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Looks like a normal explosion in cold damp air , nothing unusual

Not sure of the exact numbers now as over 1000 were allowed to be fast tracked at a different border crossing that opened a line to allow empty trucks through.

To my knowledge the reason the trucks were railed into polland is due to backlog of polish trucks been blocked.

Tit for tat I suppose.

Surprisingly the border protests are not blocking incoming trucks only exiting.

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Or in the Great War (2) celebrations I can show more medals than you......

thomil, thank you for taking the time to post this.

What I meant about the long haul really was Putin can sustain it by the looks of things he has plenty of bodies who he has no regard for to send to the front .I don't know the full cost to Ukraine in terms of losses but it must be high .At the moment it looks like a bit of a stalemate so it looks a tall order for Ukraine to get the total victory most of us want .Can they keep up the support hopefully they can but some countries seem to be wavering a little .Unfortunately Putin doesn't seem to be as isolated as many of us hoped watching him this week in the UAE and sanctions don't appear to be hitting the well heeled in Russia which is the only real chance of stirring up something .

Putin has always lived a healthy lifestyle and probably gets healthcare and nutrition on the level of the queen. If he lives another 20 years it wouldn't surprise me.

My only hope is he's stressed to bits with how badly this war is going and as we all know stress kills. It's a real shame his not already in his eighties.

On a side now anybody know how many weeks this all out assault in Avdiivka has been going? I feel like it's 6 week's now but maybe it's more. Wouldn't it be great if we reached the New year and Russia didn't make any gains.

Having lots of bodies to throw at the lines in Ukraine to make minimal gains for the cost of thousands won't be enough to bring anything close to victory in Ukraine for putin in my opinion. The Ukrainian armed forces have made serious inroads into making putin's war machine less effective and that will mean continued attacks by putin's forces will continue to cost more and more as they have less effective weapons to strike at the Ukrainians. The latest count by Ukraine for artillery systems they have knocked out is over 8000 and it has been said that early success in attacks by putin's forces relied on this artillery to damage the Ukrainian defensive lines before the troops were sent in. As time goes on attacks by putin's forces will keep costing more and the Ukrainians who have joined the armed forces to defend their country will continue to improve as a fighting force even if that means needing to rely more on their own arms industry as time goes on.

It may be convenient now for putin, that any opposition to his power can simply be sent to the front lines to die, but for a country to hemorrhage the huge numbers of people at the start of their economically productive lives is going to cripple the russian federation for long into the future. They have the largest area of land of any one country but even before the invasion of Ukraine lacked the manpower to make full use of their available resources. It is easy to put on a veneer of affluence for the select few in moskow but in recent days we have seen images of ques for food in parts of putin's empire and in spite of some believing the elite still being happy in the big cities is all that is important I think the people mourning their children that putin has sent to their deaths for nothing will get a taste for action to depose him once they realise they face starvation and misery if he stays in power. A happy elite will not be able to protect putin in the face of the millions who should stand up to his brutality.

No thanks.

The preview doesn't appear so worth posting an edited version here!

We really have to give credit to the new Argentinian President for the seating arrangement that allowed Zelensky to finally corner and tear into obese ratf****r Orban, totally unencumbered.

Putin has always lived a healthy lifestyle and probably gets healthcare and nutrition on the level of the queen. If he lives another 20 years it wouldn't surprise me.

Let's hope not. Hopefully he dies in the next 5 to 10 years sometime. The sooner the better. I hope he even dies before this War he started in Ukraine is over and without a succeser appointed because Russia will be in disarray then and there war efforts will collapse and they will have to pull back.

Out a window the best option, it's the only way to peace, everyone can blame dead Putin and get better terms.

Everything has a breaking point. It's inconceivable that there aren't growing widespread mutterings and discontent among families & neighbours affected. Morale whether military or public is crucial.