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Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
This is going to be a short thread on Ukraine's culture in war and it's vendetta with the Russian Army’s 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment.🧵 1/
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Russian media has confirmed that Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky, the commander of the Russian Army’s 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment, has been killed by Ukrainian forces. Russian paratrooper units have suffered significant losses in both casualties and prisoners in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🌻🌻
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Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
From the link: "Ukraine is returning to its cultural roots from the Kievan Rus/Viking period, the Cossack period being an extension of that. Community is everything. These people are at heart Viking berserkers – and we have seen it over and over again on the battlefield 3/
An 1869 drawing representing Prince Sviatoslav I’s ‘side lock’ hair cut
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Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
...over the last 9 months. Cornered Ukrainian officers, wounded, surrounded by Russian Spetsnaz, pulling the pins on a string of grenades, to take the enemy with them, which they did on multiple occasions."
Ukrainian Defense Ministry Donbass Situation Map, Early January 2015
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Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
I've been expecting the full Viking Berserkergang...and seeing it. The Russian 247th Guards VDV Air Assault Brigade was pivotal to the Ukrainian loss at Ilovaysk in the 2014-15 fighting. Thus it was likely involved in the Ilovaysk murder of Ukrainian wounded and POWs. 4/
Amnesty International Photo of Exchanged Ukrainian POW's
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Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
The Ukrainian annihilation of that unit in this invasion was preordained. A Ukrainian reading friend says he sees the phrase "revenge for ..." popping up all of the time in Ukrainian social media. Then, when it was reported a Su-27s killed two Russian CANDIDs carrying VDV, 5/
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Trent Telenko
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...it was "revenge for the Luhansk Il-76 ambush". Whatever else happens, Putin will not be able to conquer the entire Ukraine and may not even get to keep the Donbass. Putin has created a Ukrainian nationalist monster that will hate Russians for both the great famine of 6/
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Trent Telenko
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...the 1930’s under Stalin and now the very raw territorial wound of detached Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Ukrainians will work for a 100 years to get all that back, minus anyone who is visibly, culturally, Russian. The Ukrainians are now fighting a national people's war. 7/
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Eugene Shamshurin
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"The soul and the body we will not spare for our freedom" says national anthem of Ukraine. Well put, Sir. Indeed a nation is being forged! Viking roots are not an allegory, Kyiv was founded by them and has a different name in Icelandic language: Kønugardr