tbh I was more pessimistic, even if I didn't think Russia would manage to take all of Ukraine, I expected it to take Kyiv and the government to have to evacuate e.g. to Lviv and the frontline to end up being way west of where it is.
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It was, apparently, a near run thing, but the citizen soldiers of Kyiv saved the capital, as documented here by the WSJ, 🎁:
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I forgot about “Welcome to Hell” I’ll have to read the whole thing later
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yeah, and the president and government staying in the capital and not evacuating (even if it was risky as fuck) was probably decisive for the morale
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I'd have run away but I never said I wasn't a coward
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and while the government in, say, Lviv, would still be the legitimate one, Russia setting up a puppet regime in Kyiv would make the international position more precarious, with Russia-friendly countries (like possibly even Hungary) recognizing that one
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I'm glad I was wrong and tbh if the government had evacuated then Kyiv probably would have fallen
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