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

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Kadyrovites seize psychiatric hospital with 100 bedridden patients

Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksiy Kuleba reported that Kadyrovites (the Chechen paramilitary group supporting the Russian Armed Forces) have seized a psychoneurological hospital which houses more than 600 patients.

Source: press service of the Kyiv Region State Administration

Quote: "We have received information from Borodyanka that today a unit of Russia-backing Kadyrovites entered a psychoneurological hospital there.

"They set mines at all entrances to the hospital and are now firing artillery from inside at the Ukrainian army’s positions.

"According to the preliminary data, there are currently over 500 patients in the hospital, almost 100 of them are bedridden. All of them, as well as the hospital staff, are held hostage by the inhumane captors."

Details: Kuleba later clarified that there are 670 people in the hospital. Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently trying to receive more information in order to understand how to free the people.

Kuleba added that in the last few days the hospital became a shelter for the local residents.

Kadyrovtsy - Wikipedia (Kadyrovites in English)
 
  • #42
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter:
⚡️Cyprus forbids 5 Russian navy ships from mooring and refueling in Limassol.
Cyprus banned Russian ships from its port following EU sanctions over Russia’s war, Philenews reported.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Third round of Ukraine-Russia talks to be held on March 7.
Member of the Ukrainian delegation, lawmaker David Arakhamia, announced the date in a Facebook post.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Payoneer, Paypal, Adobe suspend operations in Russia.
The three companies have joined the growing list of international brands that refuse to do business in Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Russia announces resuming fighting in Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Earlier today temporary ceasefire was supposed to take place to create humanitarian corridors and allow civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha, but Russian troops’ shelling halted the evacuation.
 
  • #43
MAR 5, 2022
Kyrgyz TV Head To Remain In Pretrial Detention Over Report On Ukraine War (rferl.org)
The Kyrgyz authorities have ordered pretrial detention for the director of the NEXT television channel over the airing of a controversial report in which an interviewee alleged the existence of an agreement between Bishkek and Moscow to send troops to Ukraine.

A Bishkek court ruled on March 5 that Taalai Duishembiev must remain in detention until at least May 3.

Duishembiev's lawyer, Timur Sultanov, vowed to appeal the ruling.

On March 3, the State Committee for National Security (UKMK) said it had launched a probe against the TV channel for inciting ethnic hatred.

The report in question quoted the exiled former chief of the Committee for National Security (KNB) of neighboring Kazakhstan, Alnur Musaev, as saying that Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan had agreed to support Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by sending troops to help Russia.

[...]
 
  • #44
Feb 2020
Putin denies conspiracy theory that he uses body double | Vladimir Putin News | Al Jazeera
''One of the more elaborate theories compares photographs of Putin over the years, claiming to have identified a number of different individuals posing as him.''

''Asked “Are you real?” by the interviewer, Putin replied, “Yes,” before going on to deny that he uses a lookalike for public appearances for his own safety.
But he said he had been offered the opportunity.

“I declined these body doubles. This (the offer) was during the most difficult periods of the fight against terrorism,” Putin said, adding that he was referring to the beginning of the 2000s.''

2015
Vladimir Putin's face has changed dramatically through the years | Daily Mail Online
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March 1, 2022
I get paid to be a Vladimir Putin impersonator – but now I fear for my life (nypost.com)
''When asked what he would say to Putin should he meet his dopplegänger face to face, Sobola said: “I would ask him to look at me and think how you can have the same face but perceive the world differently.”

2015
The very scary reality behind the silly rumors of Putin’s death - Vox
''Rumors that Putin is ill or injured arise with some regularity. "These sort of rumors happen all the time," Thoburn told me. "Is Putin sick? Is he this, is he that? Did he have plastic surgery?"
In 2012, Putin canceled and postponed foreign trips for more than a month. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said Putin had suffered a spinal injury during a judo bout, and there were rumors that he was seriously injured.''

''The rumors may not be true, but that does not mean they are irrelevant. They speak to Russians' nervousness about what would happen if Putin really were to become incapacitated. Because power is so centralized around him, there is no fallback plan for what would happen if he really were to suddenly become unable to rule. A system of government that rests on the health of a single man is very fragile, and that fragility — that weakness — is frightening.''
 
  • #45
From Grozny to Aleppo to Ukraine, Russia meets resistance with more firepower

By Jeremy Bowen
BBC News, Kyiv

As I write this, the centre of Kyiv and much of its suburbs are largely untouched. Sirens and alerts punctuate the day.

Everyone here knows that could change, very quickly. By the time you read this, it might have.

Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, has already felt some of the force of the Russian way of war. So have Mariupol and other cities in the east.

Russia answers resistance with firepower. Rather than send in men to fight from house to house and room to room, their military doctrine calls for a bombardment by heavy weapons and from the air to destroy their enemies.

Kharkiv and the other cities and towns have suffered grievous damage, and as far as we know many civilian casualties. The seat of Kharkiv's local government was badly damaged in a missile strike that was filmed. Russian President Vladimir Putin might be sending a message to Kyiv - look to the east, because this could happen to you.

(...)

Before the invasion of Ukraine, military analysts assessed that Russia's forces were now much more professional. Perhaps they are, but Russia's invasion has once again been slowed by logistical bottlenecks, tactical mistakes and terrified teenagers who had not been told they were going to war - as well as resistance as fierce as anything the Chechens offered in 1995.

(...)

In Chechnya, Russia's answer was to use its firepower. In a few weeks, artillery and air strikes reduced the centre of Grozny, a typical concrete and steel Soviet city, to rubble. I was in Minutka Square, a centre of Chechen resistance, on a day when it was hit by repeated air strikes. Civilians were mostly in cellars, risking death every time they went out to find water or food.

(...)

The most devastated places I have seen in years of war reporting, apart from Grozny, were in Syria. The connection is the destructive power of the Russian military.

Mr Putin's decision to intervene in Syria saved the regime of Bashar al-Assad and took a big step towards his objective of restoring Russia as a world power. Two decisive victories over rebels in Syria, vitally important for the regime, were delivered by the ruthless use of Russian firepower.

(...)

The tactic used in Syria was to encircle and besiege rebel-held areas, pound them from the air and from artillery batteries, and in the end exhaust the defenders and any civilians who had not managed to escape. Many of them were killed.

(...)

In Kyiv, one of the big questions on everybody's minds is whether they are going to get the treatment meted out not only to Kharkiv, Mariupol and the rest, but also to Chechnya and Syria.

Will the sanctity of Orthodox shrines create the restraint that was absent in attacks on Muslims in Chechnya and Syria? Putin himself has written about Ukraine's significance in Russia's history. Will he be prepared to destroy Ukraine to regain it? If sanctions and Ukrainian resistance threaten his regime's stability, will he take more extreme measures?

The record shows that the Russian military compensates for weaknesses in the capabilities of its ground forces by turning to the big guns. Ukrainians are praying that will not happen here.
 
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American basketball star Brittney Griner detained in Russia on drug charges, faces up to 10 years in prison

Russia demands that Baltic countries protect its embassies
Moscow demanded on Saturday that authorities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania take measures to protect Russia's embassies after a Russian diplomat was attacked in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, the Russian RIA news agency said.

Ukraine humanitarian ceasefire with Russia not holding: LIVE UPDATES
US asks all Americans to leave Russia immediately

The State Department Saturday issued new guidance to Americans in Russia, urging them to leave "immediately."

The new guidance is a step-up from Wednesday's guidance that Americans in the country should "consider" leaving.

The U.S. embassy in Moscow also announced Ambassador Sullivan will host a virtual town hall for Americans in Russia this Wednesday.
 
  • #48
Russian plane due to land in D.C. soon to pick up expelled ‘spies’

The plane, an Ilyushin Il-96, left Moscow en route to St. Petersburg on Friday night and is now on its way to Dulles airport outside Washington, where it’s scheduled to land just before 2 p.m. eastern time.

“The U.S. government approved a flight chartered by the Russian government to facilitate the departure of Russian UN Mission personnel who were expelled for abuse of their privileges of residence,” said a State Department spokesperson. “This special exception was done in accordance with federal regulations to ensure Russian mission personnel and their families departed by the date we had instructed.”

RSD88 Special Flight Detachment Rossiya Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware
 
  • #49
A prototype spy plane is tracking Russian force movements for the US Army - Breaking Defense

Flight data shows that ARTEMIS tends to make the same flight path every day, first taking off from Romania and flying through Slovakia and Hungary, where it can get a quick glimpse of Ukraine. From there, it moves along Poland’s eastern and northern borders — a route that allows ARTEMIS to project its sensors into Belarus, where Russia has staged troops, as well as Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.
 
  • #50
Ukrainians defy Putin’s hopes of swift victory as 66,000 return from overseas to fight

(...)

Ten days after Vladimir Putin’s invasion, Ukraine continues to fight back. The country’s armed forces claimed to have shot down two Russian warplanes on Saturday, with a second fighter downed in the south of the country. It was on a reconnaissance mission when it crashed. Its two pilots survived and were interrogated in a muddy field.

The crew on board a Russian military helicopter were less fortunate. Video shows a missile hitting the transport. It crashes seconds later in a ball of fire. Meanwhile, in the Kharkiv region Ukrainian troops staged a counterattack, seizing Russian weapons and armoured vehicles. These were immediately redeployed in the existential fight against Moscow.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Putin’s war plan assumed a quick and decisive victory over Ukraine’s inferior army. Tanks would roll in from the north and Belarus, as well as the south and Crimea. They would crush any resistance. Meanwhile, paratroopers would secure strategic aerodromes before dropping into Kyiv and decapitating its government, the crowning moment in what Putin called a “special operation”.

Most Ukrainians would adjust to these new realities, it was thought. A pro-Russian puppet government would be installed. Those who continued to resist would face condign punishment – imprisonment, arrest and execution.

(...)

“The Ukrainians still have a significant majority of their air combat power available to them, both fixed-wing and rotary wing as well as unmanned systems and surface-to-air systems,” a US official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

With its land invasion apparently stalled, and with little progress made in the advance of a Russian super-column towards Kyiv, Moscow is increasingly turning to indiscriminate shelling and bombing of civilians. The objective, Kyiv believes, is to spread panic and terror.

(...)

“Russia has a 20th-century army. Ukraine is using 21st-century weapons,” Olena Chebeluik, a historian in Lviv, said. She added: “We are fighting in small mobile groups. Our fighters can hide. They know the territory. Locals support them.”

(...)
 
  • #51
Live updates: Ukraine: Next talks with Russia on Monday
The next round of talks between Ukraine and Russia will be held on Monday, Ukrainian official Davyd Arakhamia said Saturday.

Monday’s will be the third round of talks as the two sides try to negotiate a cease-fire and safe passage corridors for civilians.

Airline software giant ends distribution service for Russia's Aeroflot (cnbc.com)
Also, SABRE, a company that handles the majority of airline ticket sales all over the world has cancelled their activities in Russia, further hampering commercial airline travel within Russia.
 
  • #52
Live updates: Ukraine: Next talks with Russia on Monday

Russian forces have now seized two Ukrainian nuclear power plants and are advancing toward a third, Ukraine’s president said during a call with U.S. senators Saturday.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the third plant currently under threat is the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant, located 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Mykolaiv, one of several cities the Russians were trying to keep encircled Saturday.

One of the plants under the Russians’ control is the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe.

The other is Chernobyl, which is not active but is still staffed and maintained.

Previous Russian shelling sparked a fire at the Zaporizhzhia plant that was extinguished without a release of radiation.
 
  • #53
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - Video, 33 minutes ago
A video from the control room of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amid Russia’s fire towards the facility. “Immediately stop fire. You are you endanger the security of the whole world,” the control room says trough loud speakers. Video: Energoatom.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 27 minutes ago
As of March 5, the nuclear power plant is under control of Energoatom.
 
  • #54
55m ago 13:29
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Ukraine calls for more Nato help in meeting with US; western sanctions akin to declaration of war, says Putin – live | World news | The Guardian

Interim summary
[...]

Here’s where things stand this hour:
  • Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has demanded a new round of sanctions on Russia, reports Reuters. He has been discussing the situation with US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who is in eastern Europe.
  • The International Monetary Fund has announced it could approve $1.4 billion emergency funding as early as next week as the body warns of war’s ‘severe impact’ on the global economy.
  • The United Nations recorded 351 civilians killed and 707 injured just on Friday in Ukraine, according to the UN high commissioner for human rights, as reported by BuzzFeed.
  • Russia and Ukraine plan another round of talks on Monday, even though previous talks that produced an agreement to a limited ceasefire in order to protect corridors for civilian have not been honoured by Russia.
  • The US government has warned American citizens living or travelling in Russia to “depart immediately”, in new guidelines, published today, by the US state department.
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy reportedly made a “desperate plea” for eastern Europe to provide Russian-made aircraft to Ukraine. In a call with US senators, he is also understood to have called for a no-fly zone, lethal aid, a ban on Russian oil and a suspension of Visa and Mastercard in Russia.
 
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Pence condemns Republican Putin 'apologists' in speech to RNC donors - CNNPolitics
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday condemned Republican "apologists" who have used positive language to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his invasion of Ukraine, according to a source who was in the room as Pence spoke to top GOP donors.

"There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom," Pence said. ...

[...]

According to his prepared remarks, which the source said he did not deviate from Friday, Pence called on the Biden administration to take stronger actions against Russia, including sanctions on the country's oil exports.

"Putin only understands strength. As members of the party that won the Cold War, we must send a deafening message: Putin must stop or Putin must pay," Pence said.

[...]
 
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"Mikhail Igorevich Poluboyarinov
(Russian: Михаил Игоревич Полубояринов; born April 2, 1966) is a Russian businessman, who was CEO of Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, since 20 November 2020 until 4 March 2022 when he abruptly resigned and fled Russia."

Mikhail Poluboyarinov - Wikipedia
 
  • #59
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Ukraine calls for more Nato help in meeting with US; western sanctions akin to declaration of war, says Putin – live | World news | The Guardian
8m ago 19:34

Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, was in the city of Rzeszow in Poland earlier today, just prior to meeting the Ukraininan foreign minister at the border between Ukraine and Poland.

[...]

The Associated Press reports:

The Nato alliance pledged to step up support for eastern flank members such as Poland to counter the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month.

Poland is seeking more U.S. forces on its territory, where there are currently more than 10,000 American troops.

Rau said Poland had already taken in more than 700,000 refugees from Ukraine and that he expected hundreds of thousands more in the coming weeks unless Russia backs down.

“Poland will never recognize territorial changes brought about by unprovoked, unlawful aggression,” he said, adding that his country will demand that alleged Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine will be prosecuted.

Morawiecki and Blinken discussed stepping up sanctions and freezes of assets on Russia, which Morawiecki said should be “crushing” for Russia’s economy.

No Russian banks should be exempted from the exclusions from the SWIFT (international bank communications) system, he said. Currently, all but the largest Russian banks have been kicked off the financial messaging service.
 
  • #60
[URL='https://kyivindependent.com/news-archive/']News Archive – The Kyiv Independent[/URL]

Armed Forces: Wagner Group camps in Rostov-on-Don, near Ukrainian border.
According to Ukraine’s military, the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group has set up a base in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, from which they are recruiting mercenaries to fight against Ukraine.

Генеральний штаб ЗСУ / General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine | Facebook
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Operational information as of 18.00 05.03.2022 regarding #Rosísʹkogo_втор гн ненняе /
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Operational information on 18.00, 05.03.2022 concerning the #russian_invasion (ENG below)

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During the tenth day of the Ukrainian people’s heroic resistance with the russian military invasion, the invaders, failing to achieve the goal of an offensive operation in a timely manner, continue to launch missile and bomb strikes, including using bomber aircraft on civilian infrastructure.

So, today the enemy struck at Bila Tserkva, more than 20 houses were damaged. In Irpen, the bombing damaged a railway track and disrupted a train used to evacuate civilians.

According to the available information, with the beginning of the armed aggression against Ukraine, the activities of russian private military campaigns (PMC) to recruit personnel who have experience of military service in special forces and have appropriate training have intensified. So, in Rostov-on-Don the headquarters of PMC Wagner is developed.

[...]

Also 2 planes of the Russian occupiers were shot down, 3 pilots were taken prisoner, 1 - was destroyed. 5 helicopters and 1 enemy UAV were shot down.

[...]

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Ukraine to Rostov-on-Don Russia - Google Maps
 
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