Ukraine

As well as waking up this morning to snow, we woke up to the news that Putin has invaded Ukraine from all sides, with the pathetic excuse that he’s responding to “threats” which is total nonsense. He has been determined to do this for weeks. Ukraine has 44 million people but since they are not members of NATO they stand alone. All that the west can do is impose economic sanctions and frankly I don’t think Putin could care less. All he wants is to go down in history as the president who got Ukraine back for Russia. He also doesn’t care about how many people get hurt in the process, whether Russians or Ukrainians. The roads west of Kiev are jammed with people trying to flee west. 

The reason I had time to blog about this is that the plane is still being de-iced so we are going to be about an hour late to Gatwick. Hopefully we will still be in reasonable time for our next flight.