Former USSR

There are some really heart wrenching stories coming out. The ones that get me are the parents saying goodbye to their children. There is one about a soldier who couldn't detonate a bomb remotely and destroy a bridge, so he did it in situ. Brave man. Plus the soldiers who refused to surrender to a Russian warship. Probably plenty we'll never hear.

Putin has a lot to answer for.

Here we go……

Problem is,  he and his other billionaire friends won't have their money in rubles.  The only people this will effect are the poor civilians (whom he doesn't care about anyway).  Or am I missing something?

The same everywhere, the rich are on a different level to us scummy bottom feeders.

Their mega yachts are basically mini countries, they have weapons and all sorts. A port will let them in for the right price.

Is Putin brown bread yet?

I did wonder what Compare the Market would do under the circumstances.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60557073

What we've witnessed so far isn't what many would have expected of Russian tactics. They are well known for their artillery attacks which haven't really happened on the sort of scale they are renowned for. Also their air force has played a minimal part to date.

One school of thought is that they are conscious of causing so much destruction that it forces a Nato intervention (possibly an explanation to the nuclear option yesterday), so are holding back hoping they could roll in without too much trouble. That clearly hasn't worked as well as they expected which could now lead to an escalation. Their track record in Grozny and more recently, Syria, isn't good.

Some of the prisoners are claiming to be conscripts who initially thought it was an exercise then that they were fighting to save Ukrainians from Nazis and would be welcomed. They were unsurprisingly shocked by the resistance. Now, that is the precisely the sort of answer many POWs would give anyway, but it is plausible and possibly genuine.

It seems their plan was a quick drive along the Dneiper from the south linking with a quick helicopter flight to Kyiv from the North to take the capital and with it, the government. Forces arriving from the east would complete the capture of all Ukrainian forces east of the river.

For whatever reason, its not worked fast enough. The next stage is going to be bloody, perhaps with Russian forces reverting to type.

Real.

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