Ukraine's Kyiv sees relief as Russian attacks intensifies in the East

While Russian attacks intensify in parts of Ukraine, particularly in the East, the situation in the capital of Kyiv has been much calmer.

Russia’s earlier attempt to capture the capital has failed and the country has reframed its war goals in a way that may make it easier for Moscow to claim a face-saving victory array with setbacks.

Jeff Semple reports from Kyiv.

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[vg]

*The media sitting for a month in Kyiv waiting and waiting....and all the action has been at the South-East part of Ukraine. As the map shows Russia has taken or have under siege: Luhansk, Kharkov, Donestsk, Marioupol, Dinopro, Berdyans'k Kherson, Krakiv, that is a territory as big as U K and that territory is at the South-East part of Ukraine.*

[Brandon_]

The worst behind them? It’s only getting started

[ameliaguthrie]

Is this actually happening? From the news, social media and newspapers, what is the truth?

[StarsAtNight]

Are the parliament opposition parties restored?

[Diego-Silan]

If this pandemic teaches us to turn to God,
why do churches close down and were more vulnerable as we go to church ?

If this pandemic shows us that family is
important why is it harder to visit family
members and why are we losing them ?

Even if we all struggle with
the pandemic and what's going on
around the world we struggle together,
especially for some lives affected
permanently now. My concern is that when the pandemic is over, some people are happy and some people are sad. I feel that if the pandemic is over some people will be ok and some lives are permanently affected and that's not fair. Some people may feel that they’re struggling alone.

If life tells us to move on from certain things, why did the pandemic limit us from moving forward with these restrictions and why do our desires get controlled.

[LearningSpanishwithDrL]

I am worried about a chemical attack or nuclear bomb. I wish the Russians had stayed longer in the red forest around Chernobyl.

[SpreadGuts]

You seem to jump awfully fast between Lviv, Yuzhnoukrainsk, Kharkiv and Kiev, Jeff. How's that possible? 🤔

[hcm]

How much money does it take to bribe the Russian soldiers to surrender, defect, give Russian weapons to Ukraine and either join the Ukranian army or leave the battlefield?
If you try to kill the Russian soldiers, they will try defend themselves since their own lives is at stake.
But if you give them money and an opportunity to leave the battlefield, they can survive somewhere and return to Russia when all this is over, without getting killed and without killing anyone. It is a win-win situation.

The United States alone has already given Ukraine more than a billion dollars to fight the war. All that money is more than enough to BRIBE the entire Russian army and convince them to surrender their weapons to the Ukrainian military.

The only thing preventing Russian soldiers to defect is the punishment from the other Russian soldiers. But if the entire Russian army defects, there is no one left to punish the defectors.

And you only need to convince the soldiers to defect. High-ranking officers like generals are the minority inside an army. The soldiers constitute the vast majority of an army. It is much easier to convince soldiers to defect since they receive a very low salary. If enough Russian soldiers defect, the war is OVER! There is no way to wage a war without soldiers.

Most Russians soldiers don't want to fight this war. They would be more than willing to accept bribes. They fight simply because they have no other option. They cannot disobey orders because they would be punished, even killed by their superiors. They cannot desert because they would die of hunger and cold. If the Ukrainian army attacks them, they will simply defend themselves and attack back.
We have to give the Russian soldiers a WAY OUT. Convince them to surrender their weapons to the Ukrainian army. In exchange Ukraine should give them some money, protection, and a way out of the battlefield.
The Russian soldiers can then hide in Poland or elsewhere until the war is over. When the war is over they can safely return to Russia. They cannot return right now because the Russian government would simply send them back to the battlefield.

[kitarvin]

Aggression, brutality, conflict, and dispute will be further heightened when Mars conjunct Saturn in Aquarius on 4-5 April after transiting out from the current placement in Capricorn..

[Diego-Silan]

If this pandemic teaches us to turn to God,
why do churches close down and were more vulnerable as we go to church ?

If this pandemic shows us that family is
important why is it harder to visit family
members and why are we losing them ?

Even if we all struggle with
the pandemic and what's going on
around the world we struggle together,
especially for some lives affected
permanently now. My concern is that when the pandemic is over, some people are happy and some people are sad. I feel that if the pandemic is over some people will be ok and some lives are permanently affected and that's not fair. Some people may feel that they’re struggling alone.

If life tells us to move on from certain things, why did the pandemic limit us from moving forward with these restrictions and why do our desires get controlled.