Comments by "Tony L" (@tlangdon12) on "Ukraine War: Mariupol 'likely to fall in hours'" video.

  1. 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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  2.  @stephenroldan5107  Poo tin
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  3.  @troycalgaro413  There is nothing to be aware of. There are no NATO or US troop in Azovstal.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Destroyed, not liberated. The camera does not lie.
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  8. 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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  9.  @oldcremehelian3708  To stop the Russians.
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  10. Given all the war crimes that Russia have committed in Ukraine, it's not something to be proud of.
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  11. I would like to think so, but there is no evidence of this.
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  12.  @shtyry7150  If that's "success", I don't want to see how bad a Russian failure looks.
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  13. Ukraine is a large country, with many cities that need protecting from the invader.
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  14. Not for UK audiences.
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. The Donbas is important to Ukraine because of the gas gas reserves that lie beneath it and Mariupol is importnat for the Azovstal steel works and the port, but Ukraine could survive and prosper if Donbas (and Crimea) was seeded to Russia. It would be a hard decision for President Zelensky to make, but he might do so if he felt it was the only way to create a lasting peace with Russia. If the Ukrainians decide that a lasting peace with Russia is never going to be a reality, they will retake Mariupol. It might take a year, ten years or a century, but they will retake it while they remain at war with Russia. The Russia economy will be crippled if they can't either take over the whole of Ukraine or agree a lasting peace with it.
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  23. The Russian army has paid a heavy price for being so useless.
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  24. When will Russia accept that they are wrong about the Azov Battalion?
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  25. Ukraine won this war on 24th February 2022 when Russia lauched its illegal invasion.
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  26. Chemical weapons might work well, but they won't kill any NATO troops. There are no NATO troops in Ukraine.
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  27. Russia cannot 'win' this war, so there is no point being please that Mariupol has fallen.
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  28. I think that is probably a little too far from the truth. He's a politician, a millionaire, and has been grappling with Ukraine's corruption and "right wing" elements since being elected . He's tough, brave, articulate and resourceful, a great war leader, for sure, but a saint? No.
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  29. "Slava Ukraini" has fewer words.
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