Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 #8

[BetteDavisEyes]

Food Prices Soar to Record Levels on Ukraine War Disruptions | Business News | US News

The United Nations says prices for world food commodities like grains and vegetable oils have reached their highest levels ever because of Russia's war in Ukraine.

ROME (AP) — Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of Russia's war in Ukraine and the “massive supply disruptions” it is causing, threatening millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere with hunger and malnourishment, the United Nations said Friday.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for a basket of commodities, averaged 159.3 points last month, up 12.6% from February. As it is, the February index was the highest level since its inception in 1990.

FAO said the war in Ukraine was largely responsible for the 17.1% rise in the price of grains, including wheat and others like oats, barley and corn. Together, Russia and Ukraine account for around 30% and 20% of global wheat and corn exports, respectively.

While predictable given February's steep rise, “this is really remarkable,” said Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of FAO's markets and trade division. “Clearly, these very high prices for food require urgent action.”...

 

[LadyL]

Russian Nobel-winning editor says he was attacked with red paint

 

[LadyL]

Hi @LadyL,

Other than clicking on the thumbnail to enlarge it, then swiping with two fingers to enlarge it further, I have no idea. I'm very Computers 101.

I'm sure everyone else will be able to tell you how! I just paused the video at that spot and took the screenshot, so maybe if you do that as well it will be more clear?

Waiting for the young and/or savvy ones here to show the way!

Can you read this one?

Source: NEXTA on Twitter

Not a graphic, but I found this story, which details the results.

UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council

ETA screenshots from the UN Twitter account linked in the article:
https://mobile.twitter.com/UN_News_Centre/status/1512095779535609862/photo/1

2nd Edit to add 2nd SS, because WS froze up on me ;-) I give up. See Twitter link for the rest of the original image. Sorry, I tried.

thank you guys ... I'm on a computer so maybe different than those on other devices but I can see PommyMommy's! thank you all!

 

[PrairieWind]

Chilling moment Putin is pictured with ‘Russia’s secret nuclear briefcase’ at funeral - amid fears of World War 3

This nuclear briefcase looks like something you'd have bought at Radio Shack in 1980.

 

[Trackergd]

The big difference between WWII and now is that in WWII, the US mainland (other than the Aleutian Islands) was not directly attacked by a foreign force. There were no intercontinental missiles (other than the limited range V1 and V2), and while other nations suffered bombings and destruction, the US and Canada were pretty much unscathed. If we engaged in another world war, we would be attacked in our own cities. That has not happened since the war of 1812.

Putin is a loose cannon. If he is backed into a corner or thinks he will lose this war or be taken out by his own government, he would most likely not hesitate to take everyone else with him, including his own people. I hope I am wrong, but I don't see him hiding in a bunker and shooting himself in the head like another dictator in history did. Despots rarely agree to suffer public and national humiliation for failure.

What is interesting (if one can say that) about this war is that Russia's military looks like a paper tiger completely stopped by citizen soldiers with limited weapons. He has resorted to rocket attacks like a coward, but his stockpile is limited, so when they run out, who knows what will happen?

 

[StarryStarryNight]

The West is intimidated by Putin’s threat of nuclear weapons, but this is not a one sided conflict in that respect.
We should remind him about our own nuclear weapons. I don’t think they want to be turned into a nuclear wasteland either.

The computer at the end of the movie War Games concludes…

I don’t think the Russians want to play this game anymore than we do.

 

[PrairieWind]

The West is intimidated by Putin’s threat of nuclear weapons, but this is not a one sided conflict in that respect.
We should remind him about our own nuclear weapons. I don’t think they want to be turned into a nuclear wasteland either.

The computer at the end of the movie War Games concludes…

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I don’t think the Russians want to play this game anymore than we do.

I don't think the Russian people have a clue what is going on and certainly don't have any power to stop it. The FSB and Army know, but as of yet are not willing or able to stop it. I certainly hope that Army commanders would NOT carry out an order for nuclear strikes, limited or strategic. But who knows. Putin is all in on this.

 

[CSIDreamer]

The West is intimidated by Putin’s threat of nuclear weapons, but this is not a one sided conflict in that respect.
We should remind him about our own nuclear weapons. I don’t think they want to be turned into a nuclear wasteland either.

The computer at the end of the movie War Games concludes…

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I don’t think the Russians want to play this game anymore than we do.

No one has the arsenal of nuclear weapons that Russia and the US have.

 

[sunshineray]

The big difference between WWII and now is that in WWII, the US mainland (other than the Aleutian Islands) was not directly attacked by a foreign force. There were no intercontinental missiles (other than the limited range V1 and V2), and while other nations suffered bombings and destruction, the US and Canada were pretty much unscathed. If we engaged in another world war, we would be attacked in our own cities. That has not happened since the war of 1812.

Putin is a loose cannon. If he is backed into a corner or thinks he will lose this war or be taken out by his own government, he would most likely not hesitate to take everyone else with him, including his own people. I hope I am wrong, but I don't see him hiding in a bunker and shooting himself in the head like another dictator in history did. Despots rarely agree to suffer public and national humiliation for failure.

What is interesting (if one can say that) about this war is that Russia's military looks like a paper tiger completely stopped by citizen soldiers with limited weapons. He has resorted to rocket attacks like a coward, but his stockpile is limited, so when they run out, who knows what will happen?

I think they look like a paper tiger because so many in Putin's military have embezzled the public's money, a monkey-see monkey-do game they learned from their leader.

I do hope you're that their stockpile is limited and that China and North Korea stay out of that weapons arena. AJMO

 

[sunshineray]

Snipped by from LadyL

Who's acting like the Nazis?

Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of using 'mobile crematoriums' in Mariupol

Snipped by me from PommyMommy

This is proof...

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 8 hrs ago, Video w/subtitles
Russian troops get orders from their commanders to shoot civilians, a @ServiceSsu intercept published 5 Apr shows

Stealing children to adopt out to loving Russian families? Let's pray that's actually the truth.

Defence of Ukraine on Twitter
Russia is abducting Ukrainian children en masse. Thousands of Ukrainian orphans from the occupied territories are being illegally "evacuated" to Russia. The State Duma is speeding up a bill on a "simplified" procedure for their "adoption" by Russian families. #russiawarcrimes


Abucting teachers that teach truths and replacing with puppets that only spout lies.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Fedorov: Russia abducted more than 100 people in Melitopol. Mayor Ivan Fedorov said that Russians began to kidnap teachers and lecturers of the Melitopol University and are trying to resume education under Russian dictate.

Why is Germany delaying the tanks they promised? Thank you Australia for the vehicles leaving for Ukraine tomorrow.

I hope Ukraine is faring better off in the sky now... thank goodness they really stocked up on Turkey's drones.

Ukraine's defence imports from Turkey jumped 30-fold in Q1 - Turkish data

All comments JMO

 

[PrairieWind]

Snipped by from LadyL


Why is Germany delaying the tanks they promised? Thank you Australia for the vehicles leaving for Ukraine tomorrow.


All comments JMO

I think Germany's actions and inactions in all this have been eye-opening.

 

[Vern]

Please, somebody somewhere somehow, stop this madness!!!
This Ninth-Grader Made A Video Diary In Mariupol - YouTube

Ukrainian rescuers fight to save hundreds feared buried alive in Borodyanka - YouTube

My fellow troops are feeling much like me ... it's time.

 

[Vern]

The West is intimidated by Putin’s threat of nuclear weapons, but this is not a one sided conflict in that respect.
We should remind him about our own nuclear weapons. I don’t think they want to be turned into a nuclear wasteland either.

The computer at the end of the movie War Games concludes…

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I don’t think the Russians want to play this game anymore than we do.

Be very sure that the next country Russia walks into and over, and there WILL be a next, ... Putin will use the same threat and, once again, many more thousands of INNOCENTS will die in war crimes ...

He went in to Ukraine precisely because we sat on our collective duffs and did nothing when he went into Chechnya, Moldova, Kuril Islands, Georgia, Crimea ...

Because he now knows that he can get away with it when he uses that threat. We've allowed him to via our inaction. Vile.

 

[CSIDreamer]

My fellow troops are feeling much like me ... it's time.

How many millions of citizens are you and your fellow troops willing to watch die? I'm curious to hear the view of an enlisted soldier, I honestly am.

 

[dotr]

Ukraine demands 'firm global response' against Russia for deadly train station strike | CBC News
''Ukraine called for more weapons and harsher sanctions after it blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern region of Donetsk a deliberate attack on civilians. The city's mayor estimated about 4,000 people were gathered there at the time.

The U.S., European Union and Britain condemned the attack which took place on the same day European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Kyiv to show solidarity and accelerate Ukraine's membership process.

"We expect a firm global response to this war crime," Zelensky said in a video posted late on Friday.

"Any delay in providing … weapons to Ukraine, any refusals, can only mean the politicians in question want to help the Russian leadership more than us," he said, calling for an energy embargo and all Russian banks to be cut off from the global system.''

 

[worldwatcher]

I think Germany's actions and inactions in all this have been eye-opening.

Is it?? Not going to offend anyone here, but,..I grew up close to the border of Germany and know how much Germans still live under the stigma of WWII.

-In a nutshell-

Maybe this..gives an insight of people who do not know how much history can be generation haunted ..:

"Wissman, author of "Not Quite Ready for Combat: How the German army became a rubbish army," says World War II not only destroyed the German military, but left a residue of shame around its future. "And actually, you can see a lot of problems which the German army has now stems from that time because we never really got comfortable with having an army."

With war on its doorstep, Germany plans a major military buildup

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<modsnip>

BTW,there are a lot of Dutch farmers in Ukraine and they all saying,this is happening right now.. starvation "holodomor" will be used,just like Stalin did.

"During the fighting in Ukraine, Russia deliberately aims its weaponry at the country's food infrastructure. The aim is to cause hunger, says EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, who makes a comparison with the famine that Joseph Stalin caused in this region 90 years ago."

Janusz Wojciechowski: 'Rusland zet honger in als agressiemiddel'

The starvation of a nation: Putin uses hunger as a weapon in Ukraine

In the meanwhile...
Someone who lived in Ukraine and had to flee, a few days after the Russians attacked,is collecting seeds..:

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[SouthAussie]

A little bit of joy in Ukraine, as two best friends reunite.

This dog and its owner had a joyful reunion in Kyiv this week after they were separated during the violence in Bucha, Ukraine.

 

[PommyMommy]

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Reuters: Czech Republic ships tanks, rocket launchers, artillery to Ukraine. Czech Republic recently sent a shipment of five T-72 tanks and five infantry fighting vehicles, undisclosed Czech defense sources told Reuters on April 8.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Conflict Intelligence Team: Missiles hitting Kramatorsk train station presumably launched from Russian-occupied Donbas. According to CIT, the missile was launched by the Tochka-U ballistic missile system allegedly from Shakhtarsk, occupied by Russia since 2014.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Mayor: Russian troops shot 132 civilians in Makariv. Makariv Head Vadym Tokar added that 40% of the town was destroyed by shelling. Makariv, a town of 10,000 people 50 kilometers west of Kyiv, was liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces on March 22. PHOTO CREDIT: @AnnaMyroniuk

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
UK to send 'Mastiff' armored vehicles to Ukraine. The U.K. will be sending an unspecified number of Mastiff heavily armored vehicles to Ukraine, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed on April 8. British troops will head to a country neighboring Ukraine to provide training.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukraine's General Staff: More than 80% of Russian troops in some units refuse to fight. Russian commanders reportedly refuse to accept applications for the dismissal of military personnel, even from those whose contracts have already expired.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
BBC: Russia changes its military command. According to an unnamed Western official, Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, who has experience in Syria, will lead the army amid Kremlin's desire to reach “some kind of success” before May 9, when the country celebrates the victory in WWII.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
UK, Germany won't send tanks to Ukraine. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a joint conference with German counterpart Olaf Scholz on April 8 that it “wouldn’t be appropriate” for Western allies to meet all of Ukraine’s weaponry demands.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Instead, the U.K. will send £100 million of defensive military equipment to Ukraine, including more Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles, and another 800 anti-tank missiles.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
WSJ: Ukraine’s Ministry of Health orders antidote to chemical weapon. The humanitarian non-profit Direct Relief will reportedly provide Ukraine with a requested 220,000 vials of atropine, which may be used to counter the symptoms of various nerve agents.

 

[PommyMommy]

Euromaidan Press on Twitter: 20yo woman, raped by 3 occupiers in all possible places at once. Irpen" / Twitter
Ombudswoman Denysova on cases of Russian Army raping children in Kyiv Obl 14yo girl raped by 5 occupiers. Now pregnant. Bucha
11yo boy raped in front of mom, she was tied to a chair to watch. Bucha
20yo woman, raped by 3 occupiers in all possible places at once. Irpen

Russian soldiers rape Ukrainian women, including little girls | Euromaidan Press

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - Video
Woman in Bucha cries over bodies of her daughter&2 grandkids. Russian Army shot them during evacuation attempt. Father survived but lost leg. Bodies lay in open for several weeks The woman escaped from Russian occupied Donbas in 2016. Then the Russians came again VIDEO CREDIT: Marian Prysiazhniuk

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Warning, sensitive photos Several incinerated bodies of civilians, incl 1 child, were found in the cellar of a house in Husarovka village (Kharkiv Obl) after it was liberated from Russian occupation. Russian's did this deliberately, as no houses burned PHOTO CREDIT: Sergei Loiko #RussianWarCrimes

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
132 bodies executed by shooting were found in Makarov (Kyiv Oblast) after liberation from Russian occupiers, 40% of village destroyed - village head The killed were found in mass graves and separately. 15k ppl lived in Makarov before Russia's invasion, now fewer than 1k remain

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Japan bans coal imports from Russia, expells 8 diplomats "Russia has repeatedly violated international humanitarian law by killing civilians & attacking nuclear power plants. These are unforgivable war crimes," PM Fumio Kishida told

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Kramatorsk hospitals unable to cope with number of wounded after Russian missile strike on the railway station, where 4k ppl waited for evacuation - mayor Honcharenko: "Many people heavily wounded, without arms and legs, they are operated on by 30-40 surgeons at the same time"

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
The death toll from the Russian missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station has risen to 52, 109 people have been injured, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Regional Administration. https://t.me/pryamiy/26451

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
A car with Ukrainian electric workers heading to repair power lines in Sumy Obl exploded on a mine of Russian occupiers. 1 electrician died, 2 wounded Prosecutors launch investigation into case of Russia's violation of customs of war https://buff.ly/3Jixtzf

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - WARNING: DISTURBING PHOTOS
On the morning of 8 April, the Russian troops killed an entire family in Avdiivka, Donetsk Obl. Russian shelling of Avdiivka, the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk suburb, killed four people, according to Head of Donetsk Regional Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko PHOTO CREDIT: Telegram: Contact @pavlokyrylenko_donoda

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Another Russian Tochka-U missile launched from Belarus was shot down in Chernihiv Oblast on 8 April After Russia's missile strike on Kramatorsk that killed dozens of civilians, Putin's spokesman claimed that the Russian military doesn't use Tochka-U missiles. https://t.me/operativnoZSU/18105

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Two Belarusian KGB officers died hitting a Russian mine in Gomel Oblast Belarusian media Nasha Niva citing an unnamed source says that 2 Belarusian secret police offices were killed by an anti-tank mine near an abandoned Russian military camp near the Ukrainian border Two KGB officers struck a Russian mine in the Gomel region (nashaniva.com)

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Western official confirms that Russia has now reorganized the command of its operations in Ukraine - BBC The new commander of Russia's South Military District is now reportedly Gen. Alexandr Dvornikov who had extensive experience from Syria. Ukraine war latest: Biden blames Russia for 'horrific atrocity' at Kramatorsk - BBC News

 

[sunshineray]

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
UK, Germany won't send tanks to Ukraine. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a joint conference with German counterpart Olaf Scholz on April 8 that it “wouldn’t be appropriate” for Western allies to meet all of Ukraine’s weaponry demands.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Instead, the U.K. will send £100 million of defensive military equipment to Ukraine, including more Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles, and another 800 anti-tank missiles.

So it was a joint conference of UK and Germany saying sending tanks "wouldn't be appropriate". Whatever is meant by that.

I'm glad that UK is sending more Starstreak anti-aircraft weapons and anti-tank missiles.

I really hope NATO countries have a true handle on the situation. I tend to agree with the Ukrainians that the only thing Putin stops for is a show of strength. He's regrouping and in my opinion wants to cut off Ukraine from the Bkack Sea and take all the way to Odesa. NATO cannot let that happen. AJMO

Something, somewhere has to give...the Russian military needs to be stalled along the seaside and then pushed back. They need to be forced to abandon that plan. I'm not a military person but those are my thoughts.

I can understand them wanting to take the land bridge from Donvas to Crimea. That would give the Crimea water access, that makes some sense for the people of Crimea's needs no matter whom their leaders are...but not cutting off Ukraine's access to the sea. That makes no real sense and its only for retribution and punishment for standing up to Putin's military and making them look inadequate. Again AJMO