The Daily Populous Friday August 30th, 2024 evening edition
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Sweden's foreign minister has said Ukraine's attack on Kursk is "devastating for the Putin regime."

Tobias Billström said the shock offensive showed that "the Russian war machine is hollow."

Sweden became NATO's newest member when it joined the military alliance in March.

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Ukraine's invasion of Kursk has dealt a huge blow to Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, says Sweden's foreign minister, Tobias Billström.

"The fact that this was possible in the first place is so much more important than the actual territory on the ground," Billström said in an interview with the Financial Times published Thursday.

"This is devastating for the Putin regime," he added.

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ug61dec on August 30th, 2024 at 09:59 UTC »

Let's remember than no matter how hollow, corrupt and incompetent the Russian war machine is, it is still a war machine capable of killing thousands of brave Ukrainians and we must do all we can to help the Ukrainians escape the tyrannical grip of this as soon as possible.

AmethystOrator on August 30th, 2024 at 07:42 UTC »

> Ukraine's invasion of Kursk has dealt a huge blow to Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, says Sweden's foreign minister Tobias Billström.

> "The fact that this was possible in the first place is so much more important than the actual territory on the ground," Billström said in an interview with the Financial Times published Thursday.

> "Everybody who views Russia today can see that with the current regime, we all run a risk that the imperialistic streak will continue, the imperialistic plans towards its close neighbours, starting with Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, etc.," Billström added.

tl;dr

BleachedPumpkin72 on August 30th, 2024 at 06:22 UTC »

And yet we still wary of it and withhold aid and permission to strike into russia from Ukraine, whom russia has been pounding with heinous missile attacks for 2.5 years.