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/vrnvorona 11d ago

As a russian, all he wants is to have some fun. He decided that he wants to unify as much territory as possible, whatever there is a cost. People's lives (both sides), economy, resources, politics, anything really doesn't matter to him (otherwise there'd be no offense in the first place, only dumb idiot would start this bullshit "operation"). All ego. Dude's literally bored to death, old spy-rotten brain has country to his nail, all positions filled with loyalists, no real threat or thrill. Even has billion dollar mansion for shit and giggles. Naturally instead of playing Genshit Impact he decided to gable with real war.

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u/Electric4ce 11d ago

Everyone lists different reasons for the war. I think the truth is that there are multiple. Nato/EU expansion is one, Ukraine being USSR is another and him throwing Russians into the meatgrinder to keep Russia, Russia.

I'm sure there are more.

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u/JustDesserts29 10d ago

NATO/EU expansion is just the excuse the Russians give for the invasion. Russia still has enough nukes to end human civilization. They’re not worried about NATO or the EU. No one is going to risk ending humanity to invade Russia. Ukraine also wasn’t ever anywhere close to joining NATO or the EU. They were close to signing a deal where the EU would help Ukraine develop the infrastructure to extract their own natural gas resources and process them. 30-40% of Ukraine’s energy came from natural gas at the time. They got most of their natural gas from Russia. The deal would have made it possible for Ukraine to be much less dependent on Russia for its energy needs. The Russians started the war because they wanted to maintain their control over Ukraine and the trade deal would have threatened it. That’s it.

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u/Electric4ce 10d ago

Yeah, that's probably another reason. But if you think longer, Ukraine would eventually be merged with the EU because of that deal.