Comments by "Tony L" (@tlangdon12) on "Sky News" channel.

  1.  @lebohangmokheseng9250  They have lost their economy, their standing in the world, their position as trading partners, and thousands of their young men
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  2. Now they just need to find a way to get a couple of Neptunes onto a ferry that can taken them out into the Black See, and sink another Russian Cruiser that now thinks it is out of range! Slava Ukraini!
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  3. Most of the videos showing Russian tanks being destroyed showed this happening in open countryside, not Mauripol (or any other city).
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  4.  @stephenroldan5107  Poo tin
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  5.  @troycalgaro413  There is nothing to be aware of. There are no NATO or US troop in Azovstal.
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  6.  @AlbertoForniture  No, just another one who has seen the footage from Mariupol, Kiyv, Kherson, Karkhiv, etc.
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  7. Yes. The populations water and energy needs will continue to fall as electical devices become more efficient and as homes become better insulated. Better ways of storing electricity and heat will become common place.
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  8.  @jamescornick8739  Big bombers from the 1960's!
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  9. The Ukrainians are being such heroic fighters, I'm beginning to believe that their sticks will shoot!
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  10.  @billnikola2463  Because if they don't they will be pariahs for centuries.
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  11. Just like all countries, but the UK understand that there is benefit in helping Ukaine and nothing to be gained from helping Russia.
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  12. But the people in Donbas are part of Ukraine. Russia agreed this in 1990. If these people want to be seperate (andI have no doubt they do), they needed to find a way to persuade their fellow Ukrainians to move out of Donbas. The Ukrainians who needed to move could have been compensated, and helped to resettle in Western Ukraine, but instead of facilitating a peaceful settlement, Putin sent heavy weapons! He's the warmonger here, not Zelensky, and certainly not NATO.
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  13. It could be a missle strike. There is a comment that it was a salvo (2) Neptune missiles. The first explosion seems to be much less intense than the second, but I think this might just be that the position of the ships relative to each other absorbed some of the explosion. Neptune is a sea-skiming missile and would not have been visble from the camera angles we see in the news report.
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  14. That's a good question. I expect that there will be quite a few young who will flee westwards, and quietly forget any support they voiced for their region to become a separate state. I have no problem with this. I will always welcome someone who changes their mind about something, provided they have not murdered people before their epiphany. I'd expect the older residents to stay put, as they know that control from Moscow or Kyiv is likely to be quite similar from a day-to-day point of view.
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  15. The lesser of two evils.
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  16. Nothing like a war to make projects hit their deadlines!
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  17. Destroyed, not liberated. The camera does not lie.
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  18. I'm sure there will be a new set of stamps released showing a fuller range of Russian military hardware that has now been reduced to scrap.
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  19. Ukraine doesn't need luck. Their allies will give them all the money that has been seized from Russia in sanctions.
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  20. A false flag operation is clearly very risky for Russia; a) the lose a valuable oil/fuel storage facility b) the whole world is backing Ukraine for taking this offensive action against Russia c) it looks really bad if they are ever found out.
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  21. It is a very risky way of achieving the mission, and probably unnecessary if they can get missiles to hit these targets.
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  22. The people actually fighting this war don't always have the time and connectivity to comment, and there are many more poeple watching the war than fighting in it, so that it is enevitable that the sofa warriors dominate the comments.
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  23. The Russian force in the area is very large, and the Ukrainians have not been able to break through. Rather they are being pushed back slightly each day.
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  24. I hope so too. Russia should pay to repair all the damage they have caused.
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  25.  @oldcremehelian3708  To stop the Russians.
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  26. It's not unusual for leaders to be perceived very differently at home to how they are perceived abroad!
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  27. Given all the war crimes that Russia have committed in Ukraine, it's not something to be proud of.
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  28. Russians clearly don't understand irony.
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  29. Putin doesn't have a military background. He only served in the KGB. His professional training would not have included how to fight a war.
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  30. Actually, the Ukrainians got lucky and didn't kill any civilians. I doubt they have sufficient intelligence on the ground to be certain that they would not kill or injure a civilian.
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  31. It will be interesting to see what Ukraine have left, and how they use it.
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  32.  @nohandler1493  And Putin did? Putin was never a politican.
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  33. I would like to think so, but there is no evidence of this.
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  34.  @shtyry7150  If that's "success", I don't want to see how bad a Russian failure looks.
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  35. Ukraine is a large country, with many cities that need protecting from the invader.
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  36. We've plenty of money and arms to give to Ukraine.
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  37. One thing that Russia is doing right is that it is keeping valuable ships outside of the range of Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. The sinking of the Saratov in Berdyansk might be a rare occasion when Russian ships came in range!
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  38. Not for UK audiences.
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  39. Putin is hoping that the gas reserves under the Donbas will pay some of the cost that Russia has incurred in fighting this war. How sweet it will be when he realises he is not going to get a single breath of Ukrainian gas!
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  40. It is upto Britain how it makes peace with the countries it colonised. Those countries have a right to discuss it with Britain. If Russia wants to make peace with Ukraine, it has to expect Ukraine will have a price for peace. Reparations are likely to the price that Ukraine will expect.
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  41. Water-cooled computers have been around since the 1951. Moving the heat to somewhere that wants to pay for it is the problem. Few people want to pay for what they see as a 'waste' product but unless someone is prepared to pay, there is no money to pay for the pipes to move the heat.
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  42. Russia are winning, but slowly. The problem for the Russians is that this allows time for the sanctions to bite harder, and for new weapons to come into Ukraine. Their overwhelming manpower and military hardware, especially in the air and at sea, shoudl ensure they win eventually, but if they make tactical mistakes, Ukraine might cut off a significant Russia formation and slow the Russians to a crawl in some area.
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  43.  @selfdiscipline296  And yet this is exactly what Russia did in Donbass! Gave the seperatists heavy weapons! So heavy in fact that one of the terms of the Minsk Accord was to restrict the size of artillery that could be sited in Donbass.
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  44. The world does not need Russia, but Russian's need Russia. This conflict is not about Russia's right to exist. Russia has an absolute right to exists if its people want to do so. It does not have a right to invake Ukraine.
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  45. The DPR and LPR "patriots" are traitors. They are Ukrainian, and yet they have picked up weapons and fought against fellow Ukrainians.
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  46. It's a personal choice for each citizen whether they wish to die to defend their country. The Netherland's capitulation didn't save many Dutch jews, did it? Giving up is rational, but not always the correct course.
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  47. They are not "Far Right". This is part of Putin's narrative to justify seizing the Donbass for its gas reserves. The origin of the Azov battalion was rooted in the far right, but it has changed so that it is no longer a far right militia. Russia will not accept this though. The Azov battalion in Azovstal are part of the Ukrainian National Guard and adhere to all the requirements of Ukrainian National Guard units about political affiliations and fight as the Ukrainian government instructs them to fight. They should all be treated as Prisoners of War by Russia.
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  48. The thousands dead or captured are blood on the hands of Russia. Ukraine, and the world, will never forget the brave defenders of Mariupol.
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  49. Actually Aiden was in Ukraine since 2018. He speaks Ukrainian, has a Ukrainian fiancée and dual citizenship of Ukraine and the UK. He should be treated as any other prisoner of war, by the Russia and the Chechens. He is not a 'foreign' mercenary, but a paid solider in the Ukrainian marines. If he is murdered because he used to live in the UK, then Putin has shown us again of the depth that Russia will sink to.
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  50.  @dannychong7842  Russia should get out of Ukraine before it starts losing territory to the Ukrainians.
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