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

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Frankrijk hekelt Brits "gebrek aan menselijkheid" tegenover Oekraïense vluchtelingen

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, in a letter to his British counterpart Priti Patel, accused the UK of a "completely inappropriate response" and a "lack of humanity" towards the Ukrainian refugees held back in Calais.

Looking for their families across the Channel, about 150 Ukrainian refugees have been asked in recent days by British representatives to turn around and go to Paris or Brussels to apply for visas at consulates there, Minister Darmanin wrote on Saturday. In total, more than 400 Ukrainians have arrived in Calais since the start of the war in Ukraine, the letter said.

"It becomes imperative that, exceptionally and for the duration of the crisis, your consular representation is able to issue family reunification visas directly in Calais," said Minister Darmanin. "It would be incomprehensible that consular fortifications should be set up all over Europe for this purpose, even in Ukraine, and that the same could not be done at the closest to your border."

"Our coasts have already been the scene of too many human dramas," concluded the French interior minister, referring to the shipwreck that killed 27 migrants in November, "let's not add that of these Ukrainian families."

My advise: Refugees trying to get from Calais to UK has been a very difficult situation for years, so try also to see this in this context.
 
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https://twitter.com/ICRC_ua/status/1500491475125248006?t=Q9XbQiAr-f0EUgI6I66oEA&s=19

Right now, only one hospital is operational in Severodonetsk.

They’ve just got access to critically needed supplies.

This includes medical items, like dressing materials, disinfectants, and antibiotics.

Plus basic hygiene necessities, like soap, diapers and candles.

#Ukraine https://t.co/4kp7v6f9ud

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ICRC on Twitter
People are living in terror in Mariupol, desperate for safety.

Today’s attempt to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people has failed.

The failed attempts underscore the absence of a detailed and functioning agreement between parties to the conflict. #Ukraine

We are not and cannot be the guarantor of a ceasefire agreement between the parties or of its implementation.

As a neutral and impartial humanitarian intermediary, we've been facilitating dialogue between the parties on the safe passage of civilians.

Civilians need safety.

Parties need to agree not just in principle but also on the details of safe passages.

In particular:

*Specific time, locations and evacuation routes
*Who may be voluntarily evacuated
*Whether aid can be brought in, not just the evacuation of civilians out

Today, our team began opening up the evacuation route from Mariupol before hostilities resumed.

We remain in Mariupol and are ready to help facilitate further attempts – if the parties reach an agreement, which is for them alone to implement and respect.
 
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News Archive – The Kyiv Independent

Sunday, March 6

18:20 Ukrainian actor Pavlo Lee killed during fighting in Kyiv Oblast.
Lee, who joined the Territorial Defense unit, was killed near the town of Irpin near Kyiv, journalist Yaroslav Kuts said on Facebook on March 6.

17:25 Putin: Russia to stop war only if Ukraine surrenders, meets Russian demands.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to negotiate after “all known Russian demands are met.”

17:19 Putin says meeting with Ukraine, IAEA possible.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron that a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency devoted to Ukrainian nuclear facilities may take place outside Ukraine or as part of a video conference. Russia had shelled the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on March 4.

16:45 Donetsk Oblast Governor: Evacuation from Mariupol blocked by Russian shelling.
Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said evacuation from Mariupol was disrupted for the second time due to the continuation of Russian attacks on the city.

16:08 Russian troops shell nuclear research facility in Kharkiv.
The Kharkiv branch of Ukraine’s Security Service reported that Russia used Grad multiple rocket launchers to shell the Kharkiv Physics and Technology Institute.

15:40 Kuleba: 20,000 foreigners volunteer to fight Russia.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the foreigners from 52 countries have applied to join Ukraine’s military.

15:01 Prosecutors charge pro-Kremlin lawmaker with high treason.
Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova authorized charges against MP Illia Kyva, member of the pro-Kremlin Opposition Platform. He’s alleged of taking part in Russian war propaganda and illegal possession of firearms.

14:52 Zelensky: 8 rockets fired at Vinnytsia, airport destroyed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that a Russian airstrike destroyed a civilian airport in the regional capital Vinnytsia.

14:17 Thousands protest against Russian occupation in Kherson Oblast.
The March 6 rally in Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, featuring Ukrainian flags, follows similar pro-Ukrainian rallies in Kherson and other Ukrainian cities.

14:04 Over 1,000 people detained in Russia for protesting against war in Ukraine.
According to Russian human rights media project OVD-Info, the demonstrators have been detained in 35 cities.

13:47 Moody's downgrades Russia's credit rating close to default.
Rating agency Moody’s expects the Russian economy to shrink by 7% in 2022 and decline further in 2023.

13:39 Ombudsman: 38 children killed, 71 wounded in Russia's war.
The casualties include a one-and-a-half-year-old boy who died in a shelling by the Russian occupiers in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, according to Ukraine’s Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.

13:30 Zelensky says Russian people still have time to do the right thing, says Kremlin to soon bomb Odesa.
In his most recent video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “the citizens of Russia are right now choosing between freedom and slavery.” He added that Ukraine has maps and records, obtained from captured Russian soldiers. “They are planning to bomb Odesa,” he said.

13:16 NBC: US in talks with Poland to supply Ukraine with fighter jets.
The U.S. and Poland are working together to provide Polish Russian-made warplanes to Ukraine and replenish Poland with U.S.-made jets, according to NBC’s source in the White House.

12:03 Ministry of Digital Transformation launches TV service on state app.
The users of the government app Diia can now watch a joint marathon by Ukrainian TV channels covering Russia’s war on their smartphones. TV broadcasting in Ukraine has been interrupted due to Russian attacks on TV towers.

11:42 Media: Russian forces fire at civilians in Irpin, kill at least 3 civilians.
Russian troops deliberately targeted a bridge used by civilians to evacuate, according to media reports. At least 3 people were killed including 2 children. On March 5, three volunteers were shot and killed by Russian occupiers in this area.

11:25 EU's $547 million is the first tranche of the bloc's humanitarian help to Ukrainian refugees.
The sum will be used to cover the costs of states that have faced the mass influx of refugees from Ukraine.

10:54 Second attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol to start at 12 p.m.
According to Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, a temporary ceasefire in the area will take place from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. On March 5, Russian forces broke the ceasefire to provide evacuation despite an agreement with Ukraine.

10:36 Jamala says she raised 67 million euros for Ukraine at Eurovision selection in Germany.
The Ukrainian singer was a Eurovision winner in 2016. She raised the sum due to performing her winning song at the national Eurovision selection in Germany on March 4.

10:00 City council: Bucha in dire need of humanitarian corridor.
According to the local authorities in Bucha, a city outside of Kyiv that has been a hot spot, the Russian military shell residential buildings, cars, shoot at civilians and don’t spare children. There is also no access to water, heating, electricity, internet, and food, the city council says.

09:35 Eleventh day of Russia's war: over 11,000 Russian troops killed.
According to indicative estimates of Ukraine’s military, Russia also lost 285 tanks, 985 armored fighting vehicles, 109 artillery pieces, 50 MLRS, 21 anti-aircraft warfare, 44 planes, 48 helicopters, 447 cars, 2 speedboats, 60 fuel tanks, and 4 UAVs.
 
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MAR 6, 2022
Putin says Ukraine responsible for March 3 power plant incident - Kremlin | Reuters
LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused Ukrainian radicals for an incident on March 3 at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.

French President Emmanuel Macron asked Putin by telephone about a fire at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant.

"Vladimir Putin informed [Macron] about the provocation by Ukrainian radicals in the area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant," the Kremlin said. "The radiation levels are normal."

Putin also accused Ukraine of preventing civilians from leaving Mariupol.

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MAR 6, 2022
Knoxville man travels overseas to help out in Ukraine | WKRN News 2
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Russ Frazier has been a physician, the chief of Knox County Rescue and a part of the Knox County Swat team. With the many titles he’s had over the years, his wife, Kim Frazier, said it all has prepared him for this moment. He’s now in Ukraine providing patient care and medical training to the military and citizens.

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“Our teenage sons were so hopeful, and they said, ‘dad you have to do this,'” Kim said.

Within 12 hours, he was packed. His family said goodbye and are hoping he will be able to return home in two weeks.

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Russ is taking part in assisting a non-government organization known Global Surgical Medical Support Group (GSMSG). The non-profit dedicates time toward providing medical relief to communities in need.

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“If you have skills and talents and gifts, give them,” she said. “That’s really what my husband is all about. That’s just who he is, he’s just built that way, and that’s really one of the reasons I fell so deeply in love with him was because he had such a love for serving others.”
 
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Vladimir Putin hiding Alina Kabaeva, kids in Switzerland
“While Putin carries out his assault on the Ukraine, attacking innocent citizens and causing a refugee crisis, his family is holed up in a very private and very secure chalet somewhere in Switzerland – for now, at least,” a source told us.

Kabaeva, an Olympic gold-winning gymnast, reportedly has four children with the Russian leader, 69, but the two have never officially confirmed it.

Sources say they share 7-year-old twin daughters, who were born near Lugano, Switzerland, in February 2015. It is believed they also have two other sons.

“Alina has two young boys and twin girls with Putin who were born in Switzerland,” a source told Page Six about Putin’s alleged children with Kabaeva, 38. “The kids all have Swiss passports, and I imagine she does also.”
 
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[URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/06/russia-ukraine-war-biden-and-zelenskiy-discuss-more-support-for-ukraine-as-visa-mastercard-pull-out-of-russia-live']Russia-Ukraine war: Mariupol evacuation halted for second day; Vinnytsia regional airport completely destroyed – live | World news | The Guardian[/URL]
1h ago 10:47

Ukrainian engineers were scrambled to repair a gas pipeline damaged by Russian forces, halting supplies to parts of south-eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.

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Kyrylenko said that every location between the town of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region and the port of Berdyansk would be left without gas while the damage was repaired. The distance between the two towns is 117 km (73 miles).

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1h ago 10:55

British MPs are urging major banks to shut their Moscow offices, after campaigners accused them of “quietly profiting” off their Russian operations while other industries sever ties with the country.

Some of the City’s largest lenders including JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Credit Suisse collectively employ thousands of staff who offer banking services to large companies and wealthy clients doing business in Russia.

While banks have had to drop services for Russian businesses and oligarchs in line with EU, US and UK sanctions, MPs said lenders had a moral duty to exit the country to put further financial pressure on Moscow as the Russian military continues to assault Ukraine.

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1h ago 11:04

Ukraine’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said he had signed a formal request to foreign governments, including the United States, for termination of Russia and Belarus’s memberships of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

“These two countries violated their obligations and directed their policies towards war,” he said in a statement.

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Russia preparing to shell its own cities to accuse Ukraine and declare general mobilization

Russian authorities may decide to implement a scenario, in which they will shell residential areas in the Russian cities located near the border with Ukraine to accuse the Ukrainian military.
The relevant statement was made by the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“According to the Kremlin leadership’s plan, this will be used as a basis for declaring general mobilization in Russia. Considering the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine, provocations in Russian cities will be accompanied by numerous casualties among civilians to create a ‘nice’ picture,” the report states.

Similar scenarios were used by Russia as a pretext for hostilities in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Abkhazia.

A reminder that the Kremlin is planning to involve the forcibly mobilized residents of the certain areas of Donetsk Region and Luhansk Region (CADLR) in provocations in southern Ukraine.
 
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Russia-Ukraine war: Mariupol evacuation halted for second day; Vinnytsia regional airport completely destroyed – live | World news | The Guardian

1h ago 11:06

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A resident passing a house on fire after heavy shelling on the only escape route used by locals to leave the town of Irpin, while Russian troops advance towards the capital Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

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An Ukrainian serviceman looks through binoculars towards the town of Stoyanka at a checkpoint before the last bridge on the road that connects Stoyanka with Kyiv Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Demonstrators hold placard and flags during a demonstration in support of Ukraine in Parliament Square, in London Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/AP

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A woman fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine warms her hands at a fireplace after crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland, at the border checkpoint in Medyka Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
 
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Russia-Ukraine war: Mariupol evacuation halted for second day; Vinnytsia regional airport completely destroyed – live | World news | The Guardian
1h ago 11:06

Anastasia Lapatina, a journalist at the Kyiv Independent, tells how Polish people are hosting Ukrainians in their apartments, driving them to places, or simply giving them money to cover basic needs.

When I hopped on a train from Krakow to Przemyśl, a small Polish town near the Ukrainian border, I expected to be confronted with a humanitarian catastrophe, produced by a million people fleeing their homes due to war. But what I saw was instead the best of humanity.

As Russia has launched a bloody full-scale war against my country, thousands of Ukrainians have escaped by train to this railway station.

There, they are met by an enormous banner in front of its entrance that reads, in both Polish and Ukrainian: “You are safe here.”

Inside, dozens of Polish volunteers provide Ukrainian refugees with “everything for free”, as another sign says – food, water, clothes, phones with prepaid plans, accommodation, legal advice.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Mariupol evacuation halted for second day; Vinnytsia regional airport completely destroyed – live | World news | The Guardian
32m ago 11:52

Ukrainians fleeing the town of Irpin just outside Kyiv were caught in shelling by Russian forces on Sunday and forced to dive for cover, Reuters witnesses said.

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Civilians evacuate during a Russian attacks on the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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Irpin residents scurried along pavements clutching children, luggage and pets as they made their way to waiting buses and cars that would take them further from the clashes.

Soldiers and fellow residents helped elderly men and women who were falling behind. Some people crouched down when explosions went off nearby, apparently from mortar rounds.

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A blast hit just a few metres away during a civilian evacuation in Irpin, Ukraine Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Reuters reporters said they did not witness casualties in the shelling, but several news outlets said that at least three people – a woman and two children – were killed.

The New York Times published a photograph of four members of a family – a mother, father and two children – lying on the ground in Irpin.

The caption said they were trying to flee when a mortar struck, and that the father, being tended to by Ukrainian soldiers in the image, was the only one still with a pulse.
 
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Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg following the Extraordinary meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Natalia Drozdiak (Bloomberg): Thank you for the question. You mentioned the risk for Bosnia and Georgia. Are you seeing any concrete threat of invasion there? And what about Moldova, is there any increased risk in Moldova? Thank you.

NATO Secretary General: All these are different countries, and of course they face different types of risks and challenges. But they have in common that we have seen Russia trying to exercise their power to intimidate them partly by subversion and interference in the domestic political processes or by military invasion. Georgia has been invaded by Russia and Russian troops still in reality control parts of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In Moldova and Transnistria, which is part of Moldova, there are Russian troops without the consent of the government in Moldova. And then, in Bosnia-Herzegovina we see a very fragile, unstable situation with inflammatory rhetoric and serious challenges to the unity of that state. So even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, these countries faced serious challenges partly inflicted by or caused by Russia, but the risk has increased. And therefore, we need to step up our support and we need a serious discussion, as NATO, on what we could do to strengthen them in the face of Russian threats.
 
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More than 4,300 detained at anti-war protests in Russia
LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Police detained more than 4,300 people on Sunday at Russia-wide protests against President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, according to an independent protest monitoring group.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will fly on Monday to the Latvian capital of Riga for talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Yair Lapid to meet Blinken for Ukraine talks in Latvia - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will fly on Monday to the Latvian capital of Riga for talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The two will discuss two topics: the development of the deal with Iran and the war in Ukraine.
 
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