1418 days: Russia’s war against Ukraine equals the duration of the “Soviet-German war of 1941-1945”

On January 11, the war against Ukraine, which the Kremlin calls a “special military operation”, lasts as the “Soviet-German war of 1941-1945”.

On January 11, the duration of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has reached 1418 days, which is exactly how long the “Soviet-German war” lasted.

In Russia, the media did not pay attention to this detail, despite the fact that Vladimir Putin has repeatedly explained the war in Ukraine precisely because of the Soviet-German war.

Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, drew attention to the duration of the war.

“The war between the USSR and Germany, which Soviet and then Russian historiography called the “Great Patriotic War”, lasted exactly that “special military operation”. During these 1418 days, there were battles for Moscow and Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge, and the breakthrough of the Leningrad blockade. German Forces were expelled from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltic countries. The Soviet army marched through Eastern Europe and ended the war in Berlin.

January 11, 1418, is the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine continues to defend itself from an aggressor whose territory is 27 times larger and whose population is three times larger. The Russians have neither the “battle for Berlin” nor “liberated” regional centers of Ukraine. There are exhausting positional battles for every village, destroyed cities, and a front that has hardly moved for months.

The war that the Kremlin threatened to end “in three “days” has already equaled in duration the war, which has been reduced to the main sacred myth of Soviet/Russian history, and has turned into a protracted conflict without a quick resolution, but with a daily price in human lives,” he wrote.