Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 #2

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[PommyMommy]

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Air raid sirens go off in Vinnytsia.
Residents should head to the nearest shelter.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Air raid sirens in Rivne.
Residents should head to the nearest shelter.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Air raid alerts in Volyn, Ternopil, and Rivne Oblasts.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Disney stops releasing films in Russia “given the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the tragic humanitarian crisis.”
Warner Bros Studios also announced that it was canceling the release in Russian cinemas of the new Batman movie, one of the most anticipated films of the year.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Mastercard has blocked multiple financial institutions as a result of sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The company has also promised $2 million in humanitarian relief to Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Netflix will not comply with new Russian rules to carry 20 state-backed channels.
“Given the current situation, we have no plans to add these channels to our service,” a Netflix spokesperson said on Monday evening.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Ukraine to receive 70 fighter jets from the EU. Ukraine’s Air Force said on March 1.
Bulgaria will provide 16 MiG-29s and 14 Su-25s, Poland will provide 28 MiG-29 units, and Slovakia – 12 MiG-29s.

 

[Lillymac]

We would certainly stand to lose far more if we were at war with China. But they also stand to lose.

They can't make up the US/Europe/Rest of the World buying power from Russia, and definitely not now. Russia has become a far less useful partner for those countries. Maybe the place on the UN security council, along with a load of 'defensive' nukes is all it has now? It has oil and gas, but the pipelines are already set up the way they are and you can't just rebuild them overnight to send them to new places.

Interestingly, I've heard Russia threaten to use nukes, but not heard them threaten to cut off oil/gas supplies to anyone?

Besides the U S., who buys gas/oil from them?

 

[PommyMommy]

26m ago 23:13

Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

British prime minister Boris Johnson is due to fly to Nato’s border with Russia on Tuesday, pledging that Vladimir Putin will “feel the consequences” for invading Ukraine.

Boris Johnson will travel this morning to meet counterparts in Poland and Estonia and visit British troops as he pushes for western unity in punishing the Russian president for starting a conflict that has taken “hundreds” of lives in only five days.

Before his trip to eastern Europe, Johnson urged allies to “speak with one voice” to ensure “Putin must fail”. Johnson said:

Alongside all our international allies the UK will continue to bring maximum pressure to bear on Putin’s regime to ensure he feels the consequences of his actions in Ukraine. We speak with one voice when we say, Putin must fail.

 

[PrairieWind]

I might have misunderstood, and I don't have a link, but I thought it was that the Ukraine had older Russian fighter planes, and they were switching them for F16s in Poland. The West is providing upgraded equipment to Ukrainian pilots, not getting involved in the conflict. Perhaps wishful thinking.

I don't think so. The Ukrainian pilots would need aircraft they already know how to fly. They are familiar with Migs and Sukhois. And the missiles and munitions they have would work on those aircraft.

 

[worldwatcher]

I don't think so. The Ukrainian pilots would need aircraft they already know how to fly. They are familiar with Migs and Sukhois. And the missiles and munitions they have would work on those aircraft.

https://rusi.org/explore-our-resear...ary/mysterious-case-missing-russian-air-force

 

[PommyMommy]

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Russian shelling of a military unit in Okhtyrka killed at least 70 Ukrainian soldiers, the head of Sumy Regional State Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state communications regulator is blocking sites that write about Russia’s invasion into Ukraine.
Among blocked sites is the Siberian news site taiga.info which has called Russia's so-called military operation in Ukraine a full-scale war.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️More than 500,000 refugees have fled Ukraine amid Russia's war, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
At least 160,000 have become internally displaced since the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

 

[Dontknow?]

The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent·53s️More than 500,000 refugees have fled Ukraine amid Russia's war, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
At least 160,000 have become internally displaced since the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent·2m️Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state communications regulator is blocking sites that write about Russia’s invasion into Ukraine.
Among blocked sites is the Siberian news site taiga.info which has called Russia's so-called military operation in Ukraine a full-scale war.

I sure hope they are careful.

Breakingviews - Navalny's supporters call for civil disobedience against Ukraine war

Feb 28 (Reuters) - The movement of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on Monday for a campaign of civil disobedience to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 

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2m ago 23:55

Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers killed in strike on military base
More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed after Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, the head of the region wrote on Telegram.

People remove debris at the site of the military base in Okhtyrka. Photograph: Press Service Of The Ukrainian Ground Forces/Reuters

Dmytro Zhyvytskyy posted photographs of the charred shell of a four-story building and rescuers searching rubble. In a later Facebook post, he said many Russian soldiers and some local residents also were killed during the fighting on Sunday. The report could not immediately be confirmed.

 

[Amonet]

'While the potential for Russia's invasion of Ukraine to spark a world-ending nuclear conflagration has knocked the pandemic off most frontpages, federal bureaucrats seem determined to prove that they can focus on two crises at once.'

FEMA Encourages Survivors of a Nuclear Holocaust To Mask, Socially Distance

That is the funniest thing I've read for days!

 

[PommyMommy]

WARNING: Viewers may find the content of this video disturbing.

Dozens Of Civilian Deaths Reported In Kharkiv After Intense Shelling (rferl.org)
Ukraine's interior minister said there were dozens of civilian deaths after the country's second largest city, Kharkiv, was shelled on February 28. The northeastern city has become one of the major battlegrounds since Russia's military invaded Ukraine. Security analyst Ruslan Leviyev told Current Time that Russian forces were intensifying rocket attacks after their ground offensive stalled.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center detected cyberattacks targeting Ukraine's digital infrastructure hours before Russian military movement on Feb. 24, Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Feb. 28.

️Air raid alert in Kyiv.
Residents should go to the nearest shelter.

️Air raid alerts also in Uman and Cherkasy.
Residents are asked to go to the nearest shelter.

️Air raid alert in Vinnytsia.
Residents are asked to go to the nearest shelter.

Kyiv | Uman | Cherkasy | Vinnytsia - Google Maps

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4m ago 05:27
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

Ukraine’s UN ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, has hailed the end of Russia’s month-long term holding the presidency of the UN security council on Monday night, saying: “I’m looking forward to midnight when this abomination – occupation of the seat of the president of the security council by Russia – will be over.”

 

[Charlot123]

China's been making aggressive moves toward Taiwan and in the South China Seas since the Obama Administration. I agree they probably don't like the idea of being ostracized, but they'd still have their group of followers, including Russia and Iran.

If China ever plans on doing it--and they say they have the right to do it--it might be soon.

But, that's all JMOO.

I think it is smarter not to guess whether they will, or won’t, but assume that they will. I never believed Russia would invade Ukraine, it looked so suicidal, and yet it happened. Now Germany has to decide how to survive without Russian gas. If we assume that China will invade Taiwan, we can at least double the production of imported parts so that the world is not left without cellphones or whatever depends on Taiwanese and Chinese import.

 

[Amonet]

Besides the U S., who buys gas/oil from them?

Do you mean which countries by gas/oil from Russia?

I'm trying to find that, in the meantime here's a chart for US imports, and it does have Russia on the list. Looks a fairly small amount, so hopefully that will be reduced to 0 soon? It looks like an amount that can be juggled. The main place US gets its imports is Canada, as I thought, but they don't import from Venezuela after all, presumably for political reasons?

Here's some of the main buyers of crude oil from Russia:
China, Netherlands, Germany
South Korea, Poland, Italy
Belarus, Finland, Japan, Slovakia

I would prefer to see that list in bpd (barrels per day) but it's the best I can find for now.

Russia: main crude oil export destinations 2020 | Statista

Statista won't let me see the natural gas exports from Russia.

I'm really struggling to find a nice easy list format.

This is an interesting site for trade stats, if you can figure it out. I've tried scrolling down to the commodities and then clicking the name of the commodity I'm interested in, then the right side appears to show the importing countries.

If I'm understanding it right, the main importers of Russian natural gas are:
Italy, Belarus, Slovakia.
Norway, Czeckia, Hungary, Poland, Greece
France, Serbia, Bulgaria


I'm not sure how helpful that is, because I'm sure some countries in Eastern Europe get 100% of gas supplies from Russia? It would help more to know how much the countries get by unit and as a percentage of their demand.

But it's a nice portal as it also shows other Russian exports like Wheat and metals.

Russia (RUS) Exports, Imports, and Trade Partners | OEC

I'm sure thee are sites that have simple lists to answer these queries and I'm coming up short on what I'm looking for. Sorry. It's my failure in searching and sorting the results, it can't be that it doesn't exist.

 

[cujenn81]

Russian Ruble Is Now Worth Less Than 1 U.S. Cent After SWIFT Bank Sanctions

(TOKYO) — The ruble plunged to a record low of less than 1 U.S. cent in value Monday after Russia was cut off from the global bank payments system in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Australia to send missiles to Ukraine as part of $50 million support package, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Morrison told a news conference Tuesday that anti-armor missiles are proving extraordinarily effective for Ukrainian forces.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Journalist Alyona Panina said on Ukraine 24 TV channel that Kherson is almost completely surrounded by Russian troops.
“The city is actually surrounded, there are a lot of Russian soldiers and military equipment on all sides, they set up checkpoints at the exits," she said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Russian shelling hits maternity hospital near Kyiv, the hospital’s CEO Vitaliy Girin said on Facebook.
The maternity hospital is located in the village of Buzova on the Zhytomyr highway where heavy fighting has been ongoing.
All people were evacuated from the building.

 

[gitana1]

Which countries are sending military aid to Ukraine?

Very nice. If love to know what’s gotten there and when it will all get there. They needed it yesterday. I’m so worried about that convoy coming