Times: “We have about half a million people who went through a war in this country in which they have either lost someone or something. "Half a million who have lost the blood of a relative, lost their homes or lost their friends, and they are ready to tear apart Russians with their bare hands.”He added: “If our intelligence manages to predict the direction of the main Russian hit, after the first big losses they won’t go further.“Putin realises that after heavy casualties his army may stop by itself.
You cannot trust intuition in this. It is about cold calculation.”Meanwhile, a "Russian offensive to encircle Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev now looks like a realistic possibility," according to the Wall Street Journal."We are in the midst of Europe’s most dangerous moment in decades.
Bomb-shelter signs are again going up in Kyiv. Civilians are banding together to defend their hometowns," the title's reporter in Kiev claimed.
A US Government website released a fact sheet on 'Russian Disinformation on Ukraine,' stating that Moscow instigated the current crisis by placing more than 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine.The document stated that there was no similar military activity on the Ukrainian side of the border.The United States and Great Britain are providing military aid to Ukraine, and anti-tank weapons also arrived at Kiev airport on Thursday.
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