Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

The newly mobilized are called "Mobiks". Seemingly they have little or no training and were sent out front for an offensive and were easily defeated by the hardened soldiers.

Very difficult to get a true figure in war though. Ukrainians claim 1,500 russians were killed Saturday and Sunday. Staying in large groups and inexperience in fighting is being claimed as a factor by partisans.

Right. So as US president, you signal you are "open to talks" to your Russian counterpart, they ask what you are offering..

What are you offering? Full lifting of sanctions and parts of Ukraine to a nuclear armed dictator? Because that is the very least the Russians would consider at this point, much less likely during the summer.

Even if in some insane situation you agreed to such an absurd off, then Ukraine would likely say no. You have no right to give parts of their country away, they are the ones dying. They are the ones who have all the say in any talks about their own country.

It's not the last time but it was there in the past. When Roman Abramovich was in talks with a Ukrainian delegation, the entire group were poisoned by some substance. Didn't die but the warning was there. There's been talks since.

And you can be sure diplomatic channels are still being kept open.

But we are where we are.

It's **** all we have to deal with in this country.

Weve been listening to the whole internal assasination, uprising, coup, accident theory with a few months now not to mention how Putin was on deaths door back in January.

Sounds just like "two more weeks to flatten the curve" longest two weeks i ever put in.

70,000 dead Russians is new though.

Don't forget the non white migrants in Moscow being press ganged into Putin's war just may not be too happy about it. There's simmering tensions about the high % of non white Russians being drafted in.

And on the Russian flip side of the " two more weeks". It's the west will freeze and the next US administration will loose interest. So.. keep sending those Mobiks.

But it will eventually reach a crescendo. 15,000 dead Russians in the afghan war brought about a change in the Kremlin.

All they can do is keep killing Russians in Ukraine till some one gets the message in Russia.

A contracted or any Russian soldier is in Ukraine to kill as many Ukraine soldiers as he can and will kill any civilian in the wrong place at the wrong time to save himself or at times just for fun.

The question is what is the real number?

None of us knows and nothing is going to change most likely because of the numbers killed.

The only time Ukraine regains any significant area is when Russia has made the decision to pull back already.

There's no reason to think Russia can't keep this going for another few years.

We can't and Ukraine can't.

Ukraine will never recover in anyone's lifetime to where it was pre war, which was a very poor and corrupt country. No matter what happens, they have lost.

Europe's economy is slowly collapsing and really needs to repair relations with Russia unless we want to collapse everything. If euro loses it's credibility and no-one wants to hold it, then we will be set back 50 years or more.

It's usually I want peace and I can't understand why the Ukrainians are fighting the Russians. Ala Wallace and Daly.

Surprised the Russian embassy haven't the peace flag flying while the genocide continues.

Keep sending those Mobiks to die.

Of course it'll have an effect. Anything else is what they tell themselves to win the war. Which is not happening atm.

It goes much deeper. Imagine you or a family member was sick, would you rather go through the public hospital system in somewhere like Brazil or in Ireland.

If we don't have a strong economy and the ability to export euros, we get hit with either massive amounts of austerity to balance the books or else go through large amounts of sustained inflation like Argentina. Everything unwinds as our economy would need such a massive restructuring to cope.

We will go back to rearing people for export.

All the prosperity we have come to know will be gone.

Except we also have to go through massive pain, job losses, bankruptcies etc before we will be adjusted to the new reality.

That's all a very big cost to stick it to Putin, is Ukraine worth it? Not a hope

Russia won't be able to keep this going for years