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Heartbreaking </3 and makes me want to banshee scream at these moronic parents...they could lose her and don't seem to care </3
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. “The Russians continue to bomb us and use artillery,” Serhiy Orlov told the BBC. “Our civilians are ready to escape but they cannot escape under shelling."
“We understand that [the ceasefire] was not true from the Russian side, and they continue to destroy #Mariupol. We decided to move our citizens back because it’s not safe to be on the streets.”
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Mariupol officials say Russian troops not observing ceasefire to allow civilian escape – live
“We understand that [the ceasefire] was not true from the Russian side, and they continue to destroy #Mariupol. We decided to move our citizens back because it’s not safe to be on the streets.”
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Mariupol officials say Russian troops not observing ceasefire to allow civilian escape – live
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I think,for the younger generation at least,Russian citizens must question what they are being told when the government is actively and very obviously cutting off links to any information coming from the outside world. They must be suspicious after what they may have heard, and from family around the world that will be giving them up to date information.
I know I would certainly question why my government was so intent in stopping me from viewing anything other than what they allowed to see, I would definitely question what they were hiding,although I know for the older generation this is what they know and so are easily controlled by Putin,but the younger generation I believe will continue stand up and be counted.
Hopefully many young Russians are familiar with vpn's!
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Snipped by me for focus...The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 2 hours ago
CNN: Russia is poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine. The U.S. has already seen “some indications” that Russian mercenaries may be involved in Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine “in some places,” a senior defense official said earlier this week.
️Reports of fighting taking place in streets of Sumy.
Residents are asked to stay at home or go to a safe place.
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 1 hour ago
The donation will be used to provide urgent assistance such as shelter, psychosocial support and core relief items.
Residents should go to the nearest shelter.
Residents should go to the nearest shelter.
Residents should go to the nearest shelter.
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 48 minutes ago
Residents must go to the nearest shelter.
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 2 hours ago
"CNN: Russia is poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine. The U.S. has already seen “some indications” that Russian mercenaries may be involved in Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine “in some places,” a senior defense official said earlier this week."
Deploying mercenaries actually sounds like the Russians are having trouble with their 80% conscripted forces and need some experienced fighters to come in to lead and motivate them...probably by fear. AJMO
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Of course and true to course for liars...like Putin
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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Mariupol officials say Russian troops not observing ceasefire to allow civilian escape – live
“We are negotiating with the Russian side to confirm the ceasefire along the entire evacuation route,” it said in a statement.
The route of the corridor is Mariupol - Nikolske - Rozivka - Polohy - Orikhiv - Zaporizhzhia.
9 minutes ago.
The deputy mayor of Mariupol has said that people continue to be shelled as they try to leave the city. Deputy mayor Sergei Orlov told BBC News: “At first our people said the shelling stops for a little time, but then it continues and they continue to use hard artillery and rockets to bomb Mariupol. People are very scared.”
Orlov said authorities in the city had received information that there is fighting “on the road to Zaporizhzhia” making it unsafe. “We understand that [the ceasefire] was not true from the Russian side, and they continue to destroy Mariupol. We decided to move our citizens back because it’s not safe to be on the streets.” He said the shelling of the city and fighting on the road to Zaporizhzhia makes it “impossible to evacuate people”.
Same link
Mariupol evacuation postponed
Reuters has this update on the partial ceasefire in Mariupol:
Authorities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol said an evacuation of civilians planned for Saturday had been postponed as Russian forces encircling the city were not respecting an agreed ceasefire.
In a statement, the city council asked residents to return to shelters in the city and wait for further information on evacuation.
Mariupol’s deputy mayor told BBC News about the difficulties faced by the city’s civilians who were attempting to evacuate.
“We are negotiating with the Russian side to confirm the ceasefire along the entire evacuation route,” it said in a statement.
The route of the corridor is Mariupol - Nikolske - Rozivka - Polohy - Orikhiv - Zaporizhzhia.
9 minutes ago.
The deputy mayor of Mariupol has said that people continue to be shelled as they try to leave the city. Deputy mayor Sergei Orlov told BBC News: “At first our people said the shelling stops for a little time, but then it continues and they continue to use hard artillery and rockets to bomb Mariupol. People are very scared.”
Orlov said authorities in the city had received information that there is fighting “on the road to Zaporizhzhia” making it unsafe. “We understand that [the ceasefire] was not true from the Russian side, and they continue to destroy Mariupol. We decided to move our citizens back because it’s not safe to be on the streets.” He said the shelling of the city and fighting on the road to Zaporizhzhia makes it “impossible to evacuate people”.
Same link
Mariupol evacuation postponed
Reuters has this update on the partial ceasefire in Mariupol:
Authorities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol said an evacuation of civilians planned for Saturday had been postponed as Russian forces encircling the city were not respecting an agreed ceasefire.
In a statement, the city council asked residents to return to shelters in the city and wait for further information on evacuation.
Mariupol’s deputy mayor told BBC News about the difficulties faced by the city’s civilians who were attempting to evacuate.
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Very long, in-depth read by RTÉ Europe editor Tony Connelly:
Tug of War: Putin, Nato and Ukraine
"It is the people who build cities, while the madness of princes destroy them" - Erasmus
(...)
In the space of a bewildering few weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine has violently upended Europe’s geopolitics. Ukrainian leaders already talk of World War III, and Mr Putin has cocked the nuclear gun.
While the gastronomic salons of Kyiv pointed to Ukraine’s aspiration to be another prosperous EU country, the Kremlin is dragging Europe - and the world - back into the unfinished business of the 20th century, and even back further into the Russian imperium of a distant era.
'Russky Mir'
"Putin has articulated an idea of there being a 'Russky Mir' or a 'Russian World,’" Fiona Hill, the former US official specialising in Russia, told Politico this week.
"This idea of a Russian World means re-gathering all the Russian-speakers in different places that belonged at some point to the Russian tsardom."
While the invasion of Crimea in 2014 was denied and then cloaked in Kremlin double-speak, these days the Russian president is viscerally upfront about what he thinks about Ukraine - ie, that it doesn’t deserve to exist.
(...)
Wedged between the "new Europe" of former satellite states and Mr Putin’s Russia, Ukraine’s fate was never going to be easily resolved. Add to the mix the Kremlin’s heavy emphasis on Kyivan Rus’, the 9th-13th century dynasty, which has been the font of Russia’s origin myths.
The roots of the invasion can be traced, however, to a more recent era.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union ceased to exist thanks to a late night meeting in a Belarus hunting lodge on 8 December 1991.
In the lodge were the presidents of three soviet republics: Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus and Ukraine’s Leonid Kravchuk, whose parliament had overwhelmingly voted for independence from the USSR the previous week.
(...)
Thus, the Soviet Union was consigned to history, literally overnight, but Ukraine was having no truck with a new Russian dominated union. In the event, a commonwealth of independent states was created.
Yeltsin was not the only one who feared "full" independence for Ukraine.
America was also cool on the idea.
(...)
On 1 August 1991, President George Bush told Ukraine’s parliament: "Freedom is not the same as independence.
(...)
The speech had gone down "about as well as cod-liver oil", one Kyiv-based diplomat told the Los Angeles Times.
Third largest nuclear power
Despite Bush’s (and Yeltsin’s) warnings, 90% of Ukrainians voted for independence that December.
In Crimea, with a large Russian-speaking population, 54% voted in favour, while in the Donbas region - where Russia would later establish two secessionist areas in 2014 - some 80% approved of independence.
But by gaining independence, Ukraine had also overnight become the world’s third largest nuclear power. It had inherited 1,900 nuclear warheads and 2,500 tactical nuclear weapons.
(...)
Washington believed that only Russia should emerge from the debris of the USSR with its nuclear weapons intact. Bush and Yeltsin worked together to persuade Kyiv to de-nuclearise.
Thanks to the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine was biddable. However, there had been clashes between Kyiv and Moscow over the fate of the Black Sea fleet, stationed in (now Ukrainian) Crimea.
If the newly independent country was going to give up its nukes, it wanted financial and political guarantees, including recognition by Russia of Ukraine’s borders.
(...)
That, at least, would offer a brow-beaten Ukraine further comfort. However, Kyiv had no illusions about Russia’s intentions in keeping its promises over Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
'Neo-isolation'
Yeltsin had already written to Clinton the previous year to complain about the desire of newly liberated Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO.
The Russian public, he said, would see this as "the neo-isolation" of Russia, and would violate the treaty establishing German unity in 1990.
"The spirit of the treaty," Yeltsin wrote, "precludes the option of expanding the NATO zone into the East."
Indeed, much of the Russian bitterness, from Yeltsin to Putin, goes back to German unification in 1990.
While a lot has been written in recent weeks based on the recollections of diplomats and foreign ministers, what exactly was promised to Moscow about NATO expansion when Germany was unified remains a source of debate.
(...)
The German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, haunted by Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest in 1956, said in January 1990 that Nato should propose that "whatever happens to the Warsaw Pact, there will be no expansion of NATO territory to the east and closer to the borders of the Soviet Union."
Mikhail Gorbachev, the reforming Soviet leader, said that Germany and America had promised him that NATO would not expand to the east, but he later said the topic was not discussed.
James Baker has denied promises were made, yet the former British prime minister John Major, on a visit to Moscow in March 1991, said that "nothing of the sort would happen" when asked about possible NATO membership for Poland, Hungary and the Czech republic.
(...)
But by 1997, the momentum of central and eastern European countries joining NATO became unstoppable. Yeltsin approved their membership, but complained he had been pressured into doing so. In 1999, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined NATO.
Russian nationalism
On New Year’s Eve 1999, Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer stationed in East Germany, succeeded Yeltsin. This changed everything.
"In contrast to Yeltsin," wrote Plokhy and Sarotte in Foreign Affairs, "Putin made a concerted effort to reassert Russian influence in the post-Soviet space, first through political and economic means and then by using military force. Western policymakers, however, clung to the belief that Putin had been installed to continue the domestic and international course established by Yeltsin."
The West either misread or underestimated both Putin’s growing resentment, and his simultaneous squeezing of the institutions of liberal democracy.
(...)
In 2004, eight eastern and central European countries joined the EU.
Among them Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also joined NATO. This was a bitter blow to Putin: the Baltics had been part of the Soviet Union.
Whatever about poking the bear, the candidate countries had witnessed Russia’s brutal wars against Chechnya, Transnistria and Abkhazia. Joining NATO commanded strong popular support.
But Ukraine was left exposed. There was no prospect of either EU or NATO membership.
(...)
In 2004 after the pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych claimed victory in a rigged election, tens of thousands of demonstrators launched the Orange Revolution, a grassroots bid to end corruption and to steer Ukraine towards the West.
Similar colour revolutions broke out elsewhere in the former Soviet space, in Georgia and in Kyrgyzstan.
(...)
Colour revolutions
The UK, France and Germany argued that Ukraine’s and Georgia’s membership be kept in the balance. The final text was watered down to a promise that they could join some day (but with no timetable to do so).
Just four days later Russia attacked Georgia, ostensibly to protect the two pro-Russian enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
While hostilities were limited, the Kremlin ended up recognising the two enclaves and steadily increased Russia’s military presence there.
Mr Putin had two reasons to oppose colour revolutions: he regarded those countries as part of Russia’s domain; they also posed a direct threat to his personal regime, should ordinary Russians decide to have a colour revolution of their own.
Ukraine continued to push for a European destiny. In 2013, when the country was about to enter a new EU-Ukraine association agreement, Mr Putin, now aligning himself more aggressively with Kyiv’s Orthodox Christian origins, pressured the then president Viktor Yanukovych to reject the deal in favour of a closer relationship with Moscow (along with $15 billion in aid).
The move prompted mass outrage and weeks of protests in Maidan, the main square in Kyiv.
A furious Mr Putin, who the year before had faced middle-class street protests in Moscow after he returned to the presidency in a questionable election, encouraged the brutal suppression of the protests.
On 18 February 2014, 107 people were shot dead. In the upheaval that followed, Yanukovych fled to Russia.
Mr Putin sent Russian troops to seize Crimea, and fomented a secessionist uprising in the pro-Russian eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. The notion that Ukraine had somehow been taken over by fascists was embedded in the Kremlin’s narrative.
(...)
NATO's eastern expansion
According to experts, Mr Putin saw the polarisation in America and Europe as evidence that democracy was in decline: it was time to act.
(...)
The irony is that there was no question of Ukraine joining NATO any time soon.
(...)
In December, having massed tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine’s borders, Moscow published two draft treaties it wanted America and NATO to sign: the demands included a formal halt to NATO’s eastern expansion, a permanent freeze on further expansion of NATO’s bases and weapons systems in central and eastern Europe, an end to Western military assistance to Ukraine, and a ban on intermediate-range missiles in Europe.
(...)
Theories that Putin was bluffing to extract maximum concessions have proved sadly naive.
Furthermore, having failed to capture Kyiv quickly and force the government of Volodymr Zelenskiy into submission, Mr Putin appears hell bent on levelling cities to the ground and causing mass civilian casualties in order to get his way.
(...)
As for Mr Putin’s angry-dreamy discourses about Russia and Ukraine’s ancient and spiritual brotherhood, ask the residents of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s most Russian city, where civilian casualties are soaring, how they now feel about Mr Putin’s idea of brotherhood.
Tug of War: Putin, Nato and Ukraine
"It is the people who build cities, while the madness of princes destroy them" - Erasmus
(...)
In the space of a bewildering few weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine has violently upended Europe’s geopolitics. Ukrainian leaders already talk of World War III, and Mr Putin has cocked the nuclear gun.
While the gastronomic salons of Kyiv pointed to Ukraine’s aspiration to be another prosperous EU country, the Kremlin is dragging Europe - and the world - back into the unfinished business of the 20th century, and even back further into the Russian imperium of a distant era.
'Russky Mir'
"Putin has articulated an idea of there being a 'Russky Mir' or a 'Russian World,’" Fiona Hill, the former US official specialising in Russia, told Politico this week.
"This idea of a Russian World means re-gathering all the Russian-speakers in different places that belonged at some point to the Russian tsardom."
While the invasion of Crimea in 2014 was denied and then cloaked in Kremlin double-speak, these days the Russian president is viscerally upfront about what he thinks about Ukraine - ie, that it doesn’t deserve to exist.
(...)
Wedged between the "new Europe" of former satellite states and Mr Putin’s Russia, Ukraine’s fate was never going to be easily resolved. Add to the mix the Kremlin’s heavy emphasis on Kyivan Rus’, the 9th-13th century dynasty, which has been the font of Russia’s origin myths.
The roots of the invasion can be traced, however, to a more recent era.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union ceased to exist thanks to a late night meeting in a Belarus hunting lodge on 8 December 1991.
In the lodge were the presidents of three soviet republics: Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus and Ukraine’s Leonid Kravchuk, whose parliament had overwhelmingly voted for independence from the USSR the previous week.
(...)
Thus, the Soviet Union was consigned to history, literally overnight, but Ukraine was having no truck with a new Russian dominated union. In the event, a commonwealth of independent states was created.
Yeltsin was not the only one who feared "full" independence for Ukraine.
America was also cool on the idea.
(...)
On 1 August 1991, President George Bush told Ukraine’s parliament: "Freedom is not the same as independence.
(...)
The speech had gone down "about as well as cod-liver oil", one Kyiv-based diplomat told the Los Angeles Times.
Third largest nuclear power
Despite Bush’s (and Yeltsin’s) warnings, 90% of Ukrainians voted for independence that December.
In Crimea, with a large Russian-speaking population, 54% voted in favour, while in the Donbas region - where Russia would later establish two secessionist areas in 2014 - some 80% approved of independence.
But by gaining independence, Ukraine had also overnight become the world’s third largest nuclear power. It had inherited 1,900 nuclear warheads and 2,500 tactical nuclear weapons.
(...)
Washington believed that only Russia should emerge from the debris of the USSR with its nuclear weapons intact. Bush and Yeltsin worked together to persuade Kyiv to de-nuclearise.
Thanks to the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine was biddable. However, there had been clashes between Kyiv and Moscow over the fate of the Black Sea fleet, stationed in (now Ukrainian) Crimea.
If the newly independent country was going to give up its nukes, it wanted financial and political guarantees, including recognition by Russia of Ukraine’s borders.
(...)
That, at least, would offer a brow-beaten Ukraine further comfort. However, Kyiv had no illusions about Russia’s intentions in keeping its promises over Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
'Neo-isolation'
Yeltsin had already written to Clinton the previous year to complain about the desire of newly liberated Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO.
The Russian public, he said, would see this as "the neo-isolation" of Russia, and would violate the treaty establishing German unity in 1990.
"The spirit of the treaty," Yeltsin wrote, "precludes the option of expanding the NATO zone into the East."
Indeed, much of the Russian bitterness, from Yeltsin to Putin, goes back to German unification in 1990.
While a lot has been written in recent weeks based on the recollections of diplomats and foreign ministers, what exactly was promised to Moscow about NATO expansion when Germany was unified remains a source of debate.
(...)
The German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, haunted by Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest in 1956, said in January 1990 that Nato should propose that "whatever happens to the Warsaw Pact, there will be no expansion of NATO territory to the east and closer to the borders of the Soviet Union."
Mikhail Gorbachev, the reforming Soviet leader, said that Germany and America had promised him that NATO would not expand to the east, but he later said the topic was not discussed.
James Baker has denied promises were made, yet the former British prime minister John Major, on a visit to Moscow in March 1991, said that "nothing of the sort would happen" when asked about possible NATO membership for Poland, Hungary and the Czech republic.
(...)
But by 1997, the momentum of central and eastern European countries joining NATO became unstoppable. Yeltsin approved their membership, but complained he had been pressured into doing so. In 1999, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined NATO.
Russian nationalism
On New Year’s Eve 1999, Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer stationed in East Germany, succeeded Yeltsin. This changed everything.
"In contrast to Yeltsin," wrote Plokhy and Sarotte in Foreign Affairs, "Putin made a concerted effort to reassert Russian influence in the post-Soviet space, first through political and economic means and then by using military force. Western policymakers, however, clung to the belief that Putin had been installed to continue the domestic and international course established by Yeltsin."
The West either misread or underestimated both Putin’s growing resentment, and his simultaneous squeezing of the institutions of liberal democracy.
(...)
In 2004, eight eastern and central European countries joined the EU.
Among them Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also joined NATO. This was a bitter blow to Putin: the Baltics had been part of the Soviet Union.
Whatever about poking the bear, the candidate countries had witnessed Russia’s brutal wars against Chechnya, Transnistria and Abkhazia. Joining NATO commanded strong popular support.
But Ukraine was left exposed. There was no prospect of either EU or NATO membership.
(...)
In 2004 after the pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych claimed victory in a rigged election, tens of thousands of demonstrators launched the Orange Revolution, a grassroots bid to end corruption and to steer Ukraine towards the West.
Similar colour revolutions broke out elsewhere in the former Soviet space, in Georgia and in Kyrgyzstan.
(...)
Colour revolutions
The UK, France and Germany argued that Ukraine’s and Georgia’s membership be kept in the balance. The final text was watered down to a promise that they could join some day (but with no timetable to do so).
Just four days later Russia attacked Georgia, ostensibly to protect the two pro-Russian enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
While hostilities were limited, the Kremlin ended up recognising the two enclaves and steadily increased Russia’s military presence there.
Mr Putin had two reasons to oppose colour revolutions: he regarded those countries as part of Russia’s domain; they also posed a direct threat to his personal regime, should ordinary Russians decide to have a colour revolution of their own.
Ukraine continued to push for a European destiny. In 2013, when the country was about to enter a new EU-Ukraine association agreement, Mr Putin, now aligning himself more aggressively with Kyiv’s Orthodox Christian origins, pressured the then president Viktor Yanukovych to reject the deal in favour of a closer relationship with Moscow (along with $15 billion in aid).
The move prompted mass outrage and weeks of protests in Maidan, the main square in Kyiv.
A furious Mr Putin, who the year before had faced middle-class street protests in Moscow after he returned to the presidency in a questionable election, encouraged the brutal suppression of the protests.
On 18 February 2014, 107 people were shot dead. In the upheaval that followed, Yanukovych fled to Russia.
Mr Putin sent Russian troops to seize Crimea, and fomented a secessionist uprising in the pro-Russian eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. The notion that Ukraine had somehow been taken over by fascists was embedded in the Kremlin’s narrative.
(...)
NATO's eastern expansion
According to experts, Mr Putin saw the polarisation in America and Europe as evidence that democracy was in decline: it was time to act.
(...)
The irony is that there was no question of Ukraine joining NATO any time soon.
(...)
In December, having massed tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine’s borders, Moscow published two draft treaties it wanted America and NATO to sign: the demands included a formal halt to NATO’s eastern expansion, a permanent freeze on further expansion of NATO’s bases and weapons systems in central and eastern Europe, an end to Western military assistance to Ukraine, and a ban on intermediate-range missiles in Europe.
(...)
Theories that Putin was bluffing to extract maximum concessions have proved sadly naive.
Furthermore, having failed to capture Kyiv quickly and force the government of Volodymr Zelenskiy into submission, Mr Putin appears hell bent on levelling cities to the ground and causing mass civilian casualties in order to get his way.
(...)
As for Mr Putin’s angry-dreamy discourses about Russia and Ukraine’s ancient and spiritual brotherhood, ask the residents of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s most Russian city, where civilian casualties are soaring, how they now feel about Mr Putin’s idea of brotherhood.
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It's mainly "the younger generation" who are in someone else's country killing innocents rn though... jmo.
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Breaking
Ukraine invasion: Kremlin says West behaving 'like bandits' and Russia 'too big' to be isolated
Saturday 5 March 2022 10:54, UK
Ukraine invasion: Kremlin says West behaving 'like bandits' and Russia 'too big' to be isolated
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the West was engaged in "economic banditry" against Russia and that Moscow would respond.
He did not specify what response there would be but said it would be in line with Russian interests.
It's such an obvious outlet that the guy totally lost it (again)
Ukraine invasion: Kremlin says West behaving 'like bandits' and Russia 'too big' to be isolated
Saturday 5 March 2022 10:54, UK
Ukraine invasion: Kremlin says West behaving 'like bandits' and Russia 'too big' to be isolated
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the West was engaged in "economic banditry" against Russia and that Moscow would respond.
He did not specify what response there would be but said it would be in line with Russian interests.
It's such an obvious outlet that the guy totally lost it (again)
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I can only see one bandit here!
He says a lot of strange things lately but hey at least didn’t call the West drugged nazis so that’s something.
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It's £1.49 a litre in our little corner of the UK right now,which is 4 or 5p more than last week. I think that's roughly £6ish a gallon.
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Anonymous ought to be playing these on Russia's state TV...Like this poor woman says where's the [Russian] mothers? A little village with no military value destroyed. Reminds me of the pictures from Joplin after the F-5 tornado hit.
Reporter gets emotional while touring destroyed village near Kharkiv - CNN Video
Reporter gets emotional while touring destroyed village near Kharkiv - CNN Video
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And what's happening meanwhile in Belgrade, Serbia?
Rare pro-Putin protest with thousands of participants in Serbia
Thousands of Serbs took to the streets in Belgrade on Friday to show support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. That reports Reuters news agency . Footage shows the protesters carrying Russian flags and photos of Putin.
It is one of the few open statements of support for Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Serbia condemned the raid at the UN Security Council last week, but refused to impose sanctions. Serbian President Aleksander Vucic has pointed to the good relationship the country has with Russia in recent days. For example, Russia has supported Serbia for years by refusing to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
Zeldzaam pro-Poetinprotest met duizenden deelnemers in Servië
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I think Dmitry and the Kremlin are feeling the trickled down wrath of oligarchs on the run and immensely ticked off that their ill begotten properties are being snatched or frozen. It can't make for a very happy State Duma (mostly made up of the elites) and in turn a calm and in control Kremlin. More threats for NATO to worry about with
half-tied military hands. AJMO
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6 AM EST view from the skies...
Refueling tanker from the Netherlands, central Poland.
Blackhawks on the Polish border
@Niner Latvia is all clear, no military, 2 Turish Air commercial flights
Zero air traffic from private or military from Russia
Minsk several oncoming and return flights from ST Petersburg and Moscow.
The drone, we've seen patrolling the last 3 days, over the Black Sea, S Romianua is not there today. Hum.
US tanker, refilling fuel.
I noticed much less traffic near the border of Moldova and Rominia. It appears commercial corridor is staying clear of the border.
Much less traffic over the Black Sea. Aircraft appear to be avoiding the BS and skirting the most southern tip, only.
Just below Moscow, very unusual
AIRCRAFT TYPE(BALL)Ultramagic S-50, originated north of Uraski, no airport in this area. Under Austria flag, OE-RCH
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Praying for Ukraine...
Refueling tanker from the Netherlands, central Poland.
Blackhawks on the Polish border
@Niner Latvia is all clear, no military, 2 Turish Air commercial flights
Zero air traffic from private or military from Russia
Minsk several oncoming and return flights from ST Petersburg and Moscow.
The drone, we've seen patrolling the last 3 days, over the Black Sea, S Romianua is not there today. Hum.
US tanker, refilling fuel.
I noticed much less traffic near the border of Moldova and Rominia. It appears commercial corridor is staying clear of the border.
Much less traffic over the Black Sea. Aircraft appear to be avoiding the BS and skirting the most southern tip, only.
Just below Moscow, very unusual
AIRCRAFT TYPE(BALL)Ultramagic S-50, originated north of Uraski, no airport in this area. Under Austria flag, OE-RCH
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Praying for Ukraine...
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This was just posted in Swedish news
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A Russian state plane is on its way to Washington DC. The plane flew from St. Petersburg at 09:41 local time and is expected to land in the USA at 12:40 local time (18:40 Swedish time).
The same plane flew from Moscow to St. Petersburg yesterday.”
Anyone know what’s that about? I found this flight on flightradar its under Rossiya name and passing under Iceland now.
Source:
Liverapportering: Ryska invasionen av Ukraina
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A Russian state plane is on its way to Washington DC. The plane flew from St. Petersburg at 09:41 local time and is expected to land in the USA at 12:40 local time (18:40 Swedish time).
The same plane flew from Moscow to St. Petersburg yesterday.”
Anyone know what’s that about? I found this flight on flightradar its under Rossiya name and passing under Iceland now.
Source:
Liverapportering: Ryska invasionen av Ukraina
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Doesn't surprise me. Their President is a mini me-Putin on the rise. He also likes to talks out of both sides of his mouth and has said and done viscous things with no real accountability. AJMO
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https://24newsrecorder.com/world/118440
This is very sad and totally unnecessary. This people had nothing of interest for the Russians and now they lost everything.
Russian bombing has completely destroyed Yakovlivka, a town of 600 inhabitants in the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine according to the attorney general’s office quoted by Suspline Tv.
According to the public broadcasting company of Ukraine the Prosecutor’s Office of the region of Kharkiv said the bombardment “destroyed the entire village, that is, 45 houses, 21 of which were completely destroyed.”
As a result of the Russian attack three people were killed, including a soldier and two civilians, and 24 were injured.
The village lacks military installations or major infrastructure. In this locality there was a school, a kindergarten, a club, a dispensary and two shops.
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Strange. I though the USA banned all flights from Russian airlines. Rossiya is a Russian airline headquartered in Saint Petersburg. From this home base and from Moscow passenger, cargo and charter flights are operated both within Russia and to Western Europe and Asia.
For convenience: Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24
They say (flight tracker) it's a plane of the Rossiya Special Flight Squadron.
What is the special flight squadron?
The Special Flight Squadron is operating under the command of the Kremlin and is used to transport high ranking government officials, representatives of special services and the armed forces.
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