The website calculated that it took the Soviet Army 1,418 days to advance to Berlin after the first setbacks against the Wehrmacht and to force the surrender of Germany together with the Allies. In contrast, after 1,418 days of war in Ukraine, the Russian army has been “stuck in the same villages and towns of Donbass for years.” Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine almost four years ago and expected to capture the capital Kiev within days. The statistics were not mentioned in the Russian state media.
Moscow wanted to repeat the success of that time, said Zelenskyj in his evening video speech. “They repeated the mistreatment of people, repeated fascism, repeated almost everything that was the worst in the 20th century,” he stressed. “Yet the Russians are trying to conquer the same Donbass as they did almost four years ago, they want to lie again that they took Kupiansk.”
“That says a lot about the system that (Kremlin chief Vladimir) Putin has built and just about him personally,” Zelensky said. According to him, Russian losses are currently at least 1,000 dead per day. “And so Russia is actually paying for the war not to end, which is crazy.” And this “Russian madness” can only be stopped with combined forces.
The comparison of the two wars is not entirely correct, “Meduza” added. A direct comparison of many indicators shows that the current war only has an existential character for Ukraine. Kyiv manages to continue the war with Western help. The Kremlin, on the other hand, is unable or unwilling to engage in an existential struggle and is limiting itself to only slightly increasing its efforts.
The Ukrainian media reported 1,418 on this day. On the day of the war, minor Russian gains in territory near Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region and near Pokrovsk in the Donbass. The military-affiliated Ukrainian blog “DeepState” published corresponding maps on Telegram.
