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And yet he's right....

Do tell what exactly is he spoofing about he's been pretty much on the ball with his commentary,

Seems the majority of German leopard 2s given last year are out of service or lost, the Ukrainians want the Germans to increase there capacity in Lithuania to repair vehicles quicker...

Good shooting

I wonder what use they intended for the Sub?

Bavovnas in Sevastopol, Crimea

On that point re all the same at the top, Russian or Ukrainian, we will have to differ. With Putin, he's completely detached from what's happening on the ground with his people. He sent 360'000 of them to their deaths and caused a further 700.000 of them to be injured, to the extent that most of them will never live a normal life again. He's planning a further mobilization of at least 300'000 Russian males, once the election is over with. He's never been even remotely near Donbass, let alone on the front lines, He's a murderous bastard, check how many people who have been killed on his orders? How many Russians are in prison for speaking out against him? Putin has full control over what he's doing and can stop it whenever he wants.

Zelensky is the complete opposite. He's fighting because he has to fight, He stayed even when he was offered a safe way out of Ukraine. He' supports his people each and every way he can, He's a frequent visitor to the front lines, and elsewhere, There's a saying " Cometh the hour, cometh the man". Rarely has that saying been matched to the man, but it's made for Zelensky. Both men, Putin and Zelensky, will be well remembered in the history books, bur for diametrically opposed reasons, Zelensky the hero, and Putin the monster.

@Field east "(1) how much damage has UKr caused behind the front lines - to roads , bridges, ports , arms depots"

I recently read 306 depos for 2023. That's almost one every day.

This is your personal opinion. However if you went to Ukraine and spoke to people or managed to get some of the refugees here in Ireland to talk to you honestly, without being politically correct and saying what Europeans want to hear, you'd find that Zelensky has very little support and very few think he is a hero. Russian speaking population is allergic to him because of the the language laws alone he signed being Russian speaking himself. Western Ukraine population is allergic to both him and the East/South Russian speaking population because they couldn't care less about Crimea and Donbas as they consider them traitors. You'd be surprised how many people in the country, especially older population, couldn't care less who sits on Bankova - whether it's Zelenky, Poroshenko or some Putin puppet...because in their opinion they are all the same - greedy b******s.

As for mobilization, same is planned in Ukraine. In fact, the new Defense minister is implementing a system similar to Russian one - to mobilize people electronically as opposed to closing off streets in the attempt to catch as many men as possible and stick a piece of paper into their hands. Many Ukrainian soldiers are fighting for nearly 2 years because Ukraine has run out of volunteers that want to fight for their country (not my words, but General Marchenko's from his interview one week ago).

Why do you think in the country of 40 odd million people there are no more volunteers that want to fight? Surely Zelensky's hero status and his appearances here and there near the front line should be enough to inspire a few hundred thousand of men to loose their lives for him :)

Mentioning Zelensky in the same sentence as "Putins Puppets" caught my attention..............

If you are so curious to know, I lived there during USSR times as well as during independence. All my family and friends are still there. I am from the West of the country, Ukrainian speaking, so I am close enough to local opinions to know what really goes on as opposed to getting the info from X :) I am also regularly dealing with refugees from Ukraine in Ireland to know what they think.

As to Russian propaganda, firstly I only read Ukrainian news and anything I quoted above came from those sources.

Just because I don't like Zelensky and his policies and don't consider him a hero, makes me pro-Putin's Russia? :) Very logical :)

@jmreire "And what do you suggest Glen? Hand Ukraine back to Putin?"

Well, Zelensky could start with pulling his pals from Kvartal 95 and sending them to the front lines instead. Well, maybe not all (someone has to do comedy as well during New Years I suppose), but one or two would do.

I am sure this would definitely help General Marchenko find the volunteers he is struggling to find to fight against Putin. But sure nobody is going to do that, something tells me :)

Nobody is going to do that, because it's not a serious suggestion. And if it is, it's not a helpful one.

You're in a unique position here on this thread - a Ukrainian in Ireland. If you don't think Zelensky is doing the right thing, seriously, what do you think should be done? I think your actual opinion would be very interesting.

So? Many EU leaders were still courting him at the time, happy to give him hugs and kisses :) Are you going to accuse them too of being pro-Russian?

This was my personal view at the time and most of it still stands actually. He could have taken it all in 2014 as Ukraine's army was a shambles. Unfortunately many in Russia do indeed support both Putin and even this war. Like I think I did say this before - you don't need Russian propaganda to believe into all these ukrainian nazi things - for an average Russian would be enough to check who every Main st in every Ukrainian city is named after to come to the conclusion that yeah, they are all nazi over there which of course isn't true, but then unfortunately heroization of certain questionable individuals plays very well into Putin's hands and makes an ordinary half educated Russian believe what TV shows them.

I personally was not expecting a full scale invasion and nobody I know inside Ukraine did, even people that work in SBU hadn't a clue seeing how unprepared Ukraine still was in Feb 2022. Of course what happened nearly 2 years ago changed many people's opinions on many things incl myself.