Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

Don't think putin wanted to invade the eu, he wanted to have influence on it. He has changed a lot in the EU in the last few years.

I see the Kerch bridge has had another span collapse.

If Russia takes Ukraine, and we have it directly on the EU Border, you can be sure that they can and will cause trouble down the road. Its what they do. How about a little rebellion in East Germany from " ethnic" German-Russians since the Berlin wall time, and an Special Military Operation to save them. or to put it another way, Donbass MK 2. They have spoken openly about this on Russian TV, plus some other states that were stolen from them, inc. Alaska. Mad idea? maybe, but bear in mind that Putin is not normal. Why do yo think that Poland is massively upgrading its military? Finland has joined NATO? its not only in the EU's interests that Putin be stopped, it's in the best interests of the whole world.

And in the same time frame, how many miles of territory has Vladimir Putin taken? Sure it will take time....taking heavily defended positions are always a problem, and unlike Wagner, Gerazimov. Shoigu etc., Zaluzhny, does not believe in needlessly killing his troops. Instead he's slowly strangling the Russian logistics and supply line's, and thereby, the Russians capabilities to fight. There always been intercepted VIDs from the Russians on the front lines, showing groups of Russian Soldiers complaining about shortages, ill treatment by their officers, not being paid, no home leave unless you pay a bribe. etc. And a very common one has been no ammunition. These intercepted vids have been on the increase recently, with lack of ammunition increasingly more common. So Zaluzhny' s strategy is paying off. Give it time, its early days yet.

It just keeps getting modified.

Thanks to Ukraine's extraordinary defence, Europe and the EU are arguably more united than we've ever been. Now more determined to stand up to Putin rather than to back down every time (e.g. annexation of Crimea, proxy invasion of Donbas, energy blackmail, election meddling, troll factories and disinformation, etc, etc).

Ukraine has ground down Putin's war machine, exposed and made him weaker on the international stage, set his plans for Europe and it's neighbours back decades. If Ukraine can survive almost intact from all this they'll also be an iron buffer against any future Russian moves in Europe.

They have significantly weakened Europe's largest threat.

Even if a few technicals have to be overlooked, I suspect they're very likely to get into the EU.

Extremely childish and something you'd expect of the lad in the Kremlin, listening to a few podcasts lately and the reality on the ground is the Ukrainian offensive is really struggling, the defenses that Surovakin set-up while he was still in-charge are next to impossible to get through without huge casualties and equipment losses, they're also using some tricks like stacking mines 3 high in minefields so when the mine sweepers hit them it's blowing them to pieces as their only designed for single mines, maybe their targeting of ammunition dumps and the Kerch bridge logistic routes will eventually pay off, but I don't think the Russian army is the shambles that its made out to be

Didn't age well. From an "expert".

Time is running out for them to commit the bulk of their forces. Otherwise not much chance of anything significant changing over winter and we're into another year of this. And if they couldn't make inroads this year why will they be able to make inroads next year?

So increasingly it seems to be the question can they actually commit a big force without getting slaughtered and losing very large amounts of equipment in a very short time?

It's all up to the Ukrainians what they do. But we don't have to be supplying them with cash endlessly.

The cash being donated by both the EU and US is arguably every bit as important as weapons. Without it their currency implodes and what's left of their economy will crumble, not sure if their society could weather that effectively.

Russia is stuck in a corner of Ukraine and retreating daily against a country that was unready for war , doubt they'll be heading into a military superpower like Poland anytime soon . I'd reckon putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he knew how disastrous it would turn out for russia

Tanks are rolling into Ukraine, but he's indirectly also at war with Europe.

He can't use bombs directly on the rest of Europe (for now) so he uses energy, food supplies, etc as a weapon. Russian state TV talks daily about attacking European countries and nuking European cities. Unmarked Russian ships are probing our seas for weaknesses in e.g. undersea cables. Russia planes test European air defense responses times. Russian state backed hackers cause chaos where they can. Then there's the constant information war, the election meddling, the propaganda.

Much of which is part of the doctrine to divide and fracture Europe, in order to further his aggressive expansionist goals for Russia.

If we want to keep Putins murderous hordes back and away from Europe, then you can be damn sure that the cash will have to keep flowing, because if Putin succeeds, it will cost a lot more than money.

Would NATO have had anything to do with that I wonder??? I guess you haven't heard Soloyuv, Simonyan etc. speaking about their vision of the future of Russia. Which not only includes Europe,( East Germany will be reclaimed, of course) but even so far as Alaska, which was criminally and illegally stolen from Russia. Lots of illegal transactions to be rectified, once Ukraine has been restored to its rightful position within Russia, under Vladimir Putin.