Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 #7

[LadyL]

These are the two that...have not been seen recently. One, the Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, is supposedly away having heart problems. Gen. Valery Gerasimov supposedly hasn't been seen since March 11th.

They were both in my earlier post today.

interesting
I can imagine he is having heart problems from the stress. Maybe the other guy absconded.

 

[LadyL]

This Ukrainian ride-sharing service gave away its cars to help citizens flee

 

[LadyL]

Bitcoin for bullets: inside the first crowdfunded war

 

[Angleterre]

I hope this is allowed.

Best Movie ever made IMO

 

[MassGuy]

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 24 March 2022:

Ukrainian forces have launched strikes against high value targets in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, including a landing ship and ammunition storage depots at Berdyansk.

It is likely that the Ukrainians will continue to target logistical assets in Russian-held areas. This will force the Russian military to prioritise the defence of their supply chain and deprive them of much needed resupply for forces.

This will reduce Russia’s ability to conduct offensive operations, and further damage already dwindling morale.

https://twitter.com/defencehq/status/1507113449494659080?s=21

 

[nhmemorymaker]

A bit more troubling news .... in the Pacific. I really don't know if this is off topic or not.


Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration.

According to a copy of the draft security agreement circulating on social media on Thursday, it would allow China to base navy warships in the Pacific, less than 2,000km off Australia’s coast.

The arrangements are also likely to worry the United States, which said in February it would open an embassy in Solomon Islands after senior US administration officials expressed concern China wanted to create military relationships in the Pacific islands.

Australia has a bilateral security agreement with Solomon Islands, covering the deployment of police and armed forces, signed in 2018.

Australia’s minister for home affairs, Karen Andrews, told reporters on Thursday the Pacific was Australia’s “back yard”, when asked about the possibility of the Chinese military operating in Solomon Islands.

“In relation to China, in relation to the Pacific region, that is our back yard, that is our neighbourhood, and we are very concerned about any activity that is taking place in the Pacific islands,” she said.

China finalising security deal with Solomon Islands to base warships in the Pacific

Absolutely not o/t.... the actvities in the Arctic, and the Solomon Islands....
Russia
China
North Korea

The world has become a major Chess Match........ and we should all worry about all things far and wide.

 

[Dontknow?]

Can the U.S. and allies freeze Russian gold? Yes. Here's how.

How much gold does Russia have?
Russian gold purchases increased in 2014, after the U.S. issued sanctions on Russia for Putin's invasion of Crimea. Now the country holds $100 billion to $140 billion in gold reserves, which is roughly 20% of the holdings in the Russian Central Bank, according to U.S. officials. Additionally, the Bank of Russia announced Feb. 28, shortly after several Russian banks were removed from the SWIFT bank messaging system, that it would resume the purchase of gold on the domestic precious metals market.

 

[sunshineray]

A bit more troubling news .... in the Pacific. I really don't know if this is off topic or not.


Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration.

According to a copy of the draft security agreement circulating on social media on Thursday, it would allow China to base navy warships in the Pacific, less than 2,000km off Australia’s coast.

The arrangements are also likely to worry the United States, which said in February it would open an embassy in Solomon Islands after senior US administration officials expressed concern China wanted to create military relationships in the Pacific islands.

Australia has a bilateral security agreement with Solomon Islands, covering the deployment of police and armed forces, signed in 2018.

Australia’s minister for home affairs, Karen Andrews, told reporters on Thursday the Pacific was Australia’s “back yard”, when asked about the possibility of the Chinese military operating in Solomon Islands.

“In relation to China, in relation to the Pacific region, that is our back yard, that is our neighbourhood, and we are very concerned about any activity that is taking place in the Pacific islands,” she said.

China finalising security deal with Solomon Islands to base warships in the Pacific

It's a new world now. Russia's pushing westward, North Korea is being egged on by Russia to take the peninsula, China now wants to park some war machines (probably nuclear) in Australia's backyard.

Is North Africa or the Sudan area next?

Maybe Venezuela is next?

"In January, as the saber-rattling over Ukraine grew louder, Russian Deputy Foreign MinisterSergei Ryabkov pointedly refused to rule outan enhanced Russian military presence in Venezuela, as well as elsewhere around the Caribbean, in response to NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe."

Maybe they'll decide they want some of Central America too?

Venezuela’s Crisis Could Be Another Casualty of Russia’s Ukraine Invasion

This is how one maniacal egomaniac can influence and spur on the other warlike creatures of this beautiful Earth.

AJMO, I really wish it wasn't </3

 

[dotr]

Live updates: Russia invades Ukraine, Mariupol besieged (cnn.com)
''2 min ago
Workers at Chernobyl power plant are being put at risk by Russian shelling in a nearby town, IAEA says
From CNN’s Sahar Akbarzai
Russian shelling near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has prevented personnel from rotating to and from the plant, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Mariano Grossi.
Ukraine’s regulatory authority told the IAEA on Thursday that shelling was endangering ‘the homes and families of those operational personnel that ensure the nuclear and radiation safety" of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.''

rbbm.
Live updates: Russia invades Ukraine, Mariupol besieged (cnn.com)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (left), U.S. President Joe Biden (second left) and Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) speak with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (center), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (third from right) and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (second from right) before a G7 leaders' family photograph on March 24, 2022. (Henry Nicholls/Pool/AFP/Getty Images)
“We are united in our support of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. And we are united in our resolve to defend our shared values, including democracy, respect for human rights, global peace and stability, and the rules-based international order,” the statement reads, before going on to list “transatlantic efforts to support the Ukrainian people.”
Among the efforts the leaders highlighted, Biden and von der Leyen said “the United States and the European Union are supporting the work of war crimes documentation experts who are gathering evidence on the ground in Ukraine,” in addition to outlining their efforts on issues like food security and humanitarian relief.''

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 24, 2022
Inside massacre of civilian evacuees outside Kyiv (kyivindependent.com)



The remains of the leading car in a convoy of evacuation vehicles that were fired upon by Russian forces in the urban village of Stoyanka-2, outside Kyiv. The driver and the forward passenger were killed. The passenger’s wife and child, who were sitting in the back, survived and escaped to the capital. (The Kyiv Independent)

In the village of Stoyanka-2 outside Kyiv, a half-dozen cars line the road, riddled with holes, their bodywork mangled by bullets and an explosion.

Their windows, bearing handwritten Ukrainian signs saying “Children” are perforated or shattered. The suitcases inside the vehicles appear to have been searched. The bodies have been recovered by volunteers or removed by Russian soldiers or locals.

This is what remains of the quarter of a 20-car civilian evacuation convoy that tried to escape the suburban town of Irpin on the morning of March 6. As the convoy entered Stoyanka-2, Russian forces opened fire, most likely from a nearby building, killing at least four people in the first five cars and wounding several more. The rest managed to back up, turn around and flee.

Oleksandr Syrtsov saw it happen directly in front of him.

“I saw with my own eyes how my loved ones were being shot to death… like cannon fodder,” he told the Kyiv Independent over the phone from Kyiv. “In 30 seconds, I lost my friend, my cousin, all my things, my documents, my car… all I kept was my life.”

[...]

 

[CSIDreamer]

No words. While I think a lot of us have suspected this is Russia's end game, just no words.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507143265933484035?t=Nlk3JFiCj7DI_37DWcnldQ&s=19

️Mariupol City Council calls for help as residents begin to die from starvation.

More and more people are left without any food while multiple attempts to create humanitarian corridors and to provide aid have failed as Russian troops continue to violate ceasefire agreements.

 

[PommyMommy]

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukrainian army: Russia wants to end war by May 9. According to intelligence from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian troops are being told that the war must end by May 9 – widely celebrated in Russia as the day of victory over the Nazi Germany.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
Russia claims that it will open a humanitarian corridor to allow foreign ships to leave Ukrainian ports. The supposed corridor would be 3 miles wide an open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on March 25. Earlier, Russia claimed there were drifting mines in the Black Sea.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 30 min ago
General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces: Some Russian units retreat towards Slobozhanksy after losing 50% of personnel. Russian forces continue to blockade Sumy and Kharkiv but some units have reportedly withdrawn to Russia due to the significant casualties.

One month of Russia's war in photos (kyivindependent.com)

 

[PommyMommy]

[URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/24/russia-ukraine-war-latest-news-zelenskiy-expects-meaningful-steps-at-nato-eu-and-g7-summits-live']Russia-Ukraine war latest: Zelenskiy calls for Nato military aid ‘without restrictions’, as western leaders gather – live | World news | The Guardian[/URL]

36m ago 21:15
Russia is running out of precision guided munitions and it is more likely to rely on so-called dumb bombs and artillery, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl speculated that he did not believe President Vladimir Putin wanted to have an all out conflict with Nato.

Earlier, we reported that three US officials claimed Russia is suffering high failure rates as high as 60% for some of its precision-guided missiles while its forces have taken heavy casualties and are low on supplies.

'A Source Of Death': Air Bases In Russia, Belarus, And Crimea Used In Moscow’s Assault On Ukraine (rferl.org)
The Russian military jets and helicopters attacking Ukraine may be taking off from roughly 40 air bases, according to an analysis by Schemes (Skhemy), an investigative news project run by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in cooperation with UA: Pershy television. Schemes examined satellite images from the private, U.S.-based company Maxar Technologies.

Ukraine has said that Russian jets flying over the Black Sea have hit the Lviv region in the west. Russia is actively using airbases located on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea to bomb Ukraine, Oleksandr Musiyenko, head of the Center for Military Legal Studies in Kyiv, told Schemes.

 

[PommyMommy]

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
"How to start and steal a Russian tank" - one of the many instructions on total resistance an official Ukrainian Army website offers Ukrainians. Instructions valid for T72 & T90 tanks How to start and steal a Russian tank - Center for National Resistance (mod.gov.ua)

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Main NATO summit decisions

• NATO promises to protect Ukraine from chemical & bioweapons; their use "would lead to dire consequences" for Russia
• 4 additional multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia
• NATO does not intend to send troops to Ukraine

NEXTA on Twitter - 5 hrs ago, Video
#American volunteers on the battlefield in the #Kyiv region They liberated the village, which had been under #Russian occupation for almost a month.

NEXTA on Twitter
Forbes: Ukrainian army now has 43 more tanks than at the beginning of the war According to analysts, since the beginning of the war, #Russian army has lost 530 tanks, while the Armed Forces of #Ukraine have lost 74 of their own, but captured 117 enemy tanks.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
In occupied territories, Russians destroy Ukrainian books that don't fit Russian world ideology - Ukrainian intel These include history of Maidan revolutions, war in Donbas, Ukrainian liberation struggles, Ukrainian history school books Mazepa, Petliura, Bandera are in list of forbidden names

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
CNN: Ukraine tells the U.S. it needs 500 Javelins and 500 Stingers per day. A recent request provided to U.S. lawmakers points to a growing need for American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles as the Russian invasion continues on multiple fronts.

 

[Dontknow?]

So this is what they need without fighter jets or a No fly zone. Give them that if possible. Javelins or Stingers! Throwing billions at them could be narrowed down to those. I'm sure our government is doing so asap.

The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent
12m

CNN: Ukraine tells the U.S. it needs 500 Javelins and 500 Stingers per day. A recent request provided to U.S. lawmakers points to a growing need for American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles as the Russian invasion continues on multiple fronts.

 

[sunshineray]

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 24 March 2022:

Ukrainian forces have launched strikes against high value targets in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, including a landing ship and ammunition storage depots at Berdyansk.

It is likely that the Ukrainians will continue to target logistical assets in Russian-held areas. This will force the Russian military to prioritise the defence of their supply chain and deprive them of much needed resupply for forces.

This will reduce Russia’s ability to conduct offensive operations, and further damage already dwindling morale.

https://twitter.com/defencehq/status/1507113449494659080?s=21

I hope Ukrainian forces strike it hard so Russians abandon any supplies and flee. Ukraine fighters can surely use them.

 

[sunshineray]

Alec Luhn

@ASLuhn
Scripps environmental journalism fellow interested in the far north. Former Russia correspondent for @guardian& @telegraph

Chilling Russian military intercepts. "First remove our 'property' from the residential area, then cover the residential area with artillery."

Quote Tweet

Christiaan Triebert

@trbrtc

· Mar 23

In another transmission, we hear the repeated order to cover the entire residential neighbourhood with artillery after the “property” (хозяйство) has been removed — a likely codeword for Russian personnel or equipment. This could be a war crime.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1506748705080291328

10:45 AM · Mar 24, 2022

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 24, 2022
Ukrainian Citizens Continue To Mobilize Against The Russian Invasion (rferl.org)

1Women working in cramped conditions make soldiers' vests in Vynohradiv in western Ukraine on March 23.

3Volunteers bake bread for servicemen in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 22.

6A volunteer in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya makes steel plates that will be used for armored vests.

8Volunteers make body armor and backpacks in Zaporizhzhya on March 21.

11Volunteers rest among bags of clothes that need to be sorted and distributed in Lviv on March 19.

(5 of 12 photos)

 

[gitana1]

Absolutely not o/t.... the actvities in the Arctic, and the Solomon Islands....
Russia
China
North Korea

The world has become a major Chess Match........ and we should all worry about all things far and wide.

It has always been a chess match. And what scares me is world wars start when there is an imbalance between opposing ideologies/forces, when it comes to territory. That’s where we are now, with democracy having taken the lead.

 

[gitana1]

So this is what they need without fighter jets or a No fly zone. Give them that if possible. Javelins or Stingers! Throwing billions at them could be narrowed down to those. I'm sure our government is doing so asap.

The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent
12m

CNN: Ukraine tells the U.S. it needs 500 Javelins and 500 Stingers per day. A recent request provided to U.S. lawmakers points to a growing need for American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and Javelin anti-tank missiles as the Russian invasion continues on multiple fronts.

How many exist? How quickly can they get there?