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Thats grand for trained ukranian soldiers. Its their job. Every man woman and child civilian should be running for cover. Lets be honest. If Putin gets impatient he could send in another 50 thousand troops with a phone call.

Just saw the photo on Sky News of the huge Russian ground troops going in. The only thing that can save the Ukrainians is a bullet in the head of that ctnu. Scum of the earth

Maybe that was helpful... he couldnt equivocate on support for Ukraine given where he was.

It should be no surprise there will be a big push before any talks Putin will want to be seen getting the upper hand and he does have the numbers unfortunately to do it . I really hope something can come of the talks because I don't want heavy Ukrainian casualties which will happen if the Russians really go at it .

It's reported by the New York times as well.

Element of us being swept up in it, backing the Ukraine.

Russia is still a serious threat to them. I think the arms and sheer number of volunteers in the Ukraine will swing it eventually for them but this could easily be a long war with hundreds of thousands dead.

"May have been on the take" 😂😅🤣.....had a good chuckle at that !!! You can be 100% sure that they are on the take...I remember in Chechnya, I was on the side of the road, and an APC pulled up right beside me. And I said " Hello" in Russian, ( which tested my limit of the language) and he replied, which I took to be a friendly response, so as I was eating, I pulled a few bits and pieces of food out of my bag, with a few bottles of water, and passed them over to him. He vanished inside the APC, and a minute or two later reappeared holding 4 or 5 AK 47 "banana" magazines, which he threw in the door window of the car I was in. It took me a long time to persuade him to take them back!!! Youngsters, poorly fed or looked after, and left to fend for themselves, live off the land, and in danger of losing their lives every second.

After the takeover in Georgia in 2008, the Russians held a postmortem on how it took so long for a supposedly superior force to overcome the Georgian Army. One of the main defects they discovered was their logistics set-up was not up to the task. Too big a range of different machines, not possible to carry a complete range of spares for each and every vehicle. When they broke down they largely stayed broke. "Shrinkage" This applied to everything, what was listed in the inventory bore little or no resemblance to what was physically available. So at a guess, I'd say that little has changed. On the net you can find the Ukrainian army examining captured Russian vehicles...Tanks, APC's etc. and they show what they are like inside.....My God !!! Its a miracle how they were moving at all. For sure, the outsides were the best looking part.