Hunter Biden's friend and business partner, Devon Archer, was sentenced to one year in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe
He was also ordered to forfeit $15,700,513 and pay $43,427,436 in restitution
Archer, 47, and two other Burnham Financial Group executives were convicted in 2018 of defrauding the Oglala Sioux Indian tribe out of bond sales proceeds
Emails obtained by DailyMail.com show Hunter had worked closely with Archer and from 2014 to 2016 - the period it was perpetrating the $60M fraud
The president's son, 52, was not implicated in the scheme but helped broker a wider, unrelated venture for Burnham with a Chinese firm called Bohai Harvest
well, not this scheme
A slide deck presentation prepared for the Chinese investors and sent to Hunter alludes to his financial ties to Burnham
At the time Hunter's lawyer said he knew nothing about the bonds scheme, claiming they used his name 'to lend their business venture more credibility'
#1
Can't defend the LEO actions, despite her struggling against the poorly executed arrest process.
Given how the LEO interacted with the other citizen only reinforced my opinion. Lawyers should review this LEO's arrests given the video I just watched.
But I do have to ask a few things:
1. Where was the family of Karen Garner?
Here we have a 73-year-old known dementia patient, out walking around and shopping by herself?
So I ask again...Where the $%^& was her family?
2. Going on the assumption Karen Garner was walking home towards her home. Again where was her family and why is she walking. if her mental condition is hampered as they stated for the lawsuit?
3. Given the family has stressed Mama has mental issues, which precludes her from making rational decisions. Will the Family suddenly be there to help her manage the spending of the $Million payout?
#2
Neither is with the police department and both are facing criminal charges
Prosecutors have reviewed the arrests, and are acting, NN2N1.
The police went after Ms Garner after she walked out of WalMart without paying the $13 she owed for her purchases, violently arresting her as she walked home. I assume that, like my mother’s situation, the retirement home is within sight of the store. Quite possibly she was still in independent living at the time, but was approaching the point of needing a transfer to assisted living.
#3
So I ask again...Where the $%^& was her family?
It's not uncommon for elderly dementia patients to slip away from their families. It's a heavy burden minding a person like that 24/7 and inhumane to lock them up. It's a difficult situation.
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Watching out for aging parents is task and an half.
My wife I know... We went bankrupt dumping unsaleable hose during obama housing melt down ... After driving 320 miles round 3 to 4x's a week for 6 months. We end up renting and babysitting both sets the next 7 years.
LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - BP is abandoning its stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft in an abrupt and costly end to three decades of operating in the energy-rich country, marking the most significant move yet by a Western company in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Rosneft accounts for around half of BP's oil and gas reserves and a third of its production and divesting the 19.75% stake will result in charges of up to $25 billion, the British company said, without saying how it plans to extricate itself.
"I have been deeply shocked and saddened by the situation unfolding in Ukraine and my heart goes out to everyone affected. It has caused us to fundamentally rethink bp's position with Rosneft," BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney said.
The rapid retreat represents a dramatic exit for BP, the biggest foreign investor in Russia, and puts the spotlight on other Western companies with operations in the country including France's TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) and Britain's Shell (SHEL.L), amid an escalating crisis between the West and Moscow.
It also underscores growing pressure from Western governments on their companies to curtail operations in Russia as they widen a net of economic sanctions against Moscow.
British Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, who on Friday had expressed "concern" over BP's Rosneft, welcomed the decision.
"Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine must be a wake up call for British businesses with commercial interests in (President Vladimir) Putin's Russia," Kwarteng said on Twitter.
Rosneft (ROSN.MM) blamed BP's decision on "unprecedented political pressure", Russian news agencies reported, saying 30 years of successful cooperation had been ruined.
#1
They'll just martyr the citizens of Kyiv and dig a bigger hole in trying to reestablish pre-invasion relationships. I'm sure Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea will welcome them to the club.
#2
It seems clear to me that Pootie waned a semi=soft overthrow by intimidation of the Ukraine government and miscalculated badly. The West has flooded the media with heroic and laudable stories of Ukrainian heroics, but Pootie is now all-in and the carnage goes industrial-scale. The CTH article is frighteningly convincing about what triggered this. If accurate, we have monsters to deal with.
#5
^ Worth the read, Skidmark. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
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From everything I read I gather there are two main theories about Ukraine:
First - Putin is an unstable megalomaniac who will stop at nothing in his bid to restore the Soviet Union to all of its former glory.
Second - Biden provoked Putin into invading Ukraine by threatening to bring Ukraine into NATO. Then he offered only token sanctions to deter Putin from invading. Biden may have done this for dastardly ulterior motives, miscalculation or out of sheer incompetence. Maybe all three.
It's hard to know at this point what to believe, especially when it's impossible to believe anything that either Biden or Putin says.
If I was Putin I'd forget the Soviet Union and concentrate on getting Russia's economy on a footing that is a bit more competitive with the likes of the EU, China or America. I would choose economic growth over territorial expansion which can only ruin the economy. I always thought Putin was a smart guy but lately I'm beginning to wonder. Taking Biden's bait doesn't look very smart at this point.
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Putin will resort to using a tactical nuke inside Ukraine, if this current southbound armor column is blocked or defeated! I have not heard anything from NATO or the US if that happens.
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Putin invaded because an American knew his buttons?
Once more: he's a big boy. He's capable of controlling his emotions and making his own decisions. Not every event in the world is caused by Americans, not even the bad Americans.
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#13
Any theory that involves Biden (or anyone on his team) playing 3D chess is suspect.
#14
Would you believe - the deep state? From Skid's #4:
On the question of extending NATO membership to Ukraine, Burns’ warnings about the breadth of Russian opposition are even more emphatic. “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin),” he wrote in a 2008 memo to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”
And they've been pushing his buttons for 20-30 years.
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"They're just a few minutes by air
From Smolensk and Kharkov and Tver!
With missals those Poles
Could pop out of their holes...
And they say I'm a paranoid bear?"
#17
Pincer movement now. More bullshit in US press - groundless, clueless speculation without a shred of evidence that Putin "adapted" his strategy after "miscalculating"
More like this Phase II was always part of the original strategy which was to first probe toward Kyiv and Kharkiv while seizing the land bridge to Crimea in the south, and after that was done, to create the cauldrons around Kyiv and Kharkiv
#18
^ I believe #17 to be one of the more insightful comments I've seen today on the military side of things.
My entry for the Bullshit in US Press category is the lady on NPR drive-time who foresaw Putin exploding a tac nuke over the Baltic just to scare people. Because he is mean like that.
[FoxNews] The White House is awaiting confirmation from international investigative parties before it takes action.
And rightfully so.
The International Criminal Court has started investigating Russia over potential war crimes the country may have committed during its invasion of Ukraine, after a Ukrainian official claimed that Russia used an illegal weapon during the war, officials said.
On Monday, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, told reporters at the U.S. Capitol that during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the former country used a vacuum bomb, in violation of international law, Reuters reported.
A vacuum bomb is a thermobaric weapon that is typically more devastating than traditional bombs as it absorbs the oxygen in a given space to cause a significant blast capable of vaporizing humans, Reuters reported.
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I see: "Vacuum Bomb" and my mind immediately goes to Skynet Roombas
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#3
Skynet Roombas - quietly mapping out the nooks and crannies of your living room while you sleep. Who knows what evil lurks in their tiny silicon brains?
Serious question: on what planet are Fuel-Air Explosives illegal?
#5
The Russians, when they were called Soviets, endlessly pushed the lie that the Ma Deuce was illegal to use against troops, so I count this as turn-about.
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[EpochTimes] Negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian officials in a third country on Feb. 28 yielded no results, officials said after the talks concluded.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent brass hats as intermediaries as Russian and Ukrainian forces continued battling in Ukraine, including near major cities such as Kyiv. The negotiations were held in Belarus, which has allowed Russian forces to pass through during the war.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Zelensky, told news hounds after talks broke off that the primary aim was to discuss a ceasefire.
"The parties have determined several priority topics on which certain decisions have been envisioned," Podolyak said. "The parties are returning to their capitals to have the possibility to implement these decisions. The parties have discussed the possibility to hold in the nearest time a second round of negotiations where these issues will get to be practically developed."
Podolyak later took to Twitter, writing: "Negotiations are difficult. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... without any obligatory ultimatums already. Unfortunately, the Russian side is still extremely biased regarding the destructive processes it launched."
Vladimir Medinsky, who headed the Russian delegation, said the five-hour talks included finding points of agreement on unspecified various agenda items and featured an agreement to continue negotiations.
"The next meeting will take place in the coming days at the Polish—Belarusian border. There is already a relevant agreement. Before the meeting, both delegations, the leaders of both delegations, will consult with their countries’ leadership concerning their negotiation positions," Medinsky said.
#1
It seems the Semi-Free world leaders and elitists do not want to take on the former KGB Ltc. Despite Putin clearly trying to rebuild a Stalinist type USSR.
Could it be there $$$$$, power, and control in restarting a Cold War?
However, it seems there is enough trained ex-Military and yes lots of Ukrainian Civilian Freedom Fighters, that want to knee cap the USSR-rebirth attempt in the bud.
Will we see laws passed making it illegal to travel to the Ukraine area soon?
#2
UK got a lot of help from American volunteers in the days before Pearl Harbor. I doubt they'll pass any laws against it. After all, they still let people go to fight with ISIS.
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Tracked vehicles need a neutral just as much as wheeled. Replacing tracks is one example.
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^
Yeah, I have an mini ex and Bobcat. Let the grease out to take off tracks and fill to tighten. No neutral, just never thought of military vehicles.
On the Facebook page for the National Agency for Corruption Prevention, authorities announce that captured Russian tanks do not need to be declared to tax authorities because “this shit isn’t worth enough” to report. (The minimum is 100 cost of living units, a unit being 248 Hrevniya (about $8), it notes.)
The tongue-in-cheek post, which authorities say does actually reflect current national tax policy (which may change after the war), notes that the equipment is tax-exempt because it was acquired to due to being a result of the “Russian aggression.”
“Thanks to the bravery of the defenders of Ukraine, the enemy’s equipment usually gets to you already damaged and so there’s no way to assess the value.”
“So the Russian tanks can fuck off submit a declaration,” the salty-tongued authority says.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Censor] As of 22:00 on February 28
Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Russian invasion.
The aggressor's troops regrouped and accumulated weapons and equipment to surround and capture Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odessa, Kherson, and Mariupol.
Parts of the Armed Forces of Belarus are moving to the Ukrainian border in the Volyn direction.
The aggressor violates the laws of war and international humanitarian law - using weapons against civilians, bombing residential areas. State symbols and uniforms of the Armed Forces, the National Guard and the National Police are used for cover.
Commanders of tactical groups of the Russian Federation have an order to destroy mobile communication towers.
As of 19:30 on February 28
Zelensky signed an application for Ukraine's membership in the European Union .
The talks ended: "Having received certain logistical decisions, the parties are moving to their capitals," Podoliak said.
The aggressor fired a missile at Brovary. Probably Iskander. There are wounded.
Photo report from Bucha, which withstood the cost of great destruction.
In the Chernihiv region, the defenders of Ukraine seized equipment and captured the occupiers . In the Sumy region , the occupiers left their equipment and went to the Russian border on foot.
The occupiers will soon start jamming mobile communications and the Internet, - the press center of the Environmental Protection Agency.
As of 18:00 on February 28
Ukraine has prepared an application for accession to the European Union . Borrel replied that this was not the time - the war must end first.
Russia has launched 180 cruise missiles in Ukraine - cruise missiles and Iskanders . Kyiv was bombed for the first time since 1941.
In occupied Berdyansk , residents are blocking equipment of the Russian army.
Exercises for conscripts have been announced in Belarus .
Russian oligarch Deripaska is calling for "an end to all this state capitalism."
Switzerland has lifted neutrality, joined sanctions against Russia and closed the skies to Russian airlines . And Putin's assets will be frozen there as well.
As of 16:00 on February 28
The enemy fired on residential areas of Kharkiv . Unguided bombs were dropped on the city, as was the case in Syria . The consequences are as follows . 11 people were killed and dozens were injured.
Chernihiv is being bombed from planes, there are no safe exits from the city, roads are mined.
Enemy saboteurs were neutralized in the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv . Their goal could be the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church , Metropolitan Epiphanius.
Children in Russia are told in schools that all this is really "protection against genocide."
As of 14:20 on February 28
Defenders of Ukraine captured the Russian anti-aircraft missile system "Pantsir" in the Kherson region.
The General Staff confirmed that the defenders of Snake Island are alive . They are in captivity of the Russian Federation.
Soldiers of Borodyanka's defense in Kyiv region inflict heavy losses on Russian supply columns: three trucks were burned and four were seized .
In the temporarily occupied Berdyansk, locals protested against Russian troops .
The enemy mercilessly shells Chernihiv . As of 12:20 pm on February 28, intensive shelling of Chernihiv, vul. Belov, Rokosovsky, Dotsenko, Pukhov.
"Private and multi-storey residential buildings are in the affected area. There was a fire near the Epicenter," the SES said in a statement.
The Russian occupiers blew up the oil depot in Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, said the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky
"Enemy vehicles are approaching the city from all sides. There is a threat of street fights!" The statement reads.
Negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations have started . Negotiations are taking place on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
As of 12:50 on February 28
The Russian attack killed 352 people, including 16 children. 2040 people were injured, including 45 children.
There is a high probability of the use of the armed forces of Belarus: Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 11.00 on February 28.
It is noted that for the previous day the Russian occupiers fired 6 missiles (up to 30 missiles) and 4 air strikes, mostly from the airspace of the Republic of Belarus.
Since the beginning of the open aggression, the enemy has used about 180 Iskander cruise and operational-tactical missiles. of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, "the statement reads.
In Polissya, the enemy suffered significant losses and is trying to replenish them at the expense of airborne troops of the RF Armed Forces.
He has completed the regrouping in the Seversky direction and is trying to continue the offensive in the Chernihiv-KYIV direction. Three BTGr in the areas of KHOMUTOVKA, GLUHIV, BATURYN are stopped.
In addition, it is noted that the motorized infantry unit 14 of the Army Corps of the Northern Fleet on the border SUMY - Okhtyrka - Poltava suffered significant losses and lost offensive potential.
The enemy was stopped in the Slobozhansky direction.
In the Donetsk operational area the enemy with forces of 1 and 2 AK with artillery support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tries to conduct offensive actions. The goal of the aggressor to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions has not been achieved.
In the Tavriya direction, the enemy, after regrouping, tried to organize an offensive on MYKOLAIV and did not stop trying to land a naval landing in the area of MARIUPOL. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are defending the borders.
"Despite significant losses and a slowdown in some areas, the enemy is not abandoning its main goal - gaining control of KYIV. The capital's defense forces have taken measures to counter the enemy," the General Staff said.
A group of diverse Navy forces continues to fight in the southwestern part of the Black Sea. Defends bases and ports of ODESSA, SOUTH, OCHAKIV, CHORNOMORSK from the sea direction.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine covers air units and units of operational groups of troops throughout the territory of Ukraine.
Defenders of Ukraine struck a column of occupiers in Chernihiv region with the Hurricane MLRS.
Russian troops fired on Borodyanka near Kyiv : two supermarkets caught fire.
As of this morning , Mariupol and Volnovakha are hot spots in the Donetsk region . Luhansk region holds the defense. Tense situation in Golden and Mountain. The lower one is almost destroyed.
Heavy fighting broke out in Tokmak at night . The Armed Forces of Ukraine is fighting saboteurs in Ukrainian uniform, but with Russian bulletproof vests.
During the fighting in Kharkiv, 15 Russian servicemen were eliminated and enemy equipment was destroyed.
In the morning, the aircraft of the Russian occupiers fired on Sartan.
The Russian military column was destroyed near Makarov in the Kyiv region.
As of 09:20 on February 28
Two people were killed in a shelling of the Saltivka housing estate in Kharkiv by Russian troops.
Russian troops struck a residential area in the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region.
As of 09:00 on February 28
Mariupol and Volnovakha remain hotspots in the Donetsk region. Fighting is taking place for these cities. In Sartan, one person was injured and 10 buildings were damaged.
Also in the morning it became known that on the night of February 28 in the city of Tokmak (Zaporozhye region) there were heavy fighting. During the confrontation in the village, the enemy suffered heavy casualties and has now retreated to the southern outskirts of Tokmak.
As of 08:00 on February 28
Kharkiv remains under the control of the Armed Forces . Our Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the enemy at night even before they had time to occupy their positions.
As of 07:00 on February 28
Berdyansk district is occupied . Enemy equipment is observed in various communities.
In Berdyansk, two people were injured during an operation to seize the city: one was killed and the other wounded. According to available information, the victims are security guards of the Berdyansk Harvesters enterprise.
As of 06:00 on February 28
The total estimated losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 28.02 are :
Planes - 29
helicopters - 29
Tanks - 191
Armored combat vehicles - 816
Cannon - 74
SAM BEECH - 1
City 21
Automotive equipment - 291
Tanks - 60
UAV OTR-3
Ships / boats - 2
Air Defense Means - 5
Personnel approximately 5300 (to be specified)
As of 06:00 on February 28
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers have reduced the pace of the offensive, but are still trying to develop success in some areas in the offensive against Ukraine. As of today, more than 5 columns of enemy equipment and enemy manpower have been destroyed by artillery fire from only one of the Ukrainian brigades.
As of 06:00 on February 28
In Chernihiv, the occupiers fired a shell at a five-story building in the center. Several apartments on the first and second floors burned down, a woman was injured.
The European Union has completely closed its airspace to Russia . And froze the assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
As of 05:00 on February 28
Zelensky told Johnson that the next 24 hours would be crucial for Ukraine.
The Central Election Commission of Belarus reports that Lukashenko has "won" the results of the referendum on changes to the Constitution : more than 65% are allegedly in favor.
As of 04:00 on February 28
A six-year-old child died in the shelling of the aggressor in Mariupol.
The occupiers burned in Ivankov a museum with works by Maria Pryimachenko.
As of 03:00 on February 28
Arahamiya promises that the talks will go either in the direction we need or "like a Russian warship."
Four shells were fired in Cherkasy region, - the head of the regional state administration.
In Russia - protests against the war, detained more than 2,700 people.
As of 02:00 on February 28
The occupiers want to use Kherson as a human shield to capture Ukrainian cities . To do this, they plan to simulate an "evacuation" - the regional state administration.
Gunsmiths from the Luch Design Bureau handed over the Scythian and Corsair armies , which were to be exported.
As of 01:00 on February 28
There is no threat to big cities, the occupier stopped movement in the Kiev direction , - OP.
The invasion killed 352 civilians, including 14 children - the Ministry of Health.
As of 00:00 on February 28
Negotiations will take place in the morning , in the Ukrainian delegation - Arahamiya.
The mayor of Kupyansk surrendered the city . He was charged with treason.
The enemy shells the airports in Zaporozhye and Nikolaev.
Ukrainians have completely destroyed the age-old myth of Russia's greatness - Kravchuk, Kuchma and Yushchenko.
Notice all the name calling. It looks like a reprise of Nazis vs Communists, but of course neither fits the billing.
[NewsFrontInfo] Military summary of the LDNR. The situation on the line of contact (28.02 is being updated)
23:27 The settlement of Nikolaevka, which was recently liberated from the Nazis by the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, is under fire from militants. At the same time, about a thousand inhabitants still remain in the village.
23:20 Residents of Melitopol are being held hostage by Ukrainian Nazis from the Azov Battalion*. One of the townspeopletoldhow militants attacked the temple. They beat the parishioners, and then they also robbed them. 23:16 The current pace of advancement of the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR and DPR suggests that within a week they will surround the Kiev Nazis in the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration and completely eliminate them.
23:11 Kiev Nazis are in despair and understand that they will not be able to resist the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR and DPR. In agony, they prepare provocations with ammonia. The militants mined warehouses with this chemical, which are located in Severodonetsk.
23:09 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR continue to liberate their settlements from the Nazis. The village of Kremennaya in the vicinity of Rubizhne passed under the control of the republic.
22:51 Water supply to the central part of the city of Gorlovka in the DPR has returned to normal. Gorlovka PUVKH "Company" Water of Donbass "launches a water supply unit 2.
22:04 Sources report that the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, have already completely encircled the city of Mariupol. The Nazis from "Azov" * hold its inhabitants and intend to use them as human shields.
21:55 Terrified, Kiev militants are trying to hide from the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR in Mariupol. They blew up the bridge in the suburbs of the village. It passed through the Kalmius River between the villages of Talakovka and Sartana.
21:14 Over the past 12 days, 20 civilians of the Donetsk People's Republic have died under fire from Kiev neo-Nazis. Another 62 people were injured of varying severity - DPR Representative Office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
21:09 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR have advanced another 16 kilometers deep into the republic. The village of Zamozhnoe became another settlement liberated from the Ukrainian Nazis.
20:36 Ukrainian militants in the Mariupol region are suffering a crushing defeat. They abandoned damaged and even intact equipment in the vicinity of Mariupol and retreated from the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR to the city.
20:32 War correspondent Semyon Pegov, also known as WarGonzo, published the first footage of Mariupol, which will soon be liberated from the Ukrainian Nazis. The journalist, along with the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, is in the village of Tolokovka, from the outskirts of which he opens a view of the city.
20:20 The People's Militia of the DPR is already on its way to the city of Mariupol. The special forces of the republic are forcing the Kalmius River, which flows near the settlements. The fighters enter the village of Sartana, which in fact is a suburb of Mariupol. Only a few hours there were still Ukrainian positions.
20:02 In the Ukrainian segment of social networks, they begin to understand that the real situation in the Donbass is very different from the one presented by the Kiev media:
There is a very difficult situation on the entire front line, if Mariupol, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk fall, then we will lose a military group of 100 thousand soldiers.
Users recall that boilers have already happened in the Donbass and they ended in failure for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Surrounded by the army and the Nazis will be defeated in a maximum of a week.
19:27 As a result of today's shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian armed forces, the death toll has increased to four people, wounded to ten people.
18:50 Residents of Donetsk shared photos with the consequences of shelling by the Kiev punishers. The fire damaged residential buildings, shops, cars.
18:44 The settlement of Gnutovo completely came under the control of the People's Militia of the DPR. The fleeing Ukrainian militants left more military equipment and weapons for the forces of the republic.
18:13 Ukrainian Nazis continue to use the old inhuman methods: the residents of Volnovakha in the DPR were held hostage by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions. They do not let them out of the city, although people are demanding humanitarian corridors to go to a safe place. The militants want to use them as human shields. The people's militia of the DPR and the Russian army supporting them do not fire artillery on the city in order to prevent civilian casualties.
17:30 The People's Militia of the DPR continues the operation to liberate the republic from the Ukrainian Nazis. At the moment, the number of settlements from which the militants have already been knocked out has reached 27: Pavlopol, Pishchevik, Viktorovka, Bogdanovka, Novognatovka, Nikolaevka, Rybinskoye, Trudovskoye, Vasilievka, Prokhorovka, Starognatovka, Svobodnoye, Donskoye, Anadol, Andreevka, Granite, Gnutovo , Bugas, Staromarevka, Mirnoe, Kamenka, Novoselovka, Novoselovka Second, Kremenevka, Fedorovka, Zamozhnoye, Shirokino.
17:05 Kiev Nazis opened fire on two settlements in the LPR: Sanzharovka and Donetsk. They used 122 mm artillery and 120 mm mortars. At the same time, almost nothing remained of Donetsk during the years of the war. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.
16:37 Ukrainian Nazis continue to destroy the population of Donbass. Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko spoke about civilian casualties. As a result of shelling by the Kiev punishers, three people were killed. Seven more were injured of varying severity. At the same time, the fire on the village continues.
16:09 As a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian Nazis, two residents of the village of Dokuchaevsk in the DPR were injured. A man born in 1984 has a shrapnel gunshot wound to the soft tissues of the area of the right elbow joint and left thigh without the presence of foreign bodies, and a man born in 1971 has shrapnel wounds to the shoulder, abdominal wall, and lower leg.
16:00 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR liberated another settlement from the Nazis. We are talking about the village of Novaya Astrakhan to the north of Severodonetsk.
15:49 In Stanitsa Luhanska, recently liberated from the Ukrainian Nazis, the LPR prosecutor's office has started working. Law enforcement officers called on local residents who suffered at the hands of Kiev militants or witnessed their crimes to contact them with statements.
15:45 As in 2014, the Kiev militants "provide assistance" to the People's Militia of the LPR and DPR. The defenders of Donbass are strengthened by military equipment that the enemy throws when he flees from his positions.
15:38 Ukrainian Nazis continue attacks against the children of Donbass, hiding behind the fact that they are "fighting for their land." In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, two children received shrapnel wounds as a result of shelling by Kiev militants.
15:35 Local residents of the village of Gladkovka in the DPR showed the consequences of shelling by Ukrainian militants.
15:21 The mayor of Gorlovka in the DPR, Ivan Prikhodko, reported on the tragedy in Donetsk: During the restoration work in the Kiev region, a Donbassgaz brigade came under fire. One locksmith died. Two were seriously injured. The guys eliminated the consequences of the previous shelling, which occurred an hour before.
15:12 Kiev militants correct the fire on Donetsk with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles. All people are urged to hide in shelters.
15:04 In the near future, the settlements of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, for which there were fierce battles in the Donbass in 2014, will be surrounded by the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR. This was reported in a panic to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The military reported to the Office of the President of Ukraine that by the evening the troops of Kyiv would be in the ring.
15:01 In the village of Pishchevik, which the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR liberated from the Nazis, the situation remains tense. Kiev militants are shelling the village with rocket and cannon artillery for the second day. Civilians are forced to hide from shelling in basements and abandoned dugouts.
14:57 Serious arrivals from the Ukrainian Nazis were recorded in the capital of the DPR. There are damages in the center of Donetsk. A hospital came under fire, information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:42 Ukrainian punishers continue shelling the territory of the DPR. Donetsk was under fire. The situation is especially difficult in the Kievsky district: cars are burning in the courtyard of a residential building.
13:50 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR began the liberation of the settlement of Kramatorsk, which had been under the occupation of Kyiv for many years. The source of the defenders of the republic inside the city spoke about loud explosions - the blow fell on the positions of the Nazis in the area of the slag mountain.
13:28 Eduard Basurin, official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, spoke about the advancement of the republic's forces. They have already liberated the village of Talokovka from the Nazis and approached the city of Mariupol. It will be blocked soon.
13:17 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR continue to liberate the republic from the Ukrainian Nazis. They advanced another 19 kilometers inland. They managed to block the settlement of Volnovakha - the Kiev militants have nowhere else to run.
12:30 The People's Militia of the DPR liberated one more settlement from the Ukrainian Nazis. Staromarevka became the nineteenth village that returned to the republic.
12:29 The mayor of the city of Gorlovka in the DPR spoke about the damage to the city from shelling by Ukrainian militants. Houses on the streets of Shashurin, Posmitnogo, Otechestvennaya, Stezhko, Polevaya, Gribaikin, Vlasenko, Artezianskaya, Gribakin and Nevsky were seriously damaged.
11:36 During the day, the LPR came under fire from Ukrainian Nazis 16 times. Fire was opened on ten settlements: damage and destruction of residential buildings were recorded. The militants used BM-21 Grad MLRS, 120 and 82 mm mortars, 152 and 122 mm artillery, LNG, RPG, AGS, as well as large-caliber weapons.
11:13 The People's Militia of the DPR announced its success in liberating the republic from the Ukrainian Nazis: under the control of the People's Militia of the DPR there are eighteen settlements that were previously under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Pavlopol, Pishchevik, Viktorovka, Bogdanovka, Novognatovka, Nikolaevka, Rybinsk, Trudovskoe , Vasilievka, Prokhorovka, Starognatovka, Svobodnoye, Donskoye, Anadol, Andreevka, Gnutovo, Granite and Bugas. Three more settlements are in the process of being liberated: Talakovka, Kamenka and Volnovakha.
11:10 Kiev Nazis are horrified by the prospect of another boiler in the Donbass. In an attempt to get out of the encirclement of the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, the column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced to the village of Bugas, which was liberated yesterday, from the village of Novotroitskoye.
11:04 Ukrainian Nazis continue their attempts to destroy the infrastructure of the DPR. Over the past 24 hours, the area of the Filtration Station No. 2 of the Water of Donbass company was under fire. In addition, a 6 kW overhead power line, distribution substation 337 and transformer substation No. 327 were damaged in Dokuchaevka. About a thousand subscribers were left without electricity. And due to damage to the water conduit with a diameter of 800 mm, 32 thousand subscribers and 21 boiler houses were left without supply.
10:57 Ukrainian Nazis are hiding in Mariupol in anticipation of the start of the operation of the People's Militia of the DPR to liberate the city. At the same time, for their protection, they use the civilian population and civilian infrastructure. A local resident posted a photo showing that the Nazis placed the equipment on the territory of a kindergarten in the depths of a residential area.
10:44 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis opened fire 40 times on the territory of the DPR. They used multiple launch rocket systems, 152 and 122 mm artillery, and 120 and 82 mm mortars. 18 settlements came under fire. As a result of the Kiev aggression, three civilians were killed and six more were wounded. 31 houses, 19 civil infrastructure facilities and one car were damaged.
10:23 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR and DPR continue to advance deep into their republics and liberate their settlements from Ukrainian Nazis. The defenders of the LPR took control of the village of Novoaydar, and the defenders of the DPR took Nikolaevka.
10:19 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the territory of the DPR from early in the morning. Since 7 am local time, the settlements of Gorlovka, Zaitsevo, Panteleymonovka, Shirokaya Balka, Golmovsky have been under fire. The Armed Forces of Ukraine use mortars with a caliber of 82 mm and 120 mm, as well as artillery with a caliber of 152 mm.
10:16 The village of Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk People's Republic came under fire from Ukrainian Nazis. A hit was recorded in a residential building and school No. 5. There was a big fire. Local residents were urged to stay in shelters.
09:38 DPR suspends mobilization, said the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.
09:35 Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past day fired at the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 40 times, firing 538 ammunition, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire said.
09:22 With such successes of the People's Militia, the West will "arm" the units of the DPR and LPR with the latest technology. After all, what was supplied for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is smoothly passing into the caring hands of the military of Donbass, writes military commander Andrei Rudenko.Video.
09:16 From the very morning the Ukrainian armed formations conduct massive shelling of Gorlovka. The village of mine 6/7, school No. 15 in the village of Zaitsevo, the Kerammash plant in the village of Golmovsky were shelled, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said.
08:21 A map of hostilities in the Mariupol region has appeared on the Web.
08:09 Another Ukrainian soldier surrendered to the People's Militia of the DPR. Konstantin Chuprina escaped from his people from the settlement. Bogdanovka and walked for three days to the soldiers of the NM DNR. According to him, the soldiers of the People's Militia treated him well, fed and clothed him.
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[Korrespondent] The aggressor is bombing peaceful Ukrainian cities
The air raid was carried out in the area of the military unit of Kievskaya, Mayor Igor Sapozhko noted
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As a result of an air raid on the city of Brovary near Kiev, one person was killed and five more were injured. Mayor Igor Sapozhko announced this on his Facebook page on Monday, February 28.
“We are clarifying our losses: one dead, five wounded. An air raid near the military unit of Kiev,” Sapozhko wrote.
He also claims that there are no Russian troops in Brovary: "1 + 1 TV channel provided false information. There are no invaders in Brovary!"
Recall that this evening after the end of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on the end of hostilities, ballistic missiles were struck on the outskirts of Kiev .
Information appeared on social networks that the strike was carried out on a military radar communications center in Brovary.
[Korrespondent] The air strike was carried out on the evening of February 28, after the end of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Belarus.
As a result of a Russian air strike on Brovary, a rocket hit a hostel and two residential five-story buildings. Houses in Vasilkovo, Bila Tserkva and Kalinovka have been destroyed, emergency services report.
"At about 19:10, as a result of a missile attack on the towns of Vasilkov, the town of Belaya Tserkov and the village of Kalinovka, a 5-storey hostel and two five-storey residential buildings were destroyed. To provide assistance to the hostel in the town of Belaya Tserkov, three units of State Emergency Service vehicles are sent, in the city of Vasilkov and the village of Kalinovka, the units were not involved in connection with the shelling," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement .
According to the State Emergency Service , as a result of a missile strike in the city of Belaya Tserkov, a three-story hostel was destroyed without further burning. Rescuers released two people.
The fire was also eliminated in the Vasilkovsky hostel. There are no victims or injured.
Recall that after the end of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on the end of hostilities on the outskirts of Kiev , ballistic missiles were struck.
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[REGNUM] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation should not be too zealous with the formation of respect for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this irritates society. This was told to IA REGNUM on February 28 by publicist Pavel Shulzhenok.
“A course has been taken towards respect for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We need a specific formation of the image of a war criminal capable of killing children and civilians,” the expert said
It is necessary to show that a Russian soldier is confronted by a war criminal who is subject to denazification, Shulzhenok believes.
Recall that on February 24, a special operation of the Russian Armed Forces began on the territory of Ukraine.
Deputy: “The main thing is to demilitarize Ukraine pumped up with Western weapons”
[REGNUM] State Duma Deputy from Yugra Pavel Zavalny (United Russia faction) said that Russia's special operation to protect Donbass should put an end to genocide and violence, return all countries to real serious negotiations on security guarantees in the European space. The parliamentarian wrote about this on his page on the social network VKontakte.
"For eight years, we called on the participants in the Minsk agreements to implement them, participated in all formats and negotiations that would allow Donbass to receive a special status within Ukraine. We called on NATO countries to fulfill their promises, to stop expanding to the east. But in response, we saw only the acceleration of the militarization of states near our borders and the hypocritical assertions that all this does not threaten Russia with anything. Now the most important thing is to demilitarize Ukraine, pumped up with Western weapons, protect people, stop violence in the southeast and establish peace,” Pavel Zavalny said.
The parliamentarian added that the strikes that the Russian military is now inflicting with high-precision weapons are intended to disable only military infrastructure and are not aimed at civilian facilities.
As REGNUM reported earlier , on February 28, negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine were held in the Gomel region (Belarus) for five hours . The meeting took place against the backdrop of a special Russian military operation carried out at the request of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
The right to self-defense - Nebenzya about Russia's military special operation in Ukraine
[REGNUM] Russia is exercising its right to self-defense during a military special operation on the territory of Ukraine and preventing a third world war, Vasily Nebenzya , Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said on February 28 at a special session of the General Assembly.
The Permanent Representative of Russia recalled that Nazi Ukraine had repeatedly declared its desire to obtain nuclear weapons.
"In addition, in the course of a special military operation, Russia is exercising the right to self-defense against a regime that sought to restore access to nuclear weapons. The head of Ukraine directly stated this on February 18 during the Munich Conference, and this statement of his, let me remind you, was met with applause from European representatives," Nebenzya said.
"By using Article 51 of the UN Charter, Russia not only protects itself from the nationalist threat, but restores the operation of the goals and principles of the UN Charter on the territory of Donbass and Ukraine, ensures the fulfillment of the main task of the world organization - the prevention of a new world war," Russia’s permanent representative explained.
At the same time, he recalled that one of the goals of Russia's special operation is to bring to justice those "who committed numerous and bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation."
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Russia sent in the Wagner Group after the Chechens did not survive contact with the enemy? The same Wagner Group that did not survive contact with the Americans in Syria? Perhaps they’ve learnt since then.
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[REGNUM] The Russian Ministry of Defense has published videos of the combat use of helicopters against military equipment and facilities of Ukrainian armed formations.
The video was published on February 28 on the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The combat use of Mi-28NM, Ka-52 and Mi-35 attack helicopters, as well as Mi-8AMTSh transport and combat helicopters is shown.
Video recording of the use of airborne weapons from the screens of weapons operators is demonstrated.
Recall that since February 24, the Armed Forces of Russia, the DPR and the LPR have been conducting a military special operation on the territory of Ukraine in order to denazify and demilitarize this country.
Russian Air Forces hit six columns of Ukrainian armored vehicles
[REGNUM] Six columns of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been struck by the forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces since the beginning of a special military operation, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov told reporters on February 28 .
He specified that 311 Ukrainian tanks and other armored fighting vehicles were destroyed during the operation. From aviation equipment - 42 aircraft and helicopters, some of them on the ground.
Also, 51 multiple launch rocket systems, 147 field artillery guns and mortars, and 263 units of special military vehicles were destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Russian troops neutralized 1146 Ukrainian military facilities
[REGNUM] A total of 1,146 objects of Ukrainian military infrastructure were destroyed during Russia's special military operation, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov told reporters on February 28.
“Since the beginning of the special operation, the Russian Armed Forces have hit 1,146 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.”
It is specified that among these disabled facilities there are 31 command posts and a communication center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 81 S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, 75 radar stations.
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[REGNUM] The urban-type settlement of Donetsk (LPR) was shelled on February 28 by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.
The shelling began at 19:30 Moscow time. Ukrainian fighters used a 122mm artillery gun. They fired ten shells at Donetsk.
Recall that during the day on February 27, Ukrainian militants fired at the territory of the LPR 16 times.
[REGNUM] The settlement of Zamozhnoye was liberated from the Ukrainian militants of the DPR unit, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov told reporters on February 28.
Noting that the military of the LPR continued to conduct offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Kremennoye during the day, advancing another three kilometers, Konashenkov said:
"The units of the Donetsk People's Republic advanced 16 km in a day, having captured the settlement of Zamozhnoye."
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, almost 1,150 Ukrainian military installations have been destroyed since the beginning of the Russian military operation, which started on February 24 to help the republics of Donbass.
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If we really had an opposition party, when "S" for brains mentions energy in the SOTU message a real party would start a robust round of 'no Russian oil'.
#3
The price of gas is already sky-high; and, you know, with it being March, there are now only 8 months until the mid-term elections.
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No Russian oil! Spring is just around the corner - who needs heat? For gasoline, we just have to shut down the economy again - another COVID lockdown should dampen demand.
Pray this is not Brandon's Ukrainian solution tonight.
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Reminds me of the old Woody Allen joke about "we need the eggs"
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[France24] The Communist candidate in France’s presidential election has suggested storming the winter palaces of Russian oligarchs on the French Riviera and handing them over to Ukrainian refugees as presidential hopefuls scramble to adjust their pitches in a campaign hijacked by the war in Ukraine.
With the first round of France’s presidential election less than six weeks away, a lacklustre campaign already overshadowed by the lingering Covid-19 pandemic has been thrown further off course by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign policy is typically a sideshow in French presidential campaigns, but Europe’s biggest military invasion since World War II has left France’s presidential hopefuls with no option but to venture into geopolitics and test their credentials as future commanders-in-chief.
With a few notable exceptions, candidates for the Élysée Palace have scrambled to adjust their schedules, swapping campaign events for pro-Ukraine rallies and attempting to clarify — or rectify — past comments on Russia’s president.
Ken Rogoff of Harvard is the former top economist at the International Monetary Fund. When the IMF's chief economist warns that the West's moves are going to threaten dollar dominance, you know you're in trouble
They didn't go full blast in SWIFT in freezing the central bank, but they've ramped it up radically. And, you know, again, the question is, you know, what's next?
But it's a major thing. I mean, if you want to look at the long-run picture of dollar dominance in the global economy, believe me, China's looking at this. They have, I don't know, $3 trillion in dollar reserves. And someday they may well do a similar thing in Taiwan. And they're thinking about how to shield themselves. And it could have very big, longer-term ramifications for the global economy, dollar dominance.
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That's not because we insisted on doing stuff about Ukraine.
It's because the elites in the West decided to spend the last thirty years tearing down US heavy industry and manufacturing to the benefit of people like Vladimir Putin.
"Putin is a pariah. I have many Ukrainian friends and Russian friends who are utterly distraught. They look at being cut off from the world for a long time," the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said on Yahoo Finance Live. "He is going to be looked at as a mass murder. People are going to be looking at again genocide charges. They are suddenly trading in North Korea. He has painted himself into this corner. It's a very dark place for where we are. I am not sure how we get to an end of it until Putin and his cronies go."
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How worried should Putin be? After all, the USA buys lots of phones and bassetbaw shoes made with slave labor in China.
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Is Putin becoming the next North Korea. Danagerous nukes and rhetoric, large military, but no real friends when it hits the fan (beyond loyal Belorus).
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So we're paying to send arms to Ukraine.
Simultaneously, we're financing Putin's attack on Ukraine by obliterating our own energy production and instead buying from Russia. Wait, what?!
Simultaneously, we're financing Putin's attack on Ukraine by an obscene trade deficit with China Communists, who in turn use their bounty to offset any sanctions we put on Russia. Wait, what?!
Radical CIA anti-American morons running our country.
Restore American energy independence. Repatriate industry from China. Cancel the FBI CIA and execute the criminals in their leadership. This is not rocket science. The BIG impediment is you have to start out wanting what is best for America.
#9
Is it wise to provoke Putin and not do something to secure our southern border from infiltration? I'm starting to think our President isn't all there.
[Ukrinform] Foreign partners will hand over as many as 70 warplanes to the Ukrainian Army — MiG-29s and Su-25s — to repel Russian aggression.
As Ukrinform reports, the Land Forces of Ukraine announced this on Facebook.
"’Ghosts of Kyiv’ will now have more! Plus 70 planes for the Ukrainian Army! Our partners are giving us MiG-29s and Su-25s! If necessary, they will be able to be based on Polish airfields from which Ukrainian pilots will perform combat missions," said the report.
Bulgaria will hand over 16 MiG-29s and 14 Su-25s, Poland — 28 MiG-29s, and Slovakia — 12 MiG-29s.
As Ukrinform reported, President Volodymyr Zelensky insists on a full no-fly zone for the Russian missiles, planes, and helicopters.
#4
@2 yeah that caught my eye too. Russia could argue that NATO is now interfering since it is allowing hostile planes to base from its territory and strike/invade Poland as reprisal. Easy to expand this war with that little tidbit.
#7
Putin is becoming so enraged over this, I'm half expecting to see video of him eating his tie. A humiliated and angry man with bloodlust and nukes is very dangerous.
#11
All the hafta do is fly along the 40 mile long convoy headed to Kiev. How can they miss?
I expect the Soviets ... excuse me, Russians - might have some planes of their own flying top cover for their tempting column of targets.
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Think again
European plan to donate fighter jets to Ukraine collapses
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/28/ukrainian-pilots-arrive-in-poland-to-pick-up-donated-fighter-jets-00012560
Soon after, a Ukrainian government official told POLITICO their country had sent pilots to Poland to pick up the jets and the Ukrainian parliament announced that the planes from Slovakia, Bulgaria and Poland would soon be on their way.
But by Tuesday, Bulgaria and Slovakia said there was no deal to send fighters, and the Polish president, appearing at a Polish air base alongside NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, said no planes would be flying any time soon.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... said Monday it was blocking warships from the key Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits in line with a convention that gives it control over the passage of military vessels in the strategic area.
"We have alerted both countries of the region and elsewhere not to pass warships through the Black Sea," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. "We are applying the Montreux Convention."
The 1936 Montreux Convention governs the free movement of fat merchantmen in peacetime through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles straits.
But it grants Turkey the right to block the passage of warships in the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits, that connect the Aegean, Marmara, and Black Sea, in wartime if threatened.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... had just clarified Turkey's position as a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member: "not to abandon either Russia or Ukraine" and not to "cede Turkey's national interests".
"We have decided to use the Montreux Convention to prevent the escalation of the crisis," he said after a cabinet meeting.
Ukraine had last week officially asked Turkey to close the Dardanelles Strait -- and thus access to the Black Sea -- to Russian ships.
NATO member Turkey, which has strong ties with both Russia and Ukraine, did not immediately respond to this request.
"Russia asked us if we would apply the Montreux Convention if necessary. We told them we would apply it word for word," Cavusoglu said.
He added that Ottoman Turkish experts had been studying the situation to assess "whether there is a state of war from a legal point of view".
Turkey is navigating its own narrow passage, diplomatically, between its ally Ukraine, to which it has sold combat drones used against Russian tanks, and Russia, on which it depends for its gas and grain supplies.
However Turkey on Sunday officially recognised Russia's attacks on Ukraine as a "state of war".
Erdogan on Monday said he considers "Russia's attack on Ukrainian territory as unacceptable" and hailed the struggle of the Ukrainian government and people.
[Washington Examiner] The United States government says it is expelling 12 Russian "intelligence operatives" from the Russian Mission to the United Nations over national security concerns.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations announced Monday the U.S. is "beginning the process" of expelling these individuals as part of a process that has "been in the works for several months," though the move comes less than a week into Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"We are beginning the process of expelling 12 intelligence operatives from the Russian Mission who have abused their privileges of residency in the U.S. by engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security," Olivia Dalton tweeted. The United Nations is headquartered in New York City.
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"beginning the process" of expelling these individuals as part of a process that has "been in the works for several months,"
WTF? Put them on a plane this morning and send them back to Russia. LaGuardia to Kyiv, plane change, then on to Moscow. Send Zelenskyy a copy of the flight itinerary.
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LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - BP is abandoning its stake in Russian oil giant 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
There are Likely Russian safe houses in Washington, D.C. as well. 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
