, because he's a first-classperson. What he's doing is something that he believed was the right thing he was doing for Russia. Unfortunately, he's like a lot of business people, certainly like me - we make mistakes from time to time. When you've made the mistake, you have to do the best you can to get out of it.”
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fficult standstill — not least because of wavering U.S. support. If Congress cuts off support, Ukraine could well collapse later this year. Yet Ukraine remains strong in many ways. It has continued to stymie the Kremlin’s greatest ambitions for taking over the country. While the going is tough today, there is no cause for fatalism.
Much has been made of Ukraine’s disappointing 2023 counteroffensive. But given the strength of defenses on both sides, its failure was no huge surprise. Defense is simply stronger than offense at this stage of the war and, because of this, Ukraine might be able to hang on to most or all of the 82 percent of the pre-2014 territory it now holds, even with constrained military supplies. Yet, as the recent loss of Avdiivka demonstrates, Ukraine might struggle in the event of a complete cutoff of U.S. assistance. The pace of setbacks could accelerate with little warning; like Ernest Hemingway’s quip about bankruptcy, defeat could occur gradually, then suddenly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/21/ukraine-russia-war-strengths/…
y Canon got the inside track to the potential opportunity of utilising my Interactive Multimedia Bureau System, in Eastern Germany after 'the wall' came down, so to speak. I say 'the wall' having experienced same in a visit to Coburg some decades before, to realise that in most places it was only a fence and not a wall.
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41-year-old said the "bloody, witless" war had been "unleashed by Putin" and was designed to keep those behind it "in power forever" - whatever the cost.
Mr Bondarev is one of few to speak out in such a public way, and has been cheered on by people like Kira Yarmysh, the spokesperson for the jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. But he told the BBC he did not think many of his colleagues would follow his lead. Instead, he said, many of them had welcomed the war.
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he setback, the Kremlin and its proxies
insisted that the war would go on until President
Vladimir Putin’s goals are achieved, and they
blamed NATO and the United States for Ukraine’s
refusal to surrender.
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n, the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps, was killed in a Himars rocket strike on a command post near Kherson, said Sergei Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odesa region.
If confirmed, he would be the 12th Russian general killed in Ukraine since the war began. Another strike on an arms depot in Nova Khakova on Monday night sent a huge mushroom cloud towering into the air, and exposed Moscow's reliance on railways to deliver weapons. Videos showed ignited munitions flying out of the explosion that shattered windows in nearby houses. Monday’s blast was the largest of a series of devastating explosions to hit Russian munitions supplies over the past two weeks.
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e necessary change, which was and still [IS] required, to establish a NEW template-solution model of FUNCTIONAL DEMOCRACY of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE and potentially for ALL the passengers of spaceship EARTH, to urgently address the long since understood consequences of Climate Change and the unraveling threat of Nuclear War as a result of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, along with ALL the consequences of consequences of our so called Lords & Masters lack of appropriate action since the end of WWII.
Never forgetting that BRITAIN [IS] in RUINS since our so-calledHM Government shelled out £106M on a committee which concluded that "SARS won't TRAVEL THIS FAR"
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hs, and banned
the Kremlin’s propaganda channel RT, and its news
agency, Sputnik. BP announced it would divest its
nearly 20% stake in the Russian oil corporation
Rosneft. Turkey declared that it would close the
Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to the Russian
navy, stopping its vessels moving between the
Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Sweden will send military aid to Ukraine, including
anti-tank weapons, helmets and body armour, its
prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, said on
Sunday. A rare emergency session of the UN general
assembly has been called to discuss Ukraine,
starting on Monday. Russia voted against it, but was
unable to stop it. It is likely to underline Moscow’s
global isolation. Putin’s nuclear order came at a
meeting between the president, defence minister,
Sergei Shoigu, and the chief of the general staff of
the armed forces of Russia, Valery Gerasimov.
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