It’s Day 300 …

[ichkeria]

of Putin’s “three day war” and Ukraine remains fearful, cold, angry but ultimately unbroken.

Meanwhile Russia continues to justify its actions by cocooning itself in a fantasy world as the link below demonstrates well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64026344

A merry Christmas to all

[tomus42]

Having realised they can't beat them on the battlefield, it has essentially now become just a campaign of terrorism, shelling civilians and attacking civilian infrastructure.

[douglas9401]

Best 'Best Answer' ever.

[nicebloke1]

The shelling of civilians started from day one.

[ichkeria]

Not sure what happened there!

I’ve replaced the BA for now

[ichkeria]

No we now know that this started as a swaggering military exercise to take the entire country in days and Kyiv actually in a matter of hours!
Seems incredible and indeed it was.
But like I said above, cocoon, fantasy world etc

[anneasquith]

The biggest issue re Ukraine is IMO , the war news has slipped from the front pages quite a while ago.

[nicebloke1]

Hopkirk. Putin is more than happy to use weapons supplied by Iran. I'm more than happy for Ukraine to use weapons from the west to target launch sites within Russia.
You can only sit back and watch this slaughter by Putin for so long, its already been to long.
Its more than obvious now that unless Ukraine hit back at these sites it will continue.
Putin is also happy to see thousands of people freeze and starve to death.

[ichkeria]

Zekensky’s visited Bakhmut this morning! The current eye of the storm.

While Sergei Shoigu is filmed staring out of a porthole over a scene from summer.
Which is allegedly him “visiting the front line”

[The Builder]

It's been mentioned above how this conflict tends to drop out of the news at times. That must be surely playing into Russia's hands. They are now entering into the age-old tactic of a "war of attrition."

I take The Times, a once great newspaper, but lately it's allowed this crisis to disappear completely from the front page.
We're relatively safe here, but we owe it to more vulnerable countries to keep this well up in the public consciousness.
Take the Baltic countries. Easy pickings for Russia, but have at least the protection of NATO.
China continues to look at Taiwan. Where will it stand if Russia is allowed to succeed by default. (i.e. our possible waning concern over Ukraine.)

I'm no gung-ho flag waver, but I believe we should continue to keep shouting about this, even if shouting is all we (the public) can do.

Slava Ichi ;o)))

[nicebloke1]

Yep your right TB.Putin is waiting, or hanging on to just that, for us to lose interest. Its very easy for the west to just relax within our own safety zone. As the old saying goes, we will make the bullets, if you fire them.

[ichkeria]

Don't assume that just because the war is not front page news all the time that it's because of a lack of interest.
Just now the weather is not conducive to large scale combat operations so nothing hugely dramatic is happening.
I happen to think tho that the press coverage is pretty extensive still