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2022-02-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Western reports round-up: Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv: Satellite images show THREE mile-long convoy heading towards capital after failing to take the city, as its mayor Klitschko warns 'we are at the border of a humanitarian catastrophe'
Fish in a barrel!
WHERE are the A10s!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Blasts heard in Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the country's second biggest city of Kharkiv on Monday morning

  • Satellite images show a large deployment of Russian ground troops moving in the direction of the capital

  • The Kyiv convoy, which is comprised of hundreds of military vehicles, extends more than 3.25 miles

  • Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says people cannot evacuate from the capital city as all roads are blocked

  • Volunteers, among them a former Miss Ukraine, have taken up arms in defense against Russian forces

UKRAINE WAR LATEST, AT A GLANCE
  • Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko warns the West's sanctions on Russia are pushing the Kremlin into WWIII

  • The EU has unveiled a new package of sanctions against Putin's regime, closing off its airspace to all Russian planes and banning Kremlin propaganda outlets Russia Today and Sputnik

  • Kyiv and Moscow will hold peace talks at the border with Belarus, Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed

  • The Ukrainian President's office said the two delegations will meet 'without preconditions' near the Pripyat River, to the north of Chernobyl

  • Putin orders forces operating Russia's nuclear deterrent to be on alert amid simmering tensions with the West

  • U.S. blasts Putin's nuclear order as 'unacceptable' and says war crimes tribunal isn't off the table

  • Putin's desperate troops adopt 'siege tactics' after being driven out of Kharkiv by resistance fighters

  • Ukraine's defence ministry claims Russian death toll stands at 4,300

  • Ukraine's health ministry said on Sunday that 352 civilians, including 14 children, had been killed since the beginning of Russia's invasion

  • At least 200,000 people have fled Ukraine to three countries, with 150,000 said to have crossed into Poland alone

  • Ukraine's defence ministry today appealed for foreigners to come forward to join its armed forces and fight back Putin's army

  • US and EU have agreed to curtail Russia's use of SWIFT messaging system, which is vital to for global financial transactions

  • Iskander missiles were launched from Belarus to Ukraine

  • Russia acknowledged it had lost troops for the first time today, but did not give a number

  • BP announces it is ditching its controversial 20 per cent stake in the Russian energy group Rosneft 'with immediate effect


Ukraine National Guard Shares Video of Fighters Greasing Bullets In Pig Fat for Chechen ‘Orcs’
[Breitbart] The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account.

The Checehn Republic, a Muslim-majority federal subject of the Russian Federation headed by Islamist strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is reported to have sent forces to Ukraine to support President Vladimir Patin’s ongoing invasion of the country, with Kadyrov sharing video footage which purports to show Chehen fighters replacing the Ukrainian flag with a Russian flag at a captured military facility.

Kadyrov has boasted he could amass a 70,000-strong force to send to Ukraine at a rally of a reported 12,000 fighters in Chechnya’s regional capital of Grozny, and the Western press has been alive with lurid if weakly-evidenced reports of Kadyrov’s fearsome Kadyrovtsy “hunters” — notorious for alleged human rights violations including kidnapping and torture — have already been deployed to eliminate Ukrainian officials marked for death by the Kremlin.

The “Azov fighters” of the National Guard of Ukraine who have filmed themselves smearing bullets intended for “the Kadyrov orcs” with pig fat — which Muslims consider fundamentally unclean — are almost equally notorious, being former paramilitaries of the Azov Battalion, a volunteer militia with strong neo-Nazi links which was only integrated into the Ukrainian military proper in 2014.

Fleeing a tyrant: Queues stretch back EIGHT MILES at Ukraine-Poland border as families escape Putin's advancing army with total number of refugees now 368,000
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
New interesting social dynamic.
Influx of working class whites.

Ukraine conflict: Children on their own, parents stay behind

Pets join Ukraine evacuation: Refugees flee Putin's advancing army with cats and dogs after being given permission to take animals without vet paperwork

Symbol of Ukraine's toughness: Moment man carefully disposes of anti-tank mine while smoking a CIGARETTE as Russian troops are bogged down by fierce resistance
well, really, the cig won't kill him first, right?
I’ve seen it claimed that kind of mine needs the weight of a car on it to explode, but I’m still impressed.

IMA guessing the guy with the cane in Skid's below is someone I wouldn't want to fok with.
Kyiv still stands: Ex-Miss Ukraine takes up arms to fight off Putin's army as video shows destroyed Russian convoy on outskirts of city

Human tide to stop Putin's advancing troops: Astonishing moment hundreds of brave Ukrainians force Russian tanks to halt by walking at them en masse

From 2/24, but I think we missed it then:
More than 150 senior Russian officials sign open letter condemning Putin's invasion of Ukraine as 'an unprecedented atrocity' and warn of 'catastrophic consequences' while urging citizens 'not to participate'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Sunday night - Kiev's mayor says evacuation not possible since his city is now completely surrounded:

In an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, after a grueling night of Russian attacks on the outskirts of the city, 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, speaking in English. “All ways are blocked and right now we are encircled — everywhere is Russians and we don’t have a way to evacuate the people. And everyone who had plans to evacuate himself already moved.”
Posted by Bob Bucket8193 2022-02-28 02:11||   2022-02-28 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, the Azov fighters: fascism's finest. And you guys pretend that Ukraine isn't full of neo-Nazis. Do you work for Fakebook?

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/

In a statement to The Intercept, Facebook spokesperson Erica Sackin confirmed the decision to allow previously-banned Azov but declined to answer questions about why the 180-degree switch to the new policy.

Azov’s formal Facebook ban began in 2019, and the regiment, along with several associated individuals like Biletsky, were designated under the company’s prohibition against hate groups, subject to its harshest “Tier 1” restrictions that bar users from engaging in “praise, support, or representation” of blacklisted entities across the company’s platforms.

Facebook’s previously secret roster of banned groups and persons, published by The Intercept last year, categorized the Azov Battalion alongside the likes of the Islamic State and the Ku Klux Klan, all Tier 1 groups because of their propensity for “serious offline harms” and “violence against civilians.” Indeed, a 2016 report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that Azov soldiers had raped and tortured civilians during Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
Posted by Rupert Prince of the Huns1693 2022-02-28 02:18||   2022-02-28 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ..you understand you can seat all the existing Klan in one high school stadium bleachers. There are so few that the race mongers in our country have to make up hoax racist events to get attention trying to keep the story alive. We'll see how 'kinder and gentler' your Chechens are that you are importing.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-28 07:05||   2022-02-28 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 More importantly, black "culture" is a bigger threat to blacks than most of what the klan managed.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-28 07:20||   2022-02-28 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't imagine the Russians committing an atrocity and blaming someone else, can you?

*cough*Katyn Forest*cough*

A convoy three miles long is three miles of road blocks waiting to happen.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-02-28 08:06||   2022-02-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW -- parents stay, send kids to safety... sounds like the opposite of what we see with Muslim refugees.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-02-28 08:06||   2022-02-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

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