(#4817) Ukraine is ready for the battle for the east of Ukraine

      Having seen how the Russians were aligning to take the Donbass region after being routed in the Kyiv region the Ukrainians quickly surmounted their own defense. There is nothing like protecting your own land when invaders come and so is the case here. The Russian soldiers are no match for the Ukrainian defenders in that the Russian soldiers were lied to to get them to come to Ukraine and once they found out the purpose they are not anywhere near battle hardened veterans like the Ukrainians. So sad to say the Russian troops who were duped into this fight will not last long in this life. It would have been better if one of their military leaders subdued putin instead of letting putin send these Russian troops to their looming deaths.
     Which is exactly what is going to happen. The western world is making sure that Ukraine has the basics of what it needs to defend itself. I had hoped that a no fly zone would have been instituted over Ukraine but regardless the anti aircraft missiles have been effective. The Ukrainians are far better suited to destroying Russian armaments given the intel the Ukrainian forces are getting from the west. It is still amazing to me that the putin led Russian imminent attack is still going to happen. It will be a slaughter of Russian troops and that is all because of the ego of putin. The insanity of putin's ploy is devastating and will go down in history as an attack on the level of arrogance with George Custer.
     As Custer was duped into an attack that was doomed to fail so is putin and his, to him, expendable Russian army. After this coming catastrophic defeat I would hope that someone within putin's circle will grow a pair and end the putin madness. It seems that as soldiers become generals in Russia the courage they may have had in the beginning disappears. All it would take is one well placed determined Russian patriot and all this madness would be over. At least one that is. The future of Russia is at stake here and when the slaughter of young Russian men is complete the shame that Russia will carry will not soon leave them. Nor will the destruction that putin has leveled on all around him.