Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 #6

[worldwatcher]

Wanted to share this,imo -a bit of reassured news...

Attack military base near Poland 'is a message, but not a threat to NATO'

Military Goods
The base is used as a supply route for military supplies and as a training location for foreign volunteers, explains Nagtzaam. "Before the war, the base was used for exercises with NATO, but now as a supply route for military goods."

This attack could be a message to the West to stop supplying weapons, says defense specialist Dick Zandee. weaken army Yet that is not the only reason that the military base is attacked. Zandee thinks that the Russians mainly want to weaken the Ukrainian army with the missile attack. "If you attack a Ukrainian training facility where weapons are stored, you don't make them stronger," Zandee said. "The goal of the Russians is to destroy their military equipment." Zandee explains that the base in Yavoriv is used to store weapons brought to Ukraine from the West. "The truck drivers with military goods drive across the border, but do not take the risk of driving far into Ukraine. They take the goods to a place where they can be transhipped, such as the military base..."

Aanval militaire basis bij Polen 'is een boodschap, maar geen dreigement naar de NAVO'


US personal sanctions hit 'friend' Putin: mega yacht and private jet blocked

DPG Media Privacy Gate

 

[CSIDreamer]

Weren't the Russian soldiers already suffering inadequate supply lines for food and water...raiding stores and farms to eat?

Yes.

 

[PommyMommy]

NEXTA on Twitter - 36 min ago, Video
Heavy shelling is taking place in #Kharkiv

Amichai Stein on Twitter - Video
Ukraine: Rockets on Kharkiv

NEXTA on Twitter
If Kadyrov really is near Kyiv, the AFU will destroy him, - Advisor to the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich on the air of "UARazom" Today Ukrainian media reported that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is in Ukraine.However, no one has confirmed this information yet.

Сaptured Russians said they allegedly went to Ukraine to guard humanitarian convoy and fight Nazis

 

[worldwatcher]

I think that's very likely.

So does Taiwan...
Taiwan Studies Ukraine War for Its Plan against China

 

[CSIDreamer]

NEXTA on Twitter - 36 min ago, Video
Heavy shelling is taking place in #Kharkiv

Amichai Stein on Twitter - Video
Ukraine: Rockets on Kharkiv

NEXTA on Twitter
If Kadyrov really is near Kyiv, the AFU will destroy him, - Advisor to the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich on the air of "UARazom" Today Ukrainian media reported that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is in Ukraine.However, no one has confirmed this information yet.

Сaptured Russians said they allegedly went to Ukraine to guard humanitarian convoy and fight Nazis

It appears they took a break and gave them something to drink in the interview of captured Russians. JMO

 

[worldwatcher]

And most of us thought 2020,2021 were odd years!
Seems that China faces lockdown again
China faces biggest Covid-19 crisis since Wuhan as cases surge

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 13, 2022
Kadyrov Reportedly Travels To Ukraine, Where Chechen Paramilitaries Are Fighting (rferl.org)
[...]

The TV channel controlled by Kadryov’s administration in Chechnya posted a video to the Telegram messaging app on March 13 saying Kadyrov was in Ukraine, though it did not give his exact whereabouts or say when the video was taken.

[...]

Kadyrov speaks only briefly in the video, as a soldier explains how a unit took control of an orphanage 7 kilometers from Kyiv.

“The strategy that you suggested to us turned out to be 100 percent correct,” the soldier says.

The video is captioned: "Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov together with fighters participating in a special military operation in Ukraine."

[...]

... Kadyrov’s forces have been linked to widespread rights abuses, kidnappings, and collective punishment. Kadyrov has also overseen a brutal purge that has targeted gay men.

 

[worldwatcher]

Weren't the Russian soldiers already suffering inadequate supply lines for food and water...raiding stores and farms to eat?

MOSCOW - In the fight against Ukraine, Russian President Putin uses hunger as a means of war to achieve his goal.

According to Germany, the huge price increases and the shrinking supply of, for example, wheat are a clear strategy of the Kremlin. Putin would deliberately provoke it. German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir is stunned by the targeted Russian attacks on, among other things, the Ukrainian grain storage facility, he told the German news channel Deutschlandfunk. Even if the war were to end immediately, it would have huge consequences for this year"

’Poetin zet honger in als oorlogsmiddel’

Dutch Farmers sow extra grain: it has never been so lucrative

Boeren zaaien extra graan: het was nog nooit zo lucratief

 

[PommyMommy]

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Russian forces completely destroy 7 hospitals, damage additional 104. Moscow’s troops have also killed 6 medical personnel while severely injuring 12 more since the start of the all-out war, Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Republican senior senator calls for no-fly zone over Ukraine. While visiting Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Rob Portman urged the U.S. and NATO to close the sky over Ukraine contrary to Washington’s intelligence community worries that such a move would risk an escalation.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Russia has opened 14 recruitment centers in Syria. It has already gathered thousands of Syrian mercenaries: members of the so-called "National Defense Militia" and units of the 5th Syrian Corps to deploy them in Ukraine - UA Intelligence https://bit.ly/3q1oax7

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
The Syrian mercenaries are expected to use heavy artillery and sniper weapons against the Ukrainians. Their monthly salary will be $300-600. Libyans are also recruited - UA Intelligence https://bit.ly/3q1oax7

António Guterres on Twitter - Secretary-General of the @UN
There are hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine in need of emergency assistance. Supplying hospitals with medical equipment is also an urgent priority. I appeal for passages to be open and kept safe so that people can get lifesaving aid and escape to safety.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

You have to admire their courage in continuing to protest considering the dire consequences they face...

Hundreds arrested at anti-war protests across Russia

Russia detained more than 250 people for protesting Moscow's "military operation" in Ukraine today, as the conflict continues for a third week.

Protesters risk fines and possible prison sentences by taking to the streets.

OVD-Info, which monitors arrests during protests, said police had detained 268 people during demonstrations in 23 Russian cities.

An AFP journalist present at a protest in the capital Moscow witnessed at least a dozen arrests and said police were taking away anybody without press papers.

A young woman was shouting "peace to the world" as she was detained by two policemen, the journalist saw.

Some of the riot police had the letter "Z" in the colours of the Russian flag on their helmets, the AFP reporter said.

The letter, seen on Russian tanks and vehicles in Ukraine, has become a symbol of support for what Moscow calls its "special military operation".

In Russia's second city Saint Petersburg, AFP saw multiple arrests, including a protester being dragged across the ground.

The city's central Nevsky Avenue was closed off by police with a dozen police vans parked along the road.
According to AFP, several journalists were detained.

Dressed in a yellow hat and blue jacket, 20-year-old Kristina said she was "expressing her protest" by wearing the colours of the Ukrainian flag.

"It's scary to go outside, of course, they are detaining everyone. Many of my friends have been detained in the past few days, some were even expelled from university," she told AFP.

Last weekend, police arrested more than 5,000 protesters across Russia.

(...)

 

[SouthAussie]

Why is this man still allowed to be in our country? Aleksander Vasilyevich Shulgin

The Russian ambassador in Australia (Alexey Pavlovsky) has been allowed to stay also. We are told it is because it is our only communication line with Russia.


Russia's ambassador to Australia Alexey Pavlovsky has been called in for a dressing down with the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, but remains in Canberra.

Privately, the Australian Government has consistently argued against a move to expel the ambassador.

It's warned the Kremlin won't feel the impacts and any line to the regime would then be cut.

Ukraine’s top diplomat in Australia calls for Russian ambassador to be expelled

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 13, 2022
Ukraine refugees tell harrowing tales even as numbers ease | AP News
SUCEAVA, Romania (AP) — Elena Yurchuk saw families with children blown up and the hospital she worked in reduced to rubble during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I don’t know if I have a home or not,” said the 44-year-old nurse from the northern Ukrainian town of Chernihiv. “Our city is under siege and we barely escaped.”

[...]

“People in cars are blown up by mines, a car with children and a young family was blown up … literally behind us,” Yarchuk said.

[...]

“When I went through Lviv there was an explosion. They bombed two military bases,” said Elizaveta Zmievskaya, 25, from Dnipro. “The sky became red.”

[...]

“We had to travel by ourselves,” he said. “It was very crowded, lots of people sleeping on each other. In the cabin for six people there were eight to 10 people inside. It was just very hard.”

[...]

For Natalia, a 55-year-old Ukrainian refugee from Zaporizhizhia, this was her second time fleeing, after leaving the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, when Russia annexed it.

“It was scary,” she said. “We did not wait for them (Russians) and this is not our first experience. But it was scary.”

[...]

At dawn on Sunday, a bus carrying about 50 Ukrainian refugees overturned on a major highway in northern Italy, killing one person, Italian firefighters said.

[...]

“Everybody dreams that they will go back home soon,” she said.

 

[SouthAussie]

China-Australia Relations Hit New Low Over Military, Politics, Science

China-Australia Relations Hit New Low Over Military, Politics, Science

Australia is a thorn in China's side.
When there is any disaster in the Pacific (tsunamis and such) we get to the affected islands as quick as we can to help, as does New Zealand.
We do whatever we can do to keep the South Pacific islands as independent, free nations.
None of us wants them to become reliant on help from China.


Eg:
The first Australian and New Zealand aid flights have arrived in Tonga, as on-the-ground images of the recent volcanic eruption emerge from the Pacific Island nation.
China said it would also send help, including water and food when the airport opened.
First Australian and New Zealand aid arrives in Tonga after the volcanic eruption as the first on-the-ground images emerge

 

[dotr]

''March 13, 2022 5:22PM EDT
War censorship exposes Putin's leaky internet controls | CP24.com
BOSTON (AP) - Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia's internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China's so-called Great Firewall.

So when Western tech companies began cutting ties with Russia following its invasion, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov was alarmed. He'd spent years exposing Russian censorship and feared that well-intentioned efforts to aid Ukraine would instead help Putin isolate Russians from the free flow of information, aiding the Kremlin's propaganda war.

“Look, guys the only space the Russians have to talk about Ukraine. and what is going on in Russia. is Facebook,” Soldatov, now exiled in London. wrote on Facebook in the war's first week. “You cannot just, like, kill our access.”

Facebook didn't, although the Kremlin soon picked up that baton, throttling both Facebook and Twitter so badly they are effectively unreachable on the Russian internet''

 

[borndem]

And most of us thought 2020,2021 were odd years!
Seems that China faces lockdown again
China faces biggest Covid-19 crisis since Wuhan as cases surge

Oh, please no. Today China, tomorrow ....
And yes, 2020 and 2021 were odd years. Scary years, too.

 

[SouthAussie]

Several British MPs are calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to kick out the children of oligarchs who are being educated at the UK's elite institutions.

"Putin's princelings are enjoying education in the finest places of our country while he destroys Ukrainian schools"

"Why should the children of Putin's cronies benefit from an education in this country when Ukrainian children are being murdered?"

The heirs to some of Russia's largest fortunes are rebelling against Vladimir Putin's war

 

[Arkay]

And don't forget that crazy little man in North Korea who loves to shoot off missiles when he's feeling ignored.

So does Taiwan...
Taiwan Studies Ukraine War for Its Plan against China

It's my opinion that the other authoritarian, tyrannical dictators of the world are closely watching how the democratic nations are handling the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Kim Jong-Un, Xi, the leaders of Iran and Venuzuela...what do they see? That the leaders of the free world have money and power, but obey the laws and principles laid down by contracts such as in NATO. That the free world is giving billions in aid, but will not cross the line of actually getting our countries involved. Which I do understand, from the point of view of our agreements to not fight in a war that is not directed at us.

And since we are run by democratically elected officials, not a one-man tyranny, and because we have Congress, Parliament and so on to prevent the presidents or prime ministers from imposing a unilateral decision to go to war, that our response to a war is necessarily slowed down by these constitutional formats. With which I also agree, this is the government we want. Of the people, by the people, for the people.

Yet, it's my belief that China's Xi, North Korea's Kim Jung-Un and others of their ilk are eyeballing their free neighbors, like Taiwan and South Korea, and carefully calculating what they can get away with now. The world's great democratic powers clearly won't cross the red line even when dictators do.

I'm a law-abiding citizen who is relieved to live in a country ruled by democratic law; but again IMO, lawless strongmen see that nothing is stopping Putin. What will stop them?

I'm too young to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, but there's an example of a dictator holding America's feet to the fire, even though Castro only ruled over a small, poor island. China is a superpower like Russia. North Korean citizens know very little of the outside world and consider Kim to be a god. Iran is an oil powerhouse. I truly fear what they can do if they expect little pushback from the free world.

Jmo

 

[CSIDreamer]

Ukraine: ICRC calls for urgent solution to save lives and prevent worst-case scenario in Mariupol

Hundreds of thousands of the city's residents are now facing extreme or total shortages of basic necessities like food, water and medicine. People of all ages, including our staff, are sheltering in unheated basements, risking their lives to make short runs outside for food and water. Dead bodies, of civilians and combatants, remain trapped under the rubble or lying in the open where they fell. Life-changing injuries and chronic, debilitating conditions cannot be treated. The human suffering is simply immense.

 

[worldwatcher]

Russia has asked China for military equipment to support its invasion of Ukraine, according to US officials, sparking concern in the White House that Beijing may undermine western efforts to help Ukrainian forces defend their country.
https://twitter.com/FT/status/1503094784763781122

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who is due to meet with China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome on Monday, warned Beijing that it would "absolutely" face consequences if it helped Moscow evade sweeping sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
China faces consequences if it helps Russia evade sanctions, U.S. says

 

[worldwatcher]

Ukraine: ICRC calls for urgent solution to save lives and prevent worst-case scenario in Mariupol

Hundreds of thousands of the city's residents are now facing extreme or total shortages of basic necessities like food, water and medicine. People of all ages, including our staff, are sheltering in unheated basements, risking their lives to make short runs outside for food and water. Dead bodies, of civilians and combatants, remain trapped under the rubble or lying in the open where they fell. Life-changing injuries and chronic, debilitating conditions cannot be treated. The human suffering is simply immense.

It is going to get worse,don’t think that I have the heart tomorrow to read about it....tbh.