Weekly newsfilter: Desperate Putin wants to break terror resistance against civilians – Diary N

The news was selected and commented by Zoltán Szalay

1. It doesn’t look like a blitzkrieg, but it’s not over yet

Just kick the door and the whole rotten building will collapse, said a confident Hitler at the height of his power in 1941 before the attack on the Soviet Union. His plan for Barbarossa ended in a complete fiasco, but it caused the human suffering we had been remembering for many decades.

Short balance of the first eleven days. Vladimir Putin probably had a similar plan with Ukraine, which he, like Hitler, despised throughout Eastern Europe. On the eleventh day after the outbreak of war, it is probably too early to say that he did not succeed, but the fact is that he has so far managed to occupy the only major Ukrainian city (Kherson in the south), his losses are very serious and the heroic resistance of Ukrainians has not succeeded. break.

The stalemate near Kiev. Earlier this week, terrifying images of a Russian convoy over 60 kilometers heading to Kiev flew around the world. It looked like the beginning of Armageddon for the Ukrainian capital, but a few days later, experts evaluated it rather than a parody of the almighty Russian army.

One American expert even he saidthat it is the largest prisoner of war camp we have seen since 1944. The cars at the head of the convoy probably ran out of fuel and ran out of batteries, blocking the entire convoy and exposing it to Ukrainian attacks.

The worse news is that