3/20/2023 0 Comments Borders vox youtube![]() The only inhabited place nearby - an Italian ski lodge called the Rifugio Guide del Cervino - was caught right in the middle. But beginning in the 1980s, geographic surveyors noticed something: The glaciers whose peaks had long marked the watershed line were retreating … and moving Italy’s border along with them. For centuries, the watershed line (which marks the divide where water flows either north or south off of the mountains) served as a natural boundary between Italy and its European neighbors. Italy’s land border cuts through the highest altitudes of the Alps - crossing snowfields, mountain peaks, and massive glaciers. Subscribe and turn on notifications □ so you don’t miss any videos: Vox: “ How a ski lodge became trapped in a border dispute. It’s well worth the less than 5 minutes it takes to watch this video. Vox does a great job explaining this phenomenon. ![]() The video explains how the border between Switzerland and Italy is ever-changing with melting glaciers high up in the Alps.Īn Italian ski lodge called Rifugio Guide del Cervino, is in jeopardy of becoming part of Swiss territory thanks to a nearby glacier that is receding. “The situation is completely under control,” a Russia-installed official in the region said this week.Vox makes a lot of political content, but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the video pop up in my suggested YouTube feed this morning. As the Kremlin grapples with the fallout from a disastrous mobilization of reservists that resulted in hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, Putin has reportedly rejected field requests to retreat in Kherson. Ukrainian forces have been slowly advancing in a grinding assault toward the port city of Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city to fall when Russia invaded in February. “The enemy managed to penetrate into the depths of our defense,” spokesman Kirill Stremousov said. (“I didn’t hear anything about it,” one Lyman resident told the New York Times of her purported new nationality.) The retreat came after Ukrainian forces partially surrounded the small city and cut off the roughly 5,000 Russian troops stationed there, whose initial request to fall back was denied, resulting in heavy casualties.įurther south in Kherson, Russia’s Defense Ministry has admitted that Ukraine is on the advance, announcing Monday that Ukrainian tank brigades have broken through Russian defenses. The day after Putin gave the speech, Russian soldiers withdrew from the railroad hub of Lyman in Donetsk. Neither is the reason for Russia’s confusion on the matter: Already suffering heavy casualties, reports suggest Russia is getting clobbered in eastern Ukraine. It’s not a great sign for a country to have only a theoretical understanding of the territory it has just annexed despite fighting a proxy war in the area for close to a decade. ![]() So for all those worried about what Russia’s militant annexation of Ukrainian land might ultimately mean, just consider for a moment that /iXHENdZsy0- Tim McMillan October 3, 2022 UPDATE: The Kremlin says it will “consult” with local populations to determine exact borders of the regions Russia annexed last week. “We’re going to continue to consult with the people who live in these regions,” Peskov said of these areas bordering Russia and the Black Sea. In a conference call with reporters following the State Duma vote to ratify the annexation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted on Monday that Russia does not know the true borders of the newly Russian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia. ![]() On that first front, however, the situation on the ground may not be as glowing as Putin made it seem - since Russia doesn’t actually know what ground it illegally took from Ukraine. In a strange speech last Friday, Russian president Vladimir Putin championed the annexation of four territories in eastern Ukraine, sounding triumphant as he announced the territory grab and a little paranoid as he dove into a diatribe about transgender rights in the United States. Photo: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images ![]() A Ukrainian APC rolls down a road at a position along the front line in Donetsk region on October 3, 2022. ![]()
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