Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022

[margarita25]

rbbm.
Explosions rattle Ukraine after Russia launches invasion | CBC News
''In a televised declaration of war in the early hours, Putin said he had ordered "a special military operation" to protect people, including Russian citizens, subjected to "genocide" in Ukraine — an accusation the West calls absurd propaganda.''

• Explosions reported in Kyiv and other cities after Russia invades Ukraine, sparking scramble as civilians seek safety and pledges from world leaders for tighter sanctions.
  
• NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg calls Russian attack a 'brutal' act of war, says Moscow's move has 'shattered' peace on the continent.
  
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after condemning Russia's 'unprovoked' attack on Ukraine, expected to speak with G7 partners Thursday.

Russian forces invaded Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday, with Russian missiles raining down on Ukrainian cities and reports of troops pouring across the border.

Explosions could be heard before dawn in the capital of Kyiv. Gunfire rattled, sirens blared across the city and the highway out became choked with traffic as residents tried to flee.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's aim was to destroy his state.

"Putin has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are under strikes," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter.

"This is a war of aggression. Ukraine will defend itself and will win. The world can and must stop Putin. The time to act is now."

Ukraine reported columns of troops moving across its borders into the eastern Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions, and landing by sea at the port cities of Odesa and Mariupol in the south.

European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said: "These are among the darkest hours of Europe since the Second World War."

Unbelievable. I can’t believe this is really, actually happening. I mean I can, but I can’t, ykwim.

 

[sunshineray]

Vladimir Putin’s long obsession with Ukraine

Analysts say Putin has long been obsessed with returning Kyiv to Moscow’s fold in the name of Russia’s greatness.

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Born into a working-class Saint Petersburg family, Putin said in 2015, “If a fight is inevitable, you must strike first.”

One of his teachers, Vera Gurevich, has said that when a 14-year-old Putin broke one of his classmate’s legs, the future president said some “only understand force”.

He has repeatedly called into question the idea of distinct Ukrainian identity and statehood.

Putin claims that two Ukrainian revolutions – in 2005 and 2014 – that drove out pro-Russia elites were the result of a Western plot.

As far back as 2008, according to Russian and US media, Putin told his then US counterpart George W Bush that “Ukraine is not even a country”.

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There ya go. And Ukrainians don't want to end up like Belarus. The guys that put siding on our house are from there...they basically told me, they got the heck outta Dodge.

 

[zecats]

Unbelievable. I can’t believe this is really, actually happening. I mean I can, but I can’t, ykwim.

He's basically a tyrant, who suffers from "short-man" syndrome, and lies to those who cannot find the truth on his government-controlled television/news.

As Michael Moore requests: "Putin, go get some mental help. The life expectancy of the Russian male is between 62-68 years old. Focus on that."

FB Link - Michael Moore

 

[MrsWatson]

I read a biography about Putin during lockdown. He's like a James Bond villain level of evil. Total pychopath.

Here is Agenda-free TV, although poor Steve is struggling right now.

Also, I found a fb page already flogging this as a false flag op.

 

[sunshineray]

Four killed in hospital attack, says Ukraine
Ukraine’s military command has said four people were killed and 10 injured when a Russian shell hit a hospital in Vuhledar in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The injured were said to include six doctors.

Ukraine has said Russia has carried out 203 attacks since the start of the day with fighting going on across almost the entire territory, Reuters reports

Ukraine crisis latest news: Russia invading on multiple fronts, former Ukrainian defence minister says

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Stay or flee? Kyiv comes to terms with disaster of Russian invasion

The disaster unfurled itself on a grey, ordinary Thursday morning, sprinkled by rain. By 5am friends and loved ones were ringing each other, peering into their phones, making life and death decisions.

Stay or flee? Some packed and got ready to leave; others took refuge in apartment block basements. An underground garage began to fill up in Yaroslaviv Val, close to Kyiv’s historic golden gate, dating back to the eleventh century and to Kyivan Rus, a pre-Moscow dynasty. A family arrived. A mother shepherded her two bleary-eyed children to safety. The children were carrying colouring books, scant defence against Russian missiles.

By breakfast the scale of Russia’s multitudinous military assault became clear. Putin’s ambitions, it turned out, went well beyond the Donbas region, whose separatist territories he recognised earlier this week. They included practically the entire country: east, south, north and even west. The port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov; the city of Kharkiv, home to 1.4 million people; Odesa on the Black Sea and Kherson; Ukrainian-controlled towns and villages on the Donbas frontline – all were being pulverised and bombed.

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Nearby, the trade union building overlooking the Maidan played the Ukrainian national anthem on a loudspeaker. Few were around to hear it. It played a key role in the Euromaidan protests in 2013 and 2014 against the country’s pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. The uprising saw Yanukovych flee to Russia. Since then the country had moved in an emphatically pro-EU and pro-Nato direction. Putin responded in 2014 by annexing Crimea and kickstarting a pro-Russian revolt in the east. Eight years on, he seems determined to stop Ukraine’s westward integration forever. His tactics are familiar from Russia’s bloody wars in Chechnya: brute military force.

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[sunshineray]

I read a biography about Putin during lockdown. He's like a James Bond villain level of evil. Total pychopath.

Here is Agenda-free TV, although poor Steve is struggling right now.

Also, I found a fb page already flogging this as a false flag op.

He really is...and he's got a finger on nukes

 

[Fika]

Unbelievable. I can’t believe this is really, actually happening. I mean I can, but I can’t, ykwim.

Same, I can’t believe this is actually happening. It’s so close. It’s difficult to grasp the situation. Life seems normal for me here work /home regular days and yet there is a war in Ukraine it’s surreal. It makes me nervous of how the situation develops. Sad for all the innocent people . We just barley left pandemic crisis after two years of stress and worry and now this. Feels like life won’t feel normal for a long time .

 

[Fika]

He's basically a tyrant, who suffers from "short-man" syndrome, and lies to those who cannot find the truth on his government-controlled television/news.

As Michael Moore requests: "Putin, go get some mental help. The life expectancy of the Russian male is between 62-68 years old. Focus on that."

FB Link - Michael Moore

He is a typical bully who goes for country that is not a part of EU union or NATO.
It’s a coward’s move. He think that he is more powerful then he really is and one day it will blow in his face. Hopefully soon.

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
Russia and Ukraine news for Thursday, February 24, 2022 | The Star
''8:43 a.m.: French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its European allies did everything to try to head off the attack on Ukraine. He said that they will show “no weakness” in their response.

Macron said in a televised address to the nation Thursday that Russia’s attack is a “turning point in European history” and as a result “there will be profound consequences for our continent and changes in our lives.”

8:22 a.m.: The Auschwitz Memorial has weighed in on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, issuing a statement Thursday morning.''

''The organization goes on to condemn Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, saying that once again innocent people are being killed “purely because of insane pseudo-imperial megalomania.”

 

[margarita25]

Four killed in hospital attack, says Ukraine
Ukraine’s military command has said four people were killed and 10 injured when a Russian shell hit a hospital in Vuhledar in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The injured were said to include six doctors.

Ukraine has said Russia has carried out 203 attacks since the start of the day with fighting going on across almost the entire territory, Reuters reports

Ukraine crisis latest news: Russia invading on multiple fronts, former Ukrainian defence minister says

I’m afraid this is the very, very tip of the iceberg unfolding.

 

[Elley Mae]

Key Facts about Ukraine

Map Explainer: Key Facts About Ukraine

 

[margarita25]

Key Facts about Ukraine

Map Explainer: Key Facts About Ukraine

Oh wow, fabulous. Thanks.

 

[sunshineray]

BBC just showed a video of three Russian women standing in Red Square, two with very small signs that I think said, "Peace" and one in a God-aweful bright blue furry coat, bright yellow hat flashing the peace sign. The Paddy Wagon came and carted them all away.

Some others, brave enough to speak, say this is all on Putin, we don't want this (paraphrasing).

It's all so horribly wrong. Let's put the lady in the bright blue Wookie coat in charge!

 

[dotr]

Gfycat
Best Crimean War Event GIFs | Gfycat

 

[Elley Mae]

Looking at map P appears to have access to southern water, Azov sea to Black sea to Mediterranean. I feel for the Eastern European people.


Jmo

 

[MrsWatson]

allegedly troops in Odessa, amphibious units moving in on azov

 

[sunshineray]

So so sad

Navalny Calls Ukraine War ‘Distraction’ From Russia’s Problems - The Moscow Times

I was speaking about this story on that link

Bloodshed, Tears in Eastern Ukraine as Russia Attacks

 

[JerseyGirl]

Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe 'shattered'

Associated Press reporters saw or confirmed explosions in the capital Kyiv, in Mariupol on the Azov Sea, and Kharkiv in the east. AP confirmed video showing Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukrainian-held territory in the north from Belarus and from Russian-annexed Crimea in the south.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Russia invades Ukraine in Europe's 'darkest hours' since WWII

"Russia treacherously attacked our state in the morning, as Nazi Germany did in the WW2 years," tweeted Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

"Russia has embarked on a path of evil, but Ukraine is defending itself & won't give up its freedom no matter what Moscow thinks."

Calling on Ukrainians to defend their country, he said arms would be given to anyone prepared to fight. He also urged Russians to take to the streets to protest against their government's actions.