Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to send out a firm message of defiance.

When we met this weekend in the government headquarters in Kyiv, he said that far from losing, Ukraine would end the war victorious. He was firmly against paying the price for a ceasefire deal demanded by President Vladimir Putin, which is withdrawing from strategic ground that Russia has failed to capture despite sacrificing tens of thousands of soldiers.

Putin, Zelensky told me, has already started World War Three, and the only answer was intense military and economic pressure to force him to step back.

“I believe that Putin has already started it. The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him… Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves.”

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    9 hours ago

    Putin wants to, but can’t. Ue doesn’t have the economy to sustain a war on that scale. He hopes to destabilise NATO, the EU and the US (and has had quite a bit of success) so he can pick us off one by one.

    The way to stop him is to stay united and ensure victory for Ukraine. A victory for Putin would only empower him.

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    Let’s get a grand alliance together to stop Putin and his axis of evil, no more p*ssyfooting around. Make Ukraine part of Nato, activate article 5, and unify the fronts. One giant war all the way from the Baltics over Teheran to Taiwan and Korea. That will show him for starting WW3.

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    Mail complaints and viceral disgust directly to the gremlins in the kremlin. Overnight express, if one can afford the postage.

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    I feel bad for the Ukrainians, but reality is starting to set in.

    Their kingdom and the allegiances it made was not enough to defend against Russia’s kingdom and the allegiances they made.

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      Seems to me they’re still standing firm. How much territory have they lost recently? Fighting for their lives, they’re still holding on, and they’re continuing to survive with the help from the US all but cut off.

      You may claim to feel bad for them, but it sure sounds like you’re like Trump - suggesting they give in to the terrorist Russians.

      But a quick peek at your posting history shows you love to vocally block people. So go ahead and block me and be done with it.

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            Their kingdom and the allegiances it made was not enough to defend against Russia’s kingdom and the allegiances they made.

            If this wasn’t true, then the war would be over and Russia would have no gains.

            I get it though, “gung-ho” and all that. It’s okay to believe and peddle lies so long as they paint your side in a good image.

            The propaganda war is real and you aren’t above it.

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              If this wasn’t true, then the war would be over and Russia would have no gains.

              What fucking bullshit spin is this bullshit? Ukraine is fucking successfully defending itself against Russia, you fucking muppet. Russia, with supposedly the second best military in the world, can’t even fucking win a war in Ukraine, who is somewhere supposedly down in the list?

              You are absolutely laughable and pitiful.