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I watched the documentary with this name on Netflix yesterday, it has a lot of live footage of the protests that eventually unseated Yanukovych in 2013. I had no idea that something so violent and actually partly like bits of the French Revolution had taken place with barricades and street battles. Protesters were savagely beaten and shot and the medical centre set up by the Red Cross got burnt down with patients in it.
After watching it the organisation and willingness to fight of the Ukraine resistance makes sense, they had done it before. Also it's no wonder Putin hates Ukraine because they have a model of getting rid of an autocrat. I know there are two sides to every story but the film is very much worth watching and you don't really need a narrative, what you see is plain enough
I don't see a demand by Putin for the war to end by the 9th of May as a good thing for Ukrainians but I'm not surprised that India in particular want a ceasefire as food riots are already happening in the subcontinent. Let's just hope the Asian leaders manage to do what the West can't and get Putin to listen to reason
Morning I'm thoroughly depressed with/thoroughly depressed by the SP but I've just re-read the last RNS and it is unequivocal that the fundamentals of the company haven't changed and the same strategy is being executed.
That was 3 weeks ago today but feels very considerably longer because of the speed with which events have deteriorated in Ukraine and by extension the wider world.
Yes I do very much want to see business concluded and a clear RNS to lift the SP in the meantime but three weeks isn't actually very long. We're not the only ones nervously waiting for things to be resolved...
Mercedes i admire your confidence, to be honest if we get up to 25p without a sale RNS ill probably sell off quite a few shares (my average is 26), there is too much crazy **** going on just now. Book a holiday instead,,,
Mac your comment "it's a friendly with more rules conflict" is absolutely appalling.
Putin is allowing humanitarian agencies to operate within confines and will continue to hammer civilian areas whilst claiming he is reining back and merely defending Russia. War crimes are happening now.
I would like this to stop and EUA business to resume as before but downplaying the staggering violence being inflicted is either crass or quite unbelievably stupid
Les
As I said before my partner Marion lost her life to cancer, I don't wish to talk about her illness but it was a very similar prognosis. I will remember the cold feeling of shock when the news was delivered for the rest of my life - my deepest sympathies really are with you, your wife and all of your family.
We managed a small trip away before her illness became too severe and if you can find a way to do something together with your family think about a way to record it so you can watch or listen to in the future. Planting things in a garden together could help so you can see them grow.
The charity Maggie's can help as well as Macmillan will help with backup and advice.
All the best to you mate
James
I don't have the link here but I read yesterday the Chinese foreign minister confirmed Ukraine has asked them to mediate talks, Xi Jinping might be the only person on earth who could tell Putin to shut up and listen. Here's hoping...
Agent B your post about the Ukrainian journalist is disgusting, I saw her in interview later in the day and she was angry and upset for genuine reasons. Firstly that innocent men, women and children are dying right now - sick people running out of medical supplies in basements, old people left to die of hunger and cold. Illegal cluster bombs dropped on civilians. Secondly that the Budapest Memorandum guaranteed Ukraine that they would be defended if they were invaded in return for nuclear disarmament. Now they are facing siege and starvation.
It doesn't matter a shred if you have worked for an affiliate of the global economic forum for both of these things to be incontrovertable. It is real and happening right now
Wake up!
Very well said Novice20, it's perverse crowing about your success and vindication on the back of senseless and brutal slaughter. I think I'll tune out for the rest of the week and find a way to donate to relief efforts. Looks like we're just going to stand back and let the Ukrainians take the punishment, it's shameful
I'm holding my shares as I'm not a trader - nervously hoping the volatility eases but I'm not having the people I love and everything around me blown in pieces. It's just money, I still have a job.
But the BOD need to do more than tweet to stop the run on the share, some facts and figures. Not shortly but "imminently" as in this week
Ian
Putin has a lot of murderous things in his arsenal before involving nukes - particularly aerosol bombs which you cannot defend against. He could give a city 24 hours to surrender or the inhabitants would die a horrific death.
He knows the nuclear option is stupid because radiation clouds threaten Russia itself with long lasting poison.
Let's just hope he's dead soon
Unfortunately for the Ukrainians they also have thermobaric aerosol bombs heading their way, if troops aren't winning the war Putin can vaporise resistance, he dropped them in Syria. Molotov ****tails won't do anything in that context
Good grief - "the war will largely be over by Monday IMO"
That's right we can read some words in a news article and figure out the path of a multi-directional invasion and series of cyber attacks, ordered by a psychopath with a sizeable war chest and an itchy trigger finger. I do admire your confidence