Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, says that according to Russian Ministry of Defense numbers, 9,861 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured. The last official Russian KIA figure, on March 2, was 498. But then a very short time later the article was pulled and replaced by a 404 error. Then it was reposted without any numbers.
What is horrifying to me is that despite these losses and reported "on the ground" chaos, the missiles just keep coming and the annhilation proceeds. And Erdogan and Chi are the best hope for mediation?? Complex, no easy answers, and no end, it seems-- short of the unthinkables!! And we are the planet that kills our children. I am afraid I will wake up one morning soon to hear that those newborn babies of surrogate Moms being cared for in the basement somewhere have been bombed to smithereens. What a monster he is and we won't stop him for fear of what he will do next. We had better not wait too long. As the Ukraine Ambassador to the US said yesterday on Face the Nation...if we see a criminal beating someone on the street, we don't stand on the sidelines fearfully watching to see if he will kill the person or us. We call the police. We stop and punish the bully. We help the victim.
How to get Putin and the Russians (and perhaps Syrian mercenaries, and Checheyns) out of Ukraine? How to stop the bombs raining down and missile strikes which appear be originating beyond Ukraine's borders, or coming from planes? Erdogan has purchased weapons from Russia for heaven's sake. And Turkey is a member of NATO. Complicated does not begin to describe this terrible situation. PLUS anywhere from 200,000 - 500,000 euros a DAY are going to Russia for gas and oil so Europeans (Germans particularly) can cook food, and turn the heat on. And NO ONE either in Europe or in the US is talking about measures to CONSERVE fuel / drive at lower speeds, use less gas and oil, carpool, etc. There was a time during WW II there was gas rationing. We're in a time that is calling for human solidarity against Putin's aggression. He's counting on the West being soft on solidarity.
TC, thanks for posting this information. I have not seen it on CNN or other MSM sites. We can only hope that the families back in Russia will pressure the Russian government to end this brutal war.
What is horrifying to me is that despite these losses and reported "on the ground" chaos, the missiles just keep coming and the annhilation proceeds. And Erdogan and Chi are the best hope for mediation?? Complex, no easy answers, and no end, it seems-- short of the unthinkables!! And we are the planet that kills our children. I am afraid I will wake up one morning soon to hear that those newborn babies of surrogate Moms being cared for in the basement somewhere have been bombed to smithereens. What a monster he is and we won't stop him for fear of what he will do next. We had better not wait too long. As the Ukraine Ambassador to the US said yesterday on Face the Nation...if we see a criminal beating someone on the street, we don't stand on the sidelines fearfully watching to see if he will kill the person or us. We call the police. We stop and punish the bully. We help the victim.
How to get Putin and the Russians (and perhaps Syrian mercenaries, and Checheyns) out of Ukraine? How to stop the bombs raining down and missile strikes which appear be originating beyond Ukraine's borders, or coming from planes? Erdogan has purchased weapons from Russia for heaven's sake. And Turkey is a member of NATO. Complicated does not begin to describe this terrible situation. PLUS anywhere from 200,000 - 500,000 euros a DAY are going to Russia for gas and oil so Europeans (Germans particularly) can cook food, and turn the heat on. And NO ONE either in Europe or in the US is talking about measures to CONSERVE fuel / drive at lower speeds, use less gas and oil, carpool, etc. There was a time during WW II there was gas rationing. We're in a time that is calling for human solidarity against Putin's aggression. He's counting on the West being soft on solidarity.
TC, thanks for posting this information. I have not seen it on CNN or other MSM sites. We can only hope that the families back in Russia will pressure the Russian government to end this brutal war.
Perhaps Putrid Putin has his own little Fifth Column to worry about? Wish they'd get busy and act faster and win more than the information war.