r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 11d ago

Russia/Ukraine Zelenskiy: "There is updated intelligence indicating that Russia is ​preparing a massive attack on Ukraine"

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-intelligence-shows-russia-is-preparing-massive-attack-2026-10-06/
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u/Dear_Bumblebee_1986 11d ago

I wonder what Russia actually wants with Ukraine other than "it once was ours, we want it back"

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u/wally_weasel 11d ago

Putin wants to be known as the ruler that took back all of the Imperial Russian territory.

Go check a map of Russia in 1914. That is Puton's goal.

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u/Top_Environment9937 11d ago

He was trying hard to give a history lesson in that interview he did. Apparently he’s fighting nazis lol

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u/Typical_Bumblebee194 11d ago

I heard someone wants to possess Greenland and in some weird manner believes that Canada needs to be brought into the net.

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u/jkrobinson1979 11d ago

Why do you think Trump drools all over Putin? They’re cut from the same cloth.

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u/Conscious-Mulberry17 10d ago

Comparing Trump to Putin is in no way controversial or inflammatory to a lot of Americans, myself included. I’d love to see both of them gone.

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u/King_of_Kraken 11d ago

The Baltics would like to have a word with

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u/RiderNo51 11d ago

True. Even greater land than the Soviet Union.

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u/PxyFreakingStx 10d ago

this sounds oversimplified, but it isn't. that literally is putin's only reason for doing this