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you take "blaming the victim" to an entirely new level.

wow, well done Ukraine ! https://www.facebook.com/100052259093871/posts/487047459713886/?d=n

Ukraine won't fight tank battles. They have infantry, and I expect cities to become very very difficult for the Russians. I hope there is an anti-tank missile at every window.

and France24's analyst who is currently speaking on air shakes his head and wonders how Putin can think that a war on Ukraine will succeed in turning away Ukraine from its path towards the West and the EU, says Russian military must rethink its strategy because it's not progressing fast enough.

actually, I am impressed how the Ukraine military has resisted so far. the Russians still have taken none of the major cities, and have been repelled from taking strategic objectives as far as I know. France is sending help to Ukraine in the form of MMP missiles and other defensive weapons.

BBC source

The Ukrainian general staff have just posted the latest estimate of Russian losses: https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua/posts/259492119697207

on a more humoristic note, if that's possible, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine posted today: https://www.facebook.com/MinistryofDefence.UA/posts/264282702550856

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2022/01/25/the-uk-airmailed-2000-nlaw-missiles-to-ukraine-are-they-useful/?sh=294fb2074170 reports today of at least a tank destroyed in Kyiv using NLAW: https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-25-22/index.html Let's hope the fight in Kyiv is way more difficult than the Russians expect. I think if the Russians take over Kyiv and if they imprison or kill current leaders and proclaim a new government, recognition of it, everywhere in the world and especially within Ukraine will be zero. I don't expect the Ukrainian military to lay down arms with the fall of Kyiv. There are a high number of deputy ministers for everything, and the current government power will go to other people, probably located in Lviv and Russia will have no other choice than assaulting Lviv too.

they do miss. often. especially Russian ones

that's easy to answer: the US will use operatives that don't hold US citizenship.

I hope Ukrainian defenders took positions in all buildings in Kiev and are armed to the teeth with antitank weapons.

there is now active fighting going on in the streets of Kiev ????

I count this under normal collateral damage in a war. I guess Ukrainians fight as they can, and it's possible Russians tried to hit a mobile air defense unit that was in the vicinity of the Kindergarden and the missile had a guidance problem. I guess it was probably an accident, Russians are not known to intendedly kill children.

the saboteurs change into Ukrainian uniforms. in the story related on the Ukrainian's MoD facebook site, they say "Ukrainian" soldiers went to an emergency services post and demanded to change into Police and Firefighter uniforms, briefly showed some ID but refused to let people examine their ID in detail. So the people there became suspicious and called the police instead. I guess the Russians wearing Ukrainian uniforms were increasingly questioned about their identity as soldiers and plan B seems to be changing into civilian uniforms. And this is in complete contravention of the Geneva Convention.

From the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense: https://www.facebook.com/MinistryofDefence.UA/posts/264301855882274 there were other posts yesterday about other incidents of the same nature. that's what Zelenskyy was referring to when he said "saboteurs" were in the city.

From what I can read, there are some incidents reported where Russian soldiers change into Ukrainian military uniforms as well as police, firefighters, and emergency services uniforms, and then proceed to shoot Ukrainian soldiers manning checkpoints. Some of these Russians have been captured, others killed by Ukrainian security forces. So Russia is in breach of the Geneva convention. and three years ago he revoked the Geneva convention on war crimes: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-warcrimes-convention-idUSKBN1WW2IN

On 27 September 2009, Yushchenko said in an interview aired on Channel 1+1 that the testimony of three men who were at a dinner in 2004 at which he believes he was poisoned is crucial to finishing the investigation, and he claimed these men were in Russia. Ukrainian prosecutors said Russia has refused to extradite one of the men, the former deputy chief of Ukraine's security service, Volodymyr Satsyuk, because he holds both Russian and Ukrainian citizenship.[24] After arriving in Russia Satsyuk was granted Russian citizenship protecting him from extradition.[25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko

so, wait ... Ukraine has been nothing for 8 years against the separatists, but now Putin has come to help the separatists by invading all of Ukraine ?

the main problem for Russia is that Ukrainians consider themselves European. There is a strong European identity sentiment in Ukraine, and they see Russians as thuggish brutes. And Ukrainians, having lived under the Russian boot for many years, do know Russians very well. Ukraine wants to join the EU. NATO is just a side show in the big picture, but Ukraine fears for its security and has just now been shown to be right. Maybe there is a way out of this mess. Neutrality may be the answer. If Ukraine's neutrality is guaranteed by NATO.

I think the currency exchanges are unfair. They should at least offer the recycling value for the paper.

what I said before: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/02/24/we-need-as-much-stinger-and-anti-tank-weapons-as-possible-says-ukraines-defense-minister/ is it possible to launch a go fund me to buy javelins and stingers for Ukraine ?

so it's option #2. to be honest, Putin was doing all right until the invasion. he seems to have gone senile.

don't worry, they are mostly trolls paid by Russia or useful idiots.

Crimea as well as the 2 separatist republics have a relatively good case for Putin "protecting" them, because 80 to 90% of their population is of Russian nationality. Had Putin just invaded these 3, there would be no war. For some reason he decided to go full crazy ivan.