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Here is Russian ultra nationalist Girkin’s take https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1660273337744982023...

> Oh, they will almost inevitably do something, somewhere. But the fact that they managed to retake a lightly-defended area that one time gives people all kinds of crazy ideas.

That lightly defended area was 12000 km.

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Gonna let you in on a little secret: Colonel Girkin has never not been fulfilling his duty, not now and and not in 2014. Make of that what you will.

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Neither have most Russia military men