Yahoo version: https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-won-major-victory-over-174126233.html

Yes, "to put paid to (something)" is a rather rare British English idiom, and I also had to look it up. Basically, it means "to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something".

Sorry, but these aren't graves of the Ruscist soldiers. These are graves of all who died there - mostly thousands of Ukrainian civilians.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-erasing-mariupol-methodology-f74b28016b8dea4b82811655f14931f2

Their assault does look like the Hunger Games, especially since the soldiers are often deprived of food and water. I suspect that those who survive all these vicissitudes will overthrow the Pootin regime. It's like throwing a bunch of rats into a metal barrel - the Rat King will emerge.

In any old empire, soldier's life isn't worth much. Fortunately, most of the empires are gone by now, and hopefully Russia will follow their tracks.

Here it started with tools to report the presence of enemy forces - see e.g. https://bachu.info/ I'm not an expert at organising, but I guess the Internet greatly facilitates civilian resistance - see e.g. https://zlamavka.com/en/home/

Russia does run out of tanks, gradually. That's why it has started to use obsolete Soviet-era tanks. The day when Russia completely runs out of tanks isn't anytime soon, since Russia has thousands of obsolete tanks in storage.

Still, the number of tanks Russia has diminishes every day, and their quality is worsening. In the meantime, Ukraine gets new rather modern vehicles from the West and captures a lot of Russian ones. Having an advantage, Ukraine is going to destroy even more Ruscist tanks - and thus move closer to the distant victory.

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You are welcome to post the news. It's just that @SoniKozak erroneously accused you of spamming. Please take it easy.

Actually used, and well-known (with a bit of humour) equivalent would be "пиздець російській федерації" (pyzdets' rosijskij federaciji). It was made famous by the speech: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=503739114801103&locale=ms_MY and you can hear these words at the very end of the speech.

AFAIK, the Soviet nuclear missiles have already rusted down in the nuclear shafts - and nuch fewer modern Russian missiles will also rust down without imperial funding. And all the destitute, deprived people of the current empire will at last be free to develop and prosper.

Yes, Russian consumers do notice significant inflation every month: https://fom.ru/ekonomika/11554