Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Yes Soviet era, but I believe has longer range than much of what Ukraine has currently

Switzerland and Finland are neutral and with national service, but they would also be difficult countries to invade in terms of their terrain. Ukraine, on the other hand, is mostly flat plain. Funnily enough, there are still reports of the Russian army having difficulty in some of that flat terrain, which leads onto my second point - the Russians won't want to leave Ukraine alone if this is truly a war about resources and Ukraine insist on leaning more toward the west. Going into the EU would only deepen Ukraine's relationship with the West. Therefore, the Russians would take a ceasefire period to reform their military and they could come back at Ukraine in a much more efficient way, learning from their previous mistakes. In short, I wouldn't trust the Russians as far as I could throw them. They've shown their nature. Ukraine needs some absolutely cast-iron guarantees of its safety, going forward, and that is an agreement that would need backing by hard force, i.e. NATO membership.

Zelensky should have reminded the US viewers about Putin's "potty mouth". That would have got the WASPs a-buzzing.

Has a spokesperson from the People's Republic of Kherson commented on this yet?

It's only about 4 km from the city centre.

Well I wouldn't say it is all about resources. But an EU with trade deal for Ukraine for those resources has less reason for buying resources from Russia, Russia loses one of the holds it has on EU. The resources may not be extracted for a while but the licences to do can be sold now minus the finders fee...

If resources don't come into it, why has russian put so much effort into the southern front in an attempt to cut Ukraine off from the sea, instead of sending everything at Kiev and the regions around Crimea.

You'd wonder about that car 'accident'

Putin meeting the same fate in Moscow ( or elsewhere ...) would have the same effect....

Whatever about getting NATO membership (or some similar defence guarantee from US/NATO allies?), Ukraine likely cannot accept Russia limiting their protection to a promise of Putin and a reduced army (that as you say, Russia can just take another run at in a few years).

They'll need to be able to get the best of weapons off who they like and prepare themselves even better so Putin or any warmongering Russian leaders who follow will know it will be even more painful and difficult trying to attack Ukraine in future.

The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has ordered Russia to stop it invasion, saying it had not seen any evidence to support the Kremlin’s justification for the war, that Ukraine was committing genocide against Russian-speakers in the east of the country, Julian Borger writes.

The court ruled by 13 votes to two for a provisional order that “the Russian Federation shall immediately suspend military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 in the territory of Ukraine”. Only the Russian and Chinese judges on the court voted against the order.

The order was in response to a Ukrainian appeal to the court on 26 February, asking for a urgent ruling on Russian unsupported claims that Ukrainian forces were committing genocide in Russian-backed enclaves in Luhansk and Donetsk, regions in eastern Ukraine, as a justification for the attack.

Russia did not attend an initial hearing on the case, nor did its lawyers turn up to hear today’s ruling. Instead they sent a letter to the court claiming the ICJ did not have jurisdiction over the case. The court’s president, Joan Donoghue, rejected Russia’s argument, pointing out the frequent occasions that Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials had claimed the alleged genocide was the reason for the attack.

The ruling is unlikely to influence Putin’s choices, but it does provide an authoritative refutation of his pretext for starting the war.

Putin's mouth performs the same function as a hippo's tail.

On the other hand they are the ones most likely to want a different Russia, I'd have thought.