​Putin’s desperate bid for quick victory ​

Fears are rising that an increasingly desperate Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to seize Ukraine’s capital Kyiv within the next 24 hours — by all means necessary and at any cost.

Bellingcat, the investigative journalism site that exposed the Russian agents behind the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014, say they have seen Russian command discussions.

“There’s a lot of chatter and purported leaks on silovik telegram channels that the General Staff has instructed that Kyiv be taken by Monday (Tuesday Australian time),” Bellingcat executive director Christo Grozev tweeted this morning.

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