More than five weeks have now passed since Russia commenced its brutal invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, with no end to the bloody conflict in sight as peace talks between negotiators make little apparent headway.
Russian president Vladimir Putin told his citizens at the outset on 24 February that their country was not waging war but instead conducting “a special military operation” intended to “de-Nazify and de-militarise” the Ukrainian government and liberate its people from tyranny and genocide, a rationale with little grounding in reality given that its target was a sovereign democracy whose president is Jewish and a genial former TV actor.
