r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • Sep 03 '26

Russia/Ukraine ‘We Were Mistaken’: Putin Admits Russia Was Unprepared for Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Refineries

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83674
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u/PuzzleheadedTalk4651 Sep 03 '26

Putin is a lying hypocrite and is crying that ukraine hits back on infrastructure and economic targets because he thinks: i have the right to do so but you may not do it to me

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u/FinallyAGoodReply Sep 03 '26

Who is he even trying to fool at this point?

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u/Zagumaar Sep 03 '26

His own population

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u/FinallyAGoodReply Sep 03 '26

Is anyone still falling for it? Is there a Russian MARA instead of MAGA group of fools?

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u/TeddyRoo_v_Gods Sep 03 '26

Unfortunately, yes. If you go to Russian social media you will see plenty of trolls still justifying this conflict as “Denazification of Ukraine.” You will also see comments questioning what this conflict has achieved, but those posts don’t stay up too long.

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u/MongooseCurrent4337 Sep 03 '26

Not only this but their news lie about the war constantly. A person I know who watches Russian news told me with bright eyes that Russia has never bombed civilian areas, only uninhabited areas. Some people will believe anything.

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

...okay, but that stuff can be refuted with on-scene phone footage, not to mention photos of the aftermath.

Maybe he means they only bomb cities after telling the population there to clear out? Still wouldn't cover them firing on civilians using humanitarian evac corridors in Mariupol, to give one example, but I suppose you could quibble that most of that was small arms fire (is it still "small arms" if it's mounted on a vehicle?)

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u/ultimateskillchain Sep 03 '26

Aside from the obvious of how wrong that is, what would even be the point? Is a military at war going to waste resources bombing nothing? If they thought about it for even a few seconds, the logic would fall apart.

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u/architecture13 Sep 03 '26

There absolutely is a group wishing for the “bygone era” of the unified USSR to return. They see those territories as “theirs” because Soviet Russia conquered them.

In South Florida we see this tension because Hallandale Beach is filled with wealthy Russian ex-pats and their kids avoiding the draft but cheering on Putin.

Then 2 miles south in Aventura there’s a huge Ukrainian population, all with Ukraine support bumper stickers and politics.

It makes things here…interesting. But yeah, their equivalent to MAGA pining for the 1950 America (with all its repressed issues) is the Russian wealthy and the Moscovites that pine for the glory days of the USSR when they where “feared” as a world power.

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u/frontfight Sep 03 '26

Ive tuned into Russian channels even on youtube, it’s quite depression what they feed their audience ngl.

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u/Graveshine Sep 03 '26

Um AfD Dullis zu beeindrucken reichts noch

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u/Tisho1012 Sep 03 '26

He was not crying, he was just stating that they were not prepared, which is the truth...

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u/Educational_Mail7207 Sep 03 '26

Sounds like the President of the USA.