I think that it’s his own car
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It’s obviously not. His first victim takes out his keys at around 0:39, the assaulter picks them up 1:03. Oh, and if this wasn’t conclusive enough: We can see the two victims leave the car right at the beginning.
Of course, perhaps that car was, historically, his all of the time. Judomaster Putin certainly thinks about Ukraine that way.
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And as a “bonus” it provided fodder for anti-Semites who believed the old “dual loyalties” canard about American Jews. When you throw any consideration for morality out the window anything goes!
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A more competent war-mongering autocrat would have put up a Chinese-style Great Firewall before launching his invasion. Things would still get through but it wouldn’t have to make a laughingstock of himself for trying to ban Wikipedia.
As with everything else with his war effort, he’s stuck plugging holes and brute-forcing things and hoping people are too stupid to believe what they see with their own eyes only after things go wrong for him.
Putin may be the monster we always knew he was, but when others actually challenge his will (instead of kissing his arse like certain Americans) it turns out that he’s not the supervillain genius he was portrayed as.
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Even more incredible than seeing Ukrainians climbing in front of or on top of tanks/APCs to stop them is seeing the Russians not shooting them dead on the spot. Their bravery here is incredible, but the Russians holding their fire says a whole lot more ab out what’s going on here. In any other conflict zone they’d have been shot dead. Imagine a Palestinian climbing on top of an Israeli tank to try to stop it.
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Inexplicable? That tells you who was funding them.
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Putin can’t even shut Navalny up.
He can’t hide dead Russian soldiers either.
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You mean “Airstrip One”? The G7, nuclear power, seat on the UN security council, currently co-opted by 
money, paralyzed by economic self-immolation and yet to wake from delusions of Empire?
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I don’t think that that’s entirely correct. It’s basically what Turkish citizens did during the attempted coup in 2016.
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What do you think it says?
(Sorry it’s not obvious to me.)
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Well, I hope it doesn’t come to this:
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That at least some Russian soldiers see Ukrainians as “us” and don’t want to kill them.
ETA: This thread goes into more detail.
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I think it is further evidence that the Russian soldiers are not fully committed to this invasion, and it’s further evidence that they aren’t sure how to react to the Ukrainian population–they aren’t seeing them as “the enemy” and expected them to welcome Russian troops with open arms.
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