Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION #3

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Ukraine live updates: US fears possible Russian concentration camps (usatoday.com)
"Russia continues the genocide of the Ukrainian people and civilians of Mariupol," the post said. "Every war criminal will answer for his crimes against humanity, against the people of Mariupol."

The council also claimed Russian soldiers have forced more than a thousand city residents to be relocated to Russia.

"The occupiers illegally took people out of the Levoberezhny district and a shelter in the building of a sports club where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) were hiding from constant bombing," the council said.''

''Ukrainian passports were taken from people who were given a piece of paper that "has no legal weight and is not recognized throughout the civilized world," the city council said. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that she could not confirm those reports but expressed concern about the prospect of Russian-organized "concentration and prisoner camps."

U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," said it is "unconscionable for Russia to force Ukrainian citizens into Russia and put them in what will basically be concentration and prisoner camps."

Russia-Ukraine updates: Moscow is talking about the final solution, like the Nazis, Zelenskyy tells Israeli lawmakers - Europe - Haaretz.com

 

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David Beckham's Instagram account taken over by perinatal doctor in Ukraine | World News | Sky News
''Key developments:
• Russia says it struck Ukraine with cruise missiles from ships in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea
• Some 56 people were killed after Russian troops opened fire on an old people's home in the city of Kreminna, Ukraine claims
• Ukraine's deputy prime minister tells Sky News she believes genocide is being committed against Ukrainian people
• Pope Francis has denounced Russia's "repugnant war" against Ukraine as "cruel and sacrilegious inhumanity"
• Ten million people have been displaced inside Ukraine or have fled abroad, the UN says''

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter

️ Workers of Chornobyl nuclear power plant evacuated.

64 people trapped at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, occupied by Russia, were released. 46 employees volunteered to take their place and traveled to the occupied facility.

 

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A new video from @ZelenskyyUa[/URL]

The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent
General Staff: Russia loses tank detachment in failed Kyiv assault. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian army’s 6th tank regiment has been destroyed on March 20.

 

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10.000 mensen bij anti-oorlogconcert Berlijn • Oekraïense vicepremier: Rusland pleegt genocide

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Pro-Russia protest in Lebanon
Russian women and Syrian workers have taken to the streets in the Lebanese capital Beirut for a pro-Russia protest. Protesters gathered at the United Nations building in downtown Beirut. Some carried Russian flags, others held pictures of President Putin in the air

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Zelensky wants Israel to take a stronger stance against Russia

Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in a video address. In it, he spoke out, among other things, about Israel's refusal to impose sanctions on Russia

The Ukrainian president also drew a comparison with the Second World War. According to him, the Kremlin is talking about a final solution for Ukraine in the same way that the Nazis talked about the "final solution" for the Jews in Germany.

"We can ask you why we are not getting weapons from you, why Israel has not imposed strong sanctions on Russia or pressured Russian companies," Zelensky said. "That choice is yours, but you have to live with the answer." According to him, Israel's air defense system is the best in the world and could protect Ukraine.

Until now, however, Israel has taken a mediating and neutral role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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Multi-City Anti-War Demonstrations
Today, people around the world have again taken to the streets to demonstrate against the war in Ukraine. Protests were held in Berlin, Naples and Madrid, among others.

An anti-war concert was held in Berlin at which about 10,000 people (very admirable....double feelings....we totally forgot about Covid, it seems, but yes this is important) were present, according to police. Among the performing musicians was Ukrainian Natalia Klitschko, who is married to the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko.

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Ukrainian deputy prime minister: Russia is committing genocide
Russia's acts of war in Ukraine amount to genocide, Ukraine's minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishina told Sky News . According to her, Russia has "committed almost every possible war crime". On Twitter she speaks of a "mass murder of the Ukrainian people".

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The Netherlands houses tens of billions in assets of sanctioned Russians

• More than 80 billion euros in assets are parked in the Netherlands that are related to Russian companies. This is reported by the Financieele Dagblad based on its own research. According to the newspaper, more than half of the assets can be linked to persons and organizations on the sanctions list of the European Union.
  
  Among them are the CEO of the popular social network VK in Russia and the chairman of the oil company Rosneft. The latter is also called "the Russian Darth Vader" and "grey cardinal of the Kremlin", because of his position of power in Russia. The companies of the two have stored several billion in assets in the Netherlands.
  
  The Netherlands has frozen 200 million euros in Russian money so far, Klaas Knot, director of De Nederlandsche Bank, said in Nieuwsuur last week . That money only concerned bank balances. Experts tell the FD that they suspect that most of the money of Russian oligarchs in the Netherlands is in shares.
  
  Most of the links with Russia here are through trust offices, which provide various financial services for companies, but are also often associated with letterbox companies. Trust offices have since been forced to stop providing financial services to Russian customers.

 

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US not optimistic about Ukraine talks as Zelenskiy ups pressure on Biden | Ukraine | The Guardian
March 20 2022
''Joe Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations warned on Sunday there was little immediate hope of a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine, as pressure continued to build on the US president ahead of a crucial Nato summit in Europe this week.''

''Linda Thomas-Greenfield was reacting on CNN’s State of the Union to an interview with Volodymr Zelenskiy in which the Ukrainian president told the same network only talks would end the war and its devastating toll on civilians.

“We have to use any format, any chance, to have the possibility of negotiating, of talking to [Russian president Vladimir] Putin,” Zelenskiy told Fareed Zakaria, the host of GPS. “If these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third world war.”

''Thomas-Greenfield said she saw little chance of a breakthrough.

“We have supported the negotiations that President Zelenskiy has attempted with the Russians, and I use the word attempted because the negotiations seem to be one-sided, and the Russians have not leaned in to any possibility for a negotiated and diplomatic solution,” she said.

“We tried before Russia decided to move forward in this brutal attack on Ukraine and those diplomatic efforts were not responded to well by the Russians, and they’re not responding now. But we’re still hopeful that the Ukrainian effort will end this brutal war.”

The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told NBC’s Meet the Press: “Turkey is doing some real effort to try to facilitate, support talks between Russia and Ukraine. It’s far too early to say whether these talks can lead to any concrete outcome.”

 

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How British ‘tank-busters’ are helping Ukraine halt Russian attack

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1505639872769449985
Russia has given Ukraine until 5am to surrender Mariupol, after which it says it'll let the 130,000 remaining civilians leave. The language it uses for Kyiv's forces – "nationalists," "foreign mercenaries," "bandits" – leaves little doubt about what Russia has in store for them.

 

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“Lay down your arms,” Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian National Center for Defense Management, said in a briefing distributed by the defence ministry.

“A terrible humanitarian catastrophe has developed,” Mizintsev said.

“All who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol.”

“The Mariupol authorities now have the opportunity to make a choice and go over to the side of the people, otherwise the military tribunal that awaits them is just a little that they deserve for their terrible crimes, which the Russian side is very carefully documenting,” he said.

Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow sets 5am deadline for surrender of Mariupol – live

 

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“After the inspection, some Mariupol residents were transported to Taganrog and from there sent by rail to various economically depressed cities in Russia.
“Our citizens have been issued papers that require them to be in a certain city. They have no right to leave it for at least two years with the obligation to work at the specified place of work. The fate of others remains unknown.”

Thousands of Mariupol residents have been forcibly deported to Russia, Ukrainian officials say

 

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Greek diplomat compares Mariupol to Aleppo and Stalingrad

A Greek diplomat who was caught in the Russian bombardment of Mariupol says the besieged city's devastation is like that of Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny and Aleppo.

Manolis Androulakis, Greece's Consul General in Mariupol, flew back to Athens on Tuesday after organising several successful evacuations of Greek nationals and ethnic Greeks.

He called on people to "unite their voices to ask for a truce, a ceasefire".

Androulakis has been hailed as a hero in Greece for staying in Mariupol during the bombardment. He said Mariupol will be remembered as a city "completely destroyed by the war".

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky describes the shelling of Mariupol as a war crime.

Androulakis said that "right now, civilians are hit blindly and helplessly" in the port city.

“In 24 hours, which made my efforts even harder, all the infrastructure was destroyed, everything was bombed, electricity, water, communications.”

Ukraine war latest: Our neighbours want us dead, Zelensky tells Israeli MPs - BBC News

 

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Amid new bombings, Ukraine now seen as a war of attrition

'What I saw, I hope no one will ever see' says Greek diplomat returning from

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Russia-Ukraine updates: Ukrainian forces in Mariupol given until 4 am to surrender

Mariupol, under heavy bombardment, buries its dead by roadside

A group of clowns are cheering up Ukrainian kids as they arrive in Moldova

UN peacekeeping force should be on the ground in Ukraine, says former Canadian ambassador

 

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Ukraine demands that Russian forces allow safe passage immediately.

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Ukraine rejects Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk responded to Russia by stating that surrender is not an option. The letter from Russia’s Defense Ministry said it would only establish a humanitarian corridor if Mariupol surrenders.

 

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Analysis: Ukraine invasion splits Orthodox Church, isolates Russian patriarch
Russian Orthodox members in Ukraine are being ignored by the Russian Orthodox church.

This B.C family worked for years to adopt a Ukrainian girl. Now she's trapped in a war zone | CBC Radio

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BREAKING: France just froze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. That's 24,340,000,000 dollars Putin no longer has available. How do you feel?

 

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Video footage shows a Ukrainian bomb disposal team casually removing a missile which crashed through the roof of a Ukrainian house. The massive rocket landed in a residential area of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, today.

Russian missile is found in Ukrainian kitchen by bomb disposal crew who give it a wiggle | Daily Mail Online

 

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The lonely funeral of a young soldier in Ukraine

 

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March 21 (Reuters) - There is an ammonia leak at a chemicals plant in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy besieged by Russian troops, Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said on Monday.

Zhyvytskyy did not say what had caused the leak reported at 04:30 local time (02:30 GMT) at the Sumykhimprom plant. He said the area within a five-kilometre radius around the plant was hazardous.
Ammonia leak reported at chemicals plant in Ukraine's besieged Sumy

 

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Saudi Arabia’s state oil company [Aramco] said it would increase spending on oil production to meet rising global demand, as it reported a doubling of profits in 2021.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been asked in recent days by western governments to pump more oil to end their reliance on supplies from Russia.

The Gulf countries are the only two leading oil producers that have immediate spare capacity able to offset the shortfall in Russian-produced energy.
However, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a recent report that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are so far “showing no willingness to tap into reserves”.

Aramco is just the latest of the world’s big oil companies to post soaring profits.

Saudi Aramco to increase oil production to meet global demand

 

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[URL='https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1505683840882331650']The Kyiv Independent on Twitter[/URL]
Ukraine rejects Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk responded to Russia by stating that surrender is not an option. The letter from Russia’s Defense Ministry said it would only establish a humanitarian corridor if Mariupol surrenders.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukraine demands that Russian forces allow safe passage immediately.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ammonia leaks from Sumy chemical plant. The governor of Sumy Oblast Dmytro Zhyvytsky said on March 21 that ammonia leaked from Sumykhimprom chemical plant at 4:30 a.m. local time as a result of Russian airstrike.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
The affected area is estimated to be around 2.5 km from the site, including the villages of Novoselytsya and Verkhnya Syrovatka. There’s no threat to Sumy residents.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
People within the affected area are recommended to take immediate shelter underground, go to their bathrooms and turn on their showers at a fine spray, and breathe through a damp bandage (preferably moistened with 5% acetic or citric acid solution) if ammonia is detected.

 

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Ukraine war: Russia's deadline passes with Ukraine refusing to lay down arms and surrender Mariupol | World News | Sky News
''Key developments:
• Thousands of Ukrainians from Mariupol have been "forcibly deported" to Russia, according to the city council
• Russia said it had launched a hypersonic missile attack on Ukraine for the second consecutive day on Sunday
• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Israeli parliament, calling for stronger action against Russia, and accusing Russia's president Vladimir Putin of trying to carry of a "final solution" against Ukraine - a term used by Nazi Germany for its genocide of six million Jews in the Second World War
• US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Mr Putin's ground forces are "essentially stalled", telling CBS that Ukrainian resistance "had the effect of him moving his forces into a woodchipper".
• About 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes, the UN has said
• Thousands of anti-war protesters have been arrested in Russia''