I noticed that too. That's 2.5 thousand thousand thousand meters ... which is a LOT of meters!

OK -- that's actually good news (for my ego).

Should we be able to see that in the attached photo? I don't see anything I recognise as a former airplane, or a radar dome. (I see one plane towards the upper right, but no clear damage and no dome...)

What I -can- see is two (semi?-)trailers with red tops, a dark shadow above them, and a light line below them. Sure look like German flags at first glance!

Was this just a poorly chosen photo, or am I going blind in my old age?

> Putin wants to annex Ukraine

Nope. Putin wants to eliminate Ukraine. In his viewpoint, Ukraine does not exist, should not exist, has no reason to exist.

• If he flattens it completely, that's consistent with eliminating Ukraine.
• When he replaces the UAH with the RUB , that's a step toward eliminating Ukraine.
• When he replaces Ukrainian passports with Russian passports, that's a step toward eliminating Ukraine.
• When he replaces Ukrainian with Russian language instruction, that's a step toward eliminating Ukraine.
• When he purges references to Ukraine from Russian history books, that's a step toward eliminating Ukraine.
• When he sends children elsewhere to become Russian, that's a step toward eliminating Ukraine.
• The capture of land and resources is NOT his primary goal. Making them Russian, NOT Ukrainian is his higher priority. All steps toward eliminating Ukraine.

He has previously stated that although his timeframe is 25 years -- a generation -- at the end there will be NO Ukraine, NOTHING Ukrainian, and no memory of anything Ukrainian. Ukraine will be eliminated, erased, nonexistant.