Ah, think of the gas bill to keep the house warm in that.
There's no mention of it on the Telegram channel for the Mariupol City Council.
Here's the translation of the last message posted which was about 8pm (11pm local time):
The humanitarian caravan continues to go to Mariupol through the green corridor
In spite of the difficult road, humanitarian aid continues its journey to Mariupol, where 400,000 people are under blockade. It is already known that the caravan, with more than 60 vehicles, has traveled most of the planned route. The humanitarian aid included 90 tons of food and medicines, as well as more than 50 buses for the beginning of the evacuation of civilians in Mariupol.
The Donetsk Regional Military and Civil Defense Administration and the Mariupol City Council are responsible for the delivery of humanitarian aid. Please trust only the verified official information about the transfer of the caravan.
We are in a hurry, Mariupol citizens.
You don't seem to realise this is going to happen anyway. The country is going to be nothing but rubble soon and so many people are dying for an outcome that looks increasingly inevitable.
looks like a patsy
probably the same guy he dressed down during the pre-recorded declaration of the start of hostilies a fortnight ago
googled him and yes it was Sergei also, this seems like a preplanned event
"Why do these yes men I surrounded myself with keep saying 'yes'?"
Buried in it will be a large portion of the Russian army, the Russian economy and Putin's career.
Sanctions can never be lifted until putins removal and/or full nuclear disarmament. There can not be another Ukraine or even a threat of it.
Et tu comrade?
Sad but true, when people organize a collection looking for good used clothing, shoes etc. a lot of people consider it a good idea to "donate" stuff that has long been past its sell by date, on the mistaken assumption that "sure they will be glad to get it!!!" As if the poor Ukrainians have not had enough misery heaped upon them.
Great footage here, but i'm more interested in what seems to be the Ukrainian Pogues
For some reason I can see putin standing up in the UN saying it wasn't him ,and his generals went Rogue and invaded while holding a gun to his head.
I would not be happy for Putin to get anything but he will not be pushed back out of the country much as we would like it to happen so if some deal could be got at least it would save lives and the country from being flattened .Its a very long shot Putin will be ousted anytime soon sanctions will take time and he does have allies around the world unfortunetly to keep him afloat .
Last poll I showed had support for Ukraine pretty much equal across both sets of voters in the US, bipartisan support for military aid, some Republicans looking for more intervention and so forth
Some people just had their brains broken by Trump.
There is no point in any deal that leaves Ukraine defenceless against Russian depradations. Crimea and Donbas is one thing. But not a neutralised Ukraine left without an army or its core territory and resouces that it needs to rebuild.
That will be a truce not peace and Russia will be back in a few years for round 3 to grab the rest. How many Ukranians will disappear then.
If there's going to be a diplomatic solution here, the price will almost certainly include lifting sanctions. No way Russia agrees to withdraw without sanctions being lifted. Similar to the blackmail Iran is doing now re: nuke deal.
He lied to Putin, what a heinous crime especially so considering he can only be told what he wants to hear! The wheels are definitely starting to come off if Putin is turning on his minions.
A compiled list of killed/captured Russian officers to date.
The current estimate is that at least 20 generals are involved in the liberation and the denazification of Ukraine....... There is no modern parallel to this many high-ranking officials dead this early on in an invasion. Operation Barbarossa would be close maybe. A CBS report from a day or 2 days ago, citing the US estimate of 5000-6000 dead, 15000-18000 wounded, which in itself is already at least 10% of all Russian forces. Estimate goes higher with known 3000+ POW and around 15k missing/deserted. A quarter of military equipment in the invasion has been destroyed or disabled.
General Patton: "No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
Absolutely not, what is the point of the Ukrainians sacrificing everything for a status quo. If Putin has to relinquish Donbass or Crimea then he will be gone, that should be the goal and he knows it.
I was talking to a chap recently at a hospital appointment,him and his wife knew nothing about ukraine but like that posted on Facebook about doing a clothing collection , expecting a bag or two from friends ,in 3 days they had to hire a box van to take over 200 bags of clothes handed into them,
The minions need to make a move before they are purged...
Russian tanks find way to prevent javelins from penetrating via their upper armour
https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1502758799861497863
That scenario only kicks the can down the road until Putins next venture.
The only way Ukraine can guarantee its safety, security and sovereignty going forward will be to join NATO and the EU (even if this takes a good few years).....otherwise it would be at major risk of being invaded again by the rogue and criminal regime to its east.
Didn't know Frank Spencer had joined the Russian army 😂
Russia’s most popular late-night talk show host, Ivan Urgant, who has been dubbed Russia’s version of American television host Jimmy Kimmel, is believed to have fled to Israel with his family following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Urgant’s talk show, which has aired daily since 2012 on Russia’s state-run Channel One, was taken off the air on February 21, only three days before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, in what commentators say was a result of his anti-war views.
On February 24, the popular comedian posted a pitch-black square to his Instagram account, followed by more than 10 million people, alongside the caption “Fear and pain. No to war” in Russian — a slogan that has since been heard in anti-war protests across Russia.
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I'm not sure being compared to Jimmy Kimmel, one of the least funny talk show hosts, is a good thing. Suffice to say totalitarian regimes always go after comedians and entertainers. They'll replace him with some sterile regime stooge.
Eh.... It's not 'liberation' or 'denazification' of Ukraine. It's an invasion, pure and simple.
No offence to the people’s generosity and I'm sure well intentioned but I’d say most of that was a load of old clear-out tat. You’d have to question the economics of then transporting it over 2000km
He's going to have to rebuild his military before the next adventure. Root & branch. Not just build more tanks, it will be a decade long process at least.
Putin didn't want Ukraine in the EU either, so that probably would have been another term of the deal. The people of Ukraine would have seen such a deal as a complete sell out. 'Give up your right to self-determination. Stay within the Russian sphere of influence. Be content with stagnation.'
Yes, lives would be spared if Ukraine just stayed obedient to Russia, but it's happened so much in human history that nations are willing to put their lives on the line for a principle that it should tell us something - people want the right to make their own decisions and live their best life, even if it means sacrifice. Even if it means losing the battle. Here's another chapter of that.
I know a deal is difficult to see being agreed its just how far can the war can go I hope Ukraine can be free and exist without a threat just wondering how that that can come about in reality .
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