re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Here's a really interesting story in the Washington Post about the resistance in Kherson and how Ukrainian SOF worked with ordinary locals to track collaborators and spot locations of troops and weapons for incoming HIMARS attacks.

The Post has had really good coverage of this war, which actually caused me to subscribe, so I can gift this article so that you can read it from this link:

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Here's how it starts:

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Ihor didn’t even know the first name of the person who contacted him. The man said he was a member of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces and wanted to know if Ihor was interested in helping fight the Russians occupying his city of Kherson.

“Sign me up,” Ihor responded.

For months, the two kept up a coded communication over the Telegram messaging app. Sometimes Ihor would be asked to help pinpoint locations from which the Russians were firing artillery. Other times, he sent the man, who asked to be called Smoke, the positions of Russian troops, armored vehicles and ammunition stocks.

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Good call, Ike

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The Americans were taking over the war, it was a bone for Monty. But the deal was the British 1AB Division take the riskier jump. They essentially ceased to exist