The Open University

“This contract will no longer exist, that much is clear,”

“But that’s fine — we will survive, Gazprom will survive.”

"People are being killed at levels that nobody's ever seen... It's very level fields, the only thing that stops a bullet is a body. And the number of soldiers that are being killed on both sides is astronomical."

"You know it's nice to say they want their land back, but the cities are largely destroyed,"

"We won't know what they've done until the house has already collapsed,"

"It may be hard to tell whether they are aimed at red tape or more like D.I.Y. home renovators taking a swing at a load-bearing wall,"

“A crisis is brewing on the continent — an alarm has gone off throughout the land. War could be coming. In quick succession, military chiefs from across Europe are urging their populace to get ready. Political leaders, from Britain to the Nordic countries and the Baltic States, increasingly emphasize that Europeans must prepare for war with Russia… Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thus far refused to send Germany’s Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv, arguing that doing so would risk Germany being dragged into direct war with Russia” ,