Trump Putin* At War

Putin just said “only professional servicemen take part, no conscripts” take part in war against Ukraine, despite Russian senator said opposite yesterday, that “Out of a company of 100 🇷🇺 conscripts, only four survived.” https://t.co/SkGn6xF03G

— Alexander Khrebet/Олександр Хребет (@AlexKhrebet) March 5, 2022

Putin jests with Aeroflot employees who soon won’t have any international routes to fly and are now cut off from the computerized booking systems that allow Russians to fly internally. They will be able to use those joysticks on their museum bound planes. Pozhaluysta. https://t.co/gCBk0aLKVC

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) March 5, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Putin: Moscow will consider any third-party declaration of Ukraine no-fly zone as 'participation in the armed conflict.'

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 5, 2022

NEW: Putin issues one of his harshest threats, warning that Ukraine could lose statehood if it continues to resist.
“The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood.”https://t.co/QpyOtY3lcm

— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) March 5, 2022

Wasn’t his goal to root out “Nazis” and establish a government more like that of Belarus? Or was this whole thing just supposed to be a pleasant outing for the troops?

(Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the West of "economic banditry" and threatened to retaliate, without giving details.

— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) March 5, 2022

Retaliate with what? How?

Disgusting nazis https://t.co/5U90sV82xq

— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) March 5, 2022

Note these are Visually Confirmed Russian Air Force losses, this is absolutely staggering. https://t.co/4a64lFLWyC

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 5, 2022

A disastrous day for the RUAF, and probably indicates that the thoughts about their PGM situation were true.

Russian aircraft are forced to enter Ukrainian short range air defense range in order to deploy their unguided munitions. https://t.co/qFMSdzkuv4

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 5, 2022

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 05 March 2022

Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/lxblo0LTY6…

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/scyVonQwH9

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) March 5, 2022

But when those extra troops arrive in a week from eastern Russia and make it down the road blocked by the stalled and bombed out convoy and then they run out of gas and food, THEN you’ll be sorry, boy! Yes, the war is a nightmare. No, Putin is not going to win it,)

*easy mistake to make