Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION #2

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Jan. 26,2022 Reuters
Russia starts navy drills to rehearse protecting Arctic shipping lane
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"Wednesday's drills in the Arctic, which involve around 30 warships, 20 aircraft and 1,200 personnel, are designed to assess troops' combat readiness in the Arctic and their ability to protect the Northern Sea Route."
The exercises will also include manoeuvres in the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific.

2022https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-starts-navy-drills-rehearse-protecting-arctic-shipping-lane-2022-01-26/

Feb. 15, 2022 AP News
Russia sends warplanes to Syria for huge naval drills in Med
The Russian military on Tuesday deployed long-range nuclear-capable bombers and fighter jets carrying state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to its air base in Syria for massive naval drills in the region amid soaring tensions with the West over Ukraine.
Long-range, nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 bombers and MiG-31 fighter jets carrying the latest Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles landed at the Russian air base of Hemeimeem in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia as part of the drills. The military says the Kinzhal has a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) and flies at 10 times the speed of sound, making it hard to intercept.

Russia sends warplanes to Syria for huge naval drills in Med
 
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Who are Putin's secret daughters?


Vladimir Putin’s $125M Yacht Leaves German Port


''Russian president Vladimir Putin’s superyacht took off from a port in Germany, heading home to Russia. Experts say moving the $125 million vessel is an effort to prevent it from being seized by the west, should Russia invade Ukraine. The ship has been docked at a boatyard in Germany since December for refurbishment, but made a hurried exit upon completion. Putin’s official salary as president of Russia is $135,000 but he has reportedly amassed a fortune of $225 billion.
Feb 15 2022''
 
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Russia-Ukraine war latest: strike on children’s hospital ‘ultimate evidence that genocide is happening’ – Zelenskiy | World news | The Guardian
2h ago 20:12

Canada will provide Ukraine with an additional $50m in lethal and non-lethal military aid, including Canadian-made cameras used in military drones and other specialised equipment, according to defence minister Anita Anand.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau earlier announced another shipment of highly-specialised military equipment to Ukraine.

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2h ago 20:40

At least 35,000 civilians were evacuated from besieged Ukrainian cities on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, adding that three humanitarian corridors had allowed residents to leave the cities of Sumy, Enerhodar and areas around Kyiv.

Evacuations will hopefully continue on Thursday with three more routes set to open out of the cities of Mariupol, Volnovakha in the southeast and Izium in eastern Ukraine.

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2h ago 20:52

The United States is rapidly processing requests from Americans to export firearms and ammunition to Ukraine, the US Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

Americans are collecting weapons for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on his citizens to defend the country from invading Russian forces and promised to arm them.

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Americans are donating thousands of sets of body armour and millions of rounds of ammunition in response to Ukraine’s pleas for military support.

Equipment donors and US volunteers for Ukraine’s armed forces must navigate US export license requirements for items like military-grade bullet proof vests.

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Twitter unveils version of site that can bypass Russia block | AP News
Twitter has launched a privacy-protected version of its site to bypass surveillance and censorship after Russia restricted access to its service in the country.

Russia has blocked access to Facebook and has limited Twitter in an attempt to try to restrict the flow of information about its war in Ukraine. Both companies have said they are working on restoring access to people inside Russia even as they restrict the country’s state media from their services.

Known as an “onion” service, users can access this version of Twitter if they download the Tor browser, which allows people to access sites on what is also referred to as the “dark web.” Instead of .com, onion sites have a 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 suffix. Regular websites, including Twitter.com, are also accessible on Tor, but the 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 versions are made specifically for Tor and prevent the site from being spoofed by malicious actors.

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Daily Mail U.K. on Twitter
Thursday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages
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The Guardian on Twitter
Guardian front page, Thursday 10 March 2022: 'An atrocity': Russia bombs Ukraine children's hospital
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The Sun on Twitter
Tomorrow's front page: Twisted Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine plunged sickening new depths when he bombed women and children at a maternity hospital https://thesun.co.uk/news/17895937/women-children-feared-dead-russian-maternity-hospital-mariupol-2
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NEXTA on Twitter
⚡️The most famous sniper "Wali" has arrived in #Ukraine to fight against occupiers
The average productivity of sniper is 7 men a day. On the front type like Ukrainian, productivity can reach up to 10. "Vali" can provide up to 40 deaths per day.
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MAR 9, 2022
Warning Update: Russia May Conduct a Chemical or Radiological False-Flag Attack as a Pretext for Greater Aggression against Ukraine | Institute for the Study of War (understandingwar.org)

Key takeaway: The Kremlin has set informational conditions to blame Ukraine for a Russian-conducted or Russian-fabricated chemical or radiological false-flag attack against civilians as a pretext for further Russian escalation. The Kremlin is likely still evaluating this course of action but is building out the necessary conditions to justify broader violence against civilians. That risk must be addressed. The United States and NATO must “pre-bunk” such Kremlin efforts, destroy in advance Moscow’s efforts to create informational cover for escalation, and deter Russia’s potential use of a chemical or radiological weapon.

Recent Russian state media narratives have built upon a long-running Kremlin information operation to falsely claim that Ukraine, the United States, and NATO are plotting a chemical or radiological attack on Russia or Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. Russia may conduct or fabricate such an attack and blame Ukraine and NATO to justify additional aggression against Ukraine.

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The United States and NATO must continue to orient around deterring and pre-bunking Russian false-flag attacks. The United States and its allies demonstrated the ability to pre-bunk and prevent Russian false-flag operations prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine but have less aggressively declassified and shared intelligence since the invasion began. The objective of earlier pre-bunking may have been to ensure that Western audiences did not believe Russian information operations to justify Russia’s invasion. That objective has been achieved. The United States and its allies should again aggressively leverage their superior intelligence to share information, this time to publicly reject Russian claims that Ukraine has any access to or intention to use chemical or radiological weapons. Such a Russian claim is less likely to gain traction in the current information environment, but aggressive US pre-bunking and deterrence efforts could still prevent Russian attempts to carry out a false-flag attack in the first place.
 
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Canadian sniper from famed regiment joins ranks of Ukraine’s foreign legion | The Independent
A veteran sniper with the Canadian Armed Forces has joined the ranks of a foreign legion in Ukraine, responding to president Volodymyr Zelenksky’s call for foreign fighters to combat the Russian assault.

The veteran identified as “Wali” entered Ukraine from Poland with a group of British and Canadian veterans last week, sheltering in a renovated home to join Ukraine forces and a growing battalion of volunteer citizen soldiers, according to the CBC.

Exclusive: So many Canadian fighters in Ukraine, they have their own battalion, source says | National Post
So many citizens of Canada have shown up in Ukraine to fight for the country’s new foreign legion, the organization has set up a separate Canadian battalion, says a Ukrainian government source.

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The 550 would-be fighters that have arrived from Canada so far are part of a battalion based in Kyiv, said the representative of the International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine, who asked not to be identified for security reasons.

“International legion volunteers are usually kept together for logistics purposes as it is easier for communication, to avoid language barriers,” he said.

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: strike on children’s hospital ‘ultimate evidence that genocide is happening’ – Zelenskiy | World news | The Guardian
12m ago 04:19

The terrifying moment two Ukrainian explosive disposal specialists defuse a Russian bomb with just their hands a bottle of water has gone viral after the footage was shared by Ukrainian media outlet NEXTA TV.

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“This Russia-dropped bomb would flatten a building — and yet these Ukraine EODs defuse it with 2 hands and a bottle of water, while shells audibly land nearby,” Lister said. “Mind boggling bravery.”

NEXTA on Twitter - Video
 
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Russian forces may use chemical weapons, says Ukraine’s envoy to OPCW - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
Ukraine’s permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Tuesday issued a shocking letter to the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), warning that Russian forces in occupied Donetsk might use chemical weapons as a pretext to advance their war machinery in Ukraine.

“According to the intelligence information from the temporarily occupied Donetsk, the occupiers are handing out gas masks to local militants and the Russian military. There is a possibility of provocation, such as blowing up industrial tanks with chemicals,“ wrote Maksym Kononenko, Ukraine's ambassador to the OPCW.

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Lables of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are seen inside a damaged house in the town of Douma, near Damascus, earlier this week - REUTERS

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The Russian embassy in Britain tweeted that "MFA spox #Zakharova: Recently found documents show that components of biological weapons were made in #Ukraine's laboratories, with funding from #US@DeptofDefense, in direct proximity to #Russia."

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The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been aligned with the Syrian regime in the civil war unfolding since 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic. Russia has played a key role in crushing opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, including aerial warfare targeting hospitals. The death toll is over 500,000 people and Assad's regime used chemical weapons numerous times to murder Syrians.

Putin has been accused of poisoning opponents of his regime with nerve agents.
 
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Anonymous latest news: cyber warfare could lead Russia to cut itself off from the internet | The Independent

''Recently, the “biggest Anonymous op ever seen” was claimed as Russian news channels like Russia 24, Channel One, and Moscow 24, including streaming sites, showed footage of Russia’s actions in Ukraine as the invasion entered the 12th day.

“The hacking collective #Anonymous hacked into the Russian streaming services Wink and Ivi (like Netflix) and live TV channels Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast war footage from Ukraine [today],” it announced on Twitter with video footage.

Peace talks between the two countries are ongoing between the two nations, but it remains unclear how long the bloodshed will last. Currently, these cyber groups have said that they stand with Ukraine against Russia’s powerful online forces - causing disruption to stop the country’s own attacks against Ukraine and the West''
 
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️United States calls Russian disinformation about U.S. biowarfare labs in Ukraine “laughable.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby dispelled on March 9 false claims by Russia that the U.S. is operating a biowarfare facility in Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
State Department spokesman Ned Price said also on March 9 that Russia “is inventing false pretexts in an attempt to justify its own horrific actions in Ukraine.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️US top general in Europe: anti-tank, anti-aircraft weapons more effective for Ukraine than MiG-29s.
Gen. Tod Wolters said Ukrainians were “making excellent use of these weapons now” and that adding more aircraft would have a marginal benefit and potentially escalate the war.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Rio Tinto PLC, the world’s second-largest miner by market value, to withdraw from Russia.
Rio Tinto, which is a purchaser of Russian fuel, among other products, stated on March 10 that it will be “terminating all commercial relationships with any Russian businesses.”
 
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Students plot man’s escape from Kyiv
World geography students at a Winnipeg high school put their mapping skills to good use by transforming a classroom into a command centre to help a man escape the war-torn capital of Ukraine.

Karen Robb, an educational assistant at Fort Richmond Collegiate, recently discovered her birth father, Gary Milani, has been living in eastern Europe for more than 20 years.

“The first actual time I heard his voice in my whole life, I had to compete with the sound of bombs and machine guns outside of his window,” Robb recalled, during a phone call Wednesday.

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“I was trying to think out of the box, what I could do, how I could help from where I was,” she said. “It dawned on me that students in the geography class (at Fort Richmond), who are a bunch of whiz kids with tech devices, might be able to help.”

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Zelenskyy Predicts Putin Will Negotiate: ‘I Think He Sees That We Are Strong’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually cease hostilities and enter negotiations after seeing invading Russian forces encounter fierce resistance from Ukrainians.

“I think he will. I think he sees that we are strong,” Zelenskyy told VICE News’ Ben Solomon and Adam Desiderio in an interview in Kyiv on Wednesday. “He will. We need some time.”

Zelenskyy Predicts Putin Will Negotiate: “I Think He Sees That We Are Strong”
 
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Exclusive: So many Canadian fighters in Ukraine, they have their own battalion, source says | National Post
''So many citizens of Canada have shown up in Ukraine to fight for the country’s new foreign legion, the organization has set up a separate Canadian battalion, says a Ukrainian government source.''
''The 550 would-be fighters that have arrived from Canada so far are part of a battalion based in Kyiv, said the representative of the International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine, who asked not to be identified for security reasons.

“International legion volunteers are usually kept together for logistics purposes as it is easier for communication, to avoid language barriers,” he said.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian-Canadian activist helping in the recruitment of fighters in this country said hundreds more have volunteered to fight in Ukraine.''
 
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By Alex Gatopoulos
Published On 9 Mar 20229 Mar 2022

''The war in Ukraine has highlighted two things to Russia and the outside world: that Russia’s much-vaunted military revolution has been exaggerated and that Ukraine’s resistance to the invasion is total.

Russia’s military capabilities have been built up in Western eyes, particularly after its modernisation programme in the wake of the 2008 Georgian conflict. New equipment was ordered and training focused on realism as Russia’s armed forces were put on a more professional footing. A new doctrine, designed to give the military greater flexibility in responding to a variety of scenarios, was also developed.''

''Despite having an air force many times the size of Ukraine’s, Russia was unable to dominate the skies in the way necessary to protect the smooth and speedy advance of its mechanised columns of armour on the ground. These units now faced Ukrainian air strikes as they pushed deeper into the country.''

This lack of coordination between Russian air and ground units left gaps in the defensive shield around advancing Russian armour, also allowing Ukrainian ground forces to successfully attack Russian armed helicopters, destroying many and depriving Russian army units of their protection and support.''

March 5 2022
(7) Analyst: Russia yet to bring full military force to Ukraine - YouTube
 
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PlayStation stopt met verzending van software en hardware in Rusland - NL Atsit

Suspension or cessation of product sales in Russia is fast becoming the norm for large companies, and PlayStation is the latest to join the pack. Following the lead of companies such as Nintendo, Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA and many others, Sony Interactive Entertainment is suspending shipments of PlayStation products in Russia.

The suspension includes the shipment of both hardware and software. That means Sony will no longer ship hardware like the PS5 and its accessories and software like physical game discs to the country for the time being. But it doesn't stop there.

Sony will also stop operating the PlayStation Store in Russia. Exclude consumers from purchasing digital versions of games. Nintendo took the exact same approach and put the eShop in Russia in maintenance mode. Due to the payment processing system that the eShop uses in the region, the processing of rubles is suspended.
 
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