#crimea blasts

[ysbnews]

Russia Cannot Stop Attacks on Occupied Crimea 

🎬  War Analysis By Jake Broe   |  8/18/2022    |  ⏱️ 19’58”span / 48K views 

The Ukrainian military this week claimed responsibility for the attack on the airfield near Simferopol in Crimea. 

Russia has no response for any of these attacks.  Russia keeps making errors that are costing the lives of their leadership and propagandists. 

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Comment By Blake C.:  I always rush to watch these update videos when you put them out, this war has been very fascinating to watch. Great stuff, and glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Adrian's Channel:  More good news for Ukraine! It's about time the Russians in occupied Crimea feel the fear of not being safe. I am happy that they are all going home to mother Russia!

Yoko F:  I feel that these airmen are loading their love, respect, prayers and all the positive energy as well. Glory to all heroes who fight for freedom🌹Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 

Ajit Advani:  Great content as usual. Greetings from India. Loved the loading of ammo clip. Imagine the logistics of loading, flying the consignments accross continents to Poland and then getting accross to the frontlines. Only the US can do such fantastic stuff. 

Nancy Ruiz Perez:  I love how you show the values and humanity of all these people contributing for Ukraine success!

Robin Stevenson:  Jake, I love the way you put a human touch into these videos and do your best to stay upbeat.  Your videos are informative and also lift my spirits about the situation. 

Andrew Ackerley:  Thank you America. Great video Jake. You are doing a stirling job to help Ukraine win this crazy war against Putin. Sláva Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Anne Austin:  The very existence of a "436th Aerial Port Squadron" in the US armed forces just really drives home how massively powerful the US is militarily. 😳 As a UK person, I'm damned glad we're on the same side.

Rob Whitney:  I think we all agree Russia can’t hold extended lines, they can flatten certain areas but their lack of training, lack of professionalism and and WWII tactics won’t work 😎

harmless:  For once I have to agree with Putler: Russian weapons have been tested in battle — and found to be severely lacking. :P

Kathryn Robertson:  Thanks for a great update, as usual! It always makes my day when I see one of your notifications come through because I know we will get the truth from you without the hype! Praying the Ukrainians get their country back and the aggressors get exactly what they deserve! Fingers crossed for every bit of good news now, as winter approaches. Stay Gold!

Chet Pomeroy:  Your videos are VERY informative, Jake. I'm surprised the locals in that Ukrainian city didn't anchor those Czech hedgehogs into the pavement. That's what the East Germans did in the death strip on the east side of the Berlin wall, especially by Potsdamer Platz. 

terrysky83:  Jake, I adore a piece of russian bad news as much as you do.  Those orcs just can't help but show how hideously incompetent they are.

Christiane069:  Jake, Thank you for the Russian movie. This Ukrainian film maker is so modern for his time. It is amazing that the Stalin gestapo did not distrioed it as it was filmed during a very repressive period in Russia's history. What's new there, nothing change.

Comment By Antonio Grancino:  Jake's site is a gold mine of fair and accurate information about the "special operation" in Ukraine.  Keep up the good work !

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#jake broe #war analysis #russia-ukraine war #russia #putin #ukraine #zelensky #crimea blasts #crimea exodus #khekh #bridge #military logistics #black sea #russia is losing #ukraine will win #slava ukraini #🇺🇦

[don-lichterman]

Sky News Breakfast: Kyiv hit by series of explosions

Sky News Breakfast: Kyiv hit by series of explosions

On Sky News Breakfast with Kay Burley: – Ukrainian capital Kyiv targeted by missile strikes for the first time in months – Could the warning on winter blackouts lead to our coal power stations being fired up again? – And as Taiwan’s President says the country will bolster its defences amid tensions with China, we speak to the island’s Deputy Foreign Minister.  Plus all the day’s headlines and…

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#Beijing #BLACKOUTS #BLASTS #Breakfast #Breakfast in full #bridge #china #COAL #Conservative #COST OF LIVING #cost of living uk #CRIMEA #ELECTRICITY #ENERGY #energy bills #explosions #gas #Katie Piper #Kay Burley #Kyiv #kyiv explosions today #Labour #LATEST NEWS #mental health #Petrol station #PRESIDENT PUTIN #putin #russia #Service station #Sky

[lejournaldupeintre]

Vladimir Putin calls blast on Crimea-Russia bridge an ‘act of terror’

Vladimir Putin calls blast on Crimea-Russia bridge an ‘act of terror’

The blast on Saturday on the bridge over the Kerch Strait, a key supply route for Moscow’s forces in southern Ukraine, had prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials but no claim of responsibility. The bridge is also a major artery for the port of Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea fleet is based. The damage to the bridge, which had been an imposing symbol of Russia’s annexation of…

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#blast #bridge #Crimea #explosions #Putin #Russia #Ukraine

[classyclips]

#ukraine #crimea #novofedorivka #blasts rocks russian airbase #saky military base

[niveditaabaidya]

Odesa Port Infrastructure Attacks Kills One. #ukraine #odesa #blast #cri...

#youtube #Odesa Port Infrastructure Attacks Kills One. ukraine odesa blast crimea bakhmut donetsk Russia launched a missile attack overnight into Th

[globalcourant]

Nine Russian warplanes destroyed in Crimea blasts, claims Kiev

Nine Russian warplanes destroyed in Crimea blasts, claims Kiev

Ukraine calls on the West to impose a blanket travel ban on Russians as angry Moscow steps up its fierce military offensive against Kiev on the 168th day of the conflict. Powerful explosions rocked the Russian air base in Crimea in what may mark an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. (AP) Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Ukraine says nine Russian warplanes destroyed in Crimea blasts Ukraine’s air…

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#blasts #Claims #Crimea #destroyed #Kiev #Russian #warplanes

[lookninjas]

You know, it's interesting to me that I saw an article as I was scrolling through my dash this morning that (supposedly) blames the U.S. for being deeply involved in a genocide in Sudan. You might think from such a description that we'd be talking about U.S. military aid or boots on the ground or the CIA or something like that, and not just the Trump administration tanking our diplomatic efforts and Biden's administration not making the best decisions to right the ship. You might also think that such an article would not include a section like this:

David Satterfield, who replaced Feltman as US special envoy to the Horn of Africa and who has since resigned, said that Washington did not have anything but bad choices in Sudan, and therefore had to strike deals with the Sudanese military. According to Satterfield, “If there is ever an opportunity to return to a path towards restoration of a civilian-led government, you’re going to have to talk to the military then as well.

You also might not think that such an article would outright reference Russian involvement in Sudan, which it does.

Russia believes that its strong presence in Sudan will augment its status in Africa and the Middle East, which is considered an American redoubt. Since 2014, and with Moscow’s aspirations to exploit African mineral riches, the Kremlin has strengthened its ties to Sudan in order to ameliorate western sanctions following its invasion of Crimea, sanctions that became even harsher after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.16 In 2017, former Sudanese President al-Bashir visited Russia and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two countries agreed to establish a holding company run by the paramilitary Wagner Group to mine gold ore. Russia also signed a 25-year lease in December 2020 to build a military base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea that can receive nuclear-powered ships. It was also interesting that Hemedti headed an official delegation to Moscow on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And while we're talking about Russian involvement in Sudan, which is why I'm here in the first place, it's really really really interesting to me that this article was phrased as proof that the U.S. was heavily involved in genocide in Sudan, despite the fact that the Russian Wagner group (accused of war crimes in Ukraine) has been providing missiles and military training to the Sudanese paramilitary group RSF while smuggling gold out of Sudan to fund their own activities in Ukraine. Fun fact about the Wagner group: They're also heavily involved in social media misinformation campaigns.

Wasn't there a Russian misinformation campaign on tumblr leading up to the Presidential elections in 2016?

And despite the "mysterious" death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash (a short time after his aborted march on Moscow), Russia is still working on bringing the Wagner organization back under their control. Because, you know, they still have that whole invasion of Ukraine they're working on. An invasion of Ukraine that would sure be a whole lot easier for them if they could convince Americans to stop providing military support to Ukraine. They're already doing pretty nicely with the Republican party, but the Democrats (and the American left in general) have been harder to get on-side.

It does kind of feel like tying American military involvement in other countries to active genocide would be a great way to discourage people on the American left from supporting continued involvement in Ukraine, wouldn't it?

We're slightly less than a year away from the next American presidential election. There is no reason to believe that the Russian propaganda machine, which has already been operating at full blast since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, is going to slow down. This quote from the linked article is particularly chilling:

A particular challenge is that people tend to spread falsehoods “farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth”; this is particularly the case for false political news (Vosoughi, Roy and and Aral, 2018[7]). For example, one study found that tweets containing false information were 70% more likely to be retweeted than accurate tweets (Brown, 2020[8]). Another study found that false information on Facebook attracts six times more engagement than factual posts (Edelson, 2021[9]). In addition, feedback loops between the platforms and traditional media can serve to further amplify disinformation, magnifying the risk that disinformation can be used to deliberately influence public conversations, as well as confuse and discourage the public.

I think it's important to remember, especially now, that we are capable of spreading misinformation. The article about U.S. involvement in Sudan wasn't placed on there by an algorithm. This is fucking tumblr. That was one of my mutuals. Because they're concerned about American military intervention and they're against genocide and it sounded bad and they were upset and they didn't think to read the article. Because they didn't spend the time of Prigozhin's march on Moscow mainlining information on the Wagner group the way that I did, so they didn't go "Hey, Sudan? Wait a minute --" the way I did. Because misinformation that isn't targeted at your group is designed to be easy to spot, so you'll think that the misinformation that is targeted to your group will also be easy to spot, and it fucking isn't.

Because this culture of "If you care, you'll share" has gotten people to click that reblog button without thinking twice about it.

Don't keep falling for it. You don't have to spend an hour digging up sources and pulling out quotes for a ten-note post the way that I did. I'm like this as a human. It's fine if you're not. But if you're not even going to click the link to read the article and actually read it critically (or if there's no sources at all except a twitter screenshot, which I've also seen quite a bit of), then don't reblog it. Save it as a draft for when you have time to do the research, or just don't do anything with it at all. You're not obligated.

And if you have the relevant background to spot the disinfo, I mean -- again, look, you're not obligated to take that hour and search those sources. Even I don't do this all the time. It's hard, it's frustrating, and it will not spread the way the disinfo does. I'm gonna see that genocide post like five times at least on my dash, and I'm probably going to see it at least once from someone who has at least liked this post (if not reblogged it as well). But if you can. If you have the energy and the time. Try to put a little info out there. It might help someone.

That's all. Be good. Be skeptical.

#disinformation #misinformation #russia #wagner group #sudan #ukraine #like i don't have mad love for the us military industrial complex either #but that doesn't mean i'm going to blindly support russian misinfo campaigns designed at distracting from their own atrocities #we can suck and they can suck we are both capable of sucking #but the us military is under the control of biden and russia's is under the control of putin and they're honestly not comparable right now #like it's not even close #so try not to fall for it #we all fail at that sometimes but try

[ukrainenews]

The wall of a major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war rushed to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the destruction.

Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River in an area that Moscow controls, while Russian officials blamed Ukrainian bombardment in the contested area. It was not possible to verify the claims.

The potentially far-reaching environmental and social consequences of the disaster quickly became clear as homes, streets and businesses flooded downstream and emergency crews began evacuations; officials raced to check cooling systems at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant; and authorities expressed concern about supplies of drinking water to the south in Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

Both Russian and Ukrainian authorities brought in trains and buses for residents. About 22,000 people live in areas at risk of flooding in Russian-controlled areas, while 16,000 live in the most critical zone in Ukrainian-held territory, according to official tallies. Neither side reported any deaths or injuries.

The dam break added a stunning new dimension to Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its 16th month. Ukrainian forces were widely seen to be moving forward with a long-anticipated counteroffensive in patches along more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of front line in the east and south.

It was not immediately clear whether either side benefits from the damage to the dam, since both Russian-controlled and Ukrainian-held lands are at risk. The damage could also hinder Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the south and distract its government, while Russia depends on the dam to supply water to Crimea.

Patricia Lewis, director of the International Security Program at Chatham House think tank in London, said apportioning blame is difficult but “there are all sorts of reasons why Russia would do this.”

“There were reports (last fall) of Russians having mined the reservoir. The question we should pose is why the Ukrainians would do this to themselves, given this is Ukrainian territory,” she said.

Experts have previously said the dam was suffering from disrepair. David Helms, a retired American scientist who has monitored the reservoir since the start of the war, said in an e-mail that it wasn’t clear if the damage was deliberate or simple neglect from Russian forces occupying the facility.

But Helms reserved judgement, also noting a Russian history of attacking dams.

Authorities, experts and residents have expressed concern for months about water flows through — and over — the Kakhovka dam. After heavy rains and snow melt last month, water levels rose beyond normal levels, flooding nearby villages. Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

Amid official outrage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he convened an urgent meeting of the National Security Council. He alleged Russian forces set off a blast inside the dam structure at 2:50 a.m. (2350 GMT Monday) and said about 80 settlements were in danger. Zelenskyy said in October his government had information that Russia had mined the dam and power plant.

But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it “a deliberate act of sabotage by the Ukrainian side … aimed at cutting water supplies to Crimea.”

Both sides warned of a looming environmental disaster. Ukraine’s Presidential Office said some 150 metric tons of oil escaped from the dam machinery and that another 300 metric tons could still leak out.

Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s President’s Office, posted a video showing swans swimming near an administrative building in the flooded streets of Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, a city in the Kherson region where some 45,000 people lived before the war. Other footage he posted showed flood waters reaching the second floor of the building.

Ukraine’s Interior Ministry urged residents of 10 villages on the Dnieper’s right bank and parts of the city of Kherson downriver to gather essential documents and pets, turn off appliances, and leave, while cautioning against possible disinformation.

The Russian-installed mayor of occupied Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, said it was being evacuated as water poured into the city.

Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom said in a Telegram statement that the damage to the dam “could have negative consequences” for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is Europe’s biggest, but wrote that for now the situation is “controllable.”

The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement there was “no immediate risk to the safety of the plant,” which requires water for its cooling system.

It said that IAEA staff on site have been told the dam level is falling by 5 centimeters (2 inches) an hour. At that rate, the supply from the reservoir should last a few days, it said.

The plant also has alternative sources of water, including a large cooling pond than can provide water “for some months,” the statement said.

Ukrainian authorities have previously warned that the dam’s failure could unleash 18 million cubic meters (4.8 billion gallons) of water and flood Kherson and dozens of other areas where thousands of people live.

The World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development, a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization, estimated that nearly 100 villages and towns would be flooded. It also reckoned that the water level would start dropping only after five-seven days.

A total collapse in the dam would wash away much of the broad river’s left bank, according to the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Working Group, an organization of environmental activists and experts documenting the war’s environmental effects.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that “a global ecological disaster is playing out now, online, and thousands of animals and ecosystems will be destroyed in the next few hours.”

Video posted online showed floodwaters inundating a long roadway; another showed a beaver scurrying for high ground from rising waters.

The incident also drew international condemnation, including from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who said the “outrageous act … demonstrates once again the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine.”

Ukraine controls five of the six dams along the Dnieper, which runs from its northern border with Belarus down to the Black Sea and is crucial for the country’s drinking water and power supply.

Ukraine’s state hydro power generating company wrote in a statement that “The station cannot be restored.” Ukrhydroenergo also claimed Russia blew up the station from inside the engine room.

Leontyev, the Russian-appointed mayor, said numerous Ukrainian strikes on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant destroyed its valves, and “water from the Kakhovka reservoir began to uncontrollably flow downstream.” Leontyev added that damage to the station was beyond repair, and it would have to be rebuilt.

Ukraine and Russia have previously accused each other of targeting the dam with attacks.

#ukraine #war in ukraine #russia #kakhovka dam #nova kakhovka #zaporizhzhia nuclear plant #crimea

[ysbnews]

War With Russia Will Be Over When Putin Leaves Crimea:  Says Zelensky — By Michael Knowles

EXPRESS  |  8/11/2022 — Volodymyr Zelensky declared the war with Russia will be over when Crimea is liberated.

Ukraine's president hinted at an offensive to retake the occupied peninsula after an alleged daring raid on a Russian airbase 125 miles inside it. Zelensky said: “We will not forget the Russian war against Ukraine began with the occupation of Crimea. This Russian war… began with Crimea and must end with Crimea — with its liberation.”

The president did not mention the attack on the Saky airbase in Crimea. But sources said 9 Russian fighter jets were destroyed in the huge explosions on Tuesday.  Details are scarce but a Ukrainian government official said special forces were involved, marking a significant moment in the war.

It demonstrates how Ukraine is developing its capabilities to strike deep behind Russian lines. Its special forces are also trying to coordinate guerrilla activity by Ukrainians trapped inside Russian-held areas. The Saky military base is near Novofedorivka, in the west of Crimea, near seaside resorts popular with Russian tourists.

It is believed one person died and 13 were wounded in the attack, which also sent tourists fleeing in panic as huge plumes of smoke began to billow over the coastline.

Read on Express  ▶️ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1653552/president-zelensky-end-war-putin-claims-crimea 

#ukraine #russia #zelensky #putin #russia ukraine war #russia-ukraine war #kyiv #russia is losing #slava ukraini #crimea blasts #Saky military base

[dialogue-queered]

11 June 2023

Beneath the veneer of Russian military “tactics”, you see the stupid leer of destruction for the sake of it. The Kremlin can’t create, so all that is left is to destroy. Not in some pseudo-glorious self-immolation, the people behind atrocities are petty cowards, but more like a loser smearing their faeces over life. In Russia’s wars the very senselessness seems to be the sense.

After the casual mass executions at Bucha; after the bombing of maternity wards in Mariupol; after the laying to waste of whole cities in Donbas; after the children’s torture chambers, the missiles aimed at freezing civilians to death in the dead of winter, we now have the apocalyptic sight of the waters of the vast Dnipro, a river that when you are on it can feel as wide as a sea, bursting through the destroyed dam at Kakhovka. The reservoir held as much water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Its destruction has already submerged settlements where more than 40,000 people live. It has already wiped out animal sanctuaries and nature reserves. It will decimate agriculture in the bread basket of Ukraine that feeds so much of the world, most notably in the Middle East and Africa. To Russian genocide add ecocide.

The dam has been controlled by Russia for more than a year. The Ukrainian government has been warning that Russia had plans to blast it since October.

Seismologists in Norway have confirmed that massive blasts, the type associated with explosives rather than an accidental breach, came from the reservoir the night of its destruction. Some – including the American pro-Putin media personality Tucker Carlson – argue Russia couldn’t be behind the devastation, given the damage has spread to Russian-controlled territories, potentially restricting water supply to Crimea. But if “Russia wouldn’t damage its own people” is your argument then it’s one that doesn’t hold, pardon the tactless pun, much water. One of the least accurate quotes about Russia is Winston Churchill’s line about it being “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” This makes it sound as if Russia is driven by some theory of rational choice – when century after century the opposite appears to be the case.

Few have captured the Russian cycle of self-destruction and the destruction of others as well as the Ukrainian literary critic Tetyana Ogarkova. In her rewording of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Russian classic novel Crime and Punishment, a novel about a murderer who kills simply because he can, Ogarkova calls Russia a culture where you have “crime without punishment, and punishment without crime”. The powerful murder with impunity; the victims are punished for no reason.

When not bringing humanitarian aid to the front lines, Ogarkova presents a podcast together with her husband, the philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko. It’s remarkable for showing two people thinking calmly while under daily bombardment. It reminds me of German-Jewish philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, who kept writing lucidly even as they fled the Nazis. As they try to make sense of the evil bearing down on their country, Ogarkova and Yermolenko note the difference between Hitler and Stalin: while Nazis had some rules about who they punished (non-Aryans; communists) in Stalin’s terror anyone could be a victim at any moment. Random violence runs through Russian history.Reacting to how Vladimir Putin’s Russia is constantly changing its reasons for invading Ukraine – from “denazification” to “reclaiming historic lands” to “Nato expansion” – Ogarkova and Yermolenko decide that the very brutal nature of the invasion is its essence: the war crimes are the point. Russia claims to be a powerful “pole” in the world to balance the west – but has failed to create a successful political model others would want to join. So it has nothing left to offer except to drag everyone down to its own depths.“How dare you live like this,” went a resentful piece of graffiti by Russian soldiers in Bucha. “What’s the point of the world when there is no place for Russia in it,” complains Putin. After the dam at Kakhovka was destroyed, a General Dobruzhinsky crowed on a popular Russian talkshow: “We should blow up the Kyiv water reservoir too.” “Why?” asked the host. “Just to show them.” But, as Ogarkova and Yermolenko explore, Russians also send their soldiers to die senselessly in the meat grinder of the Donbas, their bodies left uncollected on the battlefield, their relatives not informed of their death so as to avoid paying them. On TV, presenters praise how “no one knows how to die like us”. Meanwhile, villagers on the Russian-occupied side of the river are being abandoned by the authorities. Being “liberated” by Russia means joining its empire of humiliation.

Where does this drive to annihilation come from? In 1912 the Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein – who was murdered by the Nazis, while her three brothers were killed in Stalin’s terror -first put forward the idea that people were drawn to death as much as to life. She drew on themes from Russian literature and folklore for her theory of a death drive, but the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, first found her ideas too morbid. After the First World War, he came to agree with her. The desire for death was the desire to let go of responsibility, the burden of individuality, choice, freedom – and sink back into inorganic matter. To just give up. In a culture such as Russia’s, where avoiding facing up to the dark past with all its complex webs of guilt and responsibility is commonplace, such oblivion can be especially seductive.

But Russia is also sending out a similar message to Ukrainians and their allies with these acts of ultra-violent biblical destruction: give in to our immensity, surrender your struggle. And for all Russia’s military defeats and actual socio-economic fragility, this propaganda of the deed can still work.

The reaction in the west to the explosion of the dam has been weirdly muted. Ukrainians are mounting remarkable rescue operations, while Russia continues to shell semi-submerged cities, but they are doing it more or less alone. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been mystified by the “zero support” from international organisations such as the UN and Red Cross.

Perhaps the relative lack of support comes partly because people feel helpless in the face of something so immense, these Cecil B DeMille-like scenes of giant rivers exploding. It’s the same helplessness some feel when faced with the climate crisis. It’s apposite that the strongest response to Russia’s ecocide came not from governments but the climate activist Greta Thunberg, who clearly laid the blame of what happened on Russia and demanded it be held accountable. But there’s been barely a peep out of western governments or the UN.

Pushing the strange lure of death, oblivion and just giving up is the Russian gambit. How much life do we have left in us?

Peter Pomerantsev is the author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

#the guardian #op-ed #the observer #peter pomerantsev #2023 #russo-ukraine war #ukraine #russia

[thelostdreamsthings]

The USA loves democracy unless the election results are unfavourable to the American Empire — like it happened with the referendum in Crimea in 2014. Then the propaganda repeats a million times, "Putin invaded Crimea/Ukraine."

Ukraine is not a sovereign country. Hasn't been since the 1990s, due to US money & influence.

2004: US overturned the Ukrainian election with color revolution.

2014: US overthrew Ukraine's democratically elected Ukraine's President. US Senator John McCain in Kiev.

It's just insanity. Can you imagine a Russian or Chinese leader visiting Mexico, riling up the crowd against the President, overthrowing the President, and installing a new anti-American leader... without an election????

This was the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, funded by George Soros. When the pro-US candidate/puppet lost the election, the Soros mobs flooded the capital and demanded a new election. "Democracy" -- American style. This was the real beginning of the end of Ukraine.

In Dec 2013, while the Maidan Coup was still going on in Kiev, cookie monster and regime-change expert Victoria Nuland gave a speech where she admitted that the US had spent whopping $5 billion buying Ukrainian elites -- oops, spreading democracy.

After the 2004 coup, the US installed a dumb but beautiful puppet. And she allowed the US Pentagon to start a whole bunch of bioweapon labs in Ukraine. Here's then Senator Obama visiting Ukraine's biolabs. When Putin invaded Ukraine, the US quickly destroyed all those labs!

❓Any European country condemn american war crimes against weak nations?

❓Are they demand drop charges against Julian Assange?

❓Are they question about blast gas pipeline?

❓Are they question NATO crimes against humanity?

EU states are not sovereign.

#ukraine

[niveditaabaidya]

Ukraine Investigating Dam Blast As War Crime. #nato #kherson #ukraine #e...

#youtube #Ukraine Investigating Dam Blast As War Crime. nato kherson ukraine energy eu europe crimea news Ukraine’s prosecutor-general told the Reut

[rvps2001]

Russia-Ukraine Daily Briefing

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Tuesday Briefing:

- Russia-Ukraine Black Sea shipping deal was almost reached last month - Ukraine backers blast ‘double standard’ after allies rush to Israel’s defense - Russian billionaires try to hide ties with Kremlin by editing Wikipedia pages - Ukraine, Norway strike security accord - Netherlands allocates $4.7B to support Ukraine until 2026 - Ukraine strikes Russian command post in Crimea - Netherlands, Germany, Canada to send drones to Ukraine - Ukraine uses British cruise missiles to hit Russian military HQ in occupied Luhansk - Ukraine's modernized sea drones can carry 1 ton of explosives over 1,000 km away

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#russia ukraine war #ukraine russia war #ukraine war #russian army #russian war crimes #news #newsletter #russia #ukraine

[kamogryadeshi]

The Russian occupiers attacked Odesa region with supersonic Onyx anti-ship missiles, which were fired from the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Southern Defense Forces reported.

The rockets hit the boarding house building in the recreation area and the granary of the port infrastructure. Debris from the rockets and the blast wave caused a fire in the garage cooperative. Several houses were also damaged.

As a result of the Russian attack on Odesa region, four people were injured, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Kiper, said. People were slightly injured by broken glass. They were provided with all necessary medical assistance.

Photo: Telegram/Southern Defense Forces of Ukraine

#ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #russia invades ukraine #russian war crimes #russia ukraine war #russian invasion #russian agression #russian terrorism #russia must burn #fuck russia #russia

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.16 (after 1970)

1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors. 1978 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73. 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war. 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity. 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991. 1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded. 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. 2001 – A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades. 2003 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home. 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. 2010 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire. 2012 – Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket. 2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. 2016 – A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. 2016 – Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18. 2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%. 2021 – Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day. 2022 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

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[tomorrowusa]

The US is looking more favorably on supplying Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS). They have a range of 190 miles/305 km and would enable Ukraine to hit almost anyplace in Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian invaders.

In the region, Romania, Greece, Turkey, and Poland all have ATCAMS. Lithuania and Estonia are in the process of obtaining them.

US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discuss the delivery of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, according to Jake Sullivan, the United States national security advisor to President Joe Biden. Joe Biden is considering providing Ukraine with long-range missiles. Still, the decision regarding the supply of ATACMS missiles has not yet been made, Jake Sullivan said during the Aspen Institute’s annual security forum. The US will start training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets within “a matter of weeks,” according to Jake Sullivan.

Ukraine does have its own weapons program. Most famously, Ukraine sank the Moskva, flag ship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, with its own R-360 Neptune missile.

Ukraine's modification of drones is world class. It just used one to attack a Russian ammunition warehouse and oil depot in occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian drone blasts munitions depot in Crimea, as Zelensky says counteroffensive about to ‘gain pace’

But drones have a limited strike capability and new weapons take time to develop and build. Meanwhile, Putin's Russia has no plans to let up on its genocidal war.

So let Ukraine have ATACMS as soon as possible.

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