The mayor of Kherson said the city is under Russian control. One Ukrainian resident said “the night was surprisingly calm,” but it looks like no one can enter or leave the city. New video shows an explosion in the northern city of Chernihiv, it is not clear what caused the blast in the residential area but there are several reports of an oil depot catching fire.
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This amazing documentary on Ukraine was recommended by Sean Penn.
Best moment @ 1:19:22
https://youtu.be/yzNxLzFfR5w
Shame on NATO and Biden for not using their military to help Ukraine.
Uraaaa
Nobody was so interested in Syria, Lybia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq when America was invading and looting natural resources from these countries. Pathetic
Ukraine will be torn apart…
Uraa…uraaa….!!
Is this how Budapest memorandum works? Ukraine gave up 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world in the exchange for the security guarantees from UK and USA. NO SECURITY GUARANTEES
This is why we have the Second amendment. Pray for Ukrainians 🙏
Any Russian citizen who does not protest in streets against war is complicit to Putin’s crime !
Not protesting against Putin is == support Putin and agree with him !
Russians, why are you afraid to protest in streets? are you afraid beeing arrested? so what? beeing arrested is 1000x less harm that now Ukraine citizens suffer! wake-up!
Its unclear what caused that blast?
Jesus really
Russia, your way of thinking is of old age
My ;prayers are with the Russian soldiers and thank you for defeating Hitler. Get that evil NATO!!!!
Attaching for those who is still confused about current crisis in Ukraine.
Для всех сомневающихся в правде России!
https://youtu.be/H9Si12FN-Ns
Nato is just silent while Ukraine destroyed…(Nato scared)
Instagram does not have anyway to control the gps data for their users…You can find any users real time location whenever you want? Why would parents let their kids on this platform??
слава народу!
May all people everywhere experience the breath of life with joy as together we live, love, and create a world of shared peace and prosperity.
Support Ukrainian soldiers fighting for worlds democracy. Donate directly to soldiers blue-yellow,lt ( blue-yellowdotLT ). Lithuanian brother and sisters supporting Ukraine since 2014 when all this war started. Small country of 2,5 million people already donate over $15 M. Every donation helps to fight back russian invasion. Slava Ukraine!
Lying snakes rot in H. You help take the power away from Trump that we needed to succeed as a nation, and now you're helping take the power away from Putin who's just trying to protect his country from the same Globalist New World order snakes. You make me sick. https://youtu.be/z0psM6XFiYs
Well at least the news is taking the attention off the parisites that got the war going to begin with. The United States government and their partners. Using politically owned news corporations to sway a populations opinion of the world around them. Wars rage, people die, and hand raised politically paper trained primates are none the wiser for their acceptance of political parisite finger pointing BS on national television. It's all coming to an end someday anyway. Proven you can't take care of the planet or each other.
Let's see what the corporate-sponsored professional liars have to say. This should be riveting stuff…
Russians need to take Kiev so I can finally stop watching the news.
So…. Basically, Russia has Nato by the balls. I really don't care about what it is and isn't acceptable for Nato to do anymore. Children who are born prematurely; kids who are already afficted by cancer are suffering. Innocent people are being murdered for no reason. This argument that they're not a part of Nato is weak. They're human, in dire need of help. Something needs to be done now. If nuclear war breaks out, so what? Russia started this atrocious war. Nato should finish it. It's better to die on your feet than live forever, crawling on your knees, groping like cowards. This was started by one insane, spineless war monger without a soul. Putin, along with all of Russia, should be annihilated, so we never have to worry about their mental stability, murderous rampages, taste for human blood, and madness ever again. They should have a nuclear bomb dropped on them so it can be done with. They should all just be gone forever. In case no one is noticing it, the US had better put China under a microscope. They're in cahoots with Russia. They knew about this impending attack. They were all for it.
It's making me 😤
United States invades and bombs Korea and China 1950-1953 (Korean War)
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🇷🇺🇷🇺🇦🇹👏❤🙏🇦🇹🇷🇺🇷🇺 пишите ежедневно моим любимым друзьям в Москву и надеюсь, что русские герои добьют всех левофашистских нацистских кретинов! В Украине и по всей Европе!
More fake news. So far I have seen two computer games used as war footage on MSM Arma 3 was used making it look like it was Ukraine's anti aircraft defense & DCS aircraft simulator was used showing aircraft combat in the skies and now this dead people coming alive on live TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF1GQGRqtcA
Its the same smoke and mirrors used in India at the start of covaids when they showed all the dead bodies under white sheets on the news but their was the same footage showing a person kicking a body and the dead body jumped up yelling at the person who just kicked him. They did not show you that part on MSM.
Starting to think this whole war is just a show for what ? Bringing the world to its knees and blaming Putin for hacking the internet and shutting down the world. No internet = no Power, banking food supplies and every thing else that relies on the internet. WOW what would be next a new one world government to control the madness? There playing us and you fools are taking it hook line and sinker.
Zelenski murdered and tortured thousands in the Donbass even refused to prosecute those responsible for burning alive people in a Union building. Democrats are so fooled by what's going on they can't see their party has been taken over by fascist totalitarians and Republicans cant see their party has been taken over by socialist. Ukraine has a weirdo as a president who promotes the opposite of everything good. I hope good people all get out and that administration comes to its senses before it causes needless death of innocents to protect itself from being held responsible for its crimes against the people of Ukraine.
The USA needs to put $1 million bounty on Putin‘s head.
ロシアの人もウクライナの人もなるべく最小限の犠牲であることを心より願います。人の命は尊い。
Greater Russia is now a full-spectrum commodity superpower, less vulnerable to sanctions than Europe itself
The West’s pain threshold is about to be tested – Fortress Russia will endure this contest of self-reliance more stoically than Europe
In a matter of hours, the world order has turned drastically less favourable for the western democracies.
Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Ukraine elevates Russia into a full-spectrum commodity superpower, adding critical market leverage over global grain supply to existing strategic depth in energy and metals.
We wake up to the sobering reality that Russia is too pivotal for the international trading system to punish in any meaningful way. It influences or determines everything from bread in the shops, to gas for Europe’s homes and power plants, to supply chains for aerospace and car plants, or soon will do if Kyiv falls.
Who knew that almost 90pc of Europe’s imports of rapeseed oil comes from Ukraine, or Spain's jamon iberica depends on grain feed from the black earth belt of the Ukrainian steppe?
Ukraine turns Putin’s neo-Tsarist empire into the Saudi Arabia of food, controlling 30pc of global wheat exports and 20pc of corn exports.
It is not just Brent crude oil that has spiked violently, hitting an eight-year high of $102. Aluminium smashed all records on Thursday. Chicago wheat futures have hit $9.32 a bushel, the highest since the hunger riots before the Arab Spring.
Do not confuse this with inflation. Rocketing commodity prices are a transfer of wealth to exporters of raw materials. For Europeans at the sharp end, it acts like a tax, leaving less to spend elsewhere. It is deflationary for most of the economy. If it continues for long, we will slide into recession.
So while there is brave and condign talk of crippling sanctions against Russia, it is the West’s pain threshold that is about to be tested. My presumption is that Fortress Russia will endure this contest of self-reliance more stoically than Europe’s skittish elites.
Sanctions are of course imperative as a political statement. The West would be complicit if it did nothing. But the measures on the table do not change the equation.
The debate in Parliament over whether to hit a few more oligarchs or restrict City access for more Russian banks has bordered on parody: Brits talking to Brits in a surreal misunderstanding of raw geopolitics, as if Putin was going to give up his unrepeatable chance to snatch back Kyivan Rus and shatter the post-Cold War dispensation of Europe because David Lamy is vexed by golden visas.
Nor does the temporary German suspension of Nord Stream 2 change anything. The pipeline was never going to supply extra gas this decade. The Kremlin’s purpose was to reroute the same Siberian gas, switching it from the Ukrainian corridor to the Baltic, depriving Kyiv of self-defence leverage.
Once Putin controls Ukraine, Nord Stream 2 instantly becomes irrelevant.
The cardinal error was made in June 2015 when Germany went ahead with the bilateral pipeline just a year after the annexation of Crimea, signalling that the first Anschluss of 21st Century Europe would go unpunished, or worse, that it would be rewarded with a strategic prize.
If you want to date the death of a sovereign democratic Ukraine, it was that Merkantilist decision. Royal Dutch Shell was an abettor. Putin got our measure.
The 36pc fall in the MOEX index in Moscow on Thursday morning means that western investors with a Russian portfolio through pension funds or ETFs have lost money. It does not mean that Russian is being forced to its knees, as some would have it.
Nor does the modest decline in the rouble imply unmanageable economic stress. Russia’s exchange rate mechanism is designed to let the currency take the strain, cushioning the internal budget against shocks.
Russia is sitting on $635bn of foreign exchange reserves. It has a national debt of 18pc of GDP, one of the lowest in the world. It has a fiscal surplus and does not rely heavily on foreign investors to finance the state. This renders US sanctions against new issuance of sovereign bonds a mere nuisance.
The Kremlin is enjoying a windfall gain from commodities. Benchmark gas futures contracts for March have hit extreme levels of €120 a megawatt hour. Russia is earning $700m a day from sales of oil to Europe and to the US, which needs heavy Urals crude to replace sulphurous Venezuelan barrels for its refineries.
The harsh truth is that Europe would spiral into crisis within weeks if flows of Russian gas were cut off – by either side. The short-term loss of revenue for the Kremlin would be a small fraction of Russian gold, euro, and dollar reserves. There is no symmetry in this. Whatever the rhetoric, energy business as usual will proceed.
The US and Europe can and will enforce a technology blockade, restricting Russia’s access to advanced semiconductor chips, acting in tandem with Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s Samsung. This will hurt but it will take time. Russia has stockpiles. It has its own producers able to make mid-level chips down to 28-nanometres.
China may be irritated by how far Putin has gone in Ukraine but it will not join Western sanctions. Nor will it stop Chinese companies supplying chips to Russia through deniable middlemen and plugging some gaps in technology.
Putin can reasonably calculate that Western zeal for sustaining this hi-tech embargo will wane before it does irreversible damage to Russia.
Europe has vetoed expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT nexus of global payments for fear of the systemic blowback into its own banks, and because it would have made it hard to pay for Putin’s oil, gas, metals, and grains – leaving aside the risk that Russia might go all the way up the retaliation ladder.
The US itself is ambivalent over shutting down SWIFT because it would accelerate the de-dollarisation of global finance.
If the US plays its trump card, it risks losing the card. China and Russia already have their own payment systems that could be linked for bilateral trade.
So one watches the western pantomime over sanctions with a jaundiced eye, knowing that almost everything being discussed is largely beside the point, and that only military strength matters when push comes to a 200,000-man military shove.
The errors that led to this lie in years of European disarmament, the result of both wishful thinking by a complacent elite and because of fiscal austerity imposed by EU commissars during the eurozone crisis, with no regard for the larger strategic picture.
It is the fruit of periodic "resets" in relations with the Putin regime, invariably forgiving his sins, and dressing up commercial self-interest as if it were an attempt to lure him away from a Chinese axis of autocracies.
The final trigger was Joe Biden’s decision last July to override Congressional sanctions against Nord Stream 2, selling out Ukraine in a deal with Angela Merkel.
President Biden thought he could "park" Russia on one side and focus on China. He appointed a known Russophile as a key adviser on Russia. He neglected to appoint a US ambassador in Kyiv, long leaving matters in the hands of a junior with a taste for the quiet life, to the point of toning down cables to the White House that might have raised alarm.
Putin drew the conclusion that this was his moment to strike.
We can only pray for brave Ukrainians fighting without air cover against crushing military might. More Stinger and Javelin missiles would have helped enormously a few months ago but it is almost certainly too late now to change the outcome by shipping out weapons.
Kyiv will be ringed with tanks and howitzers within hours. To talk of protracted guerrilla warfare at this stage is to offer the counsel of despair, or to talk for the sake of talking.
The West must fall back to the next line of defence, the Nato line from Estonia to Romania, and face the long arduous task of military rearmament.
It would have been easier and wiser to stiffen a democratic Ukraine while we could. Now we face a reconstituted Russian empire in tooth claw, as far West as the Carpathians, with a stranglehold on the raw materials of our existence.
None of this was inevitable. It is the result of systematic policy failure
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10,000 souls dead, millions homeless. Russia pays $1.80 for gas we pay $4.00 who's winning this war? Open US oil pipelines and defund the War
Terrible journalism. It is a NATO invasion. Russia waited 7 years for Ukraine to follow the Minsk II agreement but they took no steps and continued to escalate nationalist violence with advanced weapons supplied by NATO. Now Russia is implementing Minsk II by force after violence escalate to a new level. Western cameras turn on only now because they can sell the idea of blaming Russia for the bombing that the Ukranian extreme nationalists are doing to their own country. All the western headlines are reversing the truth. I travel as an Australian frequently to Ukraine and Russia and saw the increasing anti-Russia propaganda and provocations increasing in scale each year from 1995 until now – and we just start reporting it now, but with diametrically opposite framing.