Putin isn’t mucking around. Every MILITARY personal captured, is stripped searched for AZOV tattoos then executed. If they come across those FORCED into fighting by Zelinsky 18-60 yo, they are interrogated but then given medical, food, a clean bed and clothes and will be released eventually with a warning. Time and time again these men had no choice. This is why they fled as refugees enmasse (as reported) but interestingly not (the men) to surrounding counties like Poland. They were given a gun, 10 rounds and sent to the front lines. Their bodies are in the 1000s. Putin is keeping records of how many AZOV and Nazi Ukrainian Military and ‘volunteers’ dead they are coming across. Those in the field ARE keeping count. Two weeks ago it was 27,000. The numbers must be higher by now. These volunteers are telling how they had no instructions, no food, no pay etc. Those foreign mercenaries are saying they were promised everything. They were duped. The weapons the world are sending in are destroyed or seized. The biggest worry is that these stocks of weapons will be ‘disappeared’ and sold on the black market before it reaches Ukraine. Putin has had enough of the west. The west have nothing Russia needs. With the securing of the Donbas areas, he has a clear run to the Black Sea without going thru other countries. China wants their gas and oil. Russia will sell to them. Russia will turn off the gas pipes to Europe and no amount of windmills and wind turbines will produce the load that Europe needs. In the first month of sanctions the income earned by Russia was $60billion. They earned $140billion for the WHOLE YEAR last year. So just who is winning? Not Europe or NATO. So if those Generals from France are ‘down there’, they may not be executed but they will never step back on French soil again.