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

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@olgatokariuk
Maks Levin, one of the best Ukrainian photographers, who documented Russia's war against Ukraine since 2014, has been missing since March 13. In the morning of that day, he was working in Vyshgorod district north from Kyiv. That area is currently under Russian occupation

Maks is yet another Ukrainian journalist who went missing in the last days. Victoria Roschina, my former colleague from @HromadskeUA
(Maks worked there too), has been missing since March 12. She was working in southern Ukraine, Zaporizhia and Mykolayiv regions

 

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Russian troops 'raping women and slaughtering families hiding in basements' in horror Ukraine invasion, claims survivor (thesun.co.uk)
''Anastasia said Russian troops have been storming basements and shooting terrified families as fierce fighting continues in Irpin.
The former waitress, who has lived in the Kyiv suburb for four years, said: "Irpin is hell. There are plenty of Russian soldiers out there who just shoot people who enter private homes and, at best, just kick people out of their homes.
"They rape women and the dead are just being dumped. They open the basements where people are hiding and shoot them."

Ukraine MP claims women over 60 are being 'raped and hanged' by Putin's troops | Daily Mail Online
''Russian forces are raping and hanging women who are unable to escape their savage invasion, Ukrainian MPs have claimed.
Lesia Vasylenko, an MP for Ukraine 's opposition Holos party, said some women over 60 had committed suicide after being accused by Putin's forces to stop the horrific attacks.
Other vulnerable women were unable to escape the invading troops in Kyiv and its suburbs of Bucha and Irpin and have been subjected to the barbaric sex assaults, she said.''
''The MP, who visited the House of Commons with fellow MPs Olena Khomenko, Maria Mezentseva and Alona Shkrum, told journalists Putin had 'changed his strategy to target the most vulnerable groups of women and children'.''

Ukraine MPs say Russian troops are raping and hanging women over 60 in tide of violence - Mirror Online
''The vulnerable groups of women are said to have been targeted around around the vicinities of Kyiv, in Bucha and Irpin.
Ms Vasylenko said: "It's a tragedy that no one has found ways to help the victims.
"They do not have the strength or the capacity to come forward".

 

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Ukraine war: Russian troops have supplies for 'no more than three days' | Daily Mail Online

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 10 min ago
State Emergency Service: Russians shell children’s hospital in Severdonetsk, Luhansk Oblast. The hospital's roof caught fire. Seven children and 15 adults were evacuated, the State Emergency Service reported on March 22.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Russian occupier handed in the tank for reward, Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Victor Andrusiv reports. He was paid $ 10,000 and given a chance to apply for Ukrainian nationality after the war. https://facebook.com/victor.andrusiv/posts/10159897910679146

NEXTA on Twitter
For some reason, #Russian ideologues think it's okay to use children in actions in support of "special operation" The original published pictures show the children's faces

 

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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1506256136504184834?t=VKN2Rg8afnaEE8X-A0we7A&s=19

️It is reported that the #Russian occupiers in #Bucha, #Irpen, and #Gostomel are cut off from supplies and surrounded.

*Surrounded is excellent, too.

 

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Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages | The Star
''KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and pressed their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol.

Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north. Intensified artillery fire could be heard from the northwest, where Russia has sought to encircle and capture several suburban areas of the capital, a crucial target.''

''Facing unexpectedly stiff resistance, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces are increasingly concentrating their air power and artillery on Ukraine’s cities and the civilians living there. A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the military’s assessment, said Russia had increased its air sorties, carrying out as many as 300 over a 24-hour period.''

''U.S. and British officials say Kyiv remains Russia’s primary objective. The bulk of Moscow’s forces remain miles from the center, but missiles and artillery have destroyed apartment buildings and a large shopping mall, which was left a smoking ruin after being hit late Sunday by strikes that killed eight people, according to emergency officials.

U.S. President Joe Biden, who is heading to Europe later in the week to meet with allies, suggested Monday evening that worse may be still to come.

“Putin’s back is against the wall,” Biden said''

 

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How Similar Are Russian And Ukrainian?

The legacy of the USSR’s occupation of Ukraine means many Ukrainians speak Russian as a second language (and almost all have some knowledge), whereas comparatively few Russians speak Ukrainian. While there might be a certain amount of mutual intelligibility, knowing one of the languages is not enough to be able to speak the other.

 

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2020
‘A very capable spy’: Book reveals how RCMP caught KGB agent posing as Canadian - National | Globalnews.ca

''On Jan. 30, 1961, acting on information uncovered by the RCMP, Britain’s MI-5 security service examined the penis of a man who purported to be a Canadian named Gordon Lonsdale and confirmed he was a KGB spy.

''Stealing the identities of Canadians is a common Russian spy stunt, but choosing Molody to double as Lonsdale was a fatal oversight by the KGB, and one the RCMP helped expose.''

''MI-5 soon focused on Harry Houghton, a former British naval attaché in Warsaw who fit the profile supplied by Sniper. While under surveillance, Houghton met in London with a man MI-5 identified as a Canadian jukebox salesman, Gordon Lonsdale.''

''But MI-5 needed “irrefutable evidence” that the man who said he was Lonsdale was an imposter, Barnes said.

So the RCMP kept at it, and on Jan. 16, 1961, they reported to MI-5 they had found something: Lonsdale’s father in northern Ontario had given a statement, and he was adamant his son had been circumcised.''
“And so they had a pretty immediate and very confidential medical exam of certain private parts of Lonsdale,” Barnes said. He was not circumcised. “So that was a crucial bit of information for MI-5 because they knew that this man was not who he pretended to be.”

''The other two members of the spy ring posing as Canadians, Lona and Morris Cohen, had long been sought by the FBI. Lona Cohen had been a KGB courier, sent to Canada to collect documents and, on one occasion, a uranium sample, from the atomic research centre at Chalk River.''

''In 1996, CSIS caught a pair of Russian spies who were living in Toronto as a married couple, Ian and Laurie Lambert. They were using the identities of two Canadians who died as infants.''

''Another Russian illegal was arrested in 2006 in Montreal, where he was living as Paul William Hampel. Again in 2010, two Russian spies using the names of dead Canadian children, Ann Foley and Don Heathfield, were caught by the FBI.''

 

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Our journalist Victoria Roshchyna was released from Russian captivity. Now she is on her way to her hometown, Zaporizhzhia. She was captured on March 15 in the occupied Berdyansk



https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1506284764185124868

 

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March 22, 2022
updated 2 mins ago

Canadian sniper ‘Wali’ alive in Ukraine — he was ‘last to learn of his own death’ | The Star
''Reports of a famed Canadian sniper’s demise at the hand of Russian forces in Ukraine have proved premature.

A man known as “Wali” and dubbed by some online news sites as the “deadliest sniper in the world” spoke with the Star in a video interview Tuesday morning in which he said he was “the last to learn of his own death.”

The 40-year-old Quebec soldier, who asked that his real name not be used, left in early March to join Ukrainian forces on the front lines. He said Russians fired at him for three days, but that he had returned from his first mission near Kyiv unscathed, despite at least one close call.

“I was in this amazing apartment — it would look the same in Toronto downtown, an espresso machine and nice TV,” he said. “I was standing in the kitchen and I saw the huge fireball. And glass went everywhere.”

For now, he says he’s safe — aside from the cough plaguing several front-line fighters, he says, though it’s not clear if it’s COVID-19 or something else — and back away from the front lines. He said he learned of online rumours of his own death when he turned on his phone to find social-media speculation about him and messages from friends, worried about his fate.''

 

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У полон потрапив російський підполковник: на ньому були труси та шкарпетки ЗСУ. https://t.co/rglXAdNDZR

A Russian Lieutenant Colonel was taken prisoner. He was wearing underpants and socks issued to Ukraine Armed Forces.
https://twitter.com/ArmedForcesUkr/status/1506190971679162369?t=FfGnhv3YmOkVdnemep_2Uw&s=19

Як правильно та швидко накладати компресійний травмобандаж показує наш медик Олександр Корнійчук.
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Video at link. A doctor showing how to apply compression bandages quickly and correctly.

https://twitter.com/ArmedForcesUkr/status/1506303362635083783?t=KyETdpd2UoY1LE3UIN9LIg&s=19

 

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https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1506313245669396481?t=cuGlF4h9Xm0AorcG3WxwMg&s=19

Today Russian occupiers captured evacuation column near Mariupol

"This humanit.corridor was agreed upon, and now people are being held hostage. It is reported the equipment will be taken, and people may or may not be allowed."–Reintegr.Minister for UA TV Під Маріуполем окупанти захопили евакуаційну колону – Верещук

 

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US, Ukraine quietly try to pierce Putin's propaganda bubble

China calls on its own companies to invest in Russia

The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent 4h
Ukrainian forces shoot down Russian plane bombing the city. The plane was taken down by Ukrainian military at 4:45 p.m. on March 22, Mariupol City Council reports.

 

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Russian forces are now inside the besieged southern city of Mariupol, a senior US defence official said. Two “super-powerful bombs” rocked Mariupol on Tuesday even as rescue efforts were ongoing, local authorities said.

More than 200,000 people are trapped in the city, where the situation has been described as a “freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed buildings”, Human Rights Watch said.

Russia-Ukraine war: Russian forces now ‘inside Mariupol’– live

 

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Russia plans to unleash a “great terror” on the southern occupied city of Kherson by kidnapping residents and taking them across the Russian border, an FSB whistleblower has claimed

A letter, thought to have been written by a member of Russia’s domestic security service and dated from Monday, said the Kremlin was no longer willing to “play nicely” with protesters in the Ukrainian city

A “great terror” coordinated by the security services would aim to reduce protest with “extremely strict methods of dispersal”, including “severe injury” to individual demonstrators.

A second phase would involve “door-to-door terror” with residents kidnapped and taken abroad, the letter said.

Russia-Ukraine war – live

 

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On a bridge between Ukraine and Romania, border guards and others have left a line of toys - for the children who are fleeing Ukraine to choose one as they cross the bridge into Romania.



https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine/status/1504452444801335298
In Photos: Children’s Toys Left on Historic Bridge Connecting Ukraine and Romania

 

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What exactly happens if Russia attacks with nuclear weapons? Five questions

1. How can Russia strike with nuclear weapons?
"It is unlikely that Russia will attack New York or Paris with long-range missiles. That is suicide. The most likely would be that Putin deploys a tactical nuclear weapon. That fits within the Russian doctrine for the use of advanced weapons; as a kind of warning shot ."

2. Putin has already armed his nuclear weapons. What does this mean?
"First the troops are prepared. Think of captains on submarines with nuclear weapons. Nuclear warheads can then be attached to missiles. Aircraft with missiles with nuclear warheads can conduct patrols. It seems that this has not been carried out, intelligence services would not have observed that ."

"Putin is not using it as a deterrent, as in the Cold War, but as a means of coercion. He is trying to force the US and Europe not to impose more sanctions or to make arms deliveries."


Wat gebeurt er precies als Rusland aanvalt met kernwapens? Vijf vragen
Translated from Google

description of the video :

Russia is now also arresting supporters of Putin (and cycling)
In Russia, any protest against the war in Ukraine has been severely crushed. Even if there is only suspicion that you are against the war you will be arrested. Last weekend about 5000 people were arrested and one bicycle. Even Putin supporters need to be careful now.”

Rusland pakt nu ook voorstanders van Poetin op (én fietsen)

 

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Dmitry Peskov, Putin spokesman refuses to rule out use of nuclear weapons if Russia faced an 'existential threat' - CNN

(CNN) Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman has conceded that Russia has yet to achieve any of its military goals in Ukraine and refused to deny that Moscow could resort to the use of nuclear weapons.

In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov repeatedly refused to rule out that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons against what Moscow saw as an "existential threat." When asked under what conditions Putin would use Russia's nuclear capability, Peskov replied, "if it is an existential threat for our country, then it can be."

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Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged mistress and former gymnast Alina Kabaeva is in hiding, and many are calling for her to be stripped of her Olympic medals.

Petitions against Putin’s alleged mistress
A petition posted on Change.org says, "It's time you reunite Eva Braun with her Führer." So far, the petition has 56,185 signatures, and questions why after so many sanctions have been placed in Russia, Swiss authorities continue to allegedly hold Kabaeva and her family.

Unlike other Russians in Putin's inner circle, Kabaeva has not been sanctioned. As a member of the board of directors at National Media Group, a pro-Kremlin newspaper and TV giant, she earns around $10.5 million a year, according to leaked tax records.

“Other possible locations
While it is widely believed that Kabaeva is in Switzerland, she could also be hiding in a high-tech bunker in Siberia. Earlier this month, a political scientist, Valery Solovey, said, "In fact, it is not a bunker, but a whole underground city, equipped with the latest science and technology."

The luxury bunker designed for protection in the event of nuclear war is in the Altai Mountains. Observers have pointed out a high-voltage line linked to a 110-kilovolt substation, and ventilation points near the mountain hideout, enough to power and ventilate a small city.”

Pressure is mounting to strip Putin's alleged mistress of her Olympic medals. No one can find her

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Zelensky to join NATO summit on March 24. President Volodymyr Zelensky will give a virtual address to the NATO summit participants. He will speak about the need to stop Russia’s war crimes by closing the sky above Ukraine or supplying the country with air defenses.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Zelensky voted most powerful person in Europe. Zelensky has topped the list of Europe’s 28 most powerful people, winning the “Audience Choice” poll by Politico. One voter described the Ukrainian leader as a “beacon of hope” striving for “peace, democracy, and decency.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Prosecutor General: Russian invader kills man, rapes wife in Kyiv Oblast. In a village in Brovarskyi district, a Russian soldier murdered a man and, along with another soldier, raped his wife, according to Iryna Venediktova. One of them was identified and is now wanted.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Russians attack oil refinery that they own. A Russian aircraft has fired upon an oil refinery in Lysychasnk, Luhansk Oblast, which is owned by Russian oil company Rosneft. According to Luhasnk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai, firefighters are fighting a blaze at the site.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Zelensky to Russian pilots: "I want to repeat once again to all Russian pilots who do not think about the orders they carry out: Killing civilians is a crime, and you will pay," Zelensky said. "Today or tomorrow is less important. The main thing is that it's inevitable."