as the old saying goes, stick a fork in ukraine; 

The Times expects you to pay to read the following article. Yet it says nothing new or novel and only reiterates what the likes of Scott Ritter and Douglas Macgregor have been saying for months now, although now its aimed at generating sympathy and support for Ukraine.

In essence, Ukraine is in the brink of outright defeat.

After squandering billions in arms and aid, Ukraine’s Western-backers have realized that they simply cannot keep up with Russia’s military/industrial output.

Much of the armour that the West sent to Ukraine and which was heralded as potential game-changer weapons when they were sent – like the British Challenger II tanks, German Leopards and U.S. Abrams tanks – now lie wrecked and forgotten.

The writer of the following report would like his readers to believe that Russia’s Special Military Operation was an unprovoked assault of freedom loving Ukraine. It wasn’t, that is just the standard Western propaganda line.

In reality, Russia’s Special Military Operation came in response to NATO’s steady encroachment on Russia’s Western border and Kiev’s clampdown on ethnic Russia’s in eastern Ukraine. In the months prior to the launch of Russia’s Special Military Operation, Ukraine’s neo-Nazis has been systematically slaughtering ethnic Russians in the east of the country..........more....