Putin must end up like Gaddafi

"All these hysterics are primarily related to the total defeat in the drone war. Those familiar with the situation on the key logistical routes of the new regions know that the Ukrainians already completely dominate there and systematically knock out everything that moves on them. The scale of losses is already huge, but they continue to increase every month. All roadside areas are littered with burned trucks and military equipment. Thus, roads that were previously considered deep rear areas, that is, from 30 km and further from the Lugansk People's Republic, are losing more than 100 vehicles per week. By the autumn, this will lead to a total paralysis of all logistics from the Kharkiv region to Crimea, which will make the continuation of military operations completely impossible. There is no countermeasures for this. Damn it, that's the outcome." -Russian milblogger Alex Parker Returns

Et cela ? 21 jeunes volontairement tués par l’Ukraine… ? un crime de guerre oui , mais chut…vous êtes pitoyable

That said, here’s the most important takeaway: the Ukrainian strike was real. The destruction of the dormitory was real. I saw no evidence of a military base on the spot, contrary to Ukrainian claims. Beyond any reasonable doubt, students were killed in their sleep.

Today, as a Ukrainian-Jewish and a scholar of the Holocaust, I feel deeply ashamed. I never could have imagined that in my country — the country where the Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jews, the country of Babyn Yar, the very symbol of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, a country that claims to be fighting for “freedom and democracy” — a Nazi collaborator and OUN leader like Andriy Melnyk would be buried with full state honors. Men under Melnyk’s leadership served in the Auxiliary police under Nazi. They hunted Jews hiding in attics, basements, forests, and barns, desperate to survive the Holocaust. They guarded ghettos and camps. They marched Jews to execution sites. And they took part in the shootings alongside the Germans. By the spring of 1943, the Holocaust in Ukraine was nearly complete. The Jewish neighbors were gone — murdered before the eyes, and often with the assistance, of Melnyk’s followers. And it was precisely then that Melnyk supported the creation of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, whose members swore an oath to Adolf Hitler. And today, the president of my country — a man whose own relatives were murdered by the Nazis — kneels before the coffin of this Nazi collaborator. One could hardly imagine a greater humiliation for Jews. It is a humiliation for everyone who once believed that “Never Again” meant something in contemporary Ukraine — a country where militant ethnic nationalism increasingly dictates the politics of memory, and national identity.