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

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Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine
''MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Russia's state communications regulator on Sunday said it had written to Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google and demanded that access to Russian media's YouTube channels be restored on Ukrainian territory.

The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said it wanted all restrictions imposed on the Russian-language YouTube channels of media outlets RBC, TV Zvezda and Sputnik to be removed.

Moscow on Friday said it was partially limiting access to Meta Platforms Inc's (FB.O) Facebook, accusing it of "censoring" Russian media''

 

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Toronto Star on Twitter
''#Breaking: Canada is closing airspace to Russian aircraft operators, effective immediately, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said Sunday.''

Ukraine President Says Russia Is Purposely Shelling Civilian Targets

''Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Sunday that Russia is consciously bombarding residential areas and other civilian targets. "They are fighting against everyone and everything alive, against kindergartens, against residential buildings and ambulance cars," Zelenskiy said in a video address, given in Russian. He also said Ukraine is ready for peace talks with Russia but not in Belarus, which was a staging ground for Moscow's invasion. (Russian with English subtitles)''

 

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More Than 100,000 People in Berlin Protest Russia's Invasion | World News | US News
More than 100,000 people protested in solidarity with Ukraine in Berlin on Sunday, calling for the end of Russia's invasion and saying history should not repeat itself.

Train and underground service was interrupted in some parts of the German capital as thousands made their way to the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin, near the Russian embassy.

The crowd of protesters bearing signs reading: "Stop the War", "Putin's last war" and "We stand with Ukraine" along with Ukrainian and European Union flags, extended from the Victory Column in the heart of the capital along the Straße des 17. Juni street and boulevard to the Brandenburg Gate. The street is named after the June 17 1953 uprising in East Germany against its communist rulers.

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BBC World News TV reporting the EU Foreign Affairs Ministers are meeting again tonight, third meeting in a week's time and one of the items on the table will be funding "lethal equipment" ammunition to the Ukraine
EU Ministers To Discuss Helping Ukraine With Weapons, Supplies

Russia-Ukraine latest: Vladimir Putin puts nuclear deterrent forces on high alert over Nato's 'unfriendly' sanctions

Ukraine, Russia diplomats to meet on Belarus border

https://www.knack.be/nieuws/wereld/...erhandelingen-op-til/live-normal-1837557.html

Protests in Turkey

 

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Reports from Kyiv that the Ukraine/Russia talks on the Belarus-Ukraine border have started.
Source: Anton Geraschenko, adviser to Minister if Internal Affairs

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Lukashenko has taken responsibility for ensuring that all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on Belarusian territory remain on the ground during the Ukrainian delegation's travel, talks and return, Zelensky's office wrote.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Foreign minister: Putin's nuclear threat is an attempt to put pressure on Ukraine ahead of the negotiations with Russia.

Putin's order came shortly after it was announced that the two delegations were ready to meet, Dmytro Kuleba said.

"We will not succumb to this pressure."

CBS News on Twitter
BREAKING: Putin has ordered Russia's nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch, raising the threat that the tensions could boil over into a nuclear war

 

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Ukraine: Talks have begun with Russia

Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will be held at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. This is stated by the staff of the Ukrainian president, according to the news agency Reuters.

The talks must have begun, the staff stated at 4 pm, Swedish time. Russia, however, claims that the talks have not started, but says that the parties have started gathering at the agreed meeting place.

The President of Ukraine has said that there will be an unconditional meeting with delegations from both countries.

In a televised speech, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia has stated that it has no ultimatum or demands ahead of the talks. He also states that Ukraine will listen to what Russia has to say.

- We will also say what we think about the war and Russia's actions, says Kuleba.

Kuleba also believes that Putin's statement on increased nuclear preparedness is a way to intimidate Ukraine ahead of the talks.

US UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says it remains to be seen whether Russia will act in good faith in the talks.”

Kriget i Ukraina

 

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Ukraine agrees to peace talks with Russia — live updates | News | DW | 27.02.2022
Includes a video about fake news

Liveblog: zo'n 15.000 demonstranten op Dam voor solidariteitsactie Oekraïne

Already 15.000 people.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️FM: Ukraine will not capitulate.
“We will be happy if the result of these negotiations is peace,” Dmytro Kuleba said. "But, and I emphasize this again, we will not give up, we will not capitulate, we will not give away a centimeter of our territory.”

 

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Oekraïne stemt in met vredesonderhandelingen aan de grens met Wit-Rusland

After Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky rejected Russia's proposal to negotiate in the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday morning, both sides agreed to hold talks at the Ukraine-Belarus border. This was announced by President Zelensky's office.

Ukraine has agreed to peace negotiations with Russia: A Russian and a Ukrainian delegation will meet at the border between Ukraine and Belarus, near the river Pripyat. President Zelensky's office announced this on Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov says the talks will take place in Homel, on the Belarus side of the border.

The talks would be held 'without additional conditions'. The negotiation comes a phone call between Zelensky and Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko. Lukashenko "takes responsibility" that all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on Belarusian territory will be grounded during the trip, negotiations and the return of the Ukrainian delegation, it said in a statement.

The Ukrainian delegation has already left Kiev, confirms Fedir Venislavskyi, a party member of Zelensky. Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, says they will "listen to what Russia has to say."

Zelensky had previously rejected a proposal to negotiate in Belarus because it is not a neutral country, but emphasized in a televised speech that he was open to talks in other locations.

'Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku. We've suggested them all. Any other city is good for us - in a country from which no missiles are fired at us. That is the only way for fair negotiations that can really end the war," Zelenski said in a video message on Sunday.

The Ukrainian army shot down a rocket fired from Belarusian territory on Sunday morning. "A new war crime," the Ukrainian army chief called it. 'Otherwise talks in Minsk would have been possible', says Zelenski.

The Russians clarified on Sunday that possible negotiations are no reason for them to suspend the current offensive. Shortly before Zelensky's announcement that peace negotiations had been agreed, President Putin announced in a speech on state television that he had ordered the military command to put the nuclear deterrent forces on high alert. The decision comes in response to "aggressive statements" from the west, Putin said.

 

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Ukraine invasion: What to know as Putin alerts nuclear force | KLEW (klewtv.com)
''Those fleeing Europe's largest armed conflict since World War II grew to 368,000 Ukrainians — mostly women and children — who have reached neighboring countries, the United Nations' refugee agency said. That figure more than doubles the agency's estimate from the day before.

The line of vehicles at the Poland-Ukraine border stretched 14 kilometers (8.7 miles), and those fleeing had to endure long waits in freezing temperatures overnight. Over 100,000 people have crossed into Poland alone, according to Polish officials.

Amid the rush to escape the bombs and tanks, there was also what looked like a trickle of brave men and women who want to head home to defend Ukraine or help others do so.''

''At a border crossing in southern Poland, Associated Press journalists spoke to people in a line heading against the tide. They included a group of some 20 Ukrainian truck drivers who worked in Europe and wanted to face combat.
GERMAN MILITARY SHIFT
A day after Germany announced it would send military aid to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that his government will increase its own defense spending to rearm amid the uncertainty of the extent of Putin's ambitions.''

 

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Turkish foreign minister: Turkey recognizes the Russian invasion to Ukraine as "war"

From CNN's Isil Sariyuce in Istanbul

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Sunday that Turkey has decided that Russia’s invasion to Ukraine is a “war”.

“Is this a conflict or a war? We decided on that. Article 19 of the Montreux Convention is very clear. This is a war.” he said in a live interview to CNN Turk.

Live updates: Russia invades Ukraine

 

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"DW analyst says Putin's order on nuclear alert not clear
Former Russian military officer Konstantin Eggert says he had "trouble discerning" what Putin meant when he said nuclear forces are on higher alert.

"The expression he used to indicate some heightened state of alert does not exist in Russian military manuals," Eggert, DW's Russia affairs analyst, told our TV channel.

There are four levels of alert in the Russian military, Eggert explained. Those four levels are: regular, heightened, threat of war and full or complete.

"Nuclear forces are pretty much always on heightened alert," Eggert noted."

Ukraine agrees to peace talks with Russia — live updates | DW | 27.02.2022

 

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Two Russian billionaires come out against war
Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Fridman called for an end to the invasion of Ukraine.

Fridman, who was born in western Ukraine, called it a tragedy for both Russia and Ukraine. In a letter to his staff, he wrote that the war was creating divisions between Russians and Ukrainians who he said have been brothers for centuries.

He wrote, "My parents are Ukrainian citizens and live in Lviv, my favorite city."

Ukraine agrees to peace talks with Russia — live updates | DW | 27.02.2022

 

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US government says Russia plans to kill FAMILY MEMBERS of Ukrainian soldiers who won't surrender | Daily Mail Online

Article from 18 months ago about Putin poisoning political opponents and journalists:
Toxic tea: Multiple Russian opponents of Vladimir Putin have been struck by poison

 

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Russia’s War: Use of Nukes ‘Extremely Unlikely’ | The Tyee
''Sens agreed, noting the risk of Russia, or any other nuclear-armed state using nuclear weapons is “extremely unlikely.”

However, the risk “is not zero,” because the weapons do exist, he added.

According to the Arms Control Association, a 50-year-old nonpartisan organization that works to help countries get rid of their nuclear weapons, Russia leads the world with a stockpile of 6,257 nuclear warheads, followed by the U.S. with 5,550. These two countries hold 90 per cent of the world’s total 13,080 warheads. (Note that around 9,600 warheads are in military service and 3,480 are lying around, waiting to be safely dismantled.)

This is a huge drop since the early 1990s, when Sens said there were around 70,000 nuclear warheads in the world.

Nuclear weapons aside, the invasion is still “a very bad development for global politics in general, and for European security in particular,” Sens said.

The world is struggling to emerge from the pandemic, the climate crisis is ramping up, and an invasion is the last thing anyone — including Russia — needs right now, he said. “But here we are.”

Which is why it might be a good time to pay attention to — no matter how small the chance — the risk that this conflict could go nuclear.''

 

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Putin puts Russia's nuclear forces on alert as fighting in Ukraine continues - CBS
Kyiv — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on alert Sunday in response to what he called "aggressive statements" by leading NATO powers.

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The practical meaning of Putin's order was not immediately clear. Russia and the United States typically have the land- and submarine-based segments of their strategic nuclear forces on alert and prepared for combat at all times, but nuclear-capable bombers and other aircraft are not.

If Putin is arming or otherwise raising the nuclear combat readiness of his bombers, or if he is ordering more ballistic missile submarines to sea, then the United States might feel compelled to respond in kind, according to Hans Kristensen, a nuclear analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. That would mark a worrisome escalation and a potential crisis, he said.

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Putin hasn't disclosed his ultimate plans, but Western officials believe he is determined to overthrow Ukraine's government and replace it with a regime of his own, redrawing the map of Europe and reviving Moscow's Cold War-era influence.

The pressure on strategic ports in the south of Ukraine appeared aimed at seizing control of the country's coastline stretching from the border with Romania in the west to the border with Russia in the east. A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said Russian forces had blocked the cities of Kherson on the Black Sea and the port of Berdyansk on the Azov Sea.

 

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Be Prepared for a Nuclear Explosion (ready.gov)
''Fallout is most dangerous in the first few hours after the detonation when it is giving off the highest levels of radiation. It takes time for fallout to arrive back to ground level, often more than 15 minutes for areas outside of the immediate blast damage zones. This is enough time for you to be able to prevent significant radiation exposure by following these simple steps:''

''Identify shelter locations. Identify the best shelter location near where you spend a lot of time, such as home, work, and school. The best locations are underground and in the middle of larger buildings. While commuting, identify appropriate shelters to seek in the event of a detonation. Outdoor areas, vehicles and mobile homes do NOT provide adequate shelter. Look for basements or the center of large multi-story buildings.

Make sure you have an Emergency Supply Kit for places you frequent and might have to stay for 24 hours. It should include bottled water, packaged foods, emergency medicines, a hand-crank or batterypowered radio to get information in case power is out, a flashlight, and extra batteries for essential items. If possible, store supplies for three or more days.

If warned of an imminent attack, immediately get inside the nearest building and move away from windows. This will help provide protection from the blast, heat, and radiation of the detonation. If you are outdoors when a detonation occurs take cover from the blast behind anything that might offer protection. Lie face down to protect exposed skin from the heat and flying debris. If you are in a vehicle, stop safely, and duck down within the vehicle.

After the shock wave passes, get inside the nearest, best shelter location for protection from potential fallout. You will have 10 minutes or more to find an adequate shelter. Be inside before the fallout arrives. The highest outdoor radiation levels from fallout occur immediately after the fallout arrives and then decrease with time.

Stay tuned for updated instructions from emergency response officials. If advised to evacuate, listen for information about routes, shelters, and procedures.

Immediately after you are inside shelter, if you may have been outside after the fallout arrived: Remove your outer layer of contaminated clothing to remove fallout and radiation from your body. Take a shower or wash with soap and water to remove fallout from any skin or hair that was not covered. If you cannot wash or shower, use a wipe or clean wet cloth to wipe any skin or hair that was not covered. Clean any pets that were outside after the fallout arrived. Gently brush your pet’s coat to remove any fallout particles and wash your pet with soap and water, if available.

It is safe to eat or drink packaged food items or items that were inside a building. Do not consume food or liquids that were outdoors uncovered and may be contaminated by fallout. If you are sick or injured, listen for instructions on how and where to get medical attention when authorities tell you it is safe to exit.''

 

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March 23, 2017

Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/

 

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Ukraine war: Belarus poised to declare war as special forces are 'loaded onto planes in' | Daily Mail Online

President Lukashenko has most recently been assaulting the Polish-Belarus border by sending throngs of migrating illegal immigrants in to overwhelm the Polish border posts. Most likely there were Russian agents used in trying to overwhelm the border and cause problems for Poland.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Human Rights Ombudsman: 210 Ukrainians killed by Russian assault.
The figure does not include today's deaths and is for both civilians and military personnel. Liudmyla Denisova also said 1,100 Ukrainians were injured.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Foreign minister: Putin's nuclear threat is an attempt to put pressure on Ukraine ahead of the negotiations with Russia.
Putin's order came shortly after it was announced that the two delegations were ready to meet, Dmytro Kuleba said.
"We will not succumb to this pressure."

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️FM: Ukraine will not capitulate.
“We will be happy if the result of these negotiations is peace,” Dmytro Kuleba said. "But, and I emphasize this again, we will not give up, we will not capitulate, we will not give away a centimeter of our territory.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Russian oligarch Deripaska: 'We need peace."
In his Telegram channel, industrial tycoon Oleg Deripaska wrote that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine must begin “as soon as possible!”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Zelensky doesn't believe in the positive outcome of the negotiations with Russia.
"But let them try, so that no citizen of Ukraine doubts that I, as president, tried to stop the war when there was still a chance, however small," he said in a video address.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Ukraine to pay $3,400 (Hr 100,000) per month to military personnel.
The significant pay raise will be implemented to show the soldiers "that the country is grateful to them," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Mriya aircraft ruined in a Russian attack near Kyiv.
The world’s biggest cargo aircraft, Antonov An-225, was moored at the Antonov Airport in Hostomel during the recent battle.
UkrOboronProm said that the aircraft may be restored for $3 billion at Russia's expense.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️EU shuts its airspace to all Russian-owned, Russian-registered, or Russian-controlled aircraft, President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Twitter.
“Including the private jets of oligarchs,” she wrote.

 

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Russia sends dreaded missile that throws "wall of napalm" at enemy towards the front in Ukraine | The Importance of Limburg (hbvl.be)

A TOS-1 is deployed in exercises of the Russian army december last year near Orenburg. — © AP

Thermobaric missiles, also called "the father of all bombs", extract all oxygen in a radius of 300 meters when exploded, suffocating every human and animal life. The weapon is therefore especially suitable for use against large concentrations of troops with light vehicles or in urban areas.

The Russians describe the weapon as a flamethrower, but according to Western military experts, it throws "a wall of napalm" at its victims. CNN has spotted a TOS-1 near The Russian Belgorod, just north of Ukraine.

First, the weapon explodes, which in itself is deadly. After that, it sucks all the oxygen out of the lungs of the people who are within the deadly radius, which causes other organs to rupture as well. One rocket fired is enough to destroy all life in a series of apartment buildings.

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Frederik Pleitgen on Twitter (Video)
The russian army has deployed the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower which shoots thermobaric rockets, the was South of Belgorod.
Feb 26, 2022·Twitter for iPhone