The European ruling class is in disarray over how best to handle this unwelcome reality – or even whether to admit to it at all.

Meanwhile, the hypersonic Oreshnik missile has imposed a new calculus on Nato’s insatiable war planners.

The irreversible collapse of the proxy war against Russia is slamming the door in the face of Nato barbarism.

President Putin makes it clear that all responsibility for the ongoing bloodshed lies with the aggressive Nato camp and its Ukrainian stooges.

What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?

Even supporters of the imperialist system are starting to see that it is not all that they were led to believe.

Every weapon the west supplies takes us a step further away from peace in a conflict that Ukraine simply cannot win.

Donetsk communists come together in support of Russia and in opposition to the brutal war of aggression waged by Nato in Ukraine.

Ukraine and other war zones are seen as cash cows for the west’s publicity-seeking soldiers of fortune, who crave fame and adulation for their actions.

Sergey Lavrov to general assembly: ‘Our future is being shaped by a struggle between the global majority and the neocolonial few.’

Nato war crimes in Donbass don’t stop at DU; Donbass civilians are routinely targeted by cluster bombs and petal mines.

It’s not too late to reverse the disastrous decision taken by many union delegations and the bureaucratic leadership clique to support this criminal resolution.

If westerners understood what was really happening, they would think twice about ‘standing with’ and continuing to arm Ukraine.

Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning.

‘Here we will stand until victorious; no one will leave our homeland.’

It is time we in Britain got off our knees and organised a mass movement of real opposition to the imperialist war drive.

Powerful testimony by the Grayzone founder exposing the corruption and profiteering at the heart of Nato’s proxy war against Russia.

Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.

As ever, screaming corporate media headlines turn out to have almost no connection to the small print. Even when making accusations of ‘war crimes’.

The war in Ukraine once more reveals imperialist hypocrisy over its alleged defence of the ‘rights of nations’.