Russia - threadbanned users in OP

"I deftly blocked the punch, using my face."

From the Guardian:

Devastating reports have been coming out of the cities in the Kyiv region that were retaken by Ukrainian forces: bodies in the streets. Destruction. Reports of Russian troops using children as shields.

Anatoly Fedoruk, mayor of Bucha, told AFP that the city has already buried 280 people in a mass grave. Corpses littered the streets, he said, some as young as 14 years old. “All these people were shot, killed, in the back of the head,” Fedoruk said.

Many of the bodies had white bandages on them “to show that they were unarmed,” he said.

In the village of Novyi Bykiv, about 100 miles north of Kyiv, coaches of children were said to have been placed in front of tanks. “Cases of using children as cover are recorded in Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia oblasts [regions],” said Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman.

Yes, this is the best opportunity to do something like that since the weeks before the war.

I sincerely hope the US hasn't been putting off such action in order to allow Russian forces to be progressively more weakened and to further stall the point from which Russian forces can begin to rebuild.

Either way, now is the time to call Putin's bluff by entering Ukraine and proceeding step by step towards the Eastern border. The caveat being that peacekeeping/medical/rebuilding personnel will be protected by lethal force.

All of this will be going before the international war crimes people - they are gathering evidence as we speak.

I've seen those videos and pictures too. I really wish I didn't but it's important that they're out there.

Something has to be done. It's beyond depraved. "Never again" just keeps on happening.

A Rather interesting find at the recaptured Hostomel Airport

Not only are the Russian's doing a bad job of covering up registry numbers.

But they have sent some very unique aerial units into the frontline

>This destroyed helicopter is the Mi-8AMTSh RF-91285, it belonged to the Klin-5 squadron of the RuAF, delivered in 2013. Klin-5 is the experimental unit and it under the "344th Center Of Combat Application And Retraining" directorate. RuAF have sent the elite in Hostimel.

Don't know if this has already been mentioned.

Russian soldiers visiting a post office in Belarus to send items looted in Ukraine to Russia.

Mostly mobile phones and jewellery.

The country needs to pay. Not just Putin and the commanders on the ground.

As it's a nuclear country, invasion is out of the question but isolating them, even if it means them becoming China's b*tch, could work. Let them have North Korean living standards. This attack on Ukraine is widely supported in Russia so having the whole country take the consequences for this isn't unreasonable in my opinion.

It's horrendous publicity for them in any event. Every country in the West is leading nightly with stories of war crimes, barbarism and atrocities by the regime. If you're losing the info war to this degree, you're already in big trouble. We're almost certainly going to see an arrest warrant being issued soon for Putin as a major war criminal.

It's obvious looking at the pictures and reports coming out of the suburbs of Kyiv especially around Bucha that Russia needs to be dealt with. Imho the West need to arm the Ukrainians with everything they need to push the invaders out of all their territories and once that happens be prepared to send in peacekeeping forces to ensure the Russians don't return.

I don't believe Putin will be alive for war crimes trials but those who were in positions of power and influence including the nutters on Russia's propaganda TV need to face justice and no sanctions should be removed until this has been achieved.

Russia should no longer be part of the international community until the Nazism that has taken control of their society is purged.

Remember. Clare Daly and Mick Wallace were the useful Irish idiots who were apologists for what has happened here.

Wouldn't have happened if the west had done the right thing on day one and put Putin back on his hole. Instead they dithered and waged a proxy war using the ukranian people to give Russia a bloody nose with no cost to themselves but financial.

I said it in the first week of the war, some things are worth facing down a nuclear strike over and genocide, especially where children is concerned is one of them. We let the Russians do this and now we'll ring our hands, spend days ruminating over it on shy and CNN whilst letting it continue in the Donbass.

Agree with you 100%. If the west had faced Russia down in 2014 this would not have happened. We didn't so now we have to deal with them and given the crimes being uncovered should involved western forces getting involved by initiating air operations over Ukraine.