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Why not?

Why would they attack the UK? It's nonsense and designed to deflect and stir a bit of crap in their own media.

Attacking UK would be get Russia nowhere except a comprehensive overwhelming military response.

Let's be real here, do Russia want to risk trigger NATO's article 5 by attacking UK infrastructure? The answer is no, if there was any attack on the uk infrastructure they will be the prime suspects. The whole calling the uk ambassador over svastapol looks like another standard Russia ploy to say that they are against Nato for their domestic audience.

It really is laughable isn't it!! A country that manages to sink its only aircraft carrier in a drydock, is hiding 1/3 of its navy from a country with no navy, and an Airfrce getting its arse kicked by 1960/70s era migs is supposed to get past the Norweigan, Finnish, German, Dutch, British, French Navies or Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, French, Belguim, Norweigan, Dutch, British Airforces to attack UK infastructure. It really is a daft suggestion.

One gets the impression that the Russian talk show guys are fully aware the war is going terribly. This guy is talking about attacking Finland and Sweden with nuclear weapons.....it's all just hot air, bombast and nutty rhetoric.

More like spooks. Imaginary and supposedly scary

The Ukrainians aren't doing it for obvious reasons, likewise the US and others aren't supplying the long-range weaponry - they all know it. Russia would use it to escalate the conflict to extremes.

The Kremlin perceives that the Brits are politically weak (that's not propaganda, they are) and sees them as a proxy for the United States. In much the same way as Belarus is a client state of Russia. They are not going to attack the United States directly, that's fatal. They can send a shot across the bows by exploiting Britains weakness, it would be for purposes of political maneuver. How is Britain weak? It only just skirted a financial crisis that almost (and still could) take down pension funds. This is war, it does not have to take the form of cutting fiber optic lines or blowing up gas pipelines. It can also be to insert division in alliances or divert resources away at key stages of battle. The XR/Just stop oil idiots are enough to cause disruption in the UK.

We don't know who blew up the pipelines to Germany, we can guess it is done with Americans tacit approval, and likely to keep Germany from breaking ranks. German industry is piling the pressure on their government. Having the Brits preoccupied with internal politics can work in the Kremlins favour, they don't negotiate with the EU as a political entity, it is always with nation states, that is why you see President Macron, or Chancellor Scholz in Moscow, they diss the EU representatives. Their goal must be to break or limit the NATO alliance or at least make them think twice about crossing the border in Ukraine.

Do you think Britain is in a weaker position than Russia right now?

Possibly, there are troublemakers like Yevgeny Prigozhin, he rises and falls depending on what happens in Bakhmut. Ramzan Kadyrov is just theater, probably used to goad the Russian Federtion army leaders. The military has clearly forced Putins hand to sign the mobilisation. Dmitry Medvedev is seen as the oligarchs man, but is playing the onside game at the moment. Putin only has until 2024, so any contenders will be lining up for the top job. The Spring offensive will be about more that trying to hold territory in Ukraine.

The US the most efficient Army medical logistical support Army in the world runs at 7-8 to 1. NATO is probably similar. The general ration else where is 3-1.

However the Russian figures on wounded to death are taught to be not much better than 1-1. This is the reason there KIA numbers are so high. Like everything else logistical they do it's a disaster. If they cannot keep military equipment in good order when not in use, they hardly kept there medical logistics in good order either.

This is the military force where there airforce use sat nabs to guide them around.

60-80k dead and the same wounded. In Russia unless you are the walking wounded the only way you will survive is if a UA medical team get to you

Putin needs a change of underwear, and a large transfusion of brain cells. Perhaps he'd like Zelensky to drop by for some special tea as well?

The IT have given this Toal chap yet another column to call on Ukraine to capitulate.

We all want peace, but it would be more helpful if Toal could elucidate what compromises he believes Ukraine should make to facilitate Russia’s fascist aggression.

70k dead and 70k wounded is 140k out of action is almost the entire russian force committed to the invasion. Their mobilised conscripts have not yet been moved to the front (last report said only ~10k had been moved to the zone of the 'SMO'), so if those casualty figures were true it would mean a total collapse of russian army in Ukraine.

And yet they are still defending on 4 fronts (Svatovo, Bakhmut-Donetsk, Zaporozhzhia, Kherson). If that number of Russian casualties were accurate, then how are they holding on? Either they have been killing far more Ukrainians than losses they take themselves, which is the only reason Ukraine havent retaken all that poorly defended territory already, or else they havent lost nearly that number of troops.