Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 #10

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''Summary​

  1. Ten people have been killed by Russian missiles that hit the centre of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region
  2. Among the dead are 14-year-old twin sisters Yuliya and Anna Aksenchenko
  3. Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but close to Russian-occupied parts of the country
  4. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia deserved "only defeat and a tribunal, just and lawful courts against all Russian murderers and terrorists"
  5. The Kremlin says it only carries out strikes on military-linked targets
  6. While the rescue efforts continue in Kramotorsk, Ukraine has reportedly been hit by another attack from Russia. According to Kharkiv's regional head, three civilians have been killed in shelling''

''Diners recount deadly attack on pizza restaurant​

“They almost bumped us off,” reflects former Colombia peace negotiator Sergio Jaramillo Caro, who was sitting in the RAI pizzeria in Kramatorsk when it came under attack on Tuesday.

"We suffered only minor injuries," Jaramillo, Colombia’s former High Commissioner of Peace, tells the BBC.

Colombian journalist Catalina Gomez, and leading novelist and editor Héctor Abad Faciolince were all eating dinner at the same table when Russian missiles slammed into the popular restaurant.

They are in Ukraine gathering information for their organisation "¡Aguanta Ucrania!" which campaigns to strengthen the solidarity of Latin American countries with Ukraine.

But a leading Ukrainian writer sitting with them, whose identity is not being disclosed, is “now fighting for her life,” Caramillo says. “She's in a critical condition."

“Please pray for her,” he pleaded.''
 
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apnews.com

Ukraine accuses local man of directing missile strike that killed 10 at popular pizza restaurant

Ukraine’s counterintelligence service arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a deadly missile strike that killed at least 10 people, including three children, in a city in east Ukraine.
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The Security Service of Ukraine said it detained a man whom it suspects directed the strike on the restaurant who is an employee of the local gas transportation company.

He filmed the restaurant for the Russians and informed them about its popularity, the Security Service said in a Telegram post.

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www.bbc.com

Belarus leader welcomes Wagner boss Prigozhin into exile

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a Russian mutiny, arrives in Belarus and his men are offered a military base.
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Mr Lukashenko said Wagner mercenaries had been offered an abandoned military base if they wanted to join their leader: "There is a fence, everything is available, erect your tents."

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The Russian leader admitted that pilots had lost their lives "confronting the mutineers" in the latest attempt to take hold of the narrative of a turbulent few days that shook the Kremlin.

Six military helicopters and an Ilyushin 22-M command-and-control plane were shot down by the mutineers, according to unconfirmed reports. Some wreckage has been seen but the number of casualties is unclear.

Mr Prigozhin also accused the Russian military of a missile strike on his men on Friday, killing 30 people. However, no evidence of that has been seen.

"In a day we covered 780 km," he said on Monday. "Not a single soldier was killed on the ground. We are sorry that we had to strike aircraft, but they were hitting us with bombs and missiles."

Videos have shown the Wagner convoy being bombed from the air as they headed north among civilian traffic in the southern Voronezh region on Saturday.

[...]

Russia academic Mark Galeotti said the Belarus leader had acted as a useful intermediary for President Putin, who could now seek to keep Mr Prigozhin on side to manage his mercenary forces in Africa.

Katia Glod said that Belarusians were focused on how far the crisis had weakened Vladimir Putin, as it would also mean a weakened Alexander Lukashenko.

"The twin pillars of Lukashenko are the Kremlin and the violence of [Belarus] security services that fulfil Lukashenko's orders," she said. "In the short term it could mean more repression as Lukashenko feels more weakened. If the Kremlin looks less reliable as a pillar it could mean good news in the long term."
 
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I gotta admit, I was pretty excited when Wagner marched towards Moscow. That was until I realized it would be one devil for another. This war, that moment, shows how weak Putin is. He must be shaking in his boots, and that makes me happy. His day will come, as this war was the mistake of all mistakes.
 
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sds71 said:
www.dailymail.co.uk

Vice president of Russian bank falls to her death in Moscow apartment

Kristina Baikova is the latest mysterious casualty involving Russia's top business people. She allegedly fell from her apartment on the Khodynsky Boulevard in the early hours of Friday.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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Look at this list - just from this one article! I wonder how many more there are. MOO

A spate of unexplained deaths of high-ranking energy officials has taken place since the start of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine in February last year.
  1. In May this year, Russia's deputy science minister [Pyotr Kucherenko, 46], allegedly a private critic of the 'fascist' invasion of Ukraine, died suddenly after falling seriously ill on a flight to Moscow.
  2. In April, energy boss Igor Shkurko was found dead in his prison cell after he was accused of taking a bribe.
  3. Only two months prior, Russian oil magnate Viatcheslav Rovneiko, 59, was 'found unconscious' late at night at his home.
  4. In February, a top Russian defence official [Marina Yankina, 58,] was found dead after plunging 160ft from a tower block window last week.
  5. A week earlier, Major General Vladimir Makarov - a Russian general recently fired by Putin - was found dead in a possible suicide.
  6. On December 26, Pavel Antonov - the richest deputy of the Russian Duma (Russia's parliament) and a Putin critic - died in India falling out of a hotel window.
  7. His companion Vladimir Bidenov was found dead in the same hotel four days earlier.
  8. Aleksey Maslov, 69, the former chief of Russian Ground Forces, died in hospital on December 25.
  9. Aleksandr Buzakov - who had been the head of Russia's 'admiralty shipyards' for a decade - died on December 24 2022.
  10. In July, 76-year-old Yevgeny Lobachev - a retired Major General of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation - was found dead in Moscow with a pistol nearby.
  11. Dmitry Zelenov, a real estate tycoon, died on December 9 in the French Riviera town of Antibes. [was out to dinner with some friends when he began feeling unwell and tumbled down a flight of stairs]
  12. Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow's Aviation Institute (MAI) is said to have tumbled down a flight of stairs at the institute's headquarters in the Russian capital in September.
  13. Gerashchenko's highly suspicious death came less than two weeks after Vladimir Putin's point man for developing Russia's vast Arctic resources [Ivan Pechorin, 39,] 'fell overboard' while sailing off the country's Pacific coast.
  14. The corporation's former CEO Igor Nosov, 43, also died suddenly in February, reportedly from a stroke.
  15. On September 1, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell to his death from the sixth floor window of a Moscow hospital.
  16. In July, Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics company for a Gazprom-linked company, was found dead in his swimming pool amid reports of foul play.
  17. Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom financial and security official at deputy general director level, was discovered by his lover the day after war started in Ukraine in February. His neck was in a noose in his £500,000 home in the elite Leninsky gated housing development, yet multiple reports claim his body had been badly beaten...
  18. That came just three weeks after Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor in the same gated housing community.
  19. Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to Kremlin-friendly energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May.
  20. And in April, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official closely linked to Russian financial institution Gazprombank, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.
  21. Several days later multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain, with his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria, found dead from stab wounds.
  22. A week prior Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga, 50, both Ukrainian-born, were found by their daughter Polina, 20, having suffered multiple stab wounds.
  23. Kristina Baikova, 28, an executive at Loko-Bank, allegedly fell from her 11th floor apartment on the Khodynsky Boulevard in the early hours of last Friday.
 
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PommyMommy said:
Look at this list - just from this one article! I wonder how many more there are. MOO

A spate of unexplained deaths of high-ranking energy officials has taken place since the start of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine in February last year.
  1. In May this year, Russia's deputy science minister [Pyotr Kucherenko, 46], allegedly a private critic of the 'fascist' invasion of Ukraine, died suddenly after falling seriously ill on a flight to Moscow.
  2. In April, energy boss Igor Shkurko was found dead in his prison cell after he was accused of taking a bribe.
  3. Only two months prior, Russian oil magnate Viatcheslav Rovneiko, 59, was 'found unconscious' late at night at his home.
  4. In February, a top Russian defence official [Marina Yankina, 58,] was found dead after plunging 160ft from a tower block window last week.
  5. A week earlier, Major General Vladimir Makarov - a Russian general recently fired by Putin - was found dead in a possible suicide.
  6. On December 26, Pavel Antonov - the richest deputy of the Russian Duma (Russia's parliament) and a Putin critic - died in India falling out of a hotel window.
  7. His companion Vladimir Bidenov was found dead in the same hotel four days earlier.
  8. Aleksey Maslov, 69, the former chief of Russian Ground Forces, died in hospital on December 25.
  9. Aleksandr Buzakov - who had been the head of Russia's 'admiralty shipyards' for a decade - died on December 24 2022.
  10. In July, 76-year-old Yevgeny Lobachev - a retired Major General of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation - was found dead in Moscow with a pistol nearby.
  11. Dmitry Zelenov, a real estate tycoon, died on December 9 in the French Riviera town of Antibes. [was out to dinner with some friends when he began feeling unwell and tumbled down a flight of stairs]
  12. Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow's Aviation Institute (MAI) is said to have tumbled down a flight of stairs at the institute's headquarters in the Russian capital in September.
  13. Gerashchenko's highly suspicious death came less than two weeks after Vladimir Putin's point man for developing Russia's vast Arctic resources [Ivan Pechorin, 39,] 'fell overboard' while sailing off the country's Pacific coast.
  14. The corporation's former CEO Igor Nosov, 43, also died suddenly in February, reportedly from a stroke.
  15. On September 1, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell to his death from the sixth floor window of a Moscow hospital.
  16. In July, Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics company for a Gazprom-linked company, was found dead in his swimming pool amid reports of foul play.
  17. Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom financial and security official at deputy general director level, was discovered by his lover the day after war started in Ukraine in February. His neck was in a noose in his £500,000 home in the elite Leninsky gated housing development, yet multiple reports claim his body had been badly beaten...
  18. That came just three weeks after Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor in the same gated housing community.
  19. Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to Kremlin-friendly energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May.
  20. And in April, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official closely linked to Russian financial institution Gazprombank, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.
  21. Several days later multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain, with his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria, found dead from stab wounds.
  22. A week prior Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga, 50, both Ukrainian-born, were found by their daughter Polina, 20, having suffered multiple stab wounds.
  23. Kristina Baikova, 28, an executive at Loko-Bank, allegedly fell from her 11th floor apartment on the Khodynsky Boulevard in the early hours of last Friday.
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Murderer. Incredible.
 
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Can no longer access those ^tweets without ''signing in''

www.thestar.com

Heather Mallick: Russians have been trained that it’s their duty to die in vain

Journalist Peter Pomerantsev believes Russians have a death drive in their soul, not the drive for life that is said to be normal in humans.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
June 30 2023 Heather Mallick
''The great journalist Peter Pomerantsev, whose remarkable book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia” appeared back in 2014, has an idea, a terribly bleak one. He believes that Russians have a death drive in their soul, not the drive for life that is said to be normal in humans.

Like abused children, they have been forever tormented, which taught them to torment others.

In the 20th century, after lifetimes of aristocrats pumping out peasant pain, Russia moved “from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich,” Pomerantsev wrote. What did those endless boots to the face do to Russians?

Writing in the Guardian this month, he assembled dark conclusions.
“Random violence runs through Russian history,” he says. Take the way Russia has always treated its own soldiers, like pre-compost.''

“Russians send their soldiers to die senselessly in the meat grinder of the Donbas,” he wrote, “their bodies left uncollected on the battlefield, their relatives not informed of their death so as to avoid paying them. On TV, presenters praise how ‘no one knows how to die like us.’”

''Think of Russian soldiers’ anger when they discovered the relative plenitude of Ukrainian life. They set it on fire. Think of Putin letting loose tens of thousands of Wagner Group criminals on Ukrainian civilians, particularly women. They invented tortures not yet dreamed of.''
 
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dotr said:
Can no longer access those ^tweets without ''signing in''

www.thestar.com

Heather Mallick: Russians have been trained that it’s their duty to die in vain

Journalist Peter Pomerantsev believes Russians have a death drive in their soul, not the drive for life that is said to be normal in humans.
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
June 30 2023 Heather Mallick
''The great journalist Peter Pomerantsev, whose remarkable book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia” appeared back in 2014, has an idea, a terribly bleak one. He believes that Russians have a death drive in their soul, not the drive for life that is said to be normal in humans.

Like abused children, they have been forever tormented, which taught them to torment others.

In the 20th century, after lifetimes of aristocrats pumping out peasant pain, Russia moved “from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich,” Pomerantsev wrote. What did those endless boots to the face do to Russians?

Writing in the Guardian this month, he assembled dark conclusions.
“Random violence runs through Russian history,” he says. Take the way Russia has always treated its own soldiers, like pre-compost.''

“Russians send their soldiers to die senselessly in the meat grinder of the Donbas,” he wrote, “their bodies left uncollected on the battlefield, their relatives not informed of their death so as to avoid paying them. On TV, presenters praise how ‘no one knows how to die like us.’”

''Think of Russian soldiers’ anger when they discovered the relative plenitude of Ukrainian life. They set it on fire. Think of Putin letting loose tens of thousands of Wagner Group criminals on Ukrainian civilians, particularly women. They invented tortures not yet dreamed of.''
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Re Twitter access--I've been using it (without signing up/in) for quite a while but apparently that's over. I don't want to sign up for Musk's horrible version of Twitter, but I liked being able to jump to tweets posted on WS and to access the accounts of various journalists, legal experts, etc.
 
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