Russia - threadbanned users in OP

It pretty accurately hit the packed shopping centre.

I see absolutely no reason to give these genocidal war criminals the benefit of the doubt either.

Some Kremlinites-

I think Russia will attempt to continue concentrating artillery fire on small areas of land, backed up by less frequent airstrikes and missiles. By Russian standards, it's working. Shelling a city for weeks on end until it is a wasteland of smouldering buildings and scorched earth sounds like a bit of a pyrrhic victory IMO, but that's me...

Anyway, Ukraine needs the better long range weaponry and in volume, and ASAP. If Russia's artillery advantage can be neutralised, a big element of Russia's ability to prosecute the war goes with it.

Russia is too big and armed with too many nukes to be wiped off the map by a hostile military force. Wiping it off the map in that way might lead to the same fate for the attacker. We've been over that one since this thing started, at least.

The only safe way to knock Russia out is to bring Putin's regime down from the inside. It's pretty much what Russian trolls have been working to do in the West for the last decade and it's not been without its successes. The idea of another civil war in America no longer sounds like some far-fetched idea, and if America ends up going further down its current trajectory of infighting, I worry it may become an unreliable partner in the NATO alliance, and if Russia thinks that America wouldn't react to an incursion on NATO territory, it's real squeaky-bum time for the Baltics.

So for the political instability Russia is causing with trolling and the economic stability its causing with this war, it does need to be taken out. It just cannot be through direct military action.

Two missiles are now confirmed to have hit the shopping center. Clear as day a deliberate attack. If that is not a definition of terrorism I don't know what is. Time to call a spade a spade and ban Russia from the united Nations and everywhere else.

Will he bring his ‘shite’ collecting buddies with him in case he leaves any trace/evidence of what his health issues may be…..?

It's been good to see that support for Ukraine has gotten some amount of bipartisan consensus in the U.S. where I wasn't sure if that could agree on what colour the sky is. There are still weasels like the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson who've been running contrarian views about the war in Ukraine up the flagpole but they don't appear to have gained as much traction as he'd hoped. Plenty of Americans still around who remember the phrase, 'better dead than red'.

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This is just a Channel 4 news piece. Personally I think Russia needs to be destroyed from within, in a way that leaves Putin not knowing who to blame.

https://youtu.be/1w6CWXyAegQ

This might have been posted already, but it's a pretty comprehensive read for us armchair generals re: what is happening on the front.

Sadly you may very well be right. This has escalated already to a level where the west has no choice but to make sure Russia is defeated. The genocide that the Russians are conducting and the clear and present danger they present to democracy and to our free and open societies is plain as day to see.

Michael Clarke suggests it was targeted at a army depot nearby, just shows how badly inaccurate their missiles are

French President Emmanuel Macron will have to do a lot more than post on Twitter about the Russian terror attack in Kremenchuk. He needs to step up a gear and join Boris Johnson's level of resolve.