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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on February 23, 2022, 10:29:53 PM
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Putin Declares ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine, Explosions Reported in Multiple Ukrainian Cities
https://www.theepochtimes.com/putin-declares-special-military-operation-in-ukraine_4298828.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=gp
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine on Thursday, local time.
Putin said in an emergency televised address that the military operation is intended to protect civilians and to demilitarize Ukraine, and is a response to threats coming from Ukraine.
He said that Russia doesn’t plan to occupy Ukraine and said that the Ukrainian military should “immediately lay down its arms.”
Putin also said that any foreign attempt to interfere with Russia’s action will trigger an immediate reaction from Russia, and will lead to “consequences they have not seen before.”
Shortly after Putin’s address, explosions were reported in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as well as in other cities, including Kharkiv, Mariupol, and Odesa.
Putin’s announcement comes after he announced Monday that Russia recognizes the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine as independent, and signed a decree to authorize the Russian Defense Ministry to send troops into the area for “peacekeeping operations.”
President Joe Biden late Wednesday local time issued a statement saying that Putin “has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.”
“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces,” Biden said. “Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the United States and its Allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable.”
Biden said he will monitor the situation from the White House in the evening and get regular updates from the national security team.
“Tomorrow, I will meet with my G7 counterparts in the morning and then speak to the American people to announce the further consequences the United States and our Allies and partners will impose on Russia for this needless act of aggression against Ukraine and global peace and security,” Biden said. “We will also coordinate with our NATO Allies to ensure a strong, united response that deters any aggression against the Alliance. Tonight, Jill and I are praying for the brave and proud people of Ukraine.”
Former President Donald Trump called into Fox News, telling host Laura Ingraham, “This should have never happened. It would have never happened under my administration. … It’s a very sad thing for the world, for the country, and it’s certainly very sad for a lot of people who are going to be needlessly killed.”
Following Putin’s declaration, Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said, “Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are under strikes. This is a war of aggression.”
“The world can and must stop Putin. The time to act is now.”
Biden brain dead weakness brought this on. I expect a Chinese invasion of Taiwan soon.
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https://drudgereport.com/
Just the Headlines from Drudge:
Vlad orders military operations in Ukraine, demands Kyiv forces surrender...
Threatens hypersonic missiles...
Thermobaric rocket launchers 'explode' enemy's lungs...
State TV paints Moscow as savior...
Fear, fatalism and defiance on streets of Kiev...
Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes...
TRUMP: LET'S GO, PUTIN!
EU vows to break free from Russian gas...
SKYNEWS LIVE...
COUNTDOWN WWIII
EXPLOSIONS NEAR KYIV
TANKS, FORCES MOVING IN
AIRSPACE CLOSED
OIL BREAKS $100
BIDEN WARNS OF 'CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF LIFE'
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-warns-any-foreign-attempt-to-interfere-with-russian-action-would-lead-to-consequences-they-have-never-seen/ar-AAUepVw?ocid=msedgntp
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences you have never seen.”
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https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1496702980053159937
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Did anyone really think that Putin would respect Biden for even a moment or were you just ok selling that to make him seem like a viable leader rather than the feckless dementia riddled old man the rest of the world sees?
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https://twitter.com/KdStormChaseUSA/status/1496681670061084677
@KdStormChaseUSA
It also appears that the US government is transporting high level gov officials, military commanders and the 1st family to safety/bunkers or is preparing to. Below live airforce 2 and high priority transport to and fro DC both of them. This started just b4 the news of attack..
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/23/white-house-joe-biden-address-putin-ukraine-attack-early-afternoon/
White House: Joe Biden Will Address Vladimir Putin Ukraine Attack ‘Early Afternoon’ Thursday
it means they are pulling out the good drugs for Joe.
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https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1496717309163020293
Christopher Miller
@ChristopherJM
Ukraine Interior Ministry update: The state border of Ukraine was attacked by Russian troops from Russia and Belarus at about 5am. Attacks on border units, border patrols and checkpoints are carried out with the use of artillery, heavy equipment and small arms.
This is happening in Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions. In addition, the attack takes place from the Crimea. Work of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups is also recorded.
Border guards and Armed Forces of Ukraine and National Guard of Ukraine firing at the enemy. Casualties unknown.
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There is absolutely no question that #SharterJoe's weakness at all levels emboldened Vlad to march on Ukraine.
Well done, Biden, you desiccated, weak, creepy pedophile. :whatever:
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Rigged-elections have consequences.
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Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
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This is what we get when “we”—I use this term loosely—put a bungling dotard into the Oval Office. Even if he steps aside, the cackling hyena that replaces him won’t be any better. What a pathetic spectacle we have created for our enemies to rejoice over, and for the world to see
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1496829303811682309
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https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1496915423610212356
NBC NEWS: US President Joe Biden has been presented with options for massive, unprecedented cyberattacks against Russia.
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BREAKING: Male citizens of Ukraine between the ages 18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving the country - State Border Guard Service
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https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1496996150624370694
Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
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The Biden Democrats say we have to choose. Either we are for them or we are against them. Okay, then, we are AGAINST. Moreover, I’ll go further and say they pose a far greater threat to our freedom and safety than #Putin. He’s the lesser evil. They are the greater one
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Ukraine Soldiers Told Russians to go f**k yourself before Black Sea island death (http://{https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/ukraine-soldiers-told-russians-to-go-****-yourself-before-black-sea-island-death})
Ukrainian soldiers who died defending an island in the Black Sea from an air and sea bombardment reportedly told an officer on board a Russian navy warship to “go **** yourself” when asked to surrender.
There were 13 border guards stationed on Snake Island, a roughly 16-hectare (40-acre) rocky island owned by Ukraine that sits about 186 miles (300km) west of Crimea, when Russian troops bombed the island on Thursday.
All 13 soldiers died after refusing to surrender, Ukrainian officials announced.
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Ukraine Soldiers Told Russians to go f**k yourself before Black Sea island death (http://{https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/ukraine-soldiers-told-russians-to-go-****-yourself-before-black-sea-island-death})
Could someone in our current military do that, or would they be kicked out?
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Could someone in our current military do that, or would they be kicked out?
I would hope even with our woke and inept military leadership, soldiers giving their lives defending their posts would be allowed such a verbal salvo at the aggressors. Hopefully we don't have to find out.
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I would hope even with our woke and inept military leadership, soldiers giving their lives defending their posts would be allowed such a verbal salvo at the aggressors. Hopefully we don't have to find out.
Agreed. When you get right down to it, those guys would be (and are in this case on Snake Island) fighting for each other -- certainly not for Milley and his clown circus, which includes Austin. Despicable pieces of shit that Milley and Austin are, those soldiers won't even think about them when the SHTF -- they'll be thinking about each other.
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Milley, Austin... leaving $86-billion in equipment and armament behind in Afghanistan. Goes without saying that Ukraine could've used it.
I wonder if Milley's made anymore phonecalls to China. You know... to assure them that the Pentagon isn't in-chaos.
We give-up our 4-star airbase while Russia seems to being having quite a bit of trouble locking-down Kiev's 4-star airbase. In fact, Russia seems to be having trouble locking-down every objective they're going after.
Ukrainians don't seem to be wasting too much ammo attacking single-file convoys on open stretches of road. They create chokepoints on two-lane bridges, so one shell-shot serves two purposes.
Still early yet and battlefield news is sketchy.
Now there's a rumor that Putin has dementia. Surreal, if true.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/25/poll-33-approve-of-bidens-russia-ukraine/
Poll: ONLY 33% of Americans Approve of Biden’s Handling of Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The title says it all.
This 33% are the hard core yellow dog Democrats. They would approve of Al Capone if he had a "D" by his name.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/25/poll-33-approve-of-bidens-russia-ukraine/
Poll: ONLY 33% of Americans Approve of Biden’s Handling of Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The title says it all.
This 33% are the hard core yellow dog Democrats. They would approve of Al Capone if he had a "D" by his name.
I like the rest of that poll as well, even though it's a WaPo and ABC "News" poll. Sample error of +/- 4%, which is pretty bad for a so-called scientific "poll."
Check this from the methodology in the poll document:
Interviewers called landlines and cellular phone numbers, first requesting to speak with the youngest adult male or female at home.
Now why, pray tell, would they want to talk to the YOUNGEST adult in the home? Bias much, WaPo and ABC?
This next bit is more than illustrative of #SharterJoe. It's probably the result of his incessant trips back to Delaware and to Camp David. Laziest president in history, at least recent history. At least Jimmy Carter worked. Badly, I might add, but he worked.
When asked if Biden “can be trusted in a crisis,” more than half of those surveyed – 52 percent – stated “no,” while 43 percent said “yes.”
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/putin-demands-ukrainians-disarm-remove-leadership_4302297.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=gp
Putin Demands Ukrainians Disarm, Remove Leadership
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on the Ukrainian military to seize power in their country and overthrow President Volodymyr Zelensky, while the Kremlin said Putin is willing to send a delegation to Belarus to meet with Kyiv officials.
However, in a televised speech, Putin told the Ukrainian military that it would be “easier for us to make a deal with you” than with “this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis,” apparently referring to Ukraine’s government.
“I once again appeal to the military personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine: do not allow neo-Nazis and [Ukrainian nationalists] to use your children, wives, and elders as human shields,” he said. “Take power into your own hands, it will be easier for us to reach agreement.”
more at link. Terms of surrender...already.
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Putin/the Russian-military wasn't prepared for this.
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Putin/the Russian-military wasn't prepared for this.
Which is why he was visibly pissed off.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/25/poll-33-approve-of-bidens-russia-ukraine/
Poll: ONLY 33% of Americans Approve of Biden’s Handling of Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The title says it all.
This 33% are the hard core yellow dog Democrats. They would approve of Al Capone if he had a "D" by his name.
You can bet that 33% of Americans includes 100% of the Non-Moling DUmbasses.
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British Spy Boss: ‘LGBT+ Rights’ Are What ‘Distinguish Us from Putin’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/26/british-spy-boss-lgbt-rights-are-what-distinguish-us-from-putin/
“LGBT+ rights” are the most important “values and hard won freedoms” distinguishing “us” from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Richard Moore, chief of MI6, the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, wrote on Friday.
Moore did not specify if his use of “us” was a reference to the United Kingdom, the Anglosphere, or the broader West.
He expressed his sentiments via Twitter, relating his remarks to ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He included an acronym from “LGBT+ History Month,” with “LGBT+” for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans +.”
He wrote, “With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022.”
Moore highlighted an “LGBT+ support group” within MI6 to illustrate his emphasis of “LGBT+ rights” as the primary philosophy distinguishing “us from Putin.”
He added, “Introducing P: ‘I had to move for the job when I joined #MI6, so I was relieved to find out there was an LGBT+ network group. Through the group I’ve made some great friends in the office, and it’s reassuring to know it’s there for support if I need it.'”
Moore’s Twitter profile includes “he/him,” a reference to “preferred pronouns” in accordance with transgender ideology’s framing of sex as an arbitrary social construct.
Under Moore’s directorship, the MI6 recently warned the UK’s intelligence personnel of “white privilege,” “hierarchy,” and “gender biases” as part of an effort to develop a “diverse and inclusive culture” across the spy agency.
Weeks ago, the Times reported that MI6 recently began hiring foreigners as part of its “diversity” agenda.
Last year, the intelligence agency chief promised to use the MI6’s resources to spy on other countries to verify their compliance with “climate change” pledges — which he dubbed “green spying” — to address what he labelled a “climate emergency.”
The “climate emergency,” Moore claimed, is “the foremost international foreign policy agenda item for this country and for the planet.”
:thatsright: A supposedly educated person said this.
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Biden warns 'there's no sanction that is immediate' as US, allies target Russia over Ukraine invasion
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-warns-sanction-immediate-us-allies-target-russia-ukraine-invasion
President Biden, in a new interview published Saturday, warned that there is "no sanction that is immediate," just as the U.S. and allies are using sanctions as their main tool to target Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
"You have two options. Start a Third World War, go to war with Russia physically. Or two, make sure that a country that acts so contrary to international law ends up paying a price for having done it," he claimed in an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen when discussing the options for dealing with the invasion by Moscow.
Biden has announced multiple waves of sanctions on Russia this week, including on Thursday when he announced sanctions that would target four more major Russian banks, including VTB, and as well placing limits on exports.
Biden acknowledges no sanction is immediate.
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Chechen special forces 'hunters' are unleashed in Ukraine to detain or kill Kyiv officials - and are given 'decks of cards' with photographs of their targets
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10551327/Chechen-special-forces-hunters-unleashed-Ukraine-detain-kill-Kyiv-officials.html
A squad of Chechen special forces 'hunters' has been unleashed in Ukraine to detain or kill a set of specific Ukrainian officials.
Each soldier was reportedly given a special 'deck of cards' with Ukrainian officials' photos and descriptions on them, a Moscow Telegram channel with links to the security establishment reported.
The list is of officials and security officers suspected of 'crimes' by the Russian Investigative Committee, the report added.
It came as Ukraine's president admitted he is 'target number one' for Russian assassins in his capital, while his family is 'the number two goal' for Putin's hitmen.
The Chechen squad is thought to be in a Ukrainian forest and was allegedly given an 'order to kill' if those on the wanted list could not be detained.
Chechen special forces are in Ukraine. They are quite brutal.
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Nile Gardiner Retweeted
Elizabeth Campbell
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"We have captured around 200 Russian soldiers, some around 19 years old. Not trained at all. Badly equipped." Ukraninan Major General Borys Kremenetsky says. "We allow them to call their parents. Parents completely surprised."
This is the second 'report' of Russian soldiers not knowing why they were ordered into Ukraine that I've read today.
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Nile Gardiner Retweeted
Elizabeth Campbell
@ECampbell360
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"We have captured around 200 Russian soldiers, some around 19 years old. Not trained at all. Badly equipped." Ukraninan Major General Borys Kremenetsky says. "We allow them to call their parents. Parents completely surprised."
This is the second 'report' of Russian soldiers not knowing why they were ordered into Ukraine that I've read today.
And it's not the first conflict in which that's been the case. There were reports during the Battle of Grozny of Russian soldiers asking journalists what was going on and who was fighting whom.
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Ukraine invasion: Russian conscripts reportedly forced to sign military contracts, losing contact with family
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-invasion-russian-conscripts-military-contracts-family
Parents of Russian conscripts who say they've lost communications with their loved ones are pleading with Kremlin officials for answers as to where family members have been sent amid concerns they have been forced to sign contracts to fight as part of President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, according to the report.
Olga Larkina, the director of Russia’s Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, spoke to Russian investigative news outlet Meduza, describing how Russian conscripts – those fulfilling military enlistment requirements – had been pressured, or at times even forced to sign contracts to become soldiers for the Russian military.
"Mothers are telling us that their sons have been calling them and saying they’re being forced to sign contracts. We believe it’s wrong to force a conscript to become a contract soldier," Larkina said, according to the translated article. "The parents who have gotten in touch have told us their sons were just taken by military officers, stamped, and that’s it — now they’re contract soldiers."
Russian conscripts are forced to sign contracts and sever contact with families before being shipped off to Ukraine.
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Ukraine invasion: Russian conscripts reportedly forced to sign military contracts, losing contact with family
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-invasion-russian-conscripts-military-contracts-family
Russian conscripts are forced to sign contracts and sever contact with families before being shipped off to Ukraine.
Sounds like Putin is putting the inexperienced troops into the meat grinder first to wear down the Ukrainian defenses and saving the first string team to go in for the win.
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I haven't seen vids of 'crematorium-trucks' (Russians incinerate their-own dead, preferring to write He Died Gloriously letters to families), but I did see a vid of a rocket-launcher stuck in muddy snow as a car drove by...
WOMAN IN CAR: " What are you doing? "
SOLDIER IN SNOW: " You don't see us. "
" Why did you drive-off the road? "
" Just leave! "
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Kyiv’s mayor: mayor Vitali Klitschko was silent for several seconds when asked if there were plans to evacuate civilians if Russian troops managed to take Kyiv.
“We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked,” he finally said. “Right now we are encircled.”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-e9cd115540b398be26dfcaf472ec1621
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British Spy Boss: ‘LGBT+ Rights’ Are What ‘Distinguish Us from Putin’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/26/british-spy-boss-lgbt-rights-are-what-distinguish-us-from-putin/ :thatsright: A supposedly educated person said this.
The 600 lb. gorilla in the room has gotta ask -- does Mr. Moore take it up the ass? :whatever:
Kinda hard to believe that this identity culture crap has taken hold in MI6. What would James Bond think?
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The 600 lb. gorilla in the room has gotta ask -- does Mr. Moore take it up the ass? :whatever:
Kinda hard to believe that this identity culture crap has taken hold in MI6. What would James Bond think?
Please tell me you haven't forgotten Kim Philby -another known pervert- had a long and prosperous career in MI-6...
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EU will provide fighter planes (old MiGs?), among other things:
https://mobile.twitter.com/shashj/status/1498035551168983043
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'The encirclers' are encircled is probably why AP can't verify it.
France24 reported one convoy was 'captured intact'. Everybody surrendered. They thought they were on a training exercise.
The Chernobyl-situation sounds fascinating. Belaruss-villagers were helping Ukrainian-military funnel invaders into the radiation-zone by switching road-signs... with the exits blocked on the other side.
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-russia-nuclear-power-plant-chernobyl/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/28/reports-ukraine-and-russia-ceasefire-talks-have-started/
Reports: Ukraine and Russia Ceasefire Talks Have Started
Russia and Ukraine began talks Monday at the Belarus border as the conflict between the two neighbors enters its fifth day.
Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters via text message the face-to-face exchanges had begun.
The Ukrainian president’s office said earlier the talks’ aim was an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine, the Independent reports.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said 16 Ukrainian children have been killed and another 45 have been injured in the Russian invasion. He also added that over 4,500 Russian troops have been killed and urged Putin’s troops to lay down their guns and leave.
He added in a video message Monday that “every crime, every shelling by the occupiers bring our partners and us even closer.”
The Ukrainian delegation was the first to arrive for the talks with Russia , saying they were unclear whether they’ll lead to breakthrough.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) has also voted to hold a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to debate the crisis engulfing Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.
The meeting is set down for Monday at U.N. headquarters in New York, as Breitbart News reported.
Lets hope this is true. I'm thinking Russia was caught by surprise with the world's reaction.
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/28/reports-ukraine-and-russia-ceasefire-talks-have-started/
Reports: Ukraine and Russia Ceasefire Talks Have StartedLets hope this is true. I'm thinking Russia was caught by surprise with the world's reaction.
Russia lost leverage. They've lost leverage over just about everything in the world they had their hand in. That's stunning.
They'll start the talks by trying to 'regain' their old bully posture. But I don't think that's going to work. Those days ended forever, a week ago.
Russian troop-morale has to be rock-bottom.
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Please tell me you haven't forgotten Kim Philby -another known pervert- had a long and prosperous career in MI-6...
I kinda put Philby in as a, uh....one-off. Or maybe jackoff. Take your pick. :-)
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Russia's failures could lead to more indiscriminate attacks against Ukrainians, former Navy intel officer says
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-failures-could-lead-to-more-indiscriminate-attacks-against-ukrainians-former-navy-intel-officer-says
Russia could launch more indiscriminate attacks against Ukrainians because of its failure to quickly seize the capital, a retired Navy captain and former intelligence officer told Fox News.
"Because they haven't been as successful as they expected, I think we might unfortunately see the Russian forces behave a little more indiscriminately," said Steven Horrell, who's now a nonresident senior fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis. "This will start to turn into even more of a humanitarian crisis."
Monday marked the fifth day since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Western intelligence estimated Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, could have fallen into Russian control within a matter of days. But the Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have resisted Russian advances and maintained control of much of the country, including Kyiv.
Something to ponder.
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'Escalate to de-escalate': Experts say Putin's strategy may be to get more aggressive in war on Ukraine
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russia-putin-escalate-war
As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, some experts warn Russia might escalate the conflict further either in Ukraine or against the western nations supporting it, with the goal of forcing those nations to capitulate to its demands.
This strategy, former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Rebekah Koffler told Fox News, is called "escalate to de-escalate." It has roots in Russia's planning for a war against the United States, Koffler said, but similar thinking is now standard throughout Russia's military planning.
During a theoretical war with the U.S., Koffler said, Russia would strike first by "popping a low yield tactical nuke thinking that it's going to be such a psychological shock that the conflict would end."
In the context of the Ukraine war, that might mean that Russia would move to flatten cities like Kyiv with traditional weapons as long as Ukrainians continue to resist their invasion, according to Koffler.
What could happen.
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'Escalate to de-escalate': Experts say Putin's strategy may be to get more aggressive in war on Ukraine
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russia-putin-escalate-war
What could happen.
I don't see Putin backing down from this without first doing something over the top.
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EU will provide fighter planes (old MiGs?), among other things:
https://mobile.twitter.com/shashj/status/1498035551168983043
I saw an article in my news feed that it was going to be 56 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters and 14 Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft.
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https://nypost.com/2022/02/24/russia-has-mobile-crematoriums-that-evaporate-the-dead-report/
Russia has mobile crematoriums that ‘evaporate’ dead soldiers: report
Russia has mobile crematoriums in its arsenal that could follow invading forces and “evaporate” dead soldiers, according to a report.
The British Ministry of Defense released video of the trucks that can incinerate bodies one at a time and suggested Wednesday that the Kremlin might deploy them in its war with Ukraine to hide the number of casualties, the Telegraph reported.
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I saw an article in my news feed that it was going to be 56 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters and 14 Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft.
who is going to pilot those aircraft?
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who is going to pilot those aircraft?
From what I've heard it'll be Ukrainian Air Force pilots picking them up and flying back to Ukraine.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/nato-weapons-ukraine-russia.html?referringSource=articleShare
NATO Countries Pour Weapons Into Ukraine, Risking Conflict With Russia
BRUSSELS — The Dutch are sending rocket launchers for air defense. The Estonians are sending Javelin antitank missiles. The Poles and the Latvians are sending Stinger surface-to-air missiles. The Czechs are sending machine guns, sniper rifles, pistols and ammunition.
Even formerly neutral countries like Sweden and Finland are sending weapons. And Germany, long allergic to sending weapons into conflict zones, is sending Stingers as well as other shoulder-launched rockets.
In all, about 20 countries — most members of NATO and the European Union, but not all — are funneling arms into Ukraine to fight off Russian invaders and arm an insurgency, if the war comes to that.
At the same time, NATO is moving military equipment and as many as 22,000 more troops into member states bordering Russia and Belarus, to reassure them and enhance deterrence.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought European countries together, minds concentrated by the larger threat to European security presented by the Russia of President Vladimir V. Putin.
“European security and defense has evolved more in the last six days than in the last two decades,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, asserted in a speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday. Brussels has moved to “Europeanize” the efforts of member states to aid Ukraine with weapons and money and put down a marker for the bloc as a significant military actor.
But whether European weaponry will continue to reach the Ukrainian battlefield in time to make a difference is far from certain. However proud Brussels is of its effort, it is a strategy that risks encouraging a wider war and possible retaliation from Mr. Putin. The rush of lethal military aid into Ukraine from Poland, a member of NATO, aims, after all, to kill Russian soldiers.
Mr. Putin already sees NATO as committed to threaten or even destroy Russia through its support for Ukraine, as he has repeated in his recent speeches, even as he has raised the nuclear alert of his own forces to warn Europe and the United States of the risks of interference.
World wars have started over smaller conflicts, and the proximity of the war to NATO allies carries the danger that it could draw in other parties in unexpected ways.
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general, hit his constant themes again on Tuesday as he visited a Polish air base. “Putin’s war affects us all and NATO allies will always stand together to defend and protect each other,” he said. “Our commitment to Article 5, our collective defense clause, is ironclad.”
“There must be no space for miscalculation or misunderstanding,” Mr. Stoltenberg said last week. “We will do what it takes to defend every inch of NATO territory.”
But for now the fight is in Ukraine, and while NATO and European Union have made it clear that their soldiers would not fight Russia there, they are actively engaged in helping the Ukrainians to defend themselves.
Western weaponry has been entering Ukraine in relatively large but undisclosed amounts for the last several days. If it can be deployed quickly, it will have impact.
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Snipers must be having a field-day terrorizing the 40-mile-long convoy. They can leave, scout around, take naps, stash stuff, grab provisions, change positions...
The moron who marshalled the convoy to take that particular route has probably been beheaded by now.
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Russian general killed by sniper:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10573429/Top-Russian-general-killed-Ukrainian-sniper-Kyiv-claims-9-000-Putins-troops-died.html
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine-on-fire-after-shelling_4315760.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=gp
Russians shell Ukrainian Nuke Power Plant
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Good God.
Vlad, there's a special place in Hell for you and may you rot there when your tyrannical, egotistical, and bloodthirsty tour here in this life is over.
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Russian general killed by sniper:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10573429/Top-Russian-general-killed-Ukrainian-sniper-Kyiv-claims-9-000-Putins-troops-died.html
Good deal.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine-on-fire-after-shelling_4315760.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=gp
Russians shell Ukrainian Nuke Power Plant
scorched earth policy?
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scorched earth policy?
Doesn't seem to be outside the realm of possibility. That would likely get WW3 set off, but if Putin gets that desperate, it would likely be a short world war with everyone but China hitting Moscow with everything but the kitchen sink. Just my knee jerk reaction.
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Great reality for FOX's Greg Gutfeld at least, as reporter Steve Harrigan managed to filter Gutfeld's mother-in-law (a Russian, living in Ukraine) out of the Country after a perilous crosscountry dash.
Meanwhile, I'm having trouble believing the story of the 94-year-old Siege Of Leningrad survivor, being arrested by Russian-police in St. Petersburg. She's carrying overlarge, elaborately-painted anti-war signs, which looked like somebody just put in her hands... with a look of confusion on her face. The vid has staged CNN-style event written all over it.
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More Russians, Ukrainians seek asylum at U.S.-Mexico border
https://www.metro.us/more-russians-ukrainians-seek/
(Reuters) – A growing number of Russians and Ukrainians are traveling to Mexico, buying throwaway cars and driving across the border into the United States to seek asylum, a trend that could accelerate as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced more than a million people to flee their homes.
U.S. border officials encountered about 6,400 Russians in the four months between October 2021 and January of this year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data show. That’s more than the roughly 4,100 apprehended during the entire 2021 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. The jump is similar for Ukrainians, with a little more than 1,000 apprehended since October 2021 through January, compared to about 680 for all of the last fiscal year.
These migrants account for a slim fraction of the 670,000 apprehensions made by U.S. border agents in the first months of the 2022 fiscal year, CBP figures show. The majority of those stopped were from Mexico and Central America and were swiftly removed from the United States.
Some Russians and Ukrainians are heading to Mexico to head to America's border.
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More Russians, Ukrainians seek asylum at U.S.-Mexico border
https://www.metro.us/more-russians-ukrainians-seek/
Some Russians and Ukrainians are heading to Mexico to head to America's border.
Lovely. :whatever: They are of the mistaken belief that the USA is a haven of sanity.
It's not. Not with #SharterJoe being puppetized by the leftists.
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Ukraine President: Biden to Blame for Russian Invasion
https://neonnettle.com/news/18473-ukraine-president-biden-to-blame-for-russian-invasion
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has told U.S. senators that Democrat Joe Biden is responsible for the Russian invasion because he could have prevented the war but failed to do so.
Zelensky blasted Biden's weakness during his Zoom call with members of Congress Saturday morning.
“If you had started sanctions months ago, there would not have been war,” Zelensky said, a Senate source told the New York Post.
Several officials, including Zelensky, had said that sanctions could have prevented the invasion from happening.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not happy with President Joe Biden.
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Zelensky pleads for US military aid, says if Biden acted sooner ‘there would not have been war’
https://nypost.com/2022/03/05/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky-zooms-with-us-lawmakers/
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chided the Biden administration for not slapping sanctions on Russia’s Vladimir Putin sooner, during an emotional Zoom call with 280 US senators and House members Saturday morning.
“If you had started sanctions months ago, there would not have been war,” he said during the just under one-hour call, a Senate source told The Post.
Zelensky thanked the US for the assistance it has already sent, and pleaded for additional American military aid for his besieged country.
“These are devils that are doing this,” Zelensky said of the invading Russian troops, GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana told Fox News.
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Looks suspicious. Looks like a fake-invoice trying to bait Tucker Carlson's people...
Though it does target red blood-cells, The 75-kilodalton antigen of Bartonella bacilliformis is a structural homolog of the cell division protein FtsZ Abstract A genomic library of Bartonella bacilliformis was constructed and screened with human anti-Bartonella serum from a patient with the chronic, verruga peruana phase of bartonellosis. -Better known as 'cat-scratch disease'.
30-miligrams of it, alongwith 12-miligrams of bartonella mouse-immune serum were sent to the American Embassy in Tblisi, Georgia from the CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado in May 2017.
* DIPLOMATIC CARGO * Packaged in dry-ice.
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Why Russian Generals keep getting killed:
https://taskandpurpose.com/analysis/russian-military-generals-killed-ukraine/?taid=623b89824d7bbc0001f95dbd&utm_campaign=trueanthem_manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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The Ruble Regains 100% of Its Loss After Russia Invaded Ukraine, Why?
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-ruble-regains-100-of-its-loss-after-russia-invaded-ukraine-why
Key Points
- When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, it took 84 rubles to buy 1 US dollar.
- On March 7, it took 131.2 rubles to buy 1 US dollar.
- That's a 36% decline in the rubble vs the US dollar.
- The ruble is now back where it started on February 24.
Conventional Wisdom
NEW AMERICA
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Mar 30, 2022
Nothing to see here
*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
PUTIN, DRAGHI HAVE DISCUSSED PAYMENTS FOR GAS IN RUSSIAN ROUBLES - TASS
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
@MishGEA
Ironically, your sarcasm is actually correct!
There is indeed nothing to this. And it is not related to Ruble rally.
1:08 PM · Mar 30, 2022
Putin and Italy's Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, have discussed payments for gas in Russian rubles.
What's the Difference?
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
@MishGEA
People just don't get this
Ruble rally totally unrelated to demand payment for oil and gas in Rubles.
Rather, it's other things Russia is doing to avoid sanctions and internally force demand for rubles.
Keith Weiner
@RealKeithWeiner
What is the difference?
1 India pays dollars to Russia for oil, Russia buys rubles
2 India buys rubles, pays rubles to Russia for oil
Optics.
The latter fires up the imagination about Russian's monetary prowess, alleged strong ruble, and even GOLD STANDARD!
12:59 PM · Mar 30, 2022
Weiner correctly notes the imagination.
Oil for Rubles, Who Cares?
Case 1: To get rubles to buy oil, Europe sells Euros to Russia central bank. Europe immediately send the rubles it received straight back to Russia to pay for the the oil. Russia central bank accumulates euros.
Case 2: Russia sells oil for euros. Russia central bank accumulates the exact same number of Euros as in case number one.
The currency exchange takes place in seconds. Europe does not have to hold rubles to buy oil.
This is just more of the "oil priced in euros" stupidity. No one will have to hold rubles to buy Russian oil. Or gas. The Ruble does not become a reserve currency.
There is perhaps some small psychological impact, but there is no real impact unless Europe actually held ruble reserves, and here's a hint: Europe wouldn't.
Visa and Mastercard left Russia.
President Biden
President Biden
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As a result of our unprecedented sanctions, the ruble was almost immediately reduced to rubble.
The Russian economy is on track to be cut in half.
It was ranked the 11th biggest economy in the world before this invasion — and soon, it will not even rank among the top 20.
5:10 PM · Mar 26, 2022
Biden says "Ruble reduced to Rubble because of sanctions."
It took another three days from that Tweet for the ruble to regain all of its losses. Why?
In three words: Sanctions Don't Work. Here are some examples.
Parallel Credit Card Payment System
The Wall Street Journal reports Russia Built Parallel Payments System That Escaped Western Sanctions
Visa and Mastercard pulled the plug on Russia's credit cards. But following the 2014 war in which Visa and Mastercard did the same, Russia took measures to not let that happen again.
Instead, Putin implemented a National Payment Card System—known by its Russian initials NSPK. Visa and Mastercard went along with it.
In 2015 Russia then forced the use of Mir cards based on NSPK.
Those cards do not use the US payment system.
One irony is that instead of Visa and Mastercard getting the fees, Russia's central bank collected 8.2 billion rubles in net profit, or about $94 million at current exchange rates.
Russia actually profited from Visa and Mastercard sanctions.
Long read, but worth reading.
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Russia-Ukraine War: More than 900 civilian bodies found in Kyiv region
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ukraine-russia-updates-04-16-2022
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Not worthy of it's own thread, but too good not to share.
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Not worthy of it's own thread, but too good not to share.
AKA Russia has won the coin toss and has elected to recieve.
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AKA Russia has won the coin toss and has elected to recieve.
:lol: :hi5:
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Ukraine Updates: Civilians Still Trapped in Mariupol, Nine Killed in Donetsk Region
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/ukraine-updates-civilians-still-trapped-in-mariupol-nine-killed-in-donetsk-region/
Day 69 of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The evacuation of the steelworks plant in Mariupol started yesterday but hundreds or thousands remain trapped in the devastated city.
Russia appears weaker in easter Ukraine yet nine people died in the Donetsk region after intense shelling.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov started a war with words with Israel, saying Hitler was Jewish.
Also, does Russian President Vladimir Putin have cancer? Reports say he will have cancer surgery soon. I said on the day he started this invasion he either lost his mind, has cancer, or dying.
People trapped inside Azovstal steel plant in war ravaged Mariupol.
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Ukraine wants big banks to be prosecuted for ‘war crimes,’ Zelenskyy’s top economic aide says
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/26/ukraine-wants-jpmorgan-citi-hsbc-prosecuted-for-war-crimes-zelenskyy-aide.html
Major U.S. and European banks should be prosecuted for “committing war crimes” over their financing of trade with the Russian regime, according to a top aide to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Oleg Ustenko, economic advisor to Zelenskyy, said the Ukrainian government believes banks, such as JPMorgan, HSBC and Citi, are aiding the Kremlin’s war efforts in Ukraine through financing companies that trade oil with Russia.
“Everybody who is financing these war criminals, who are doing these terrible things in Ukraine, are also committing war crimes in our logic,” he told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble Tuesday on “Capital Connection.”
JPMorgan, HSBC and Citi did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on those allegations.
Asked directly if he wants to see these banks prosecuted for war crimes, Ustenko said: “Exactly.”
Ukrainian government wants to charge banks for war crimes through oil trade with Russia.
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Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new
Schools and hospitals used as military bases by Ukrainian forces
‘We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price’ - resident in city of Bakhmut
‘Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law’ - Agnès Callamard
The Ukrainian military has endangered Ukrainian civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas - including in schools and hospitals - as it has sought to repel the Russian invasion, Amnesty International said today.
Ukraine’s tactics have violated international humanitarian law as they’ve turned civilian objects into military targets. The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure.
Ukraine has used hospitals and schools as military bases. Weapons have been placed in residential areas.
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**** Amnesty International.
It's almost impossible to defend a territory if the troops are going to be prohibited from trampling some pearl clutcher's flower beds.
Either the Ukrainians want to avoid being enveloped into the Russian Empire again, or they don't.