Quote Originally Posted by chrisp_1927 View Post
Reading the arrse forum, and watching the likes of the cavill group reports on twitter. It seems like the Ukrainians are in the long process of pulling off an upset of Boreham wood type proportions. They've slaughtered thousands of Russians, bagged their 5th high ranking officer today, and reports of a major Ukrainian counter attack occurring this evening.
It's a situation that no people should ever have to find themselves in. But my god are they fighting.
The rest of the world has let the Ukrainians down big time in the build up to this. We really need to step up and help them rebuild their country when they finally kick the Russians out.

I think it is harsh to say the world has let them down, I would say the silver lining of this tragedy so far as been how the west, Europe and nations from all over the world have united against Putin.

Even Russian allies like China and India are staying relatively quiet on the topic.

We should take a small amount of pride in the UK, that we called for and set some precedent for the strongest sanctions.
It is also high risk to directly send arms into a conflict against Russia (if you want to avoid them turning their attention to you) and the UK sent high amount of serious weaponry before any other nation.

We should continuously push for more, and keep turning the screw, there is still a lot more we can do.