Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022

[PommyMommy]

Bel Trew on Twitter (Video)
Families are leaving with one small bag or literally nothing. Some wearing blankets, towels anything to keep warm. Children are scared and freezing. Many are clutching their pets. For 40km into Ukraine saw people appearing through the darkness, waking to Poland in the ice.

‘If Kyiv Falls, We Keep Hacking Putin’: On The Cyber Front Line In Ukraine (forbes.com)
In this war of cyberattacks, waves of phishing emails hit Ukraine’s military personnel, allegedly originating with a Belarussian hacking crew. Distributed denial of service attacks, or DDoS, which flood websites with traffic until they collapse, continue to inundate government targets. Wiping malware spreads across the nation, capable of destroying a computer’s memory in seconds. Some reports citing a U.S. official have indicated that power plants have been under attack, though no details were provided. Even cybercriminals—the Conti ransomware crew, namely—have threatened to hit critical infrastructure in response to attacks on Russia. And physical attacks are having an impact—one IT professional who fled Kyiv earlier this week said Wi-Fi was down where he’d relocated because Ukrainian forces had blown up bridges, taking down internet cables.

 

[margarita25]

Bel Trew on Twitter (Video)
Families are leaving with one small bag or literally nothing. Some wearing blankets, towels anything to keep warm. Children are scared and freezing. Many are clutching their pets. For 40km into Ukraine saw people appearing through the darkness, waking to Poland in the ice.

‘If Kyiv Falls, We Keep Hacking Putin’: On The Cyber Front Line In Ukraine (forbes.com)
In this war of cyberattacks, waves of phishing emails hit Ukraine’s military personnel, allegedly originating with a Belarussian hacking crew. Distributed denial of service attacks, or DDoS, which flood websites with traffic until they collapse, continue to inundate government targets. Wiping malware spreads across the nation, capable of destroying a computer’s memory in seconds. Some reports citing a U.S. official have indicated that power plants have been under attack, though no details were provided. Even cybercriminals—the Conti ransomware crew, namely—have threatened to hit critical infrastructure in response to attacks on Russia. And physical attacks are having an impact—one IT professional who fled Kyiv earlier this week said Wi-Fi was down where he’d relocated because Ukrainian forces had blown up bridges, taking down internet cables.

Yeah THESE are the stories that also send me balling. Like I said, all I can do is cry. Children scared and freezing, clutching their pets (who are also scared and freezing). Trauma all round.

Man. So bad.

 

[Dontknow?]

When you realize there's not one thing you can do today to help Ukraine, it's not a good day or memory. All the strength to Ukraine! Fight that bastarx!!

 

[PommyMommy]

'I don't want to die': Ukrainians fear as invasion closes in | Deccan Herald
Yurii Zhyhanov woke to his mother's screaming and found himself covered in dust. Before dawn on the second day of Russia's invasion, their residential building had been struck by shelling on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

[...]

His weariness and shock reflected that of his country on Friday as people climbed out of bomb shelters, basements and subways to face another day of upheaval.

Those who didn't wake to explosions were roused by another day of air raid sirens. Then came the news that Russian forces had advanced to the outskirts of the capital.

[...]

The body of a dead soldier lay on the ground near a Kyiv underpass. Elsewhere, fragments of a downed aircraft smoked amid the brick homes of a residential area. Black plastic was draped over body parts found beside them.

[...]

In the city of Horlivka, a body covered with a blanket lay on the ground outside a house that had been hit by shelling. A man standing nearby spoke on the phone.

“Yes, Mom's gone, that's all,” he said. “That's it, Mom's gone.”

[...]

 

[Herat]

This all feels like: OVERKILL

Something we all recognize in the usual WS cases.

When the damage / trauma to the victim exceeds the level needed to perpetrate the act.

Exposing a huge component of emotional reaction, a huge (perceived) personal insult being avenged.

Putin seems emotionally invested and out of control.

 

[Springrain]

I am absolutely horrified with what's happening in Ukraine - prayers for all of Ukraine. What a horrible, horrible tragedy. Why is the world so senselessly cruel and brutal?

 

[margarita25]

Hey everyone,

Please do not link to the Russian state owned news agency TASS due to the potential for trackbacks and repurcussions at Websleuths.

Thanks for your understanding.

You know stuff is serious when the mod posts something like this, not that we needed any reminding.

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eta:

This all feels like: OVERKILL

Something we all recognize in the usual WS cases.

When the damage / trauma to the victim exceeds the level needed to perpetrate the act.

Exposing a huge component of emotional reaction, a huge (perceived) personal insult being avenged.

Putin seems emotionally invested and out of control.

Yeah, that’s what I was alluding to, we recognize these behaviors on a smaller scale.

And He doesn’t care who dies and at what cost. Including his own people, jmo.

 

[MassGuy]

Ukrainian President Zelenskiy turns down U.S. request to evacuate Kyiv, saying: "I need ammunition, not a ride" - AP
https://twitter.com/bnonews/status/1497431737567268868?s=21
https://twitter.com/bnonews/status/1497431737567268868?s=21

 

[PommyMommy]

Live updates: Zelenskyy declines US offer to evacuate Kyiv | AP News
A second Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane was shot down near Bila Tserkva, 50 miles (85 kilometers) south of Kyiv, according to two American officials with direct knowledge of conditions on the ground in Ukraine.

On Friday, Ukraine’s military said it had shot down a Russian military transport plane with paratroopers on board.

According to a statement from the military’s General Staff, the first Il-76 heavy transport plane was shot down near Vasylkiv, a city 25 miles south of Kyiv. The Russian military has not commented on either incident so far, and the reports could not be immediately verified.

 

[margarita25]

 

[whitelilac]

Kyiv
Fierce fighting has broken out in Kyiv as Russian forces tried to push their way towards the city centre and were met with resistance from the Ukrainian military.

Throughout Friday night, explosions rocked the capital. Artillery fire could be heard in the streets and as dawn broke, a post on the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Facebook page said “active combat” was taking place in the city.

The Ukrainian military claimed to have repelled one attack by Russian forces on an army base located on a main avenue in the Ukrainian capital. The Russians “attacked one of the military units on Victory Avenue in Kyiv. The attack was repulsed,” Ukraine’s army said.

Ukrainian officials say cruise missiles have been launched at Ukraine from the Black Sea and, separately, that areas near Sumy, Poltava and Mariupol have been hit by airstrikes, Reuters reports.
Russia-Ukraine latest news: fighting on the streets of Kyiv as Zelenskiy vows to hold the capital

 

[zencompass]

After intense fighting overnight, here is the live camera on Kyiv.

It's 7:46 a.m. in Kyiv and not a Russian soldier in sight there.

 

[Lilibet]

Two good articles about Zelensky…

https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/02/25/servant-of-the-people-zelenskyy-satire-review/

So opens Servant of the People, a show about a non-politician who is swept unexpectedly to the Ukrainian presidency. It premiered in 2015, roughly four years before its star, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was swept unexpectedly to the actual Ukrainian presidency. Now that Russia has invaded and Ukraine is at war, the story of the naive but good-hearted man trying to change a system he doesn’t fully grasp plays as unbearably poignant.

Ukraine’s ‘servant of the people’ Zelenskiy leads them in war

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — When he entered politics in 2019 as a wartime president, with the conflict against Russian separatists still simmering in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy offered his people a heartfelt pledge.

“Throughout my entire life, I’ve tried to do everything so Ukrainians smiled,” Zelenskiy, a former comedian and actor, said in his inauguration speech. “In the next five years, I will do everything so that you, Ukrainians, don’t cry.”

Right now, Ukrainians are crying for help, and some are crying in terror — with Russian forces bombing Kyiv, the capital, and cities around the country in a military campaign that is obviously intended to topple Zelenskiy and his government, and destroy Ukraine as an independent state.

With his life clearly in danger, the 44-year-old president has appeared on television in recent days wearing an army green T-shirt and matching fleece jacket, looking utterly exhausted, exhorting Russia and the Russian people in their native language, which is also his own, to stop the killing.

 

[airportwoman]

Long story made short: One of my high school teachers, whom I recently friended on Facebook, and her husband lived in Kyiv for a while! They wanted to do Christian missionary work after they retired, and they had traveled to the area several times before deciding to move there; they taught English at a Christian university there. They are back in the States now but she is posting lots of pictures of her Ukrainian friends, with their permission of course.

I sent a donation to Doctors Without Borders; it's the least I can do. Even if they don't use it there, they can use it some other place where there is dire need.

 

[airportwoman]

Hey everyone,

Please do not link to the Russian state owned news agency TASS due to the potential for trackbacks and repurcussions at Websleuths.

Thanks for your understanding.

I was watching RT (Russia Today, an English-language propaganda channel) earlier, on You Tube. It was almost as offensive as OANN, IMNSHO. Anyway, there was one of those crawls at the bottom of the screen that said that Russian media had been banned in Poland and Finland. Sure am glad the U.S. doesn't operate that way.

 

[margarita25]

Two good articles about Zelensky…
By his TV satire, you will know him: when Ukranian fiction became today's fact

So opens Servant of the People, a show about a non-politician who is swept unexpectedly to the Ukrainian presidency. It premiered in 2015, roughly four years before its star, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was swept unexpectedly to the actual Ukrainian presidency. Now that Russia has invaded and Ukraine is at war, the story of the naive but good-hearted man trying to change a system he doesn’t fully grasp plays as unbearably poignant.

Ukraine’s ‘servant of the people’ Zelenskiy leads them in war

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — When he entered politics in 2019 as a wartime president, with the conflict against Russian separatists still simmering in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy offered his people a heartfelt pledge.

“Throughout my entire life, I’ve tried to do everything so Ukrainians smiled,” Zelenskiy, a former comedian and actor, said in his inauguration speech. “In the next five years, I will do everything so that you, Ukrainians, don’t cry.”

Right now, Ukrainians are crying for help, and some are crying in terror — with Russian forces bombing Kyiv, the capital, and cities around the country in a military campaign that is obviously intended to topple Zelenskiy and his government, and destroy Ukraine as an independent state.

With his life clearly in danger, the 44-year-old president has appeared on television in recent days wearing an army green T-shirt and matching fleece jacket, looking utterly exhausted, exhorting Russia and the Russian people in their native language, which is also his own, to stop the killing.

This just popped up on my feed:
Must watch, imo, “Who is....”

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Icymi

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Another video, a lot has happened since this, but precursor to Kyiv, more from “midnight address”. And wow on citizens called to use Molotov cocktails for defense and given instructions.

 

[AliceInPain]

Beware of pictures and footage on Twitter.
A lot of it is old and not from what is going on now. ie, propaganda.
Similar to what Isis was doing.

 

[margarita25]

Beware of pictures and footage on Twitter.
A lot of it is old and not from what is going on now. ie, propaganda.
Similar to what Isis was doing.

Yes, yes. I’ve noticed this.

There is also a significant lag time on some stuff on social media making it to msm. It’s wild because I’m seeing lags of many, many hours with some things. I attributed it to things are so hectic it’s taking a while to make it through/ distribute fully via all media sources.

Also cyber warnings are be aware of “deep fakes”. It would be good to pull/ refresh/ bring fwd these cyber warnings and details. There will also be entities trying to stir things up, and distract, per these advisories.

 

[Scrapper18]

I really don’t know what to say about this.
Ukraine invasion: Russian forces have mobile crematorium that can 'evaporate' soldiers killed in attacks

 

[Fika]

Today is day 3 of that nightmare.
I feel like many of you ..helpless. I haven’t had a good night of sleep since Thursday constantly thinking about poor people of Ukraine. Watching President of Ukraine makes me want to cry I can’t see his face without sobbing. I wish I could do something. I wish someone send them weapons to protect themselves.
As a European I’m so angry more then anything. Putin has been a bully for such long time and now it seems as he completely lost it, not that he ever had it very together in a first place but now seems different somehow . I’m worried about our future in the EU who is going to be next? Is he going to grab countries one by one? At least the ones not part of NATO and Union.
As of now I signed up to organisations helping refugees. I will volunteer when it’s needed. The least I can do for now.