Irish Examiner View: Ordinary Russian citizens can help end war in Ukraine

For all the bluster and bravado from Red Square, the truth is slowly penetrating through the streets of Moscow and further afield.

In Vladimir Putin’s home city of St Petersburg, district council members are petitioning for his removal from office for treason. Picture: Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

This weekend we reached Day 200 of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. Not yet as long as the Irish Civil War, but trending in that direction, and most likely to go beyond that milestone.

While we can admire the determination of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s people to defend and attempt to recover their homeland, we should not be deluded by reports of counterattack and liberation of “1,000 sq km of territory”.