well. The Western allies opening up the Italian and French fronts only increased the speed of this.

I've heard some Ukranians refer to this as their own" great patriotic war ." And its true.

This war will define this generation of Ukranians like how that war defined those generations who fought it, and made a legacy for those who would come after them.

[-] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 1 points 1 year ago

"than" "Losing"

There is a difference.

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