Vladimir Putin’s troops will be “pretty easy pickings” for Ukrainian forces in looming Donbas battles as they will be forced to remain in columns on the road by “springtime mud,” Britain’s armed forces minister said on Tuesday.
James Heappey accused the Russian president of threatening to send “an awful lot” of his soldiers to their death unnecessarily because he reportedly wants a victory parade in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, a key date in the Russian military calendar as it marks the Nazis’ surrender in the Second World War.
