When the war ends and Ukraine surrender, will the sanctions still be in place against Russia?
Yes once you start lying need to stick to the same lie. The Russians are telling so many they are tripping up over themselves. Must be awfully confusing for the putinbots... like a dog chasing their own tail.
They staged an explosion... but wait I thought they turned it into a bastion due to its advantageous tactical location.
From the BBC:
Speaking on Rossiya 24 news channel, Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said "absolutely no missions to hit targets on the ground by Russian aviation in the Mariupol area were carried out".
He then claimed: "The alleged airstrike that took place is a completely orchestrated provocation to maintain anti-Russian excitement among the Western audience."
But earlier today (see our post just before 11:00GMT) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the hospital was a legitimate military target because it had been "taken over" by Ukrainian radicals and "all the mothers and nurses were chased out of there".
The attack on the hospital yesterday must have blindsided the Russian Defense Ministry. My reason for thinking this is that the official statement regarding the attack was only released this evening (around 19:15 local time). We'll all be relieved to know that it was faked and we are simply too naive to think otherwise.
The Russian Defense Ministry commented on fakes in the Western media about the alleged "strike" on Mariupol hospital No. 3 by Russian aircraft yesterday:
The Russian Ministry of Defense yesterday declared a "silence regime" for the safe evacuation of civilians in the city. Absolutely no ground targets were hit by Russian aviation near Mariupol.
The analysis of the statements made by representatives of the Kiev nationalist regime and the photographs from the hospital leaves no room for doubt. The alleged "airstrike" is a fully orchestrated provocation to maintain anti-Russian agitation among Western audiences.
We have repeatedly stated earlier that medical facilities in Mariupol, including Hospital No. 3, ceased their full-time operation at the end of February. All staff and patients were dispersed by nationalists.
The hospital building, due to its advantageous tactical location close to the center of the city, was converted into a stronghold of the Azov National Battalion*. This was reported en masse by city residents who moved to both Kyiv-controlled and Donetsk People's Republic-controlled areas.
Photographs of the hospital area contain evidence of two separate staged explosions near the hospital. A buried underground explosion and another one of low power, aimed at the hospital building.
The nature of the external and internal damage to the building may be misleading to a mass non-professional audience in Europe and the United States. For whom this production was made. But not the experts. A high-explosive aircraft munition, even of lower power, would simply have left nothing of the building's exterior walls.
All of these and other war crimes in Mariupol are committed by the punishers locked in the city. We have repeatedly warned that as the ring tightens, the number of Nazi provocations will increase. There is nowhere for them to flee from there.
It was these Nazis of the "Azov" battalion* who deliberately and with particular cruelty destroyed the civilian population in the Donetsk and Luhansk republics for eight years.
*The "Azov" battalion is a terrorist organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Footage of Ukrainian infantry engaged in fighting and skirmishes
"However, on the official page in Facebook, the command of the Air Force of Ukraine published a post with a Millerovo aire base in fire with a comment: "Oops, who did it?
Multiple people were reported to be wounded,[10] and at least one Sukhoi Su-30SM was destroyed on the ground per tweeted images.[11] However, Ukrainian officials and military experts have claimed that at least two Russian Su-30SM fighters were destroyed on the ground.[12]"
seems the ukranians were involved
Very interesting article from the BBC from the frontline in Kharkiv
"The position was attacked on Monday (or was it the day before, he wonders), two Russian tanks and an armoured vehicle. "Don't worry, we are well defended," he says as he gestures to a pile of American-made Javelin guided anti-tank missiles. "Lockheed Martin, Texas," is written on their casing. Nearby, is a pile of British next-generation light anti-tank weapon (NLAW) missiles. "Eliminates even the most advanced tanks," its manufacturer Saab promises on its website.
It is bitterly cold and two puppies are playing around Lt Gromadsky's feet. His shoes are a pair of white Puma trainers - "You need to be fast out here," he says.
The Ukrainians are improvising in this war. Their government has been criticised for being ill-prepared, and now there is a rush to bring men forward to the front. The regular army is being merged with civilian defence forces. At a marshalling point on the city's eastern edge, I watch as buses arrive with hundreds of freshly equipped soldiers. "Where's my body armour?" asks one. "You'll get it at the front," yells an officer, and moments later they are gone."
"Before curfew I make my way to the city's Hospital Number 4 to meet Dr Alexander Dukhovskyi, head of paediatrics. Underneath his hospital whites, he's wearing a Miami Beach 2015 T-shirt, with the American flag. He hasn't gone home in weeks."
"He laughs when I say that Russia says it isn't targeting civilians. Then, silently, he takes me down corridor after corridor of victims of Russian attacks. They are in the hallways because Russian shells have landed nearby, so the patients aren't safe in the wards with large windows. Most here were injured while at home."
Let's concentrate on your analogy. It was wrong.
The Russians have volume not equipment. The end. There's no need to add multiple of paragraphs to demonstrate your analogy was poor.
i explained it in my comments, leave me alone
In February as per Russian propaganda or on 1st March as per journalist report/possible Russian propaganda?
Worth reading the thread he put up, he doesn't confirm Ukrainians did anything.
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1498634367110950912?t=WRgjMOgSSxGED5cp2uq07Q&s=19
You made the claim so explain or get off the back peddling Russian bolloxology
Im not sure why there havent been more
No
those are intended to Ukrainian readers.
Thanks, I must have missed this one, and appears they also hit Millerovo airbase in the same Oblast
Announcements pertinent to refugees are published in Ukrainian.
He doesn't really count, he has been on a Kremlin hitlist for years.
Scroll down to 'Publications' on this gov.ie site:
Cyberattack?
You d have to wonder about those people, how anyone can even attempt to justify the current situation let alone defend it is beyond me.
Ah, the Dutch bravery to the fore as usual - Srebrenica.
TASS is a Russian state mouthpiece, any other sources on this?
You are making an unsubstantiated claim their Mecanudo...
There is no way for you, or I to know if he is keeping a straight face or not when he is posting this crap...
Ah **** I didn't realize america did it, that makes it ok so for Russia to have at it with every hospital in there path.
Glad you could justify there attacks for us.
read the thread and get back to me
It must be exhausting. Almost feel sorry for them, somethings gone very wrong in their lives.
That's his way out.
What are you on about "selling out"?
selling out
They never give up.
Russian forces are invading Ukraine, but this lot keep finding ways to "have issues" with how it's portrayed. They are "just asking questions" and being "skeptical" that's all. Where have I seen this act so many times before..
If only there was a dozen cheaper other streamers to migrate to.
Oh hang on.
They will come to their senses when they realise that Russia won't be able to afford their gold and diamonds soon.
I also imagine the EU holding up their relatively new trade agreement with SA on one hand and a lighter in the other will focus the mind.
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