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Ukraine Invasion Day 271: war intensity moves to the east [1]

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Date: 2022-11-20

Russian military strikes — almost 400 on Sunday alone — also hit Ukraine’s eastern regions, and fierce ground battles shook the eastern Donetsk province. Russian forces managed to advance south of Bakhmut and continue to put pressure on the defenders in the area. And on the corporate miliblogging front, the AP posted a pro-Ukrainian white Russian history review

At the map room at FoxNew today. Discussed the positioning for winter offensives in Ukraine with the missile attacks on civilian power stations as part of an opening terror campaign setting conditions for what comes next… pic.twitter.com/xmAkptH1xq

x ⚡️ WAR IN UKRAINE, NOV 20



Lowest reported losses of the week



TODAY'S REPORT:

330 soldiers killed ⬇

7-day average: 479 ⬇

8 equipment lost ⬇

7-day average: 49 ⬇



VISUALLY CONFIRMED:

3.5x to date ➡

2.3x last 30 days ➡

3.5x counteroffensive ➡



📈 https://t.co/Z9etsrgjmu pic.twitter.com/geD6qr8DHf — Ragnar Gudmundsson 🇮🇸🇺🇦@[email protected] (@ragnarbjartur) November 20, 2022

x Meanwhile in Russia: a rare moment of sanity on Russian state TV, when one panelist was finally fed up with Vladimir Solovyov's threats to wipe Kyiv or Kharkiv off the face of the earth. pic.twitter.com/Ty4k8sK26y — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 21, 2022

ISW published a report on military bloggers: “This report discusses the rising influence of the milblogger (military correspondent or voenkor) community in Russia despite its increasingly critical commentary on the conduct of the war. The milblogger community reportedly consists of over 500 independent authors and has emerged as an authoritative voice on the Russian war.[1] The community maintains a heavily pro-war and Russian nationalist outlook and is intertwined with prominent Russian nationalist ideologists. Milbloggers’ close relationships with armed forces – whether Russian Armed Forces, Chechen special units, Wagner Group mercenaries, or proxy formations – have given this community an authoritative voice arguably louder in the Russian information space than the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD). Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the milbloggers from MoD attacks and protected their independence even as he increases oppression and censorship throughout Russia.”

www.understandingwar.org/...

x Meanwhile in Russia: accused war criminal Zakhar Prilepin—who spends a lot of time on the frontlines and previously boasted of "killing many" in Ukraine—admits that Russia wants to negotiate merely to regroup and finish fighting later, any potential peace accords notwithstanding. pic.twitter.com/WyuvASO9Ru — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 20, 2022

x Berestove, north of Svatove is being bombed with incendiary ammunition.. pic.twitter.com/lqfZZhKT14 — NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) November 20, 2022

x Ukraine's Kherson win is rippling from Crimea to Donbas. Great maps... https://t.co/dVWuD3c7mK via @WSJ — Dan Michaels (@DanMichaelsWSJ) November 20, 2022





x 🇫🇷France has handed over 2 batteries of the Crotale air defense system to #Ukraine, - French Defense Minister pic.twitter.com/BjZwF21WsG — Stepan Gronk (@StepanGronk) November 21, 2022

x There’s a huge problem in finding women's uniforms(even abroad), but we are glad to have Volunteer Foundation sewing them here, in Ukraine. And now I'm sure my girls-medics will be warm and safe from heavy frost. Thanks again! Together until our victory 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/UmedALyDFE — Mary Ro (@within_marya) November 19, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago, a revolutionary Polish patriot argued that Russia’s hunger for territory would continue to destabilize Europe unless Ukraine could gain independence from Moscow.

Poland’s Marshal Józef Piłsudski never managed to fulfil his hope for an independent Ukraine connected to Europe. But the farsighted and analytical statesman did manage to wrest his own homeland from the grip of czarism and from two other powers, Austria and Prussia.

At a time when many Poles had given up on the dream for full independence, Piłsudski put a sovereign Polish state back on the map of Europe at the end of World War I, after more than a century’s erasure.

Piłsudski’s story, complete with flaws, accomplishments and echoes of today’s war in Ukraine, is brought to life in a recent biography, “Józef Piłsudski Founding Father of Modern Poland,” by Joshua D. Zimmerman, a professor of Holocaust Studies and eastern European history at New York’s Yeshiva University. The book, published by Harvard University Press, also reexamines Piłsudski’s relationship to Ukraine.

[...]

As Zimmerman recounts, Piłsudski had a vision of a multilingual and multiethnic Poland that respected the rights of minorities, especially Jews. That earned him the enmity of nationalists who wanted a Poland run for ethnic Poles.

After World War I, Piłsudski hoped Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine could form an alliance to counter Russia in the style of the Polish-Lithuanian union that existed for centuries prior to 1795. But Ukrainians and Lithuanians were wary of Polish claims on their territories, and Pilsudski’s vision of an anti-Russian alliance never became reality.

In language that might be applied to today’s discourse, Piłsudski conceived of a sovereign Ukraine not merely to prevent Russian aggression but as an outpost of Western liberal democracy.

“There can be no independent Poland,” he is quoted as saying in 1919, “without an independent Ukraine.”

Piłsudski launched a military campaign in 1920 to support Ukrainian nationalists against Bolshevik rule, an action condemned by some as an overreach. Zimmerman believed he had a rationale that echoes today, when Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic countries, as well as Finland and Sweden, feel that Russia under President Vladimir Putin must be contained.

apnews.com/...

x Just over a century ago, revolutionary Polish patriot Józef Piłsudski argued that Russia's hunger for territory would continue to roil Europe unless Ukraine could be separated from Moscow. Piłsudski's story echoes today’s war in Ukraine. https://t.co/KlePNcRTHp — The Associated Press (@AP) November 19, 2022





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