I watch Judge Napolitano who has regular guests. They speak about the SMO and Gaza daily. I think it was yesterday that it was announced that Ukraine has lost 1 million military personnel. Colonel Douglas MacGregor has also been updating and a few months ago, it was around 700,000 ukraine military dead. Interestingly, not many Ukraine civilians have died. Those early videos that surfaced early in the SMO were of the Russian speaking areas in Mariupol where the homes blown up were Russian homes and Russian civilians killed. The lies that it was Ukrainian civilians killed was incredible! I’ve seen footage of film crews in Kiev filming Ukrainian citizens (actors) ‘fleeing’ from the Russians invasion. Absolute bull crap. There was a bombed out car up against a building but the windows of the building were all intact! Returning to the Donbass areas, It was these areas that a referendum was put to these people in three areas - Lagansk - Donetsk- Zaporizhzhia oblasts in the Donbass and almost 100% voted of becoming Russian citizens. The heartfelt scenes of the elderly greeting the Russian military was so emotive. Cries of we knew you would save us, we knew you would come and we waited for you for 8 long years. God bless you! When they were being evacuated by ferries, their pets went with them. Russians love their pets, especially cats. This is why Putin will not settle for anything less than taking back the cities that Russia lost when the coup took place. And a huge buffer zone. Putin trusted the Minsk Agreements but it was just a ruse for the West to build up their military in Ukraine and invade Russia. A plan was in place to divide Russia up into 8 areas. These areas would be divided among the EU and the West. They failed and Russia is much much stronger today economically, socially, spiritually and of course military. Every thing the West and the EU threw at them, failed. Putin will not let the Russian people suffer again.