The Ukraine is fighting for the freedom of the West against a country run by one of the world’s richest men.
At first Putin came across as a pocket-action man with a penchant for sitting half-naked on horseback – for puffing his chest out like a belligerent pigeon and for surveying his outside world with cold lizard eyes.
Old Vlad the Bad thought he could take the Ukraine in just three days.
Now, it is 500 days since his appalling body-bag of an invasion began.
The general view today he is in a mess militarily, politically and economically.
On the other hand President Zelensky’s nation has got its head down and just keeps going and repelling the Russian army.
Putin and his cohorts are losing dignity, reputation and, at least morally, a war that shocked us despite it being behind the tattered curtains for years.
The heroes of Ukraine have brutalised, raped and murdered and their homes and cities have been looted and destroyed.
Ukraine is fighting for freedom.
In 500 days its heroism has won over most of the world – in 500 days Pocket Man is being seen as a horseless loser.
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