They are saying 30000 Ukraine troops are surrounded. Looks like he is taking a land bridge down to Crimea. There is a huge force building outside the capital. Looks like he is now going for a second nuclear power station. Putin claims Neo Nazi troops are making civilians in apartment blocks move into the lower floors while they install cannons and snipers in the upper floors. Putin compared that to WW2 similar practice by the German Nazis. He is obviously not going to stop. Hard to imagine that Ukraine cannot accept what the outcome will be. Ukraine are throwing civilians against the Russians. That is a tragic decision IMO. OK, Ukraine have the power to end this madness. Male refugees of fighting age are denied exit and sent back to fight. The bloodbath could still be avoided. Russian tactics have been shown in other actions to be turning a city to rubble. This has some similarities to the American civil war which was about states rights. Russians and Ukrainians are the same people. Sanctions are not going to improve anything. So far the oil price has gone through the roof along with Putins oil export profits. US inflation is out of control. The end result of sanctions probably will weaken the USD as world reserve currency. No one is coming to help Ukraine with boots on the ground. Russian and Ukraine are the same people. Russians are paranoid about the West, with very good reason. Zelensky is willing to start WW3 to save his job. Call for a US enforced no fly zone which would do that. IMO Ukraine should sue for peace immediately. Whatever it takes. This is madness. The result looks inevitable. Some realistic thought could save maybe millions and stop destruction of some beautiful cities,
