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'It's not just a war. It's much worse.' Volodymyr Zelensky's first interview with Russian journalists since the war began — Meduza

#ukraine #war #russia | Minutes before this interview was originally published, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s censorship agency, demanded that no Russian media outlets release it. The agency provided no reasons for this demand, saying only that it had begun a “review to determine the degree of responsibility” held by the publications that conducted the interview. The Russian Attorney General’s Office said it would provide a “fundamental legal assessment of the contents of all published statements and the fact of their dissemination.”

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Ukrainian Civilians Arm Themselves to Fight the Russian Army in Kyiv - The New York Times

#ukraine #war | “When I heard the explosions I decided that I am ready,” said Olena Sokolan, a business manager who received a rifle to help defend the capital. “I am adult woman, I am healthy and it’s my responsibility.”

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I am a Greek Hoplite about to be deployed in the first row of a phalanx. What are my chances of survival and if I am aware of them, how do they impact my battle spirit? : AskHistorians

#classics #war | On the one hand, the Greeks knew that a smart commander would put his bravest men in front and his oldest and wisest in the rear. The older men would be the least inclined to run, and would keep the rest facing forward; meanwhile the bravest and most eager for glory would lead the way. This was an ancient principle for the deployment of any group of warriors, and it would be formalised in the later Macedonian pike phalanx. As the 4th century BC Athenian general Xenophon put it, "unless its first and its last are brave men, the phalanx is good for nothing" (Education of Cyrus 6.3.25).

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What was the casualty rate for battles between hoplites in ancient Greece? : AskHistorians

#classics #war | Back in the 80s, Peter Krentz gathered all known casualty figures from Classical Greek sources in order to establish a rough average.1 He concluded that in battles of Greek against Greek, the winner suffered about 5% casualties, the loser about 14%. These numbers are very frequently cited in scholarship. They seem perfectly straightforward, but it's not really so obvious what they actually mean.

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#war #ussr | And during the exhibition she came face to face with German veterans from the besieging army. ‘No words were necessary,’ Martilla said. ‘I could see it in their eyes - I was at Leningrad.’ She took a group of them round - they were asking questions, asking about conditions in the blockaded city, and then they all stopped. ‘They just stood there, with tears in their eyes,’ Martilla recalled. And then one of them stepped forward. ‘I ask for your forgiveness,’ he said. ‘None of this was necessary, from a military point of view. We tried to destroy you, but we destroyed ourselves as human beings. On behalf of all of us, I ask for your forgiveness.’ As he spoke, Martilla became acutely aware of a different siege memory - the callous indifference shown by Leningrad’s leaders towards ordinary people’s suffering. They would never ask for forgiveness. ‘War is terrible,’ she replied, ‘but my quarrel is with fascism, not with the German people. And fascism exists in all of us.’”

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Hmm yes perfect — A war has no feminine face

#history #war | A staggering collection of reminisces of Soviet women who fought in the WW2.

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