These numbers look very very high. Can't believe them, although I would like to.

By military stuff, I mean Materiel at airports, ports, tank yards and defensive positions. Not specifically manpower.

If any country has learnt anything in the last few years, occupation forces tend to have a bad time.

Or neither. It may be that he is delusional and no one dares to tell him what reality is.

And leave a pro-Western democratic UA in place? No way. And if you were right, they could have just used their air force and never set foot into the country.

Exactly! I was trying to make the point last night that city guerilla warfare is nothing like open field battles. Tanks and airforce are less useful and the Ukrainians will be fighting at home for their country. This levels the field and then it will be about morale and stamina in which my money is on the Ukrainians.

Russia banned from 2022 Eurovision. Lol.

Well, Switzerland did something. My mistake, no account freezing, only obligation to notify if 363 Putin supporters have assets in CH banks.

https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/fdfa...022/2/25/87356

I guess the Swiss estimated it was going to look really bad if journalists exposed some months in the future these accounts, all while Ukraine is occupied by the invader. The Credit Suisse scandal a few days hit just in time to make the Swiss have 2nd thoughts on taking this kind of money.

At least a few EF members might be on the list

ZURICH, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Switzerland told banks on Friday to freeze the assets of people and entities on a European Union sanctions blacklist that the neutral country has adopted to ensure it is not used to circumvent measures against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

The instruction from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) ratchets up the pressure Bern is exerting in solidarity with the West while still trying to keep the door open to a potential role as a mediator.

"Financial intermediaries are requested to block the corresponding assets immediately and to report such business relationships to (government agency) SECO in accordance with the provisions of the ordinance," FINMA said on its website.

The government had earlier amended itswatchlist ordinance to include 363 individuals and four companies the EU put on its sanctions list this week to punish Moscow.

FINMA did not specify how much money would be frozen. Russians held nearly 10.4 billion Swiss francs ($11.21 billion) in Switzerland in 2020, Swiss National Bank data show''

Watch Finland, and possibly Sweden, ask for NATO membership very shortly. The Finns are almost there.

It will be a difficult task. Lukashenko (or The Cockroach as Belorusians call him) is the one and only. He said yesterday that he will be protecting Russian forces because Poland and Lithuania are gathering military forces to strike Russians from behind through Belarus. He is completely nuts.

Did you see this? Russia openly threatening Finland and Sweden just before the NATO closed session started.


https://twitter.com/eskelinen_antti/...24856265531394

Btw, if history is any indication, the Finns don't even need NATO, last time the Soviet campaigned there it ended up in disgrace and they still remember the "White Death"

This is official confirmed numbers from UA military HQ

Putin screwed up then. He is driving everyone into NATO. Well, except UA of course who got the short end of stick.

Should Kyiv be declared an 'Open City' ?
To avoid senseless and indiscriminate killing of civilians caught in the crossfire.
It's probably too late for Kyiv to be declared an 'Open City', particularly with the Ukrainain government arming Kyiv residents
in a last ditch stand to hold the city but the link below includes examples of 'Open Cities' during World War 2.

List of Open Cities declared during World War II

I know that. But they are at war, and part of this is information war. They will want to report high Russian casualties so that internal opposition in Russia grows.

He is not just nuts, he is regurgitating Putin's narrative.

I think Ukrainians are heroic. My heart goes out to all that suffer because of this absurd war.

You mean capitulate?

Just now on DW, Belarus will amend its constitution by removing the articles which proclaim it as a non-nuclear state. Chances are Putin will equip them quickly after that with nukes

No - By all means fight on, I just mentioned Open cities as an historical aside of what happened in World War 2.