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War In Ukraine Day 13: Mariupol Trap Closing. Eastern Front Next To Come
Russia and Ukraine persist in their attempts to secure evacuation of civilians from the Ukrainian cities which were completely or...
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War In Ukraine Day 13: Mariupol Trap Closing. Eastern Front Next To Come
Russia and Ukraine persist in their attempts to secure evacuation of civilians from the Ukrainian cities which were completely or...
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WAR IN UKRAINE DAY 13: MARIUPOL TRAP CLOSING. EASTERN FRONT NEXT TO COME
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Russia and Ukraine persist in their attempts to secure evacuation of civilians from the Ukrainian cities which were completely or partially blockaded by the joint Russian and LDPR forces.
On March 8, despite the fact that the attempts to secure the humanitarian corridors from the most affected cities like Mariupol failed once again, there were the first successes in other regions. A humanitarian corridor in the city of Sumy allowed for the evacuation of 723 foreigners from India, China, Jordan and Tunisia have been evacuated along the Sumy-Poltava route, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.
The success was likely due to the mass protests carried out by the foreigners, mainly students, when they blamed the Ukrainian authorities of inability to secure their evacuation from the war-torn cities, what caused discontent in foreign states.
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Meanwhile, the general number of those who left Ukraine by their own means has exceeded 2 million people.
On March 9, the Russian side will declare another ceasefire regime to ensure the operation of humanitarian corridors from Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol to Russia, Belarus as well to other Ukrainian cities, the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine claimed in a statement.
The Russian side offered to evacuate civilians from Sumy to Poltava, from Kharkiv by agreement to Lviv, Uzhgorod, Ivano-Frankivsk, from Mariupol to Zaporozhye, from Chernihiv to the south by agreement with the Ukrainian side.
March 9 should mark the 5th day of attempts to secure the evacuation of civilians, while the situation in the blockaded cities like Mariupol is worsening.
The head of the European Bureau of the World Health Organization, Hans Kluge, claimed that Ukraine has faced a humanitarian catastrophe, and the local health system is under stiff pressure.
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The most difficult situation is currently in the city of Mariupol which has been blockaded for a week.
On March 8, the Mariupol City Council confirmed that a civilian car exploded on a mine while trying to reach a humanitarian corridor and leave the city.
The locals who managed to escape from the city confirmed that members of the Azov nationalist battalion mined the roads leading to the humanitarian corridors. Almost all roads were blockaded, and civilians could not even reach the highways that were secured by the joint Russian and DPR forces.
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The official representative of the DPR People’s Militia Eduard Basurin claimed that today “the servicemen of the Donetsk People’s Republic, risking their own lives, penetrated into the suburbs of the city and evacuated citizens.”
After the end of the ceasefire regime in Mariupol, the units of the DPR advanced about 800-900 meters in the city. Clashes took place in the Left Bank region, which is the main stronghold of the Ukrainian nationalist forces in Mariupol.
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At the same time Russian forces began the moping-up from the eastern and north-eastern directions. They reportedly managed to liberate all suburbs in the west of the city.
The front lines are now on the city streets. Operations of the joint forces in Mariupol and Volnovakha are carried out with close air support of the Russian Aero Space Forces (VKS).
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Some advances of Russian forces were reported in the Kiev region.
On March 8, units of the Russian Armed Forces expanded their control zone around Kyiv. Russian units took control over the village of Bogdanovka to the north-east of the capital. Clashes were also reported in Brovary.
Fighting continues in Bucha, Irpen and on the Borodyanka-Vorzel front lines to the northwest of Kiev.
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The mayor of Boryspil confirmed the destruction of a military base in the city by a missile.
Reports indicate that the grouping of Russian forces around the Ukrainian capital is currently focused on consolidating their gains north, northeast and northwest of Kyiv and prepare to fully block the city.
The capital is not shelled with missiles, only military facilities in the city’s suburbs. Civilians are trying to leave the city, but in general, the situation is stable enough. Stores, pharmacies, as well as city transport are working. Checkpoints were established in the city and its suburbs. Civilians are looking for Russian saboteurs, what leads to more victims. Sporadic clashes between the gangs who have been recently armed by local authorities continue.
A customs warehouse was destroyed near Kiev
The city of Chernihiv is yet to be blockaded by Russian forces. Sumy, Konotop and Akhtyrka also remain under the AFU control.
According to unconfirmed reports, Russian troops left the city of Kharkiv, and crossed back the ring road in the city. There were no reports of fierce street fighting in the city for several days.
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Russian VKS are active over the city. And artillery fire continues mainly in the city suburbs. Ukrainian forces continue to use residential areas, as well as civilians left in the city, to hide from the enemy attacks.
The following video shows the tactics used by the AFU.
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The Ukrainian MLRS “Hurricane” fired a salvo from Traktorostroiteley Avenue in the northern direction, towards the Severnaya Saltovka district. Then, they quickly left the area. The Severnaya Saltovka ana district is just one of the most affected in the city today. The combat vehicle was deployed near the city’s children’s activity center and residential buildings, provoking Russian forces to target residential areas. The city is not blockaded from the western and south-western directions. The town of Chuguev is also under the AFU control.
On March 7, Russian entered the town of Izyum. There were fierce clashes in the town and surrounding areas. However, there was still no confirmation that the city is completely under control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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On the Donbass front lines the joint Russian, LPR and DPR are steadily advancing, trying to incircle the largest UAF grouping in the region.
LPR forces continue to take control over the villages in the suburbs of the Severdonetsk. On March 7, they advanced in the Eastern suburbs, on March 8 LPR units approached the city from the West. The town of Rubezhnoe, as well as village of Belogorovka are now under the LPR control.
The village of Popasnaya was also liberated from the UAF, what is an important tactical gain for the LPR. The town is located on a key road in the area south of Lysychansk. Advance towards Bahmut continues.
LPR forces advancing from the Popasnaya area seek to prevent the retreat of pro-Kyiv units towards the south and southwest. If the towns of Seversk and Bahmut are taken by Russia and its allies, the Ukrainian grouping in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk agglomeration will be in a de-facto tactical encirclement.
In their turn, DPR forces are steadily encircling the AFU in Volnovakha. The villages of Novotroitskoye and Vladimirovka are now under the DPR control, thus the road to region in this villages was cut off.
On March 8, units of the People’s Militia of the DPR took control over the settlements of Olenovka, Polnoe and Yuzhnodonbasskoye.
The UAF were repelled to Olginka, where artillery battles continue. the village is reportedly blockaded from three directions.
At the same time, the massive shelling of territories under the control of the DPR and the LPR continues. The UAF are targeting residential buildings. Civilians are diying under Ukrainian fire.
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In the Zaporizhya direction, the UAF are holding the defense along the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyai-Pole-Velikaya Novoselka front line. No significant military developments were reported in the region.
Ukrainian soldiers firing form the roof of the Mykolaiv airport:
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After some tactical setbacks in the area of operations on the western bank of Dnipro River, Russian units readjusted their tactics and blocked Mykolaiv from the south, southeast and southwest. Forward units of the Russian Armed Forces were also spotted to the north of Mykolaiv, near the village of Kandibino. Meanwhile, the governor of the Mykolaiv region reported on the preparation of the Russian army to storm the city.
The Russian army is also strengthening its presence in the Kriviy Rig direction in the area of Snegireva and Bashtanka.
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The Russian armored train provided evacuation of 248 foreigners, including 40 Ukrainians, from the Kherson region to the Crimea. The servicemen secured evacuation of citizens of Turkey, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, India and Morocco.
Überlebende berichten – ukrainische Armee tötet Zivilisten bei Fluchtversuch
Es ist derzeit unmöglich, aus vielen umkämpften ukrainischen Großstädten zu fliehen. Die mit der Regierung in Kiew vereinbarten Flüchtlingskorridore funktionieren nicht. Besonders schwer sind die Einwohner Mariupols betroffen. Eine Flucht ist derzeit nur unter extremer Lebensgefahr möglich.
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Refugees from Sartana, a suburb of Mariupol
"Any attempt to get to Russia via the humanitarian corridors is brutally repressed by nationalists," the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Officials and mayors have been instructed by Kyiv not to allow evacuation attempts to Russia.
the Russian authorities continue.According to Russian information, humanitarian corridors are currently open from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol, which work in both directions - towards the Russian border and into Ukrainian territory. But so far only 723 people have been evacuated from Sumy, including foreigners.
Greeks in Mariupol: "Azov is holding us hostage"
In this situation, some residents make their own way and try to leave the danger zone on their own. According to many consistent accounts, however, they are systematically prevented from doing so by the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalists, including attempts to kill them. The situation in the city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea is particularly difficult. This is considered the base and retreat of the notorious nationalist Azov battalion.
A family from Sartana, a suburb of Mariupol, told RT that the Ukrainian military would not let anyone out of the place and it was only a miracle that they escaped:
One member of the family narrowly escaped death.
Then they got into a combat zone and had to hide from the shelling. As they fled, they were shot at by a mortar, with the fire directed by a drone. It was a Ukrainian drone that the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic tried to shoot down.
Another resident had to flee from Mariupol as well via villages and rural area. In a video released by Russia's RIA Novosti news agency , the 80-year-old, lying on the hospital bed, says he was being chased by a Ukrainian sniper. A total of three shots were fired from a hill. Before that, his wife was killed by artillery fire.
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The horror of Mariupol - The murderers of Azov are waiting at the escape corridor
Russian media also show other rescued residents who managed to escape from Mariupol. They say that country roads have been filled up with stones and branches to prevent the passage. Another family fleeing the Vostochny district of Mariuplól said that the Ukrainian armed forces, in a 360-degree turn, were also shelling the other districts with artillery. The video was first published on Russian social networks on March 4.
In the industrial city of Mariupol, which has a population of 440,000, the gas, electricity and water supply collapsed. This is reported by Konstantin, another resident, whose interview was published by the news portal ukraina.ru on its YouTube channel on March 7 . There is no information about humanitarian corridors in the city. People hid in the basements, the residents of the outskirts would move to relatives in the city center if they could.
Some try to escape on their own, like Konstantin and his mother. During their escape attempt in the direction of the Donetsk People's Republic, they were shot at and had to remain motionless on the ground for 1.5 hours. The Ukrainian military set up their positions in residential buildings: "Everyone sees that."
Another description of a resident on the phone sounds even more unbelievable. The recording of the conversation was published on the Telegram channels of the Donetsk People's Republic . According to the woman, the nationalists are holding the residents hostage in the bomb shelters of the Azov-Steel plant. They threaten to blow up the factory premises if the nationalists are attacked. In addition, the city would be plagued by looters. However, your statements regarding the taking of hostages cannot be independently verified.
The humanitarian corridors were again the subject of a UN Security Council meeting on March 7th. The US representative accused Russia of failing to meet its commitments to create safe humanitarian corridors. This was contradicted by the permanent representative of Russia, Vladimir Nebensia. It's not the Russians, but Ukrainian radicals and neo-Nazis who won't let civilians out of the cities. Rather, they used the inhabitants as human shields.
This is what Nebensja said , citing local reports. According to him, leaving the besieged cities is prevented "for fear of the truth".
Kyiv, in turn, accuses Moscow of violating the ceasefire and preventing the evacuation. In principle, Ukraine does not allow people to travel to the border regions of Russia and Belarus, but travel to other parts of Ukraine is not possible for security reasons. The humanitarian corridors into Ukrainian territory are being shelled by Russian forces, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. "Truce violated! Russian forces are now shelling the humanitarian corridor from Zaporizhia to Mariupol," he was quoted as saying by the dpa .
Eight trucks and 30 buses are ready to deliver humanitarian aid to Mariupol and bring civilians to Zaporizhia/Zaporozhye. "The pressure on Russia MUST be increased to ensure that it honors its commitments," Nikolenko continued.
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Also I would like to say that even though governments of the many Balkan countries/people who compose those governments may be puppets or easily controllable, some politicians still show certain degree of common sense and there are some things they would not do, whether for political benefits or because they really believe in certain things. For example Aleksadar Vucic in Serbia did not implement sanctions against Russia (some were saying that it would be a political suicide for him considering how people in Serbia support Russia), Croatian president also showed a lot of common sense when it comes to Ukrainian situation and he directly opposed Croatian prime minister in some things etc. I am not saying that these two want to work in the favor of their people but anyway they opposed certain stuff. In Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian politicians show a lot of common sense when it comes to Russia and since they control about half of the country and because of Bosnian constitution they can block a lot of decisions which could potentially be made by Croat and Bosniak politicians.
Maybe you can mention some examples from Macedonia ?
Claus
Dagobah Resident
It seems, that Zelensky agreed to talk with Putin.
I just saw an Artikel of Anti-Spiegel by Thomas Röper:
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Zelensky is ready to talk about NATO membership and the status of Donbass and Crimea
I just saw an Artikel of Anti-Spiegel by Thomas Röper:
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Zelensky is ready to talk about NATO membership and the status of Donbass and Crimea
ApotheosisMMC.
Jedi Council Member
Is what I think, they can always lie and extract more oil than the allowed limit or believe that their measures will be effective enough.... but this time certain types have on some level different agendas who may benefit from this situation.
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Tycho
Jedi Master
One obviously cant disconnect russia from the rest of the world but it can be completely blocked by nation states like USA, European-Countries/EU and others. How many fiber russia has deployed in the world does not matter in this case. If all russian network prefixes are removed from border routers/all peerings with russian routers are shutdown, connection is disrupted.
Ukrain tried to do this by convincing RIPE to remove all russian network prefixes from the RIPE database. Network operators could still keep this prefixes in their border router configurations but this doesnt help if the peering at the exchange points is cut. Lets say sweden forbids peering with routers based in Russia. In this case al fiber/undersea cables one owns terminated in sweden/the stockholm CIX (Internet Exchange Point) become useless.
Even worse, some people had been calling for reusing the network prefixes currently assigned to russian LIRs/ISPs. This can lead to massive routing problems as no public network space in the world can be owned by two different autonomous system.
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And maybe turn it into a Z - burger chain store
‘Why is it happening to us?’ Stories from refugees fleeing DPR to Russia
RT spoke to people fleeing the fighting in the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic
Temporary accommodation facility for residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics at a building of Don State Technical University, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. © Sputnik/Maksim Bogodvid
Just a few days before Russia launched its special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the heads of the then-unrecognized Donbass breakaway republics reported publicly that tensions were rising and called for the evacuation of the civilian population. Since the start of the offensive, Russia has reportedly accepted around 200,000 people from the republic, while the UN estimates the total number of people fleeing Ukraine at over 2 million people.
A lot have been accommodated in Rostov Region bordering the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Local hotels are used for shelter, and food and supplies keep coming through the humanitarian effort. I got in touch with one of the organizations helping with the refugee program and have been able to interview a number of people in a hotel located on the left bank of the Don River. This is where you can meet women and children who fled from the war that tore up their homes.
Natalya is from Gorlovka, a town not far from the city of Donetsk. Gorlovka, as is well known, was the sight of the most gruesome and devastating battles a few years ago. On the morning of the interview, I was looking through the reports, and they made it clear that both Donetsk and the surrounding areas were again an active war zone that even most war reporters were no longer allowed to enter. As we talk, Natalya keeps drinking coffee, smoking one cigarette after another, and trying to keep in check a sturdy boy of about five years old. Natalya is here with her younger son and a grandson. Her husband, who serves with the DPR People’s Militia, thought it best to send them away to a safer place.
“On February 18, we were shelled at night. A bomb exploded not far from us. Thank God none of us were hurt, but we got really scared, especially the little one. As soon as evacuation was announced we packed and left. It took us no longer than 15 minutes.
“My husband has been with the militia since May 2014. Last year we were in the thick of things and saw everything with our own eyes. Our son is 14, and he is a very scared boy. He was only 5 when the war started. He learned to respond to air raid alerts before many other things. When we shouted ‘corridor!’ it meant he had to go hide in the corridor that instant, because it had no windows and was the safest place in the house. We used to hide in the corridor all the time. We didn’t have a basement we could use.
“There has been a lot of shelling over the past few years. It almost feels like we were bombed every day. Back in 2014 and 2015, Gorlovka was shelled a lot. Then it became less intense and the mines mostly landed on the outskirts, while the central parts of the town remained safe. But now it’s bad again, and no houses have any windows left in place. There’s some massive shelling going on. We’re really scared for the lives of our loved ones who are still there. I have trouble getting in touch with my husband. He calls me whenever he can, and if I pick up right away, we can talk. If I miss his window of opportunity, I keep waiting till the next time he tries to contact me. I’m scared.
“It was a very scary experience. You learn to recognize the threat by the sound. You can hear the launch, the projectile coming and you count one, two, three, four, five, explosion. “That’s when you have to hide in the corridor. If the projectile takes longer before it explodes it may land further away, but you never know, it may land closer. If it’s making a whistling sound, it’s a 120-mm gun. If it’s making a rustling sound, it’s a 150-mm one. But you can’t really guess where it’s going to hit. After each round, we get 10 to 20 minutes of silence. That’s when we can move.
“You always have to be on your toes listening, you can’t let your guard down even in your sleep. You have to walk carefully. When you hear explosions, you’d better get down immediately and hide; you have to always think where and how you can duck and hide.
“In 2014, we weren’t ready, so many were killed or injured. And now people try to stay safe and they know how to do it. My neighbor even fought on the frontline in the trenches. She had three concussions and can’t serve anymore for health reasons.
“When we arrived at the hotel here, there were fireworks. It was beautiful, there was some party not far from here, I guess. My son jumped to the floor from the bed – it’s a habit with him already. My grandson got nervous, ‘Grandma, what is it?’ So we had to take him outside and show it really was the fireworks, not the bombs.
“Airplanes also scared us at first. The last time we had to evacuate here briefly was after air raids. It’s a reflex – you see a plane, even a civilian one, you crouch, get to the ground and look for cover.
“We always tried to take our children to school and back. Sometimes the shelling wasn’t that intense and children could play outside freely.”
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When asked what people from the DPR and LPR were thinking about the current events, Natalya answered in a heartbeat; she knows where her loyalty lies and why.
“People are happy. They are scared, of course, but happy. That’s progress, finally. For eight years, we’ve been living surrounded by enemies. And now they shell us more, people die, but that’s a start, we’ll punish those… monsters. Yes, monsters, I can’t call them anything else.
“We are mad. We are tired. We are waiting for them to finally get pushed away. The farther the better. Best if they were driven into Poland and got locked up there. We want to be home, more than anything else. It’s fine here, people are helping us, but we have homes. I was born in Gorlovka.
“Before the war, my husband was a coal miner. He worked in a mine until the House of Trade Unions was burned down in Odessa with people in it. It happened on May 2, and on May 5, my husband finished his shift and went off to war. And since then, I haven’t seen him much. He rarely visits us. Now they’re firing Grad missiles at Gorlovka. I’ve seen the explosions with my own eyes, it’s better to stay away from there.
“In 2014, a family was killed in a building next to ours. A shell hit the 8th floor of an apartment building. A husband, a wife, their son who’d just started the first grade at school and their 5-year-old daughter. Four floors collapsed after the shell hit. The building has been repaired, but people are too scared to live there.
“Why is it happening to us? Is it because we refused to speak and teach our children Ukrainian? Is it because we wanted to celebrate Victory Day? Or respect our elderly and history? Why did they have to kill us for that?
“I don’t understand Ukrainian. I was born and raised in Ukraine, but I mostly have Russian roots. My son knows history well – he likes to learn about these things. And he knows for a fact that we are not a part of Ukraine, and we’ve never been. It’s our region with all its resources that has been ‘feeding’ Ukraine, and now they say that we are poor and need to be subsidized.”
Nelly Ivanovna, another Gorlovka resident, has been evacuated to Rostov with her grandson. She still has relatives and friends living in Donetsk and other towns in the DPR. As she is talking to me, Elena, a younger woman from Donetsk, occasionally joins in on the conversation. There are other women, all with young children, who have something to say.
“We have been living under artillery fire ever since 2014. We keep talking to the media about it, but nothing changes. This isn’t normal. We’ve been living in a constant state of fear and anxiety. When they fire at us during the day, at least we know where to run to, but at night it’s a lot easier to give in to panic. You have to go through it yourself to understand – I could talk about these things for hours, but no words can describe what it’s really like out there.”
As the war dragged on, the women of the DPR have mastered ways of keeping themselves safe during shelling. They tell us how to move from shelter to shelter, talk about the range of fragments from shells, etc. This seems to be the first thing that comes to mind when asked about life in their hometowns.
“I used to be good friends with a family from Poltava. They speak Ukrainian. I love the language, I really do – it’s so rich and melodic. You must never use language as a pretext for war! Before, I would call my Ukrainian friends and tell them about our situation, about all the shelling. It seemed like they heard our plight, it seemed like they sympathized. And now that they heard some explosions outside their own city, they started to panic: ‘The Russians are invading our land!’ We have been living like this for eight years, and it’s still like that for us,” Nelly says.
“I called my relatives the other day. They said that on February 3, a shell hit a house on Korolenko Street. That’s the central part of the city. A family, including two young children, was hurt. People are afraid to leave their homes in fear of new attacks. It’s a nightmare.”
Nelly brings up ‘the Madonna of Gorlovka’ – the name Kristina Zhuk came to be known by on social media after she was killed by a Ukrainian shell in July 2014, along with her 10-month-old daughter. When it happened, Kristina was walking in the park with her daughter. A journalist who happened to be there witnessed the woman’s last agonizing moments, providing one of the first pieces of photographic evidence that Ukraine was using weapons indiscriminately against the people of Donbass.
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Nelly cannot remember the name of the murdered woman, but she says that her story is a depiction of life in Gorlovka during the Donbass conflict. She recalls that both in Gorlovka and elsewhere in the DPR, there are monuments to children killed in the war. But the memory of these children only lives in the hearts of the local residents who have seen death with their own eyes.
“In 2014, I went out to buy something and heard this whizz. Someone shouted for us to get down, so everyone did. Several shells exploded. I lay on the ground for a bit, but when it got quieter, I decided I should try to get to a shelter of some kind. There was a church nearby – very beautiful and new. Many people rushed there, and I wondered, ‘Will I make it?’ So I ran. I guess the fear helped, because I ran very fast. I was going down to the church basement when I heard the shells flying again. They hit the ground nearby, and I felt relieved that I chose my time right.
“There were many people in the basement, including children. Altar boys brought everyone tea and some food, laid down the mattresses. Some families basically lived in this basement and others for months. And those who were living in Soviet buildings or private houses with proper basements were the lucky ones. I was living in a new building, on the top floor, so I had nowhere to run during the shelling. It’s a terrible feeling when you’re looking at the horrors around you and are helpless to change anything about it. When I evacuated in 2015, the building I lived in was hit by a shell. My neighbor on the 7th floor got hurt.
“My relatives who are still there say that after the evacuation the shelling got much worse. The Ukrainian forces started shelling both Donetsk and the outskirts. Though it’s good that at least there are no air raids now – they used to fire at us from the air, hitting residential areas.
“All these years, we asked Ukraine to find a compromise and stop the war, but Zelensky didn’t want to talk to ‘those people’ – that’s what he called us. The president we, the Donbass people, didn’t even choose, doesn’t want to listen to us.
“In 2014, many people living in the eastern regions rose up against the new regime. There were no weapons – sticks at best. Back then, Ukrainian armored vehicles would stop and turn around. They had no orders to crush the protests. Ordinary Ukrainian soldiers weren’t capable of that – it could only be done by the armed gangs.
“There are politicians in Ukraine who think that we shouldn’t be here, that we don’t deserve to live here on our land. They don’t see us as human. Well, we didn’t want to remain part of their country either. It’s not about the language – it’s a beautiful language, I learned it at school. What does language have to do with the fact that it’s spoken by fools? If Russia hadn’t interfered, they would have tried and shelled us again. We wouldn’t make it without Russia. And the US is just getting rich off the war.”
When asked about their future expectations, the women fumble for words. They simply say that they want to lead peaceful lives, like before, working and raising their kids. Meanwhile, there are more and more refugees coming from the new republics to Russia each day.
The below is one example and it hasn't gotten any better:
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| Alex Berenson | Feb 27 |
Are you going to pretend that Finland and Sweden are part of the Rus too?
Or that nuclear brinksmanship is a joke?
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Again, I’m no Kremlinologist. But I’m guessing the average Russian oligarch or FSB general would rather not die in a nuclear war over Ukraine. Ukraine! Way more fun to hang out with Ms. Chelyabinsk 2021.
And history suggests strongman regimes collapse very suddenly - especially when the collapse comes from the elites rather a popular uprising. One minute you’re giving orders, the next you’re on a one-way hall pass to Lubyanka, conveniently connected via underground tunnel to the Kremlin.
Too bad, comrade.
We will see.
unkl brws
Dagobah Resident
To reinforce those currently already in play in the Ukraine, new proxy Jihadie Ratlines reinforcements out of Turkey; dressed, armed, primed and ready.
As if nazi fascists were not enough, these guys will be staged on CNN soon, no doubt, as freedom fighters for Ukrainians while shooting them in the back. Expect the White Helmets to be reanimated and arrive any day.
New from The WashingtonPottyPost regarding the darlings of Syria:
There are all kinds of proxy armies being formed. These are two stories I've come across in the last week:
Canadians answer the call to defend Ukraine
Canadians are answering the call to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion after a plea by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Scottish grandfather travels to Ukraine to fight Russians
An online video shows Rab Grady, from Edinburgh, wearing a flak jacket and holding an assault rifle.
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Governments, like in Canada, are giving these "soldiers" tacit approval to go and then sending "lethal aid" -
Quote from the W5 article:
Sure, they respect personal choices when wanting to fight a proxy war just not about taking an experimental vaccine!
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When you post a media from a site or on a topic that can be banned, be kind to provide enough detail, so those in information encircled countries can try to look for it elsewhere. In this case there was enough, but at the same time it could also have been easier.
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In the above case, it said "Video is not available. This video is not available in your country."
1) I then tried to insert the Youtube code "6BE2uobFCCk" after YouTube. Youtube did not give any information.
2) Then I used Webtunnel.org. It would not let me see the video, but the title was visible in the address field. It was Former "UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening"
3.) This I typed up in a search field of a browser. This gave me a few mirrors. It led to Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening
Later I tried "Lee Camp Scott Ritter interview". It gave me a couple of different interviews, from which I could have tried to find the right one. It would probably have worked too, and might even have been easier.
I could also have tried some Twitter accounts, but if people post and retweet a lot there is a lot to scroll through, though I did find
which refers to a Ukrainian news outfit angry about what he is saying and launches a smear campaign.
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https://ukranews.com/en/news/838481-russian-agent-ritter-misinforms-us-audience-about-war-in-ukraine-head-of-the-center-for-defenseChina is speaking about the biolabs, posted March 8:
Code:
https://youtu.be/irQnlLo9l1UHe is giving details of many locations in the world. And China has an ax to grind with the US over the Wuhan blame game.
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