Chris

This is fast turning into a rout of Russian forces. Yet frustratingly the BBC is still illustrating its reports using a map date-stamped 29 August, and unbelievably they’re still decorating their maps with red arrows marked “direction of Russian advance” even though there have been no significant advances in those areas for months.

Right from the outset the BBC has been in thrall to the idea of the unstoppable Russian army (remember how breathlessly they kept updating us on how long the convoy heading for Kyiv was, without ever once seriously asking why that convoy wasn’t going anywhere) and despite the fact that there have been verifiable reports coming from all across the southeast today they still can’t bring themselves to admit they might have been reading this wrong.