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Love that one. Mad how in the face of human suffering there is always humour to be found.

Georgia Chechynia, Syria never had a better chance of recapturing old territory from Russia.

Crying with laughter.🤣

This is very dystopian: :-(

Rubizhne after Russian shelling.

Did the Ukrainians manage to take out the 16 truck convoy resupplying the antidepressants?

Can't help but feel worried for SKY News reporter Alex Crawford and her team. She's reporting from the evacuation of Chernihiv, travelling along a route the Russians are targeting and sheltering with other evacuees in a basement. Some of those news reporters are nuts. It was only less than a month ago that it was Stuart Ramsey's team, I think, getting fired on at that checkpoint and pretty much filming the whole ordeal. That's not to mention a number of other people working in the journalism field who actually have been shot and killed during the conflict so far.

Maybe like those guys who race the Isle of Man TT, it's just a different breed of people and they're aware of the risks they're taking, but, damn, you only need to put yourself in so much danger before it's just not worth it.

They can't even get to Kyiv, so it would have to be denazification with long range missiles.

@DrumSteve

They didn't catch Ukrainians on the hop in this last round. It's one thing to roll tanks into a largely Russian area of a country that's going through a revolution. It's quite another to go into another country that has a highly motivated and well-supplied military that's waiting for you to try something.

The Russians have nothing of worth to threaten Poland, and NATO by extension, other than raw numbers. The only thing Putin can reasonably threaten the West with is the nukes, because their army is a complete joke (relatively speaking).

Another 5100 anti-tank weapons are on their way from Germany to Ukraine. According to German newspaper Bild and TV station n-tv Nachrichten, these are RGW-90 MATADOR anti-armour weapons. Apparently, to avoid having to get approval from the Bundestag, these weapons were purchased by Ukraine with money provided by Germany. 2650 weapons have been delivered, the rest will be delivered in smaller weekly batches as they come off the assembly line. The order by the way was placed on March 18th. I've had Amazon orders that took longer than that.

This is a major shift in German policy, as these weapons are purchased directly from the manufacturer, rather than being drawn from Bundeswehr depots, as was the case with the Panzerfaust 3, Stinger or the infamous Strela missiles.

It's interesting to see that the Greens in Germany are emerging as the driving force with regards to supporting Ukraine. From what I've seen, it's been Minister for the Economy Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who were the driving force behind this purchase and the rapid approval for export.

Great to see and great to see that the Pro Russian structure in German Govt are being worked around.

That Daily Mail story about Hunter Biden running bio labs in Ukraine to produce anthrax is such a complete and utter load of tosh.

Everyone knows that Hunter Biden is in Moscow running an underground McDonalds and dealing in black market Big Macs. The demand for his Big Macs is so high that he just doesnt have the time to be making anthrax in Ukraine.

Typical Daily Mail making sh1t up again.

But well documented and objective relations can help enormously in a latter punishment of war criminals

I couldn't help but laught because of the sheer size of her balls in this morning's report. They jumped out of the van and shells were exploding all around them and as calm as you like, she lifts the camera and looks at it says "as you can see....they're shelling the area around us." Like it was nothing.

I made my way through some crazy **** during the troubles, including missing a massive car bomb in 2010 by less than 10 minutes but this is another level. It's a relentless gauntlet of artillery, gunfire and anything else the Russians can throw at them and the reporters somehow have their **** together.