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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdtOVHPsYA
Ukrainians 1.25 hour

https://euobserver.com/opinion/139169 4 years ago
West needs to get real on Ukraine      partly blocked

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10508237/Airlines-begin-suspending-flights-Ukraine-amid-fears-invasion.html

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2022/02/11/what-does-it-mean-to-ask-how-does-ukrainian-compare-with-russian/

https://subscription.ukrweekly.com/2022/02/minsk-agreements-are-unconstitutional-must-be-rewritten/

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/russian-invasion-what-you-need-to-know/
https://militaryland.net/ukraine/deployment-map/

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1lscRK6ehG0l2V-XvJ16nsyblMsQ&ll=48.921678851975315%2C14.916810396458459&z=4




Latest US intelligence reports suggest Russia may attack Ukraine next Wednesday, February 16, 2022. The scale of a possible invasion remains unknown, but options for missile strikes and attacks from the air on key Ukrainian military and infrastructure objects seem highly likely given the kind of equipment Russia has deployed to the Ukrainian border, and the cyber capabilities it has to cripple Ukraine's power grid, communications, and crucial government agencies.
I will repeat again that, as in 2014, this would be an unprovoked, undeserved, and entirely unconscionable act of aggression by Russia against sovereign Ukraine that has done nothing to deserve it.
All Ukraine and its multiethnic, diverse people want is to live free from oppression, enjoy human and civil rights and freedoms, have families and raise their children without anyone anywhere abroad telling them what language to speak, what books to read, what ideology or religion to follow, etc. As all sovereign nations, Ukraine has the right to choose by itself what path to tread, what friends and allies to have, and how to protect the lives of its citizens. Ukraine poses no danger whatsoever to Russia and its citizens, and Russian speakers in Ukraine enjoy more rights and freedoms than those in Russia have had in centuries. Unfortunately, Russia doesn't care about any of that and appears to be willing to once again use violence to try to enslave Ukraine and tyrannize its people.
One very important change that happened in Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union over thirty years ago is the reestablishment of the value of human life as the highest moral imperative. The implementation may be still flawed, but Ukrainians have continuously fought to reform their state, ensure dignity for all citizens, and make the state into a servant of the people, not their oppressor. In contrast, the Soviet-style disregard for human life and dignity has had a triumphant return in Russia, and Putin's regime has no qualms about sacrificing its citizens in a war on another country's territory for reasons that are hard to comprehend for most people, despite a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign on most TV and news outlets in Russia, which are overwhelmingly controlled by the Kremlin.
Because of that change, no one itches for war in Ukraine. We know that many, many innocent people will die and that those lives will never be returned to us. We have seen it in countless tragedies in the 20th century, which all unfolded on Ukraine's territory: fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren that perished in wars fought on our territory by the great powers of the time, in famines, Nazi and Gulag camps, repressions and executions are all lost forever, and their unborn children and grandchildren will never see this world.
However, Ukraine has nowhere to retreat: unlike other countries, Ukrainians have nowhere else to live, speak their language, sing their songs, and just be themselves. I have no doubt that the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian people will put up the fiercest fight that they are capable of given the equipment and training that they have.
If you don't believe that, please watch the film "Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die" by Akhtem Seitablaiev, which stunningly documents the defense of the Donetsk Airport by the Ukrainian servicemen for months and months against unrelenting attacks of the prevailing forces of Russian mercenaries and their puppet militia units that encircled the airport. The airport was defended as long as its walls stood, and the Ukrainians only retreated when the buildings collapsed.
The film, which is based on the eyewitness accounts of soldiers who participated in the defense of the airport, is available on Amazon for free with ads. Link in the first comment.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/3403426-ukraine-gets-stinger-air-defense-systems-from-lithuania.html

https://youtu.be/3nNSxTomY2s

Comparison funerals Ukrainian Heroes vs. Muscovite zeroes




Silver-haired Red Army general Leonid Ivashov, ?Out of fifteen republics of the USSR, Ukraine had given us more headache than any other.?
Retired Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov spoke out vocally against hypothetical Russia's war with Ukraine. As the chairman of the All-Russian Officers? Assembly, the general who?s known for his pro-Soviet and patriotic views, had written and signed an open letter addressed to president Putin and citizens of Russia.
He sat down for an interview with a host of the liberal radio station Echo of Moscow to assess risks and consequences of a military invasion, blamed the escalation on President Putin, and demanded his resignation.
I?m posting highlights from the interview with the focus on the military aspects below.
?My open letter was an anti-war statement. It expressed collective opinion of the retired army officers and generals, members of All-Russian Officers? Assembly, and after our discussion, as the chairman, I signed the letter.
?We at the Assembly have received a wealth of military experience and first class military higher education.
?We acknowledge that preparations for a war with Ukraine have been well under way including diplomatic negotiations, with groupings of troops massed on the border. In such conditions, one gun shot might provoke a conflict with ensuing dire consequences. If extensive military actions begin, tens of thousands of young men will die.
?I served as a military diplomat and sat behind the table with Nato and European top brass, and I can tell you that people who want a war the least are generals, while politicians can easily start it over for the sake of for example winning re-elections. Politicians don?t hold any responsibility and shift all the blame on to the military. And when there?s a victory, politicians own it.?
?In the 1990s, we observed Nato?s planned military exercises and reacted by conducting our own planned military exercises, manoeuvres, missile lunches, etc.
?All that didn?t pose any critical dangers. Our military and civil leadership should have been taking initiative into their own hands, and without any hysterical ultimatum like ?give us answer tomorrow. Fulfil our demands right away.?
?As the head of International Military Cooperation Department, I persuaded Minister of Defence to prepare a collective plan of European Security. It was well received although Americans and the English blocked it.
?Nonetheless, we pressed on, step by step, to deescalate the level of tensions. Our European colleagues always responded well to our suggestions and we found solutions to problems together. War is, as they say, the last resort.
?We have discussed at the assembly why Putin is triggering the last resort and arrived at the only plausible conclusion: Russia is going through a systemic crises that the leadership cannot put a check on. In every sphere of economy - healthcare, culture, education, etc - everywhere is degradation and collapse.
?My personal impression is that Putin is tired of Russia. And he wants to be finished with it, because a large-scale war would result in the disappearance of Russia as an integral, big country.
?As a civilisation it was over for us after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. After this escapade, we?ll be finished as a country.
?It won?t be a blitzkrieg, a walk in the park. This will be a mass-scale war with tens of thousands of killed and maimed soldiers on both sides.
?Even if we conquer Kiev, we?ll have to dig in and build garrisons and fight partisan movements. We?ll have to use our entire nation?s energies and resources to keep some semblance of order in Ukraine. It is savagery. Absolute savagery.
?And what for? For the sake of decades of military confrontation? Of course, some parties in the West would feel joyful. Gas won?t flow from Russia, and it will never be a competitor again. It will be an awful geopolitical catastrophe. And that?s the reason why we took a stand against it.
?I repeat, there?s no critical situation. I can't name a single European country that wants a war between Russia and Ukraine. And even Americans who wouldn?t find Ukraine on the map will protest and there will be a public resonance if just a dozen American soldiers die in this war. So I don?t see anyone who actively wants this war.
?To me the West has always been an opponent and a rival, but I was surprised how they reacted to our ultimatum. They didn?t escalate the situation, but offered a negotiating process.
?Instead, our ultimatum has united the entire Western world against us. And not only the West. India has just rejected to purchase 1700 Russian tanks, which will spell the end of our tank industry exports.
?There?s an easy way to stop it. Putin calls Zelensky and offers to meet in a neutral country and talk. The other option that can stop the war is public outcry.
?And I don?t mean those so-called experts on TV who talk about taking over Ukraine in ten days, or a few hours. I suggest that the senior leadership?s, bankers? and business elite?s and talk shows hosts? children take assault rifles in their own hands and join the front chain of the attack. Only then those people would play an active role in stopping this war not to get their children in body bags.
?Mass media shouldn?t be the instrument of war, the role they have performed since 2014 when instead of using kindness to resolve our differences with Ukraine, they engaged in aggression to widen that chasm between us and anger each other. That spilled blood will separate us forever into enemies? camps.
?Once we cross into Ukrainian territory, they will receive all the weapons that they need, and thousands of volunteers will join the army to fight.
?76.6% per center of our members, which includes retired police officers and special forces, share this opinion. Bottom line, our goal is to stop this bloody tragedy from happening.
?Assault troops are still massed on the border with Ukraine and Putin after his return from Beijing didn?t order to pull them back. That means that hostilities can start at any moment.
?Resignation of Putin will give Russia a small chance to keep Russia?s statehood going. It?s what we?re counting on.
?You have to understand one thing. When Putin was propelled to this scale of of power, he knew nothing. It?s only with time that he learned and was exploited by all sorts of individuals.
?Any man with regional managerial experience that will take his place, the first thing he?ll do is hire professionals. PROFESSIONALS. Professionals with proper education and experience. Yes, in a way that will be a ?technical? president, but he will surround himself with people who have professional knowledge.
?At this time, much depends on Putin. There needs to be a clear-minded person in his circle who will give it to him straight - ?as a commander in chief and a mastermind of this war, you will carry full responsibility and go on international trial like those war criminals in Nuremberg.?
?We have to stop this absolutely unnecessary war.?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/vladimir-putin-is-a-failed-leader


https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainska-pravda-mass-cancellation-of-ukraine-flights-from-feb-14/

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/germany-loses-patience-with-ex-chancellors-russia-lobbying.html

https://balkaninsight.com/2022/02/14/is-the-international-community-finally-waking-up-to-election-day-threats-in-the-eu/


https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-lithuanian-pm-russian-expansion-ambitions/31700604.html



https://belsat.eu/en/news/14-02-2022-ukrainian-president-zelensky-invites-us-president-biden-to-visit-ukraine-in-the-coming-days/


https://belsat.eu/en/news/14-02-2022-cit-russia-relocates-1st-tank-army-to-border-with-ukraine/


https://belsat.eu/en/news/13-02-2022-belsat-produced-film-wins-award-at-best-film-awards-in-london/


https://belsat.eu/en/news/13-02-2022-us-senate-wants-to-impose-sanctions-against-belarus-for-facilitating-russian-aggression/

https://belsat.eu/en/news/13-02-2022-two-belarusian-startups-hit-top-100-innovative-startups-of-europe/

https://belsat.eu/en/news/13-02-2022-biden-calls-putin-amid-tensions-in-ukraine/

https://belsat.eu/en/news/11-02-2022-belarusians-subjected-to-heavy-checks-on-border-with-ukraine/

https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-belarus-justice-ministry-wants-to-liquidate-bird-protection-society/




https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60353677
Ukraine's Great Famine memories fuel resentment of Kremlin

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-russian-aggression-towards-ukraine-resisting-putin-xz76pshz3

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3403307-carl-bildt-invasion-of-ukraine-will-mean-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-putin-era.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-assures-ukraine-president-us-respond-swiftly-russian/story?id=82864188&cid=social_twitter_abcn

Prank. Portrait of Putin in the Lift. Residents of the entrance in shock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeb3MMl3lB4

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-invasion-putin-war-latest-news-b2014409.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/13/boris-johnson-urges-russia-step-back-brink-war-ukraine-looms/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/ukraine-crisis-cruel-way-russia-could-strangle-europe-as-threat-looms/XK77FR4NHHX6K2UFLH4FD5AT5Y/

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/593873-if-russia-invades-ukraine-whats-next

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-696372
Ukraine is not the most important square on the chessboard - opinion WTF

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-says-diplomacy-still-open-end-ukraine-standoff-with-russia-2022-02-13/

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/13/russia-ukraine-invasion-us-warning-any-day/6775052001/

https://www.kyivpost.com/world/ukraine-calls-for-urgent-osce-meeting-after-russia-ignores-kyiv-request.html

https://www.promoteukraine.org/svitlana-melnyk-german-hypocrisy-and-berlin-style-double-standards/
Svitlana Melnyk: Ribbentrop German Hypocrisy and Berlin-Style Double Standards .  The German government has been secretly strengthening Russia?s military industry, despite EU sanctions imposed on the Kremlin in 2014.

https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainian-government-puts-up-590-million-in-aircraft-insurance-to-keep-air-traffic-going-amid-war-threat/

https://kyivindependent.com/national/center-for-defense-strategies-can-ukraine-really-be-invaded-scenarios-for-a-russian-attack-analysis/


https://english.nv.ua/nation/life-goes-on-in-mariupol-as-russian-ukrainian-crisis-escalates-nv-exclusive-50216032.html

https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-advises-airlines-to-avoid-overflights-of-black-sea-50216390.html







https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/sergei-davidis-anti-war-movement-russia/?utm_source=tw

USA what's your Budapest Memorandum worth, for which you even treatened Ukraine with a blockade to force it to sign???
https://web.archive.org/web/20150205050359/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-16/news/9401160298_1_president-leonid-kravchuk-ukraine-russians

In truth, Eastern Europe would be far safer behind Ukraine's atomic arsenal than America's meager commitment.

Both of the administration's mistakes flow from the same source: an excessively sunny view of our former enemy. If from now on we can expect Russia to be as peaceable as Switzerland, there's no risk in pledging to defend Poland, since we'll never have to back it up anyway. And Ukrainians can sleep soundly without nuclear weapons because they have nothing to fear from the Russians.

But what if the Russians eventually start behaving not like Swiss but like Russians? Their history of treating neighbors like galley slaves didn't begin with communism and probably didn't end with it. In that case, one of the first targets will be Ukraine.

It wasn't just Russia, it was also USA who even treatened Ukraine with a blockade if they didn't sign that useless piece of paper...  https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2018/06/18/7183679/


https://web.archive.org/web/20220116024004/https://gazette.com/news/in-1994-the-us-succeeded-in-convincing-ukraine-to-give-up-its-nukes-but-failed/article_f66fab46-4015-5083-ab18-b37cc59bf813.html

In 1994, the US succeeded in convincing Ukraine to give up its nukes to single europe enemy Russia but failed to secure its future

?The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.?

?It would be useful to the Western world to realize that despite all the vicissitudes by which Russia has been afflicted since August 1939, the men in the Kremlin have never abandoned their faith in that program of territorial and political expansion which had once commended itself so strongly to Tsarist diplomatists.? [519]? ― George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925-1950

Minsk was under gunpoint so under intl. law null and void, but enforced by Ribbentrop Germany and its WOII ally, france

https://censor.net/en/news/3315535/russia_confirms_lifting_of_blocking_of_part_of_azov_sea_


https://english.nv.ua/life/ukraine-chooses-alina-pash-for-eurovision-2022-amid-fears-of-russian-invasion-50216164.html


https://kyivindependent.com/business/possible-escalation-in-ukraine-may-undermine-global-food-security-provoke-sky-high-food-prices/

https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-proxy-forces-violate-donbas-ceasefire-eight-times-in-last-24-hours-50215984.html

https://english.nv.ua/business/conflict-with-russia-has-cost-ukrainian-economy-280-b-since-2014-cebr-50215937.html
PAY UP, Muscovy !!

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/12/thousands-march-in-kyiv-to-show-unity-against-russian-war-threat


https://www.ft.com/content/a4439155-197b-4e63-baee-b4fa3229ac67
Fertiliser and food: the next point of tension between EU and Moscow

https://theconversation.com/how-russia-hooked-europe-on-its-oil-and-gas-and-overcame-us-efforts-to-prevent-energy-dependence-on-moscow-174518

https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/02/12/3-decades-of-turmoil-bring-ukraine-perhaps-its-greatest-crisis
https://www.mtpr.org/2022-02-12/3-decades-of-turmoil-bring-ukraine-to-perhaps-its-greatest-cris.
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