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Another article about upcoming food shortages.
Russian war in world's 'breadbasket' threatens food supply
Russian war in world's 'breadbasket' threatens food supply
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Russian ambassador doubles down on bullying claims
The Russian ambassador to Ireland says he was “simply repeating” Irish Government officials when he accused the country of being to the “forefront” of “anti-Russian events” in the European Union.
Yury Filatov was caught badmouthing Irish people in an interview with Russian-state television that was later translated into English by a Russian citizen in Ireland.
In an interview with Russia-24, Mr Filatov said embassy staff were being threatened and Russian children had been bullied at school. He criticised the “hostile” political situation and accused Irish people of “not understanding” the situation and of taking sides “without any analysis”.
During the six-minute interview Mr Filatov complained of “extreme tension” at the embassy in Rathgar, “rough” and “violent” protesters and “constant threats against employees”.
But as news of his interview fuelled an angry reaction across social media, he doubled down on claims that Russian children had been bullied and made no attempt to withdraw his remarks.
In a statement responding to questions from the Sunday Independent , Mr Filatov flattered Irish people’s “compassion” but continued to suggest they “didn’t understand” the situation in Ukraine.
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On his comments about Ireland’s role internationally, he said: “I simply repeated statements by the Irish high-ranking officials, who have repeatedly said ‘that Ireland continues to be at the forefront of efforts’ to assist Ukraine and ‘hold Russia accountable’.”
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On EU sanctions, Mr Filatov said the aircraft leasing sector had led to “big problems for both sides”. “Some companies in the financial sector are simply closing down their operations in Ireland and leaving,” which he said was “unfortunate”.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs again replied to the accusations made against Mr Filatov with an attack on Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, describing it as a “gross violation of international law”.
Ireland’s dispute was with the government of Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine and not the people of Russia, a statement said.
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The Russian ambassador to Ireland says he was “simply repeating” Irish Government officials when he accused the country of being to the “forefront” of “anti-Russian events” in the European Union.
Yury Filatov was caught badmouthing Irish people in an interview with Russian-state television that was later translated into English by a Russian citizen in Ireland.
In an interview with Russia-24, Mr Filatov said embassy staff were being threatened and Russian children had been bullied at school. He criticised the “hostile” political situation and accused Irish people of “not understanding” the situation and of taking sides “without any analysis”.
During the six-minute interview Mr Filatov complained of “extreme tension” at the embassy in Rathgar, “rough” and “violent” protesters and “constant threats against employees”.
But as news of his interview fuelled an angry reaction across social media, he doubled down on claims that Russian children had been bullied and made no attempt to withdraw his remarks.
In a statement responding to questions from the Sunday Independent , Mr Filatov flattered Irish people’s “compassion” but continued to suggest they “didn’t understand” the situation in Ukraine.
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On his comments about Ireland’s role internationally, he said: “I simply repeated statements by the Irish high-ranking officials, who have repeatedly said ‘that Ireland continues to be at the forefront of efforts’ to assist Ukraine and ‘hold Russia accountable’.”
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On EU sanctions, Mr Filatov said the aircraft leasing sector had led to “big problems for both sides”. “Some companies in the financial sector are simply closing down their operations in Ireland and leaving,” which he said was “unfortunate”.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs again replied to the accusations made against Mr Filatov with an attack on Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, describing it as a “gross violation of international law”.
Ireland’s dispute was with the government of Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine and not the people of Russia, a statement said.
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This is not a very popular point of view right now, considering the circumstances..the suffering we see among the Ukrainians. My sincere heartfelt sympathy is with them all, as so many of my fellow Europeans are showing. And I find that wonderful. My heart is breaking every time I look in their faces and their sad eyes (on video).
In this video the hard questions about what happened in other war zones, the European reaction then are asked and how we looked at refugees from Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq, f.i., all of them human disasters. Also the hard answers are given. It's very interesting and for me personally I need to soul search and object myself to self-criticism, after seeing this.
Its a long video, sorry for that
In this video the hard questions about what happened in other war zones, the European reaction then are asked and how we looked at refugees from Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq, f.i., all of them human disasters. Also the hard answers are given. It's very interesting and for me personally I need to soul search and object myself to self-criticism, after seeing this.
Its a long video, sorry for that
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Tell me again Mr. Yury Filatov, how hard is your life? Please tell me again: How hard is it?
"Simply repeating others"!!!
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Ukraine crisis: The West fights back against Putin the disruptor
Successive US presidents have struggled to get the measure of Vladimir Putin but now that Brussels and Berlin have joined the fray with such resolve, it's a different story, writes Nick Bryant.
It is often tempting to look upon Vladimir Putin as the millennium bug in a human and deadly form.
The Russian president rose to power on 31 December 1999, as the world held its breath that computers would go into meltdown when the clock struck midnight, unable to process the change from 1999 to 2000.
In the 20 years since, Putin has been trying to engineer a different kind of global system malfunction, the destruction of the liberal international order. The former KGB spymaster wanted to turn back the clock: to revive Russia's tsarist greatness and to restore the might and menace of the Soviet Union prior to its break-up in 1991.
This Russian revanchist has become the most disruptive international leader of the 21st Century, the mastermind behind so much misery from Chechnya to Crimea, from Syria to the cathedral city of Salisbury. He has sought - successfully at times - to redraw the map of Europe.
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Putin is obviously a more formidable adversary, harder to deal with than even Leonid Brezhnev or Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis. But since the turn of the century no US president has truly had his measure.
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Joe Biden, like George Herbert Walker Bush, is a Cold War warrior, who has dedicated his presidency to defending democracy at home and abroad. Seeking to re-establish America's traditional post-war role as the leader of the free world, he has sought to mobilise the international community, offered military aid to Ukraine and adopted the toughest sanction regime ever targeted against Putin.
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What's been striking since the Russian invasion started, however, has been the assertion of forceful presidential leadership from elsewhere. Volodymyr Zelensky has been lauded and lionised, as he has continued this extraordinary personal journey from comedian to Churchillian colossus.
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The biggest assault on a European state since World War Two has stiffened European resolve. But so, too, it seems has the relative weakness of America. Mindful of the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan and possibility of a Trump 2.0 presidency, European leaders seem to have realised that they can no longer lean so heavily on Washington to defend democracy in this hour of maximum peril. Leadership of the free world has, in this crisis, become a common endeavour.
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Successive US presidents have struggled to get the measure of Vladimir Putin but now that Brussels and Berlin have joined the fray with such resolve, it's a different story, writes Nick Bryant.
It is often tempting to look upon Vladimir Putin as the millennium bug in a human and deadly form.
The Russian president rose to power on 31 December 1999, as the world held its breath that computers would go into meltdown when the clock struck midnight, unable to process the change from 1999 to 2000.
In the 20 years since, Putin has been trying to engineer a different kind of global system malfunction, the destruction of the liberal international order. The former KGB spymaster wanted to turn back the clock: to revive Russia's tsarist greatness and to restore the might and menace of the Soviet Union prior to its break-up in 1991.
This Russian revanchist has become the most disruptive international leader of the 21st Century, the mastermind behind so much misery from Chechnya to Crimea, from Syria to the cathedral city of Salisbury. He has sought - successfully at times - to redraw the map of Europe.
(...)
Putin is obviously a more formidable adversary, harder to deal with than even Leonid Brezhnev or Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis. But since the turn of the century no US president has truly had his measure.
(...)
Joe Biden, like George Herbert Walker Bush, is a Cold War warrior, who has dedicated his presidency to defending democracy at home and abroad. Seeking to re-establish America's traditional post-war role as the leader of the free world, he has sought to mobilise the international community, offered military aid to Ukraine and adopted the toughest sanction regime ever targeted against Putin.
(...)
What's been striking since the Russian invasion started, however, has been the assertion of forceful presidential leadership from elsewhere. Volodymyr Zelensky has been lauded and lionised, as he has continued this extraordinary personal journey from comedian to Churchillian colossus.
(...)
The biggest assault on a European state since World War Two has stiffened European resolve. But so, too, it seems has the relative weakness of America. Mindful of the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan and possibility of a Trump 2.0 presidency, European leaders seem to have realised that they can no longer lean so heavily on Washington to defend democracy in this hour of maximum peril. Leadership of the free world has, in this crisis, become a common endeavour.
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A bipartisan congressional delegation traveled to Poland this weekend where members met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and were given a firsthand look at the crisis unfolding in Europe as Ukrainians flee from their country amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's deadly invasion.
The delegation, made up of Democrats and Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), made the journey to stand in support of the Ukrainian people and condemn the war launched by Russia.
The delegation is planning to stay in the region through Monday.
Blinken meets with congressional delegation in Europe amid Russian war with Ukraine
The delegation, made up of Democrats and Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), made the journey to stand in support of the Ukrainian people and condemn the war launched by Russia.
The delegation is planning to stay in the region through Monday.
Blinken meets with congressional delegation in Europe amid Russian war with Ukraine
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Ukraine will try to evacuate civilians from Mariupol today at noon. Russia again promised a humanitarian corridor.
Yesterday, the evaluation failed as Russia didn’t stop shelling the city and its suburbs.
https://twitter.com/mrsorokaa
Ukraine will try to evacuate civilians from Mariupol today at noon. Russia again promised a humanitarian corridor.
Yesterday, the evaluation failed as Russia didn’t stop shelling the city and its suburbs.
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I was so very disappointed and angry yesterday, that things didn't turned out as planned and became a total chaos...imagine....a lot of people came from the outskirts of the city and were just stuck somewhere in the city......not knowing where to go or when to go.....this is pure psychological warfare....breaking people's mind and moral. While Russia was pointing at Ukrainian nationalists not letting people go...What the heck! I'm still wondering if they managed to get food into the city....didn't read something about that.
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Wow what an awesome post
Thank you for sharing @cujenn81
It’s amazing to see how the world is coming together to support Ukraine and to push back Russia and cripple Russia so that the economic damage from the sanctions will bring Putin to his senses !
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The other day Navalny called for protests in Russia for today. Check out any live feed of Moscow and you will see massive police presence and they are arresting anyone who stops walking, but there are lots of people 'circulating'...continuing to walk through and around the key potential protest gathering spots.
Here's a news item from an ABC reporter reporting from Moscow.
https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1500437354154180610?s=20&t=fR3lMoDyq3aKhe5CjRLrvg
Here's a news item from an ABC reporter reporting from Moscow.
https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1500437354154180610?s=20&t=fR3lMoDyq3aKhe5CjRLrvg
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Wow! The riot police presence is so heavy and menacing. Sadly in his update video (link below) he says the Russian police are now wise to these groups of young people silently walking and are cracking down on them. He sounds very tense...
"Feels like police have got wise to this silent protest and they’ve closed in"
https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1500442674045849600?s=20&t=K6DbTRnHLcn33gHc80cb6g
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office says he has called for an urgent cease-fire in Ukraine in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a statement following Sunday's one-hour call, the Turkish presidency said Erdogan had urged a halt to fighting to “address humanitarian concerns” and “seek a political solution” to the conflict. The war is now in its 11th day. Erdogan called for the opening of humanitarian corridors and a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
Turkey has extensive ties with both Russia and Ukraine and has sought to place itself as a mediator. It has invited both to a diplomatic forum in Antalya next week. Erdogan's office said he told Putin that he was “ready to make every contribution" to resolving the crisis.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article259116948.html#storylink=cpy
In a statement following Sunday's one-hour call, the Turkish presidency said Erdogan had urged a halt to fighting to “address humanitarian concerns” and “seek a political solution” to the conflict. The war is now in its 11th day. Erdogan called for the opening of humanitarian corridors and a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
Turkey has extensive ties with both Russia and Ukraine and has sought to place itself as a mediator. It has invited both to a diplomatic forum in Antalya next week. Erdogan's office said he told Putin that he was “ready to make every contribution" to resolving the crisis.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article259116948.html#storylink=cpy
March 6 2022 rbbm.
Ukraine-Russia war latest news: Odesa prepares for attack as Putin ‘shifts focus to Black Sea’ | The Independent
''Ukraine’s top security official has said that Russia’s war command has shifted its attention to the southern front in order to cut the country off from the Black Sea.
He said that Kyiv Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odessa remain strategically important, and that Russian troops plan to encircle the cities and block Ukrainian armed forces from entering.''
“The main attention of the command of the Russian occupation forces is moved to the South, trying to deprive Ukraine from the exit to the Black and Azov Seas, which they think will create conditions for economic suppression of the Ukrainian Resistance,” Oleksiy Danilov wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.
He concluded: “Never fight with the Ukrainians, sooner or later we will come to you to repay all the debts you have accumulated, and the bill has run for centuries.”
It comes as president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian forces are preparing to bombard the city of Odesa on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast.
“Rockets against Odessa? This will be a war crime,” he said in a televised address.''
Ukraine-Russia war latest news: Odesa prepares for attack as Putin ‘shifts focus to Black Sea’ | The Independent
''Ukraine’s top security official has said that Russia’s war command has shifted its attention to the southern front in order to cut the country off from the Black Sea.
He said that Kyiv Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odessa remain strategically important, and that Russian troops plan to encircle the cities and block Ukrainian armed forces from entering.''
“The main attention of the command of the Russian occupation forces is moved to the South, trying to deprive Ukraine from the exit to the Black and Azov Seas, which they think will create conditions for economic suppression of the Ukrainian Resistance,” Oleksiy Danilov wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.
He concluded: “Never fight with the Ukrainians, sooner or later we will come to you to repay all the debts you have accumulated, and the bill has run for centuries.”
It comes as president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian forces are preparing to bombard the city of Odesa on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast.
“Rockets against Odessa? This will be a war crime,” he said in a televised address.''
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I did see the guy behind him made a peace sign.....and people were taking in by the police....how would you in your right mind could make a difference between people "strolling" and those who are demonstrating? It's disgusting me to the core. Even a Russian police officer could have made a choice..."no, the are only strolling".
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Just came in: It seems that almost 1000 people were arrested, according to the Dutch national radio broadcast.
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Russian FM confirms his visit to Antalya next week: Çavuşoğlu - Turkey News
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has confirmed his planned visit to Antalya next week to attend a diplomacy forum, according to Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who reiterated Ankara’s wish to gather Lavrov and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba for talks to end the ongoing armed conflict between the two nations.
“We continue messaging with Mr. Lavrov. He confirmed to me that he will come to Antalya. I hope a ceasefire can be reached so that we can organize a meeting at the ministerial level,” Çavuşoğlu said at a press conference in Brussels after an extraordinary NATO meeting on March 4.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry will organize the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on March 11 and 13, where leaders from all over the world, as well as scholars, media and other experts, will come together to discuss the current world affairs.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has confirmed his planned visit to Antalya next week to attend a diplomacy forum, according to Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who reiterated Ankara’s wish to gather Lavrov and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba for talks to end the ongoing armed conflict between the two nations.
“We continue messaging with Mr. Lavrov. He confirmed to me that he will come to Antalya. I hope a ceasefire can be reached so that we can organize a meeting at the ministerial level,” Çavuşoğlu said at a press conference in Brussels after an extraordinary NATO meeting on March 4.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry will organize the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on March 11 and 13, where leaders from all over the world, as well as scholars, media and other experts, will come together to discuss the current world affairs.
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I wonder what Putin had to say...said.
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Pope Francis says he has dispatched two cardinals to Ukraine, a highly unusual move.
The pontiff said Sunday that “the Holy See is willing to do everything to put itself in service for peace.” The papal almsgiver, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, has been dispatched with aid, along with Cardinal Michael Czerny, who is head of the papal office that deals with migration, charity, justice and peace. Francis did not say where exactly the cardinals had gone, but said they represented him and all Christian people with the message that “war is madness.’’
Referring to Ukraine as “that martyred country,” Francis called for a cessation of violence, the establishment of humanitarian corridors and a return to negotiations. “In Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation, but a war that sows death, destruction and misery,’’ he said in his traditional Sunday blessing.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article259116948.html#storylink=cpy
The pontiff said Sunday that “the Holy See is willing to do everything to put itself in service for peace.” The papal almsgiver, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, has been dispatched with aid, along with Cardinal Michael Czerny, who is head of the papal office that deals with migration, charity, justice and peace. Francis did not say where exactly the cardinals had gone, but said they represented him and all Christian people with the message that “war is madness.’’
Referring to Ukraine as “that martyred country,” Francis called for a cessation of violence, the establishment of humanitarian corridors and a return to negotiations. “In Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation, but a war that sows death, destruction and misery,’’ he said in his traditional Sunday blessing.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article259116948.html#storylink=cpy
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What I have seen so far is an adding up of war crimes, one after the other.....same thing happened in Syria with help of the Russian Federation. I wonder how long it will take Russia is going to use chemical weapons against civilians.
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