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3 minutes ago, Oystercatcher said:

Live webcam of independence Square Kiev.

 

 

 

 

I quite like that folk are waiting at the red lights. The city is being bombed to f**k but they are still following the rules of the road.

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3 hours ago, jamamafegan said:

PS the Ukrainian president comes across as a badass with his general demeanour, dress in his olive army shirt. I feel like he won’t let Putin take him alive.

It's quite mad how he became President.

He was a comedian starring in a TV show about being a History teacher that has a video go viral after a pupil films him going on a sweary rant about government corruption on the Internet which leads to him becoming President.

He then signed up for the upcoming Ukraine election in response to the TV show as a bit of a laugh in 2019 and then ended up getting 70% of the vote.

Mental.

Imagine if that happened to us and Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr was elected as Prime Minister.

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Just now, Ludo*1 said:

It's quite mad how he became President.

He was a comedian starring in a TV show about being a History teacher that has a video go viral after a pupil films him going on a sweary rant about government corruption on the Internet which leads to him becoming President.

He then signed up for the upcoming Ukraine election in response to the TV show as a bit of a laugh in 2019 and then ended up getting 70% of the vote.

Mental.

Imagine if that happened to us and Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr was elected as Prime Minister.

Both of them would probably do a better job than Johnson. 

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Just now, Ludo*1 said:

It's quite mad how he became President.

He was a comedian starring in a TV show about being a History teacher that has a video go viral after a pupil films him going on a sweary rant about government corruption on the Internet which leads to him becoming President.

He then signed up for the upcoming Ukraine election in response to the TV show as a bit of a laugh in 2019 and then ended up getting 70% of the vote.

Mental.

Imagine if that happened to us and Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr was elected as Prime Minister.

Thankfully out Prime Ministers have to go through political parties voting for them and then their constituents, so we generally avoid random punters getting the top job. 

It has seemed to serve us well...

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2 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

It's quite mad how he became President.

He was a comedian starring in a TV show about being a History teacher that has a video go viral after a pupil films him going on a sweary rant about government corruption on the Internet which leads to him becoming President.

He then signed up for the upcoming Ukraine election in response to the TV show as a bit of a laugh in 2019 and then ended up getting 70% of the vote.

Mental.

Imagine if that happened to us and Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr was elected as Prime Minister.

And the poor guy is now likely to be dead within the next 12 months regardless of what happens over the next few days.

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5 minutes ago, 101 said:

I quite like that folk are waiting at the red lights. The city is being bombed to f**k but they are still following the rules of the road.

There are a few more here: https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/ukraine/kyiv-city-council/kyiv/obolon.html

I was watching one earlier from the roof of a hotel, you could hear an English media crew in the background chatting about an upcoming broadcast, the mouthpiece being asked by the producer (I think) if he was going to say he'd been in Kiev. Yes, he said, anyway it might be true, you never know it could have been the edge of the suburbs..

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1 hour ago, 101 said:

Joining NATO or the EU is a matter for the Ukrainian electorate in the first instance and then a matter for the bodies they join. f**k all Todo with Russia.

Russia share a border with NATOs biggest military power, without invading.

This is the real world though, would the Yanks let Mexico or Canada sign a treaty with Russia to allow them as a direct ally ???

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9 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

It's quite mad how he became President.

He was a comedian starring in a TV show about being a History teacher that has a video go viral after a pupil films him going on a sweary rant about government corruption on the Internet which leads to him becoming President.

He then signed up for the upcoming Ukraine election in response to the TV show as a bit of a laugh in 2019 and then ended up getting 70% of the vote.

Mental.

Imagine if that happened to us and Ricky Gervais or Jimmy Carr was elected as Prime Minister.

 

5 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

And the poor guy is now likely to be dead within the next 12 months regardless of what happens over the next few days.

Is it too late to get Ricky Gervais in there?

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2 minutes ago, AlbionSaint said:

 

So if Zelensky armed school kids and sent them to the front line, it would be Putin's fault? Zelensky has an obligation to protect his vulnerable citizens. He should be telling them to take shelter and stay off the streets - that's what I would do if I was him. As a leader you can ask the people to come out onto the streets and fight, but that instruction comes with consequences, and it means more civilian deaths.

Zelensky could have taken actions to prevent this war. Rightly or wrongly, he chose the course of action he did - but he should be trying his best to limit civilian casualties. I don't see this as a contentious point.

 

^^^Pétainist

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