Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Says he didn't want to go to Ukraine and made this a protest.

Lucky he died,I think as if he had survived they would have probably made him suffer further.

They are trying to knock Ukraine out before they run out of resources themselves. A bit like Germany at the end of the first world war a final push before the USA gets there in numbers.

And not only will the Nr of deaths surprise them, the sheer scale of the destruction will surprise them as also!! Mile after mile and not a complete building to be seen, a land mined to the hilt, and filled with UXO's. Where you have to watch your step walking the streets in case you step on a bullet casing and lose your footing. Gaza still has a fair bit to go to match Grozny.

I don't think that Putin is afraid of any economist or any other civil servant or administrator investigating his affairs. The boot is definitely on the other foot with all Govt departments terrified of Putin.

My point re- graft was mainly about getting their 5 minutes in spotlight since they most likely knew there is not that many shells laying around and whole shambles started to grow because as soon as they announced that scheme even those who had some increased price so much it was not feasible to do so anyway.

If you want to do something like this you never announce it and brag about it in every media under the sun as it is counterproductive from business point of view. Not to mention that russians most likely knew where some of these shells are located and could and possibly did apply some pressure to potential suppliers.

Noise is all you get.

Despite wishful thinking about how it would sort out ukraine problem it can not be done. It will go directly against everything we were told for years we have to do regarding refugees. It will create such precedent that all refugee policies would be impossible to maintain not to mention it is pretty much against every law, treaty and charter in that area.

And the most important is that there is no way you could arm and make unwilling soldiers follow orders without risking open rebellion and civil war.

You should not have used the term "graft" since this means corruption/extortion/theft, money for some kind of political stroke.

You have a point on secrecy, however Czechia is a democracy, and is not at war. Seems unlikely the scheme could be kept secret if they are spending any of their own funds (don't know about this aspect) and making public diplomatic efforts with other EU democracies to get them to contribute. Prior to this Czech scheme there was a failed EU level effort to have an EU fund set up to buy shells from non EU countries. A few of the member states blocked this (France, Greece, Cyprus).

The things they seem to have been trying to keep under wraps are the other details (when, how much, from what countries), not that they have been trying to make it happen. I expect we won't be certain about success/failure of the effort for a while.

Danish F16 coming in months. Ukraine probably won't do a summer offensive now with aid not arriving. Unless it's a psyop.

Hoping this proves to be true

They could offer citizenship to asylum seekers to volunteer?

What moral reasons do you refer to? Morality would suggest completely the opposite, it's morally right to defend your country.

As for legal issues, if Ukraine as a sovereign state requests this from EU states, where's the problem?

Politically, there are no issues. No EU government party is going to lose votes by assisting Ukraine in this matter, if they request it. Quite probably the opposite.

I think you need to look a bit harder at this issue.