Ryuu96 on 23 May 2023
Russia had long assumed - probably correctly - that the site of Ukrainians charging into Russia would make their Western partners nervous. Kyiv has neatly sidestepped that by using Russian proxy forces instead of Ukrainians.
— Jimmy Rushton (@JimmySecUK) May 23, 2023
It also once again undermines one of Putin's main arguments about his "special military operation", that the war was meant to make Russia safer.
— Jimmy Rushton (@JimmySecUK) May 23, 2023
Before February 2022, there was never any direct conflict with Ukraine on Russian soil; now there is.
