Russia report they have destroyed most of the Ukrainian air defence infrastructure and airports, but they complain that the Ukraine military have moved a lot of their weaponry into residential neighbourhoods, as they were taught to do by the CIA, and Russia, unlike the US, have a policy against bombing civilian neighbourhoods.
The US/UK/EU all say Russia have suffered huge losses, thousands or maybe tens of thousands of the Russian soldiers committing the war crime of invading peaceful Ukraine have been killed. While the Ukraine have a small organised military, every citizen has grabbed a gun and killed many Russians, cutting down whole Russian divisions before they can draw their weapons and kill more than a very few devoted Ukrainian patriots. Every single Ukrainian hates everything Russian, and every single Ukrainian is shooting at the evil invaders.
The West have shown pictures of many Russian planes shot down.. The fact that these pictures are rather obviously from a video game hasn't stopped them from convincing most Westerners that Russia are losing badly, soon the Ukraine will have killed every last Russian invader and NATO can start setting up military bases and installing nuclear missiles to finally destroy the evil Russians before they can commit another heinous act.
Russian photos and videos don't show much. Many explosions, a documentary of all the ethnic Russians killed since the US takeover in 2014, but not much more. Full coverage of the Security Council debating the resolution condemning Russia, going on and on and on, with long speeches about how evil the Russians are, and finally the vote, 11 to condemn Russia, 1 against, and 3 abstentions, so the vote to condemn Russia failed by the wide margin of 1 veto. Both India and the PRC abstained.
The Ukraine say it will talk to the Russians in Poland, but Poland, a fanatic member of NATO, sent a huge convoy of weapons to Ukraine, and would probably arrest the Russian delegation for war crimes, so Russia is not enthusiastic about having a meeting in Poland, and the Ukraine are saying Poland or nothing.
The West mostly say the Russians are being slaughtered as the evil Russians are trying to murder all the good Ukrainians.
Russia show a video of a Ukrainian Army group surrendering and being fed by the Russians, but it's only a small group, not more than one company, maybe just a platoon.
And so, after watching pretty much non-stop for two days, I have absolutely no idea what's really happening.
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One thing is clear: the New York Times say the Ukrainian Army and the Azov Battalion are proven NOT to be the neo-Nazis Putin says they are. And the New York Times are right that Putin got that one wrong: the Azov Battalion wear the Wolfsangel, and wearing the Wolfsangel does irrefutably prove they are not neo-Nazis: the Wolfsangel is a sign that they are just Nazis, no neo about them.
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