Sky News reports:

Russia marked the start of a 30-day ceasefire set from today by Ukraine's allies with an armada of 108 drones, Kyiv has said. 

The regions of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Donetsk and Zhytomyr were all reportedly hit. 

That is a direct to challenge to Sir Keir Starmer and European allies who warned Moscow over the weekend to "comply or face the consequences".

People who make threats should realise that they need the means to back them up, otherwise they just look silly.

The BBC produced a short but pithy summary of the state of the UK's armed forces here:

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd4lp6w378o]

Earlier this year defence minister and former Royal Marine, Al Carns, told a conference at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank, that the entire British Army could be "expended" within six to 12 months if it fought a war on a similar scale to the Ukraine conflict.

Last summer the head of the army, General Sir Roly Walker, said the Army needed to be ready to fight a war by 2027 - an admission it isn't ready to fight one in its current state. He said the Army needs to leverage technology, such as drones, new software, and artificial intelligence.

The Army also needs a lot more troops and maybe not the kind of personnel exposed by special forces whistleblowers now that the UK's SAS and SBS are under investigation for some rather nasty alleged war crimes [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3j5gxgz0do].

It's already quite clear that not only would Britain's forces find it challenging to fight a war like Ukraine against a 'peer' enemy like Russia, they might also have difficulty not commiting the kind of war crimes that both the Russians and Ukrainians have been accused of while fighting it.

So all this 'holier than thou' and 'you better stop or else' playground malarky in the MSM narrative needs to stop.