Irpin 'liberated', 200 killed in the city since the Russian invasion

[L. Coyote]

War in Ukraine: Irpin 'liberated', 200 killed in the city since the Russian invasion • FRANCE 24

At least 200 people have been killed in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin since Russia invaded Ukraine, its mayor said Wednesday, adding that half the town had been destroyed and it was unsafe for residents to return. Ukraine said the commuter town was "liberated" from Russian forces on Monday. FRANCE 24's Cyril Payen tells us more.

[calguy]

1. I'd hardly feel 'liberated', if my entire town was flattened and destroyed by Russian barbarians.

[Warpy]

2. Russians haven't changed theirplaybook since the days of the Avars and Mongols

It's move in, destroy everything, kill everybody, claim the turf, move on. If a city opened its gates, it was sacked and young women taken as breeding stock, but it was allowed to survive under harsh rule and didn't stop the advance.

It's also the playbook from the 1939-1940 Winter War against Finland: a failed blitz offensive to grab the whole country followed by demands to cede territory. The Finns, with regional and Allied support, cleaned their clocks and it began to dawn on Stalin that there was a bigger threat brewing to his west.

I just hope their equipment continues to let them down and that the Putin regime collapses sooner rather than later. Nobody wants to see this horror drag on much longer except Putin and the men pouring pan Slavic poison into his ears.