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Dmitri
@wartranslated
Legend says they'll be walking a few thousand kilometers to Ukraine on foot.
Link to tweet
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)BootinUp
(47,139 posts)getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)The logistics of a forced 1800 mile march would be more daunting than finding vehicles for them.
Even at 10 miles a day, it would take 6 months to get there, and winter will be there in 2.
They have to feed, house, and provide medical care along the way.
Ain't gonna happen. Not even a few hundred km.
Someone isn't thinking clearly.
brush
(53,764 posts)up to others. Why that sounds like one of how his sycophants operates.
And it turns out he's no smarted than trump as he's made blunder after blunder with this Ukraine ward.
Wonder how long it'll be before he's forced out?
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Ilya Muromets
Ilya Muromets is a major figure in the byliny, Russian epic folklore collected in the 18th and 19th centuries. Ilya is the son of a farmer, was born in a village near Murom. He suffered a serious illness in his youth and was unable to walk until the age of 33. He could only lie on a Russian stove, until he was miraculously healed by two pilgrims. He was then given super-human strength by a dying knight Svyatogor and set out to liberate the city of Kiev from Idolishche to serve Prince Vladimir the Fair Sun (Vladimir Krasnoye Solnyshko). Along the way he single-handedly defended the city of Chernigov (modern day Ukrainian Chernihiv) from nomadic invasion (possibly by the Polovtsi) and was offered knighthood by the local ruler, but Ilya declined to stay. In the forests of Bryansk he then killed the forest-dwelling monster Nightingale the Robber (Solovei-Razboinik), who murdered travelers with his powerful whistle.[1]
In Kiev, Ilya was made chief bogatyr by Prince Vladimir and he defended Rus' from numerous attacks by the steppe people, including Kalin [ru], the (mythical) tsar of the Golden Horde. Generous and simple-minded but also temperamental, Ilya once went on a rampage and destroyed all the church steeples in Kiev after Prince Vladimir failed to invite him to a celebration. He was soon appeased when Vladimir sent for him.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Muromets