I guess that they are curtailed not by the Ukrainian airforce but by western supplied air defence systems. Using missiles is safer..

That’s just a guess though.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Why does everyone want world war 3? its like our "Leaders" are pushing us into another world war.

Make peace save lives!

A very simplistic statement which may read as even mocking the current situation or showing a weak and feeble stance. Cannot help but feel it adequately represents my sentiments however. I remember moaning because the football wasn't on.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

The Japenese attack on Pearl Harbour was when?
I believe WW2 started in September 1939.

Regardless of what appeases both sides I do not see any peace talks at all or any effort to hold them or even talk about them!

Infact the only side that looked for peace and willing to talk was Putin! From what I have seen! All zelensky had to say was "Okay we will not join nato and remain neutral" How many lives could have been saved? And how many further lives could be saved if he just says those magic words!

Instead he is too busy meeting celebrities, musicians, having video calls to glastonbury etc... and getting 10s of billions of dollars, euros and pounds from everywhere else!

We should be doing everything we can to de-escalate the situation! no one wins in a nuclear war!

It seems anyone who wants Peace is automatically a far right extremist or a bigot!

What you talking about? Everyone wants peace except Putin. He pulls his army out and it will be over. If Ukraine pull out, Ukraine is over.

NATO is a defensive alliance and have never been a threat to Russia - it's the usual bollocks propaganda from Putin to create a 'the rest of the world is against us' mentality in Russia, when it's simply not true. You can't blame Ukraine for wanting to be safer by joining.

The only escalation again is coming from Russia. It's them who invaded, its them who ran sham referendums, it's them giving nuclear threats. A catalogue of poor judgement and continued poor judgement from Putin is causing the continued escalation. Are you suggesting that Ukraine just concedes the land they had illegally taken away from them by brute force, destruction and and mass homicide?

What if Russian troops invaded your home town, smashed it to pieces, raped your woman, killed a few of your pals and forced you to live in an authoritarian regime which you had no choice over? There's no peace for the victims in this. Would you be happy to accept it or would you hope that your neighbours/allies rallied around to help?

As others have said, there will be constant peace talk dialogue going on behind the scenes. It's just not in the public domain.

My guess is that Russia won't use nuclear weapons as they will lose China. Their soldiers don't know why they are there, they are untrained, lack equipment and most importantly have low morale. Ukraine will gradually force Russia out and will join NATO. Russia will become a pariah state for 25+ years until they elect a western thinking President. Until then, they can hang out with North Korea.

The best outcome for Russia is that they can claim Crimea.