Ahh, No Shit.

In related news--water is wet, fire is hot and Taylor Swift is an idiot. 

Ukraine cannot exist as a monoethnic and monocultural state in its 1991 borders, which is the essence of what the government of President Vladimir Zelenksy seeks in the conflict with Russia, his former aide Aleksey Arestovich said in an interview on Friday.  Speaking to journalist Yulia Latynina, the ex-official declared the nationalist Ukrainian project “dead,” stating that Kiev is unable to find people willing to fight for it. He claimed that 30% to 70% of troops on the front line refuse to go into combat and seek opportunities to desert. According to Arestovich, the refuseniks “have passed a sentence on this system, they have sealed its end.”  

Evidently, Ukraine cannot exist at all, in whatever form--this much is clear from statements by Vladimir Putin, among others. The consensus in Kremlin has been finally reached by the looks of it, and Western 404 is being given back to its rightful owners bar some Russian enclaves with Russia deciding which ones--the rest is to be divided between Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. 

In related news, Sergei Lavrov didn't mince words. 

German officials in Karlsruhe announced plans this week to seize almost $800 million in assets from a Russian bank's account in Frankfurt, due to alleged violations of EU sanctions. Lavrov reacted to the news by calling the German authorities kleptomaniacs. “They are thievish, we realized this a long time ago. They have been treacherous all along in political terms, you know: in the sense of reneging on agreements and trying to deceive someone. Now they have turned out to be thieves in the literal sense,” Lavrov told journalists following his visit to Tunisia.

Well, Germans voted for that. There are always consequences. Always. If someone thought that it is not true--I have a very bad news for them.