Whew! Seems that Russian soldiers are surrendering in large numbers to Ukraine. Many are still in their teens or early twenties. Hungry, cold, and tired, they wondered why they were fighting their neighbors to begin with. However, given Putin's choice of either prison or battle, they chose to battle.
With regret, they are now deciding on prison. Ukrainian prisons, that is. At least they'll have food and shelter, and they won't have to kill their neighbors.
Putin denies this. There are no surrenders, says Putin. A Russian soldier is devoted to the Motherland.
That depends on the definition of the Motherland. Until Gorbachev dissolved the Soviet Union, Ukraine was part of it, or the Motherland. After 1991, Ukraine became an independent nation.
However, Putin (former head of the old KGB) retained wet dreams of the old, great Soviet Union, the Motherland, and invaded Ukraine.
Bad move.
Putin lost the invasion, the war, and the dream while Russian soldiers were surrendering to Ukraine for food and blankets, freedom from hostilities, and life eventually back home in Russia. Alive.
Once Putin is gone, of course.
Zelensky predicts Putin will be gone soon, more or less, adding that it is because of his age. Yes, sure, indeed.
However, a limousine in Putin's motorcade exploded yesterday in Moscow. Putin was not injured. He may have been shaken, more or less, and maybe even stirred, but not gone.
Yet.
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