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murder their parentssteal children and grandchildrennot content to kill ~ n.b. If you made this stuff up, people would condemn you as a sicko. Well, this is Russia and consequences of their ‘military operation‘. I note Switzerland is supporting an international air defence programme now. Even the discreet, courteous, stable, confidential, neutral Swiss, who take →
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everyday peoplevisit the pizzariafamilies sliced apart ~ n.b. Kramatorsk’s pizzeria, a popular venue, often used by foreign journalists, was blown to pieces today while people were sitting down to eat. The criminals have resumed their murderous business, after fighting each other briefly, like rats in a sack. The slaughter of children out with their parents →
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remove the labelslook into the soldiers’ eyesthe kids from next door ~ n.b. The Ukrainian counter-offensive has begun to make some progress. Their armed forces, supplemented by volunteer recruits from all backgrounds, fighting to bring peace to their own homes. Pictures from a small exhibition at the Norwich city library. “On the roads to war” →
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day four-seven-onewar becomes wallpaperpeople switch off news ~ n.b. It now takes something outrageous to re-capture attention, a dam being sabotaged and subsequent flooding, for example. The daily tally of lost civilians, a grandmother here, a child there, becomes unremarkable. ~ CLP 09/06/2023 →
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this runs far deeperdestruction of a nationMoscow’s callous goal ~ n.b. Having failed with invasion, Moscow’s aim seems to be to turn Ukraine to ruins. Blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam is just another day at the office for the little man in The Kremlin. How will this be ended? CLP 07/06/2023 →
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this is the futureunmanned aerial vehicleswar without soldiers ~ n.b. Eventually, no human risk to intervention, weapons fight weapons, just civilian casualties. Who will prevail? The belligerent with most money. Something not previously the case, as the wealthy nations don’t like to see too many of their poorer sons sacrificed. See Vietnam, Afghanistan, Suez, Iraq, →
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‘Bakhmut is Gone’ nowits name remains on a mapshells have left mere shells ~ n.b. Today the New York Times shows film taken from a drone of the broken city. Three people huddled by a wall, checking whether it is safe to creep around the corner of a block, on their journey to god knows →
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attack on suburbsa three year old child victimwhere remains safe now? ~ n.b. The bereaved mother thought the war was “far away” from their home on the outskirts of Dnipro, but sadly not, The Guardian reports this morning. What, with killings like this and the forced deportation of children from occupied areas of Ukraine, the →
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