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Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, has said that ".....Vladimir Putin's regime recognised the Ukrainian people's right to chose their own leader and that Russia accepts Volodymyr Zelensky as the legitimate president.

We put out stronger sides in the previous 2 rounds and struggled against Championship teams.

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Or looking like he had spent the night at a lock-in.

Thinking there was a question to which Paul Sturrock might be the answer.

Showing solidarity with polar bears suffering due to global warming.

Same but for Rudi Skacel

Do you live close to your ISP's data centre ?

I have a female relative with severe mental health issues, who has just been told she will not be getting her PIP renewed. She has been scored 0 points for eating disorders despite being both anorexic and bulemic. She had also been told that her score was marked down for being too chatty in answering one of the questions on her telephone interview : for that question she was so upset, due to her mental state, that she had passed the phone to her mother and left the room, and her mother then informed the interviewer that she was answering the question on her daughter's behalf. There is no mention in the report that on 4 occasions her mother had to intervene on the call to prevent further distress.

One of those symbols is right over my house ! I didn't realise it was that personal.

I think that was Putin's plan.

Meanwhile in Moscow...... "In the Presnenskoye police department, children and their parents are left overnight. The police detained them when they laid flowers at the Ukrainian embassy"

If you count reservists, Russia has over 2 million troops. However, a dispirited army is no more than a rabble, no matter how large it is.

They took control of one diesel-electric sub when they split from Russia, it was unserviceable because it's batteries were knackered. Eventually it was being refitted, but was seized by Russia when Crimea was annexed. It has since been deemed to be obselete.

Now, if Ukraine had a submarine.......

Simply referring to Ukraine as a "western country" doesn't alter the raw facts; the Russian army's regular strength is 5 times that of Ukraine, Russia has ( had ) 5 times as many AFVs, 10 times as many aircraft, 20 times as many helos. Also the best of Russia's kit is much better,on paper, than the best of Ukraine's, and Russia has much more capable technological warfare capabilities. Retreating to more urbanised areas adjusts the strength disparity in the defender's favour and reduces the effectiveness of long range or heavily armoured weapon systems.

Putin has created a very revisionist view of history to justify his twisted logic of resisting Western/European "expansion". This is entirely down to him, and the clique that surround and pander to him.

How many are Tory party donors ?

Putin is living in a parallel universe, one contained entirely within his head. His generals know the truth, yet just sit there and back his narative.

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Ukraine says that it has 'terminated' a Chechen assasination squad aiming for President Zelenskyy. They say the Russian state security bureau tipped them off about the attempt.

It probably explains what we have been seeing so far. At some point soon Russia will have to deploy some far more competent troops, and commit it's airforce fully.

Russian law prohibits conscriptrs being sent to conflict zones. Western assessments are that many thousands of conscripts, having been sent to the 'exercises' had their status changed from a 12 month conscription term to a 3 year 'contracted' regular soldier, without warning or right to challenge.

I didn't say it wasn't a thermobaric bomb, I said that reports say it hit an ammunition depot, whatever it was.