Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

grini said:
A few days ago I've joined RT News channel on Telegram, they have over 300 000 people there.

Now I can't access it anymore.

I get this:

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This is from RT Germany:

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The telegram channel of RT-News can no longer be accessed.www.globallookpress.com
Access to the RT channels, in particular RT International and RT DE, via the Telegram messenger service has been blocked. This applies to apps from Google Play and Apple Store, as well as Telegram's own APK version, also via a Tor browser.

Instead of the shared news content, subscribers will see a message stating that the channel cannot be viewed due to violation of local laws.
 
SOTTREADER said:
Is it safe to say that we are entering "unreality"? Feels like something fundamental changed and we're kind of in a place where a sort of delusion and hypnosis is so widespread it makes you question your own sanity and basic understanding of the world. It's all rather strange.
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Already happend (long time ago). Its accelerating exponentially at the moment though and even exceeds the "Corona Insanity" by far.
 
luc said:
Yes, good for them. But it is also crazy that they had to send that letter at all - even though they didn't have to react to any sanction or law, because there is none at this moment! It's like they are saying "look guys, there is an insane witch hunt going on and they will try to bully every Russian, they might even punish random Russian scientists for no reason, but rest assured that we will try our best to avoid that." Notice also that they said that Russians might not share the views of their government, as if that has anything to do with science or can ever be a reason to censor science!

It is just so crazy, here in Germany the mayor of Munich forced the conductor Gergiev to "condemn Putin and the war", or be fired. And since he didn't comply, he was fired. There were more examples of this dynamic that I can't remember now. This is so totalitarian it boggles the mind.
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It's insane, i'd dare to say that the witch hunt and demonization of Russia and it's inhabitants and all that is related to them has been spread (or better say "activated") all over the western world. Just to throw a few examples from Italy, i've heard that in a Uny in Italy the administration cancelled te seminar of a professor on Dostoevsky's works. What has to do Dostoevsky's works with what's happening in Ukraine? Go figure. The italian fashion business conglomerate declared that whichever the stance will be from the italian government towards Russia they'll respect it and support it, good for them because the italian government is doing all it's best to blow up every possible bridge and tie with Russia at the same time spreading and intensifying anti-russian propaganda and a russophobic mindset among it's own population thus heading Italy towards a total disaster in the very near future (months?).

What i mean is that, currently people from all around the world who have the potential to wake up and see the reality they're living in for what it is are being given the possibility to make a choice for the future they want to manifest for themselves: a dark dystopic reality or a really free world where the free will law reigns supreme.

From where i sit it's pretty clear what will be the consequences on EVERYONE at least in the Western world due to the actions of the PTB in regards to Russia. When those actions will have a very painful result on western people who cheered for their beloved leaders all this time it will be interesting to see what will be these peoples stance towards their beloved governments. The upcoming sh*t storm that will be caused by the curtesy of the PTB's actions and people's ignorance will bring the neccessary suffering (the C's were mentioning in the last session) for the people to experience that will allow them to make the final choice.

It remains to be seen how much will they have to suffer and the choice that will be made afterwards.
 
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Stuck in the middle with Ukraine: What the press is saying about Russia’s invasion

Dispatching reporters to Europe (and squabbling with each other over it), Israel wrestles with the unfolding horror, Jerusalem's non-stance, and the ghosts of WWII
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By JOSHUA DAVIDOVICHToday, 12:22 pm
1. Ukraine in pain: Like much of the media around the world, Israel’s press has been nearly singly focused on the war in Ukraine for the past week. The coverage has mostly been a mix of straight reportage on the war, heart-rending eyewitness accounts, including from Israeli reporters sent into the European crucible, and close tracking of Jerusalem’s attempts to thread the needle between supporting Ukraine and staying on the Kremlin’s good side.
  • “Thousands of dead,” read the front page headline of Yedioth Ahronoth on Thursday, the words emblazoned over a picture of a burning building in Kharkiv that had been shelled by Russian forces, typifying front pages across the Israeli media landscape over the past week.
  • With Israeli reporters dispatched to Kyiv, Lviv and Ukraine’s borders, much of the first-hand reportage focuses less on the actual fighting, which is further away and covered by wire services, and more on the humanitarian disaster unfolding, particularly with Jewish or Israeli angles.
  • Army Radio, for instance, interviews a 10-year-old boy who fled from Kyiv to Israel with his family when fighting broke out. “The way was very scary, every second you heard booms, and every 10 meters was a checkpoint with armed soldiers. I didn’t have time to say bye, I barely managed to grab anything from the house,” he says.
  • In a similar vein, Kan runs a video diary of Rabbi Shmueli Azman and his wife Dvori, who also fled Kyiv for Israel. “There are so many Jews still stuck in Ukraine and in Kyiv, which is totally bombed out and shelled,” Dvori says.
  • The station says her husband headed back to Moldova to help with the rescue of more Jews, an operation that several Israeli journalists were on hand to witness Thursday, including ToI’s Naomi Lanzkron. “The final days were horrible. There was a large number of missiles and we heard shooting in the street. And then we realized it was time to leave,” an escaping Kyivan tells her. “We are staying in Israel, we’re not going back. We had hoped to move anyway.”
  • Describing the border crossing, Israel Hayom’s Yifat Ehrlich writes that the scene is “stomach-churning”: “Some 100,000 people have crossed here in the last week. On the Ukrainian side is a traffic jam 12 miles long, and on the Moldovan side are a few tents, hot drinks, food, buses and dozens of volunteers, relatives, friends and others waiting in the cold for the arrivals.
  • Several outlets interview residents of Kherson, the first major city to be taken by Russia, though with pretty much everyone holed up at home, the information they all pass along appears to be more rumor than fact. “Now there is a large number of Russian troops as well as vehicles. Groups of Russian soldiers are patrolling the city. The residents say sometimes [the soldiers] enter homes, mostly looking for weapons and medicine,” Haaretz quotes Polina Abrazhevich, who got stuck in the city, saying.
  • Another resident tells Army Radio: “I haven’t left my home and haven’t been around the city. I heard there’s no Russian flag, I believe we are still free, but there are explosions and Russian soldiers are going around.”
2. Bring the gun, leave the canned statements: As the war rages in Ukraine, a separate battle is taking place in Israel over Jerusalem’s attempts to keep a fragile balance between Ukraine and Russia. While Jerusalem has made a show of all the humanitarian aid it is sending — and which is appreciated — Ukrainians would really like some of those neat Iron Dome air defense systems or other Israeli weapons.
  • “We don’t need the support, but we need the weapons to protect ourselves,” Lviv Oblast governor Maksym Kozytskyy tells The Times of Israel’s Lazar Berman. “If we had the same opportunity that Israel does, these air defense systems, we would have prevailed in the air.”
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is even blunter, telling a press conference that “I don’t feel Bennett is wrapped in our flag.”
  • The quote belies Bennett’s claim to Channel 13 in an interview that “various parties” prefer that Israel stay neutral so it can act as an honest mediator between Moscow and Kyiv.
  • Yedioth Ahronoth puts Zelensky’s flag quote across its front page and makes it seem as if Zelensky had made the comment in an interview with its correspondent in Kyiv Edy Duks. The decision to play it up thusly may have been a reaction to a mini-war of its own with Channel 12, which had noted that Zelensky made the comment to “its” correspondent Itai Angel. Angel is technically there for the Uvda (“Fact”) news magazine that airs on the channel, and which had called him “the only Israeli at the press conference.”
  • Yedioth, aware of what is really important here, initially responded by throwing shade at Uvda, tweeting a picture of Duks there, and telling the show that “he even served in the IDF, fact.”

  • Writing in Haaretz, Kyiv entrepreneur Ilya Bezrucho expands on Zelensky’s sentiment: “From the viewpoint of Ukrainian Jews, Israel’s insufficient engagement with their suffering is both disillusioning and ineffective. From where we stand, under Russian bombardment, the State of Israel seems more interested in public relations than in real action to help us and to help our country,” he writes.
  • But Ynet reports that the army at least is happy with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s fence-sitting: “Senior IDF officials explain that these are balanced, realistic and responsible stances given the army’s challenges. The US is indeed our greatest ally, but the Russians are on the border and the war with Iran on Syrian territory has not ended.”
  • In Israel Hayom, which appears to be continuing its proud tradition of toeing the government line, the debate is almost totally absent. In Lviv, a reporter finds one interviewee who mentions wanting to get military help from Israel … some other time. “After we win, we’ll need Israel’s help in building a strong army, and especially with air defenses.”
  • (Another article includes an aside that mentions another way Israel is helping: diplomats at the border helping people cross over are not extending the aid to men of fighting age. “We’re not helping people defect,” he says.)
  • Not everyone is convinced that the Ukrainians should need to wait for Israeli aid. “Can it be that the Defense Ministry can say that because we need to bomb Syria once or twice a week we’re going to stay neutral in this war?” former Foreign Ministry director Alon Liel asks Army Radio. “It’s absurd.”
  • It’s perhaps not the IDF’s call, though. The same station reports that the military was willing to send Ukraine some defensive equipment, like helmets and flak jackets, but the political leadership shot the idea down.
  • Former IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin writes for Channel 12’s website that Israel should not forget its other strategic interests, like an Iron Dome re-arming package from the US: “Approval of the aid, which is being held up, is currently in the Senate, and could be taken off the table if Israel’s policies in the Ukraine crisis raise criticism in Congress.”
  • “Yes, Israel needs to take the safety of hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Russia and Ukraine into consideration. And with a small Russian contingent operating in neighboring Syria, a degree of strategic caution is called for,” fumes Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz. “That still doesn’t excuse the pusillanimous two-faced non-response to Putin’s abuse of the memory of the Holocaust when he claims to be on a campaign of ‘de-nazification’ against the ‘neo-Nazi junta’ led by a Jewish president in Kyiv.”
3. Putin loves bombing dead Jews, or does he? As an idea of what Israel might expect should it decide to go all-in on Ukraine, Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan tells ToI’s Judah Ari Gross that for the Holocaust memorial’s relatively tame statement against the invasion he got significant pushback from Russian officials, a letter of protest from the country’s ambassador in Israel, and a public response from the speaker of the Kremlin, who invited him to see the “alleged atrocities” committed by Ukraine against ethnic Russians, which he claimed justified the “denazification” remarks.
  • Nonetheless, Dayan doesn’t back down, calling Russia’s attacks “outrageous” and rejecting Moscow’s claims it launched the offensive to “denazify” the country.
  • “It is not based on fact, it distorts and trivializes the Holocaust, and we deplore it,” Dayan says.
  • A large chunk of the outrage aimed at Russia has been over a bombing that Ukraine said struck near the Babyn Yar memorial to over 33,000 Jews massacred by the Nazis in a ravine there during the Holocaust.
  • “To think that 80 years later, Russian forces would strike the area of the Babyn Yar memorial site and desecrate the memories of the Jews who were murdered there, is sickening,” writes antisemitism watchdog Liora Rez for CNN, recalling her family’s flight from Kiev before the Holocaust.
  • “On Tuesday night, Vladimir Putin targeted and damaged the Babyn Yar area in a missile strike — aiming for the local TV tower and studio complex that the Soviet Union chose to construct alongside that blood-drenched earth — and in so doing further highlighted the historic resonance of the outrage he is currently pursuing in Ukraine, and the vast danger it poses,” ToI editor David Horovitz writes.
  • “For many, whether deliberate or not, these strikes exposed the absurdity of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that he launched the war to “denazify” Ukraine,” says NBC news.
  • But debunking reports that often made it seem as if the Babyn Yar site had taken a direct hit, damaging the mass grave or memorials nearby, Ynet’s Ron Ben Yishai visits the site and gleefully reports back that everything is still hunky-dory.
  • “After touring the whole breadth of the large site I can report with confidence that no memorial was damaged and no bomb, missile or shell hit the area,” he writes, reporting that the closest hit was 300 meters away.
  • JTA’s Cnaan Liphshiz points out that Zelensky also stretched the truth when he decried shelling near Uman, a pilgrimage site for Hasidic Jews. But he notes that it’s part and parcel with his strategy of suddenly emphasizing his Jewishness against Putin’s Nazified claims.
  • “He’s using the Jewish angle – and it’s absolutely kosher,” Ukraine-born author and former MK Roman Bronfman tells him. He adds that even if Babyn Yar wasn’t hit “isn’t it bad enough that it’s in danger of being hit because of Russian bombs? Zelensky and his people are using this quite rightly to spur world Jewry to speak out.
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Man, that's an understatement.👆

https://twitter.com/x/status/1499723836249550848

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Zelensky left Ukraine for Poland, Russian State Duma speaker says:
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TASS @tassagency_en
6:00 AM · Mar 4, 2022
IAEA general director says no radiation leaked at Zaporozhskaya NPP in Ukraine:
http://go.tass.ru/jZFde

https://twitter.com/x/status/1499715651388256256


BBC, Deutsche Welle, and other websites restricted in Russia
The news outlets are being “limited” by the country’s media regulator amid the conflict in Ukraine
Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor limited access to Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) and blocked the Meduza news outlet website on Friday morning, its registry of restricted internet resources shows. Both had been designated “foreign agents.” Access to the websites of the German newspaper Deutsche Welle and BBC has also been restricted.

According to the watchdog, access was limited after a decision taken by Russia’s general prosecutor in accordance with regulations to limit websites that contain “appeals for civil unrest, extremism, and participation in illegal mass demonstrations” in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Meduza, based in Latvia, was accorded foreign agent status in April 2021, because it was alleged that it was funded by non-commercial organizations abroad. Radio Liberty had been added to the same list in 2017, along with the Golos Ameriki (Voice of America) radio station. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced at the time that the measures were reciprocal and had been adopted after RT was obliged to be registered as a foreign agent in the US.

On Thursday, the Moscow TV station Rain (Dozhd) temporarily suspended its broadcasts, having been blocked for two days for alleged false reporting on the offensive in Ukraine. The Russian government designated the channel a foreign agent in August 2021, due to the large donations it had received from overseas organizations. The decision was announced by its owner, Natalia Sindeeva, who said her journalists needed “strength and time to exhale [so as to] understand how to work further,” and that she hoped Rain would one day return to the airwaves.

The radio station Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow), blocked for the same reason, also made the decision to shut down on Thursday. It had been one of the Russian capital’s most popular liberal media outlets, and this was the first time it had been off-air in almost 30 years. Alexey Venediktov, its editor-in-chief, hit out at the decision, insisting the allegations were “not supported by any examples or evidence.” He has vowed to contest the ruling, which he described as “censorship prohibited by the Constitution.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine last Thursday, after the leaders of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, recently recognized by Russia as sovereign states, appealed for assistance in relation to what they claimed was increasing “aggression” from Kiev’s armed forces. Ukrainian officials insist the military assault was completely unprovoked. The offensive has been met with indignation and a wide range of unprecedentedly severe economic sanctions targeting Russia and a select list of its government officie.
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It seems likely that as in the case of the vaccine narrative that the distortion of and hyping of something to death must fairly quickly discredit the sources responsible.

On access to RT. I'm in Ireland which may make a difference, and anyway don't understand the technical niceties.

There however seems to be no difficulty in accessing RT using Kaspersky VPN - perhaps the latter helps.
 
bjorn said:
This is not Moldova, but glorious Transnistria. An ancient relic of the Soviet Union. The people there still live like it's 1950 Russia, It is very poor there though. It is a renegade state that no one recognizes. Their biggest exports are liquor and weapons. Only go there if you are tired of life. I think the mapmakers believe they stand with Russia. They might. But I don't know who's in charge of the place. If anyone is.
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Transnistria is not a renegate and desperate country, in fact it is doing quiet well economically, socially and culturally, it has good relations with Russia and they still are trying to be acknowledged as an independent state from Moldova, going their own way so to say. That's not how a desperate country will act me thinks. In a few words it's a pretty stable little country that may have even a more bighter future with Russia once the situation in Ukraine gets settled.

It's another thing for Moldova who's president that is of romanian nationality, this fact in itself renders the idea who is running the political show in Moldova, with a strong pro western stance just a few days ago pleaded the EU to recognize Moldova as a member of EU. I mean you are pleading to get on the board of a sinking ship while ignoring an opportunity for a brighter future with Russia once the military operation in Ukraine is over more or less.

What i see from this Russian-Ukranian conflict is people, entire contries finding themselves at a crossroad, their future destiny and wellbeing depending literally on the choice regarding which road they wanna take onwards.

Interesting times indeed...
 
Andrian said:
Transnistria is not a renegate and desperate country, in fact it is doing quiet well economically, socially and culturally, it has good relations with Russia and they still are trying to be acknowledged as an independent state from Moldova, going their own way so to say. That's not how a desperate country will act me thinks. In a few words it's a pretty stable little country that may have even a more bighter future with Russia once the situation in Ukraine gets settled.
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I have read the opposite. As far as I know, it's also almost impossible to book a vacation there. Unless you just go yourself and take the initiative. But good to hear that things are apparently going well.
 
RT is finally inaccessible for me here in Croatia. I just tried to connect through a Ukrainian server over VPN, and it works.
That just made my day. The ridiculousness is getting amped up to 11.
Also, I found out yesterday that the founder of Telegram, Durov, is also the founder of VKontakte and has been in selfimposed exile from Russia for 10 years and became a WEF young leader in the meantime, so Telegram is quite possibly a compromised platform.
I heard good things about Signal, but should look into it.
 
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