Ukraine

Yes the airport, presumably the one left intact because the Russians wanted to use it.
I have no idea how big the Ukrainian airforce is, but we are not hearing anything about it.
Just seeing armoured vehicles flooding across the border unhindered in one piece of footage.
Admittedly good knowledge of what is happening is scarce, but telling the population to arm themselves with molotov cocktails does sound pretty desperate.

 

My heart bleeds for Ukraine.
That horrifying clip in the lunchtime time news showing a car being driven over by an armoured vehicle/ tank, and thank god miraculously the driver was pulled out alive!

 

What is the alternative, Putin is mad enough to hit the nuclear button IMO.

 

Yes - I agree. We’ve seen with the Dutch plane how that could play out. There are some flights I’d not do right now if they went too close…

 

I have the same instinct but also not enough knowledge or experience to really know what the right answer is. Military escalation seems like a very bad idea. But also just caving in and allowing annexation and occupation by Russia is quite far from optimal…

 

Me too. I feel strongly for the Ukrainians. 3 days ago, going to work and living normal lives. Today: full scale war by an army of occupation which has no rules.

 

Oh how I wish that was all it would take

 

I think we all see it that way it's just how do you achieve that without massive escalation.
Sanctions seem to be the only non military weapon we have.

 

I think we need to find a way of making the Rouble worthless in the world, but getting that kind of agreement world wide would be difficult I think.

 

I'll prefer to wait for hell to freeze over, hope I'm wrong but Putin is cast in the same mould as the cold war bunch.
He's trying to turn the clock back.
I was only thinking today, for probably more than half my life Ukraine was actually part of the USSR, and rightly or wrongly back then thought of as Russia.