The bombing and shelling continued. The Council of Europe unanimously decided that Russia is no longer a member. The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic visit Zelenski. Killed journalists
The bombing and shelling does not stop. The aim of the Russian troops is, obviously, to force the surrender of strategically important cities by destruction. The US is trying to convince China not to be a lifeline for Russia weakened by Western sanctions. Scholz and Erdogan are looking for a solution. The producer of Russian state television interrupted the program with anti-war slogans
The hostilities approached the border with Poland. While the Russians are intensifying the bombing of strategically important places and tightening the belt around Kiev, the US is putting the appearance of "real" negotiations with Russia. Mariupol has become a symbol of Russia's destruction of Ukraine
The Ukrainian armed forces have survived for two weeks, but are now fragmented into smaller tactical formations that will apparently provide a tough defense. Ukrainian artillery has unusually high results, especially in surprise attacks on large columns of Russian equipment. A great support for the Ukrainians is the constant intelligence support of NATO since the first day of the fighting
Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov and Dmytro Kuleba, met on Thursday morning in Antalya. There was no progress. They repeated the previous demands and expanded the list of accusations. Everything is happening at a dangerous speed where all three parties first react and then think about the consequences
The day of the truce due to the evacuation of civilians was marked by the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol. About 35.000 civilians reportedly left the besieged cities for safety via three humanitarian corridors. On Thursday night, local authorities in several cities reported bombing and shelling by Russian troops. According to Ukrainian and Western sources, an offensive on Kiev is expected in the coming days
UNESCO is concerned about seven cultural monuments in Ukraine that are on the World Heritage List. The Russians announced an attack on the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, which is located next to the Saint Sophia Cathedral. Museum collections were not evacuated in time
For the third time since the beginning of the invasion, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations sat down at the negotiating table. The focus of the conversation was the evacuation of civilians from cities under Russian siege. Both sides assessed the progress as minimal and accused each other of not establishing humanitarian corridors for safe evacuation. Talks should continue in the coming days
Year 2012: Queen and Elton John concert, and the European Football Championship. Year 2014: Revolution of dignity. This year: war. And all this on the Maidan, in the center of Kyiv
We are fine. Kiev prepares for defense. Our job is to prepare the defense of the country against attack. Russians are terrorists. I will not leave Kiev
The number of Ukrainian refugees will soon exceed 2 million. Humanitarian corridors through which civilians could safely evacuate cities under siege are being negotiated. It seems that the ground is being prepared for the second act of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which combat operations will intensify
Perhaps Tolstoy was right when he wrote that all happy families are the same, and unhappy ones are always unhappy in different ways. But this does not apply to refugees, the refugee tragedy is always, and everywhere, exactly the same. Everyone who is shaken by pictures from Ukraine should remember that
The destruction of cities in the path of the Russian offensive shows what will happen to anyone who refuses to accept Russian rule. The goal, obviously, is the capture of the entire Black Sea coast, the surrender of Mariupol and Odessa, the establishment of a land corridor between Crimea and the breakaway self-proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, and, finally, the capitulation of Kiev.
Just as Serbia was never Slobodan Milosevic, neither is Russia Vladimir Putin. She is on the streets and in the newsrooms of independent media. And those who defend the Russian invasion in Serbia are not real Russophiles, but Putinophiles. They have nothing to do with real Russian culture. Kandinsky, Malevich, Platonov, Stravinsky mean nothing to them. They are much closer to the rulers of the Romanov dynasty, Rasputin or Stalin
The war is heating up, victims are measured in thousands, refugees in hundreds of thousands, the end is not in sight. In record time, the entire Western Hemisphere united in isolation, economic strangulation and condemnation of Russia, in all possible assistance to Ukraine. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, overnight became a movie hero of the fight for freedom and democracy, with whom citizens throughout the Western world can identify. The message is that Europe is defending itself in Kiev. The image of his video-link address to the European Parliament is an image, at least temporarily, of a united Europe. Serbia is not in that picture
We see on television how women in Ukraine are preparing Molotov cocktails in case Russian armored vehicles penetrate the cities. I remember the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. I was there as a young journalist. There are some similarities with what is happening before our eyes in Ukraine, where a large column of Russian armored vehicles is heading towards Kiev.
As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the director of the Meyerhold Center State Theater in Moscow, Elena Kovalskaya, resigned. And she reasoned with one sentence, just once, because everything important is contained in it, in those few words, and everything that would dilute things like a villain was omitted from it as a surplus: "It is impossible to work for a murderer and be paid by him."
Currently, the only visible winner of the Ukrainian war is the NATO pact, which, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has a permanent justification for its existence, which it has been desperately seeking since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Comedian, actor and sixth president of independent Ukraine. It strives for close ties with the EU and NATO. He blames the West for not doing enough to protect Ukraine. He says that he is the "main target of Russian aggression" which aims to "demilitarize" and "denazify" Ukraine. As for the latter, Zelensky is a Jew
The Russian invasion descended on Ukraine like Armageddon. In the second day of Putin's "special military operation", the fight for Kiev continues. Ukrainians are resisting in major cities, but the question is how long they will last
More than 100 local deputies from 44 Russian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, signed an open letter "unreservedly" condemning the "special military operation" in Ukraine, which is an "unparalleled crime" that cannot be justified ". During anti-war demonstrations across Russia on Thursday, 1.705 people were arrested
A new war has begun in Europe. The Russian military bombed military infrastructure across Ukraine. Russian special forces penetrated into Ukrainian territory from all directions and occupied strategic points without much resistance. A state of war and general mobilization was declared. There are dead and wounded
Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine. Russian troops are crossing the Ukrainian border from several sides. While Putin talks about "demilitarization", military aggression is at work, which could soon turn into a bloody war on a wider scale. At the moment, it is not clear how the Ukrainian armed forces will respond
Even if it does not attack militarily, Russia can severely damage Ukraine economically by maintaining tensions permanently. The damage is already enormous, capital is fleeing, investors are avoiding high-risk areas, and Western aid is scarce.
In full view of the whole world, Putin can play with Ukraine like a cat with a mouse: he can send "peacekeeping troops" to the newly created pro-Russian independent republics and secure a separation border with the rest of Ukraine; can occupy an additional separation band, purely for the sake of order; can establish a land strip between the already formally annexed Crimea and Donbass; can order the invasion of Kiev and establish a pro-Russian regime. And no one can stop him
On Monday, February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Decree on the Recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DNR and LNR) and requested that the Russian Duma ratify those documents. At the same time, he signed agreements on military cooperation and mutual assistance with those two republics
In the unrecognized Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, a general mobilization has been declared, practically no side is keeping the truce anymore, tens of thousands of people are fleeing to safety due to fear of an escalation of the conflict, Russia and Belarus have extended their joint military operations due to "increased military activities" near their borders. exercises, and the West always resets the countdown to the start of the alleged Russian offensive
