RT @TadeuszGiczan: Found a video on TikTok of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment honouring their fallen brothers in arms on the longest night of t…

RT @TadeuszGiczan: Found a video on TikTok of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment honouring their fallen brothers in arms on the longest night of t…

RT @StarskyUA: This morning russian terrorists hit Kherson downtown, killing at least five civilians. Zero Ukrainian military objects or pe…

RT @StarskyUA: This morning russian terrorists hit Kherson downtown, killing at least five civilians. Zero Ukrainian military objects or pe…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: “Mariupol was taken with minimal losses”, – Gerasimov. His audience writes everything down and takes pictures. Too ba…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: “Mariupol was taken with minimal losses”, – Gerasimov.

His audience writes everything down and takes pictures. Too ba…

RT @sumlenny: Russian state-related propaganda TG channels: “The existence of the independent Polish state is the greatest geopolitical mis…

RT @sumlenny: Russian state-related propaganda TG channels:
“The existence of the independent Polish state is the greatest geopolitical mis…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: “The Patriot is quite an outdated system, it doesn’t work as well as our S-300 (surface-to-air) missiles,” Putin told…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: “The Patriot is quite an outdated system, it doesn’t work as well as our S-300 (surface-to-air) missiles,” Putin told…

RT @AdrianBonenber1: It’s odd, when laid out like this… Ukrainian nationalism seems to be the fault of whatever Russia perceives to be its…

RT @AdrianBonenber1: It’s odd, when laid out like this… Ukrainian nationalism seems to be the fault of whatever Russia perceives to be its…

RT @AdrianBonenber1: Source of Ukrainian nationalism according to Russia by century 21st: NATO 20th: the bourgeois 19th: Austro-Hungarian E…

RT @AdrianBonenber1: Source of Ukrainian nationalism according to Russia by century
21st: NATO
20th: the bourgeois
19th: Austro-Hungarian E…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: Terrorist Girkin/Strelkov attacks Solovyev and says he will do all in his power to not let Solovyev get away if Russia…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: Terrorist Girkin/Strelkov attacks Solovyev and says he will do all in his power to not let Solovyev get away if Russia…

RT @Nigelgd1: Zelensky’s refusal to leave Kyiv in first days of war changed the course of history. Introduction to Strategic Survey 2022 @…

RT @Nigelgd1: Zelensky’s refusal to leave Kyiv in first days of war changed the course of history.

Introduction to Strategic Survey 2022 @…

RT @Gerashchenko_en: “Russia has always lived in war, and it will still be at war with someone in 200 years.” https://t.co/TRHQ2PidXK

RT @Gerashchenko_en: “Russia has always lived in war, and it will still be at war with someone in 200 years.” https://t.co/TRHQ2PidXK

Great NY Times article on the opening of the war

” It was early November 2021. The United States believed Mr. Putin was considering a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Burns explained. If he proceeded down this path, Mr. Burns warned, the West would respond — decisively, in unison — and the consequences for Russia would be severe.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Mr. Putin’s security council, stiffened and looked Mr. Burns in the eye, officials in the room said. He abandoned his notes and extolled the prowess of Russia’s armed forces. They had been so thoroughly modernized under Mr. Putin that they now rivaled the United States militarily, he said.

“Patrushev didn’t qualify it,” said John Sullivan, the American ambassador to Russia at the time, who was there. “He was just looking at Burns and saying: ‘We can do this. We’re back.’ The way I would describe it was that this was already decided, and they were supremely confident. His message was, ‘It’s not going to be a problem for us to do what we want to do.’”

Mr. Burns briefed Mr. Biden upon his return to Washington, officials said. Mr. Putin had all but made up his mind to take over Ukraine, Mr. Burns told him, and the Russians had absolute confidence victory would come swiftly.

. . . .

Another magnate recalled realizing — too late — that Mr. Putin was parading them in front of the television cameras, for all the world to see, for a carefully planned purpose. The point was “specifically to tar everyone there,” he said, “to get everyone sanctioned.”

There was no going back. They, like the rest of Russia, were in this with Mr. Putin now. ”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=EJ8pEGAmUfwKT7QjLcmo624Mz4eNBjhWoPcrEo-LS8tbilu_dbwMlojXacyZD4nHtIBN2E4j-qC9DtKajIX7A9HtlVplQ0NNq3hXoRhsyQFzfRRekk4f8h6zSCDCqhdtbOlhTKh4jE0cjBO9TjABFpmdiMe9ACHnqzb5RDPvT4O8uzsq9T8_YcG_yaUSC7vhE5UPjIcXDCL1X311p7kMPzyLkOHlRex4hG60JeU3ScS3VHZjx2HoLh2doJ1pNFlWBxIVM4XHpvmwXTBHRaGoqULi7sSTAeqcJwT4TKsdniHgkn0y-EEYTuqeCObX24wYsXVVDfQkDXHTDQ0Yxg6i25vk1d3pQJ2djPJ9Qyvwe3vnqqElLP3PBs16r9i36qIz&smid=share-url