@Brian Burns: Amnesty International has produced dozens of reports about Russian war crimes. The author said she personally investigated when hundreds of tortured bodies turned up in suburban Kyiv after Russia retreated from the area. Just like most people do not blame Palestinians for Israels attacks, we do not spend our time blaming people who are fighting for their right to exist as a free democratic country from a ruthless and proven murderous agressor. More I’m sure could be done but the Russians have shown themselves adept at blowing up their bases so using motility is neccessary.

@Brian Burns: I heard about it on irish media so it’s hardly being kept quiet ?

@Brian Burns: Nail on the head

@Brian Burns: Very surprising considering Am Int is a tool of Western imperialism.

@Des Hanrahan: I think a certain republic planning to run for re-election might be setting stage through the media.

@Brian Burns: It’s all russias fault.

@Brian Burns: Yes,now bombing their own Nuclear Power stations,and demanding the world believe that the Russians attacked their own forces who are occupying said plant.

@Brian Burns: which narrative is that then? The one where a foreign aggressor attacks a sovereign nation and commits multiple war crimes?

@David Mulligan: Perhaps the narrative where the CIA helped to instigate a coup in the Ukraine in 2014, one where there were two Minsk agreements, where Zelensky ran an election promising to avoid war with Russia through negotiation, where the Ukrainian government cut off drinking water to ‘their people’ in Crimea, where Zelensky made extreme far right wing independent militias part of the military. This war was never a case of good versus evil. Anybody who claims that Zelensky is a hero is either uninformed or just plain incorrect. If you state a bullish opinion, it’s no excuse either way.

@Seán Ó Briain: There are many reasons for Ukr to do this, eg Ukraine is losing the war, it appears the US is getting ready to throw Zelensky under the bus, Taiwan incident over-shadowing this conflict etc. This may help to get West onside again – more money, weapons etc. Russia has no incentive tp do this.

Regarding the Ukr regime putting their own population at risk, they’ve been killing their own population in the east for 8+ years. They couldn’t care about their own population. It’s like the British government and the loyalist paramilitaries during the troubles. They were not very fond of their nationalist fellow citizens!

A no-fly zone and a NATO peacekeeping force means the end of the world or the destruction of NATO.

@Joe Bloggs: You’re a Russian bot. Your opinion is irrelevant.

@Kevin Farrell: Keep shilling for Nazi Russia man. There won’t be any nuclear war. Putin knows Russia would be leveled within days if that happened. But there is a legitimate risk of nuclear fallout if they keep putting nuclear powerplants at risk.

@Seán Ó Briain: No, the nazis are the Ukrainians.

@Joe Bloggs: wow. I hear a diet rich in Russian propoganda can be bad for your health. You should diversify.

@Seán Ó Briain: it’s very easy to call people names. In my experience, people do so when their argument is weak or non-existent. The reality of the situation is that a NATO no-fly zone anywhere in Ukraine would ultimately involve NATO forces attacking either Russian air defences in either Ukraine or Russia itself. What would happens after that is entirely unpredictable. Even if Russia were not to fight back, which is highly unlikely, all it takes is a miscalculation for the situation to escalate beyond control, and then we and all other life on Earth are dead – if not immediately from nuclear blasts, but certainly within a year when nuclear winter reduces temperatures worldwide to minus 70 degrees Celsius so that no plant life can grow.

@Eoin Clancy: Not fair man. the vast majority of Ukrainians are neither Nazis nor ultra nationalists. The Azov brigade members may be a different story. Don’t paint an entire population based on extreme tiny minority that I would bet most Ukrainians don’t like or support.

@shligo boyzz: based on what? I really hope you’re right. Putin has been throwing the kitchen sink at this since February, so I really hope the Ukrainians can oust the invaders from their borders.

@shligo boyzz: I know, I’ve been watching this closely since April, fully expecting Kherson to be the next battlefield, since there is no way the country can have any viability without it. They’ve been making sure Russia cannot resupply across the Dnieper – which is a massively wide river incidentally – in order to cut them off at the northern bank. And meanwhile they need to keep the Russians occupied in the east or else they’ll be flocking over there.

The forces in Kherson city are supposedly not the best and not very motivated, and some of them are already surrounded, so you’re right, we’ll be seeing progress soon. But again, regarding the other side of the river, I find it very hard to see Ukraine recapturing that since it can be resupplied from Crimea. Again, the Dnieper river is the deciding factor, and that nuclear plant is unfortunately on the wrong side.

@John Kenny: trust the process it’s slow because sending troops in would be very costly. They are attacking ammo dumps and troop concentrations first.Ukraine have a bridge head over the inulets river and They have a up to a full tank battalion hiding somewhere in Ukraine and also a lot of soldiers where they will be used I’m not sure.

@Mick Tobin: Russians are panicking in Kherson the partisan movement has gone underground and in constant contact with the army also. Who knows maybe ukraines plan is to get as many Russians across the river and then cut them off I really do think something is gonna happen to sum it up Russians won’t be able to supply across the river if the bridges go pontoon bridges will not cut it.

@shligo boyzz: The foreign policy of the US is clear – keep Russia in a state of war for as long as possible to weaken the country. Ukrainian victory is irrelevant. The EU decided to become a vassal state. The slow trickle of arms is deliberate, why didn’t it come all at once, which could have made a difference? The deaths or permanent debilitation of tens of thousands of young people is an inconsequential statistic. Europe will buy LNG gas from US companies, Europe will buy arms from US companies. Ukrainian young men will die. All is good…?