• Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    Russia easily should have. Ukraine was home to a significant portion of USSR equipment production. Including things like aircraft carriers that Russia can now barely even keep running.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Probably a big part of why Russia wants to take it in the first place.

      • InvertedParallax
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        22 days ago

        Ukraine was always the brains of the ussr, most of their best tech was designed there.