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

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Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

Taiwan has sent 27 tonnes of medical supplies to Ukraine, the government announced on Tuesday, saying it was extending a helping hand as a member of the “democratic camp” in the international community, Reuters reports.

Taiwan has joined with Western allies in putting sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, and expressed cross-party sympathy for the Ukrainian people, seeing parallels with what Taipei views as Beijing’s threats against the island.

A skyscraper in Taipei is lit up in the colours of the Ukrainian flag . Photograph: Annabelle Chih/Reuters

Taiwan’s foreign ministry said the supplies left on Monday night on a flight to Frankfurt and will be sent onwards to Ukraine via “appropriate routes and channels”.

 

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And Sony has joined Disney and Warner by suspending the release of new films in Russia.

The company said its latest release, Morbius, would be among those put on hold in Russia.

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Mastercard said late on Monday US time that it has blocked multiple financial institutions from its payment network as a result of sanctions imposed on Russia over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mastercard will continue to work with regulators in coming days, the company said in a statement. It also promised to contribute a $2m for humanitarian relief.
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates

 

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Russian invasion is behind schedule – US classified briefing
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fallen behind schedule thanks to fierce local resistance, and multiple Russian equipment and logistics failures, according to a classified US government briefing attended by US senator Chris Murphy.

In a series of tweets in the last hour, Murphy adds that the defence department and the homeland security department are pushing hard for Congress to approve Joe Biden’s plan for at least $6.4bn in supplemental funding to help Ukraine, which will require cooperation from both parties.

He adds that it is expected that the fight for Kyiv will be “long and bloody”.
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates

 

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The New York Times
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Cryptocurrency investors have donated more than $22 million worth of digital assets to the Ukrainian government and a nonprofit supporting the country’s military, according to data provided by the blockchain tracking firm Elliptic.

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Australia has decided to provide Ukraine with $50 million in missiles, ammunition and other military hardware to fight Russian invaders. Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week had promised only non-lethal military equipment.

 

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Chris Murphy on Twitter (US Senator from CT)
Just leaving classified briefing on Ukraine crisis. A few takeaways that I can share: 1/ Confirmation that the Russians have fallen behind their timeline. Ukrainian resistance has been fierce and there have been multiple Russian equipment and logistics failures.
8:58 PM · Feb 28, 2022·Twitter for iPhone (EST)

2/ DoD and DHS are pressing hard for Congress to end the continuing resolution and get a budget passed. There is no way for our national security agencies to be nimble enough to support Ukraine if they are operating on the 2020/21 budget.

3/ The ability to keep supply lines running to Ukraine remains alive, but Russia will try to encircle and cut off Kiev in the next several weeks. The fight for Kiev will be long and bloody and Ukrainians are rapidly preparing for street to street combat.

4/ The U.S. and allies are coordinating to not only freeze the assets of Putin and his oligarch allies, but to seize those assets as well. This is likely a further step than Putin’s inner circle anticipated.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Air raid sirens go off in Vinnytsia.
Residents should head to the nearest shelter.

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️Air raid sirens in Rivne.
Residents should head to the nearest shelter.

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️Air raid alerts in Volyn, Ternopil, and Rivne Oblasts.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Disney stops releasing films in Russia “given the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the tragic humanitarian crisis.”
Warner Bros Studios also announced that it was canceling the release in Russian cinemas of the new Batman movie, one of the most anticipated films of the year.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Mastercard has blocked multiple financial institutions as a result of sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The company has also promised $2 million in humanitarian relief to Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Netflix will not comply with new Russian rules to carry 20 state-backed channels.
“Given the current situation, we have no plans to add these channels to our service,” a Netflix spokesperson said on Monday evening.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Ukraine to receive 70 fighter jets from the EU. Ukraine’s Air Force said on March 1.
Bulgaria will provide 16 MiG-29s and 14 Su-25s, Poland will provide 28 MiG-29 units, and Slovakia – 12 MiG-29s.

 

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Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

British prime minister Boris Johnson is due to fly to Nato’s border with Russia on Tuesday, pledging that Vladimir Putin will “feel the consequences” for invading Ukraine.

Boris Johnson will travel this morning to meet counterparts in Poland and Estonia and visit British troops as he pushes for western unity in punishing the Russian president for starting a conflict that has taken “hundreds” of lives in only five days.

Before his trip to eastern Europe, Johnson urged allies to “speak with one voice” to ensure “Putin must fail”. Johnson said:

Alongside all our international allies the UK will continue to bring maximum pressure to bear on Putin’s regime to ensure he feels the consequences of his actions in Ukraine. We speak with one voice when we say, Putin must fail.

 

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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force | Royal United Services Institute (rusi.org)

Breakingviews - Navalny's supporters call for civil disobedience against Ukraine war
Feb 28 (Reuters) - The movement of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on Monday for a campaign of civil disobedience to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Russian shelling of a military unit in Okhtyrka killed at least 70 Ukrainian soldiers, the head of Sumy Regional State Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state communications regulator is blocking sites that write about Russia’s invasion into Ukraine.
Among blocked sites is the Siberian news site taiga.info which has called Russia's so-called military operation in Ukraine a full-scale war.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️More than 500,000 refugees have fled Ukraine amid Russia's war, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
At least 160,000 have become internally displaced since the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

 

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2m ago 23:55

Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers killed in strike on military base
More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed after Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, the head of the region wrote on Telegram.

People remove debris at the site of the military base in Okhtyrka. Photograph: Press Service Of The Ukrainian Ground Forces/Reuters

Dmytro Zhyvytskyy posted photographs of the charred shell of a four-story building and rescuers searching rubble. In a later Facebook post, he said many Russian soldiers and some local residents also were killed during the fighting on Sunday. The report could not immediately be confirmed.

 

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Dozens Of Civilian Deaths Reported In Kharkiv After Intense Shelling (rferl.org)
Ukraine's interior minister said there were dozens of civilian deaths after the country's second largest city, Kharkiv, was shelled on February 28. The northeastern city has become one of the major battlegrounds since Russia's military invaded Ukraine. Security analyst Ruslan Leviyev told Current Time that Russian forces were intensifying rocket attacks after their ground offensive stalled.

 

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
️Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center detected cyberattacks targeting Ukraine's digital infrastructure hours before Russian military movement on Feb. 24, Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Feb. 28.

️Air raid alert in Kyiv.
Residents should go to the nearest shelter.

️Air raid alerts also in Uman and Cherkasy.
Residents are asked to go to the nearest shelter.

️Air raid alert in Vinnytsia.
Residents are asked to go to the nearest shelter.

 

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4m ago 05:27

Russia-Ukraine war latest news: 40-mile-long Russian army convoy nears Kyiv, satellite images show – live updates | World news | The Guardian

Ukraine’s UN ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, has hailed the end of Russia’s month-long term holding the presidency of the UN security council on Monday night, saying: “I’m looking forward to midnight when this abomination – occupation of the seat of the president of the security council by Russia – will be over.”

 

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Russian Ruble Is Now Worth Less Than 1 U.S. Cent After SWIFT Bank Sanctions

(TOKYO) — The ruble plunged to a record low of less than 1 U.S. cent in value Monday after Russia was cut off from the global bank payments system in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.