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

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Moscow tells Kyiv residents to leave and threatens ‘high-precision strikes’ – live | World news | The Guardian
''15m ago13:41

Russian defence ministry warns Kyiv residents to leave
Russia’s defence ministry is warning residents in Kyiv to leave their homes as it plans to strike targets in the Ukrainian capital, Russian state news agency Tass is reporting.

In a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, the defence ministry says Russian forces are preparing to launch “high-precision strikes” against the “Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO)“ in Kyiv.

We urge Ukrainian citizens involved by Ukrainian nationalists in provocations against Russia, as well as Kiev residents living near relay stations, to leave their homes''.

''33m ago13:24
At least 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in rocket strikes by Russian forces on the centre of Kharkiv today, Ukraine’s interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said.

Similar strikes killed and wounded dozens in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city of 1.5 million people, the previous day.

In a social media post, Herashchenko said:

The rubble is being cleared and there will be even more victims and wounded.

Ukrainian regional emergency services confirmed the death toll in a statement:

At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 were injured.

They added that 10 people had been discovered alive under rubble as rescue workers cleared debris.''

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© Maxar Technologies/AP This satellite image provided shows a military convoy near Invankiv on Monday - Maxar Technologies/AP

''Military experts said the 17-mile column, which more than doubled in size overnight on Monday, was a sitting duck for Ukrainian artillery and drone strikes. About 20 miles from where it was last spotted, the Russian advance appeared to have hit a wall.

In Bucha, 15 miles north-west of Kyiv, images posted online showed the bloody aftermath of one of the most brutal ambushes and firefights of the five-day-old war.

In Kyiv itself, Russian special forces troops were halted by guards at one of the city’s most famous religious landmarks. A photograph showed what appeared to be a Russian corpse lying close to St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, while the local orthodox archbishop issued a statement claiming the “saboteurs” had been “neutralised”.
Massive Convoy Of Hundreds Of Russian Military Vehicles Stretching For Miles Spotted Heading To Kyiv | The Daily Wire
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukraine conducts successful test of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system.
Speeds reached over 200 megabits per second. SpaceX CEO @elonmusk provided Ukraine with the system to make sure that Russian forces aren’t able to take down Ukraine’s internet connectivity.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Russia's losses as of March 1, according to Ukraine's Defense Ministry.

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⚡️ State Emergency Service: 6 people injured in central Kharkiv rocket strike, including one child.
The missile strike hit Kharkiv’s Freedom Square the morning of March 1, damaging the Kharkiv Oblast administration building.
Video: State Emergency Service

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️ Indian student killed in Kharkiv shelling, according to Indian foreign ministry.
“With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning,” the ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Twitter.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Zelensky: Launching a rocket at the central square of Kharkiv is an outright, undisguised terror.
After that, Russia became a terrorist state. No one will forgive. Nobody will forget.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Zelensky addresses European Parliament:
"I am glad that we have united all of you, the countries of the European Union, today, but I did not know that it would have such a high price – it's a tragedy for me, for every Ukrainian, for our country."

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Zelensky addresses European Parliament:
"Today we pay for values, for rights, for freedom, just for the desire to be equal, the same as you, we pay with our best people, the strongest, extraordinary Ukrainians.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Zelensky addresses European Parliament:
"We are just fighting for our land and for our freedom. And believe me, despite the fact that all the big cities of our country are now blocked, no one will enter our freedom and state. Believe me."

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️BREAKING: EU disconnects key Russian banks from SWIFT.
The union will also ban the transaction of Russia’s Central Bank to paralyze billions of foreign reserves and "turn off the tap on Russia’s and Putin’s war," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen:
"This is a watershed moment for our union. We cannot take our security and the protection of people for granted. We have to stand up for it. We have to invest in it. We have to carry our fair share of the responsibility."

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen:
"They are defending their lives, but they are also fighting for universal values and they are willing to die for them. President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are our true inspiration."

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
⚡️Ursula von der Leyen:
"This is a clash between the rule of law and the rule of the gun, between democracies and autocracies, between a rules-based order and naked aggression. How we respond today to what Russia is doing will determine the future of the international system."5:01 AM · Mar 1, 2022·Twitter Web App

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⚡️Explosion heard in Kyiv.
Air raid sirens went off a minute later, reminding residents to head to the nearest shelter.
 
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3h ago 06:57

Zelenskiy tells EU parliament: 'Nobody is going to break us' or 'intervene with our freedom'
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells the European parliament that his country is “giving away its best people” for its desire to be treated as equals and for the price of freedom.

[...]

3h ago 07:04

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told the European parliament that the EU must prove it is with Ukraine.

[...]

So prove that you are with us. Prove that you will not let us go. Prove that you indeed are Europeans and that life will win over death, and light will win over darkness.

3h ago 07:07

Ukrainian sources in Sumy and Okhtyrka have given conflicting accounts of when the attack on the barracks in Okhtryka took place, with one suggesting it had happened on Monday evening and others over the weekend, the Guardian’s Peter Beaumont writes.

“We’ve been attacked every day since the 24th,” one resident called Igor told the Guardian.

Every single night by Grad rockets. They’re not just hitting the military in the region but also civilian targets.

[...]

3h ago 07:12

Zelenskiy urges European leaders to 'prove that you are with us' and 'light will win over darkness'

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has given a powerful address to the European parliament via videolink.

Sitting in front of the country’s flag, he said today would be the last for some of his citizens who were defending the country.

Ukraine, he said, was paying a very high price for European ideals: “Thousands of people killed, two revolutions, one war and five days of full-scale invasion”.

He said:

I am not reading from a script, because the phase of scripts for Ukraine has ended.

Now we are dealing with death, real life, he said.

Zelenskiy said Ukraine was giving lives in order to have be as “equal as you are”.

[...]

Russia-Ukraine war latest: Moscow tells Kyiv residents to leave and threatens ‘high-precision strikes’ – live | World news | The Guardian
 
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Володимир Зеленський
@ZelenskyyUa

Я та моя дружина Олена щиро вдячні Їх Величностям Королю Віллему-Олександру та Королеві Максимі
@koninklijkhuis
за теплі слова підтримки народові України. Ми протистоїмо загарбницькій агресії. Сьогодні, як ніколи, нам важливо відчувати, що ми не одні.
Translated from Ukrainian

My wife Olena and I are sincerely grateful to Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maximus
@koninklijkhuis
for their warm words of support to the people of Ukraine. We resist aggression. Today, more than ever, it is important for us to feel that we are not alone.
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1498658289357410314?s=20&t=8oPFAqZ2jT7N3OI5QJpNRg
 
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March 1, 2022 6:56AM EST rbbm.
Russia blasts Ukraine's no.2 city as tanks amass outside Kyiv | CP24.com
''KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian sites Tuesday in what the country’s president condemned as a blatant campaign of terror by Moscow. “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget,” vowed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

At the same time, a 40-mile convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced on the capital, Kyiv, in what the West feared was a bid to topple Ukraine’s government and install a Kremlin-friendly regime. And Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces pressed their attack on other towns and cities across the country, including the strategic ports of Odesa and Mariupol in the south.

Day 6 of the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II found Russia increasingly isolated by tough economic sanctions that have thrown its economy its disarray and left the country practically friendless, apart from China and Belarus.''
 
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[URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/01/ukraine-russia-latest-news-live-updates-war-vladimir-putin-kyiv-kharkiv-russian-invasion-update']Russia-Ukraine war latest: Moscow tells Kyiv residents to leave and threatens ‘high-precision strikes’ – live | World news | The Guardian[/URL]

2h ago 07:48

The European Union will have to seriously look at Ukraine’s request for EU membership and respond to Kyiv’s “legitimate” request, the chairman of EU leaders, Charles Michel, has said.

Michel was speaking at the European parliament after Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, received a standing ovation for his powerful speech.

Michel told the European parliament:

It is going to be difficult, we know there are different views in Europe.

The council (of EU governments) will have to seriously look at the symbolic, political and legitimate request that has been made and make the appropriate choice in a determined and clear-headed manner.

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2h ago0 8:03

Numerous diplomats staged a walk-out as Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, addressed the UN human rights council, after a similar boycott of his speech at the nearby Conference on Disarmament.

The diplomats, including from France and the UK, filed out of the room when Lavrov’s pre-recorded video message began to play, in protest against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian ambassador Yevheniia Filipenko, who led the walkout, told the crowd:

Thank you very much for this wonderful show of support to Ukrainians who are fighting for their independence.

[...]

2h ago 08:11

The EU has announced it plans to block Russia Today from all platforms including satellite and the internet, Lisa O’Carroll writes.

French commissioner Thierry Breton said there was “no place for Russian war propaganda in our information space”.

[...]
 
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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Moscow tells Kyiv residents to leave and threatens ‘high-precision strikes’ – live | World news | The Guardian

1h ago 08:24

At least 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in rocket strikes by Russian forces on the centre of Kharkiv today, Ukraine’s interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said.

Similar strikes killed and wounded dozens in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city of 1.5 million people, the previous day.

[...]

1h ago 08:41

Russian defence ministry warns Kyiv residents to leave
Russia’s defence ministry is warning residents in Kyiv to leave their homes as it plans to strike targets in the Ukrainian capital, Russian state news agency Tass is reporting.

In a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, the defence ministry says Russian forces are preparing to launch “high-precision strikes” against the “Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO)“ in Kyiv.

We urge Ukrainian citizens involved by Ukrainian nationalists in provocations against Russia, as well as Kiev residents living near relay stations, to leave their homes.

[...]

1h ago 08:50

Andrew Gregory

Tens of thousands of medical items have been flown from the UK in response to the “humanitarian emergency” in Ukraine caused by Russia’s invasion, Sajid Javid, the UK health secretary, has told MPs.

He said almost 50,000 items were sent on Sunday night and revealed that a second supply flight carrying, among other things, personal protective equipment (PPE), left early this morning.

Javid also expressed hopes there will be “many more” flights to provide aid to the people of Ukraine.

[...]
 
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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Moscow tells Kyiv residents to leave and threatens ‘high-precision strikes’ – live | World news | The Guardian

1h ago 08:55

More Russia-Ukraine talks scheduled for Wednesday, Russian state news agency reports
A second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine has been scheduled for tomorrow, the Russian state news agency Tass has cited a source on the Russian side as saying.

The first round of talks that took place near the Belarus-Ukraine border on Monday ended after about six hours with no breakthrough, but both sides agreed to a follow-up round in the coming days.

47m ago 09:08

Ukraine is in talks with its allies on how to support its air defences, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday.

He made the comments when asked about whether Nato should set up a no-fly zone to help the country after Russia’s invasion.

“Everything they can help us with now – it’s better to help now than find themselves eye-to-eye with Putin later,” Kuleba told an online news conference.

“No need to fear that Nato will find itself at war with Russia because of Ukraine. If Russia wins – you are next.”

[...]

33m ago 09:23

Russia Today’s European satellite broadcasting operations are expected to be blacked out later today, the Luxembourg company distributing the channel has indicated.

Société Européenne des Satellites, which operates the Astra satellites and transponders which RT lease told the Guardian it had been working to find a EU wide suspension following a sanction announced by the French commissioner Thierry Breton on Tuesday.

SES and other satellite carriers are legally unable to pull the plug without regulatory intervention.

[...]

20m ago 09:37

The northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy exchanged a captured Russian officer for five fighters from Ukraine’s defence forces, governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said on social media.

He added that it was the first such swap in the area, the Reuters news agency reported.

He posted a video of a blonde-haired man in handcuffs and wearing a green camouflage jacket, saying he was born in 1997 in the Russian city of Omsk. He also said that he was being taken to be exchanged for Ukrainian fighters.

Reuters was not able to independently verify the video immediately.

2m ago 14:56

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has told his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu of the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine for humanitarian reasons.

Nato ally Turkey borders Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea and has good ties with both.

On Monday, Turkey said it had asked all countries not to cross its straits into the Black Sea under a 1936 pact, limiting passage of some Russian warships.
 
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Paul McLeary
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1h
It's official - Europe won't transfer fighter planes to Ukraine. Poland decided not to, and Slovakian defense ministry spokesperson confirms to me just now: “Slovakia will not provide fighter jets to Ukraine."

Myanmar Democracy Activists Hold Rallies in Support of Ukraine
rbbm.
''Until May last year, Ukraine had links with the Myanmar military, with arms exports and technology transfers. Despite this, the Russian invasion of the second-largest country in Europe last week has enraged Myanmar democracy activists, who feel a connection with Ukraine’s civilians as they take up arms to defend their land.''
“We are inspired by Ukraine’s war in defense of democracy. Like them, the Myanmar Spring Revolution will continue to fight for our freedom until we win,” he said in a video. Behind him a group of young activists held placards reading “Glory to Ukraine” and “Putin Must Fail.”

''He said if Putin won in Ukraine, it would give a boost to the military regime in Myanmar and to the enemies of democracy everywhere.''

“The world is a scary place right now. But we’re all in this together, and when people unite we can accomplish anything. Slava Ukraini! Democracy must prevail!” he said.
 
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Ukraine live updates: Russia warns it will hit targets in Kyiv - BBC News

A large plume of smoke has risen near the TV tower in Kyiv. It's unclear if the tower was directly hit. Footage appeaing on social media - which the BBC has verified - shows an explosion in the area.

Earlier the Russian defence ministry warned Kyiv residents that it was preparing to hit targets in the capital.
 
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Russian forces closing in on Ukraine's capital


Moment 'Russian' helicopter is shot down over reservoir near Kyiv


Russia's Ukraine war enters civilian homes

 
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“The 38-year-old managing partner at UNIT.City said troops spoke of how they were in military training when their commander gave them an order to “go that way”. Before they knew it they were waging a war against their neighbour.

“They are just following the orders that they have,” Mr Yevtushenko said. “They are kids, born in 2000 and 2002, they are frustrated, our army forces don’t even know what to do with those kids, and there are thousands of those guys now on the fields of Ukraine – killed.”

Russians troops are disoriented, hungry, and don't understand why they invaded, says Ukrainian
 
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Last Updated Mar 1, 2022, 10:17AM EST.

CityNews
''Kharkiv’s Freedom Square — Ukraine’s largest plaza, and the nucleus of public life for the city — was struck with what was believed to be a missile, in an attack seen by many Ukrainians as brazen evidence that the Russian invasion wasn’t just about hitting military targets but also about breaking their spirits.''

“People are under the ruins. We have pulled out bodies,” said Yevhen Vasylenko, a representative of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Kharkiv region. In addition to the six killed, 20 were wounded in the strike, he said.''

''Russia’s goals in hitting central Kharkiv were not immediately clear. Western officials speculated that it is trying to pull in Ukrainian forces to defend the city while a larger Russian force encircles Kyiv.''

Russian troops continued their advance toward the capital, a city of nearly three million. The convoy was 25 kilometers from the center of the city and stretched about 65 kilometers, according to satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies.''
 
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Feb. 28, 2022

Why the Chinese Internet Is Cheering Russia’s Invasion
''Mr. Putin’s speech on Thursday, which essentially portrayed the conflict as one waged against the West, won loud cheers on Chinese social media. Many people said they were moved to tears. “If I were Russian, Putin would be my faith, my light,” wrote @jinyujiyiliangxiaokou, a user of the Twitter-like platform Weibo.

As the world overwhelmingly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese internet, for the most part, is pro-Russia, pro-war and pro-Putin.

Mr. Putin’s portrayal of Russia as a victim of the West’s political, ideological and military aggression has resonated deeply with many on social media. It dovetails with China’s narrative that the United States and its allies are afraid of China’s rise and the alternative world order it could create''

''Nationalistic emotions on social media were also sparked by the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine. Unlike most embassies in Kyiv, it didn’t urge its citizens to evacuate. Hours into the war, it advised Chinese people to post the country’s red flag conspicuously on their vehicles when traveling, indicating that it would provide protection.''

''The state-owned People’s Daily, CCTV and many top government agencies posted about that on Weibo. Many people used the hashtag #theChineseredwillprotectyou, referring to the flag.

The idea echoed a movie, the 2017 Chinese blockbuster “Wolf Warrior 2,” which ends with the hero taking fellow passengers safely through a war zone in Africa as he holds a Chinese flag high. “It’s Chinese,” an armed fighter says. “Hold your fire.”
 
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