www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/magazine/trump-putin-ukraine-fiona-hill.html
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MONDAY 11 APRIL 2022
UKRAINE UPDATME
Luke Harding: “another day of bloodshed and horror.” @lukeharding1968
CNN
- US thinks Putin could try to interfere in American elections (AGAIN?).
- (Note: Why would they not? Nobody did anything last time except Obama giving Putin a strong: “Cut it out.” I’m sure Putin was quivering in his boots.)
- Six men executed in one town, according to Clarissa Ward.
- There is an eight mile convoy near Kharkiv. Intensification of shelling. 11 civilians killed including one seven-year-old child.
- Kinzinger is calling for a change in strategy on Ukraine. “We cannot allow Ukraine to lose.”
FOX NEWS
- Gen. Kellogg: This fight in eastern Ukraine will be different from that of Kyiv. The Ukrainians need more weapons. He doesn’t know why they haven’t gotten them.
TWITTER: Luke Harding @lukeharding1968
• (Note: Harding is an essential source of reporting and reading.)
• Russia is using drone-dropped chemical weapons to wipe out the last remaining Ukrainian army resistance inside Mariupol.
- Those impacted by chemical dropped from drone hae respiratory failure, vestibuloatactic syndrome.
- Vladmir Kara-Murza has been arrested in Moscow. The FSB has already poisoned him twice.
- Kara-Murza told Harding that the West ignored repeated warnings from him and Boris Nemtsov of Putin’s malign intensions. “An iron curtain has descended. I woke up in my Moscow flat one day and there was no Twitter, Facebook, Echo Moskyv and Novaya Gazeta. Truthful information has ended.”
- Harding visited towns outside Kyiv that were occupied. “They made him kneel and shot him. His was a cold, pitiless extinction. In the cellar was a bloody mattress.” This is what one woman told Harding.
- Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, has a monument In Kyiv. It is boarded up. At another Shevchenko monument the Russians had shot the statue in the head. “what’s happening here is an attempt to erase Ukraine wholescale – its people and culture.”
- “another day of bloodshed and horror.”
TWITTER: Anders Aslund
- Reports that the chemical used was sarin. This just after Putin appointed the “butcher of Syria.” US has promised though NATO action. Deliver.
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To evaluate delayed (long-term) effects of acute sarin poisoning on postural balance, nine male and nine female victims of the Tokyo Subway Sarin Poisoning in Japan (sarin cases) were examined by computerized posturography 6-8 months after the poisoning. Their plasma cholinesterase activities (ChE) …
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Olena Roshchina – Monday, 11 April 2022, 16:16
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MONDAY 11 APRIL 2022, 3:30 PM –
UKRAINE UPDATE
CNN:
- Zelensky: “They want to make an example out of Mariupol.”
- Russians have used chemical weapons in Mariupol, according to Dmytro Gurin, Ukrainian Parliament Member. We have a choice, finish this war on the territory of Ukraine or on the territory of the EU. Everybody is asking for offensive weapons. They are saying maybe we can do it in six-weeks. No that will be too late. The Russians are saying what they are going to do. Now they are saying that all Ukrainians are Nazis.
- (Note: Anchor has little time to listen to Ukrainian who unabashedly complains that the West is not supplying enough weapons. Anchor counters, well your president says you’re “ready” for the Russian attack. If Ukrainians speak directly to the fact that the West is not supplying enough support, the anchors have little time for them and try to cut them off. I have been astounded at how focused and non-accusatory the Ukrainians have been in the Western media. I wonder if now that things are becoming worse and have been going on for so long, that tone will change. Americans have very little tolerance for criticism. Everyone wants to believe that the US is a hero in every situation. They maintain this delusion while we sit on our hands and watch Russia kill and rape and take over a country.)
KYIV INDEPENDENT
- Polish PM says EU sanctions are too weak, calls for stronger ones. Mateusz Morawiecki said on April 11 that the sanctions not only failed to stop Russia from pursuing its war but also stimulated some of Russia’s economic processes instead of ruining its economy.
- Ukrainan security service says it detained Russian agent who worked in Poroshenko’s administration. He used to work at Ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s administration and the general staff. His task was to get classified information.
- Russian proxies call for using chemical weapons in Mariupol.
- Rusian troops unsuccessfully try to move further into Ukraine. The offensive operations are taking place in Donesk.
- Russia’s capital outflow reaches $64 billion since January. Foreign investors heavily withdrew their assets from Russia due to its war against Ukraine.
- Lavrov (who Trump hosted in the Oval Office secretly) called the mass graves in Ukraine “staged.”
TWITTER: Luke Harding @lukeharding1968
- (Note: Harding is an essential source of reporting and reading.)
- Russia is using drone-dropped chemical weapons to wipe out the last remaining Ukrainian army resistance inside Mariupol.
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MONDAY 11 APRIL 2022
UKRAINE UPDATE, 3:30 PM
I would like to apologize to my regular customers. I have been doing a play and therefore posts have been shorter and less frequent. I have a week off now, so I hope to get back up to par. Thanks for hanging in there with me.
I’m on Twitter @cjjohns1951
MSNBC
- Ali Velshi is leaving Ukraine and returning to the states. (Note: I hope this is not a sign that the corporate media is bored with the Ukrainian disaster already. I wouldn’t be surprised.)
- Jim Townsend, former deputy: How good is this new commander at commanding troops. The Russians have done GPS jamming for years. We have to make sure Ukraine has the facility to get around the jamming. It’s more than arms and ammunition.
- Issue of banning GPS services on the battlefield.
CNN
- Russia has begun its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
UKRAINE WORLD (@ukraine_world One of the best podcasts and twitter feeds out there)
- Russia is attacking Ukrainian hospitals and medics. Video.
- Lithuania’s PM visits Ukraine.
- Chernihiv did not fall and defended Kyiv. There is only internet connection in the city center, where people come to connect with their relatives.
- Russians continue to attack Mariupol. Video.
- 300,000 square km of Ukraine’s territory needs demining. To put things in perspective, that’s half the country.
- German defense consortium stated it was ready to send tanks to Ukraine.
- French investigators have come to Ukraine to investigate crimes committed around Kyiv.
- Marines defending Mariupol published an appeal that they were running out of supplies and hope for help.
- Zelensky: “The whole European project is a target for the Russian Federation.”
- A huge explosion reported last night in Mykolaiyiv. (Note: Mykolayiv is north of Kherson, in this Black Sea Corridor the Russians are trying to take to cut Ukraine off from sea access. Mykolaiv is the main shipbuilding center of the Black Sea. The city is an important transportation hub.)
- Putin and Lukashenka are to meet on Russian Far East to discuss Ukraine.
- Austria’s Chancellor will come to Moscow for talks with Putin.
- Ukraine expects Russians to attempt to surround Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine. They expect a massive engagement.
- 33,000 people were forcibly deported to Russia and to the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk.
- Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt.
EUROMAIDAN PRESS
- Russian forces use minors to get info on Ukrainian military positions.
- In Kharkiv via Telegram a minor was promised money for disclosing Ukrainian positions.
- In Luhansk Russian soldiers directly offered a 16-year-old money for info on Ukrainian troops.
- Russian forces threaten to use chemical weapons on Mariupol.
- Kyiv City Council plans to rename 15 streets and five metro stations now bearing Russia-related names.
- Animals are suffering from the Russian invasion. Private zoos all over Ukraine are evacuating their animals.
- Canada imposed additional sanctions on 33 entities in the Russian defense sector.
U.S.
- Secret Service is claiming that their work was never compromised by the two men posing as federal law enforcement. (Note: I think this is bullshit.)
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FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2022
Twitter: @cjjohns1951
CNN
- Ukrainian filmmaker, Volodymyr Demchenko, says waiting is the most difficult part of the war. He is waiting to be sent into the fighting. Demchenko’s superior officer was killed today.
- CNN anchor is asking about Demchenko’s “emotions.” I don’t understand why these anchors repeatedly ask about this. There is something lurid and obnoxious about the questions. “How do you feel?” “What does it feel like?” “How do you handle this mentally?” Personal interest story after personal interest story. This is not a soap opera, it is a war. We need information, analysis, not just personal interest stories.
- Story of Ukrainian mayor killed with her husband and son.
- There was a missile strike on a train station.
EUROMAIDAN PRESS
- Reports of rape in Kyiv suburbs by Russian soldiers.
- The Foreign Minister, Kuleba, tweeted a report that a 14-year-old was raped by five men in the occupying army. She is now pregnant. This was in Bucha. Another report of an 11-year-old boy raped in front of his mother who was tied to a chair to watch. Bucha.
- UK sent 100 million pounds worth of military equipment to Ukraine.
- UK and Germany won’t send tanks to Ukraine reported by Politico, posted by Euromaidan.
- A car full of Ukrainian electric workers heading to repair power lines ran over a mine. One dead, two wounded.
- Kramatorsk railway station hit with missile. The hospital was unable to cope with the wounded. “many people heavily wounded, without arms and legs, they are operated on by 30-40 surgeons at the same time.”
- Russian soldiers risk prison or injure themselves so as not to fight in Ukraine.
- Japan bans coal imports from Russia, expels 8 diplomats.
- Deputy Security Council Chairman Medvedev says Western sanctions against Russia could be described as an act of international aggression. “Earlier, he called acts of aggression one of reasons for Russia’s possible use of nuclear weapons.”
- 132 bodies executed by shooting were found in Makarov (near Kyiv) after liberation.
- “Several incinerated bodies of civilians, including 1 child, were found in the cellar of a house in Husarovka village (near Kharkiv) after it was liberated from Russian occupation. Russians did this deliberately, as no houses burned.”
- Reported rape of 9-year-old girl by 11 Russian soldiers.
- Russian shelling has effectively wiped the village of Andriyivka (near Kyiv) off the face of the earth.
- Russia has lost 19,000 troops in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.
- While Russians were occupying Chornobyl, they destroyed documents Ukraine compiled over decades. They also damaged and looted offices, destroyed millions of pounds worth of laboratory that provided analysis and solutions for nuclear research.
- Russia is completing the redeployment of troops to Luhansk and is preparing for a major battle for the Ukrainian Donbas.
- 7 April, Russian troops fired at the civilian vessel Kapitan Belousov, stationed in Mariupol.
- 8 April, Russian army did not allow Ukrainian humanitarian convoy to enter besieged Melitopol, they confiscated cargo together with trucks and buses.
- Approximately 700 people have died in Chernihiv since the Russian invasion.
- Taiwan tech firm Acer is halting all business in Russia.
- Thousands take to the streets in Bulgaria to support Ukraine.
- Russian banks try to circumvent sanctions. “Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, Otkrytie transfer clients’ foreign assets to brokers. Sberbank broker transfers clients with foreign securities to BCS, Aton.”
- Russians are attacking gas stations which are needed to provide fuel for military and agriculture.
- Russian forces shelled Ukrainian icebreaker in Mariupol with only civilians aboard.
TWITTER
- When the 23rd article of the Un Charter was formulated in 1945, the USSR was placed as a permanent member with the right to veto, and it no longer exists. Russia is not necessarily heir to the USSR, Ukraine was the second largest country of the USSR and may legally replace it.
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THURSDAY 7 APRIL 2022
MSNBC: Chris Hayes
- Timothy Snyder being interviewed:
- Snyder: If Putin wins this second part of the war, in the Donbas he will keep going. Russia must be defeated on the battlefield. It’s the only way to win this war. You want that victory to be as quick as possible.
- We need a paradigm shift away from talking about stagnation in terms of winning the war. The Russian offense will probably start within 48 hours. Putin is determined to win by May 9. There is a critical month ahead of us. We should be sending arms as quickly as we can.
- Nobody in Russia cares about the Donbas. They just think they have to have some kind of victory. The only way this ends is for them not to win a victory.
- Hayes: Mentions Bloodlands, a book written by Snyder about WWII.
- The Russians seem to have forgotten that when they won the second world war, the Ukrainians were on their side. Calling them Nazis while committing the same kinds of atrocities that the Nazis committed during WWII, is not only perverse, it’s like a second version of the crime itself. Ukraine was colonized by the Russians and the Germans. Ukrainians have won the battle of Kyiv.
- Hayes: There is a kind of discomfort with this conflict being determined by who wins on the battlefield.
- Snyder: The American left specializes in being right in losing. We are not used to being right and winning. If the Ukrainians lose, democracy will be “rocking on its heels.” “It’s not just about Ukraine and Russia. It’s also about the rest of us.”
- (Note: I just keep thinking about how the Americans were encouraging Zelensky to leave Ukraine. With Friends like these.)
- RUSSIAN MALWARE
- The US government discovered that companies had not removed malware put there by Russians. The US government was tracking Russian hacking groups. They went in and removed the malware.
- If this had been successful, the GRU would have access to corporate computers. They could have stolen data from the companies. Court orders allowed them to go into the computers of companies and remove the malware for them.
- The FBI had done this before, in 2018.
- Some of the fears of hacking in Ukraine have not occurred (such as taking down the central power), but there were attacks. (Note: Why did we not hear more about them?)
- ERIC BOEHLERT
- Eric Boehlert: Fox News is a closed society. They know they can lie to their viewers. Their viewers expect them to lie to them. “This is a rush to the gutter from the right.” Boehlert has died.
- MANHATTAN DA AND TRUMP
- (Note: If you are interested in the Manhattan DA’s office and the Pomerantz resignation, listen to the podcast “Gaslit Nation” for a valuable take. The corporate press has largely taken Pomerantz’s resignation at face value. Sarah Kenzior does not. She argues that the Manhattan DA’s office functions to protect elite criminals.)
- Today, Bragg (the new head) maintained that the investigation of Trump was still going on.
- Rebecca Roiphe, a former Manhattan Assistant DA interviewed on Chris Hayes said, that what is strange is that after this well-known prosecutor (Pomerantz) said he had a case, that there would be more evidence as maintained by Bragg. “It feels like clean up.” “It was a public relations disaster.” (When it was announced they would not be pursuing the cae). This is a way of making it look like they are turning over “every stone.”
- Hayes: There seem to be two different views of what’s going on here. First, the DA’s office is scared of Trump, afraid they might lose the case. After all, the scrutiny of the world would be on you. Second, Pomerantz had come out of retirement to do the case, so of course he would want to indict. There is no case there.
- Roiphe: I’m sure that both Pomerantz and Bragg are trying to treat every case brought before them equally. (Note: This is bullshit).
- Hayes: Hayes is questioning his own desire to see Trump held accountable. Then, he is saying that Trump has committed lawless behavior. (Note: So why is he apologizing for his own desire for accountability?) Hayes then says that Trump is clearly committing lawless behavior all over the place and his not being held accountable doing “flagrantly lawless things” and getting away with them completely born of the fact that he is powerful and wealthy. This makes it look like he’s escaping the law because of his wealth and privilege.
- Roiphe: “It really does look that way.” (NO IT DOESN’T LOOK THAT WAY, IT IS THAT WAY.) “It’s really hard to prove these criminal cases.” It’s not that he’s getting special treatment. There are tons of people who get away this kind of thing. (Note: That raises a gigantic problem in and of itself).
- Hayes: These cases are difficult to prosecute. (Note: Hayes does not bring up the fact that the laws are written so that they will be difficult to prosecute. Because they are crimes of the elite.
- Roiphe: “You really want to be sure you are prosecuting people who have crossed that line.” (Note: Bullshit).
- (Note: These laws are written to make them difficult to prosecute because they are the crimes of the powerful. The crimes of the powerless are not so difficult to prosecute.
- Please, please listen to Gaslit Nation. This interview was just bullshit.
MSNBC: Ali Velshi
- Kuleba asks for “weapons, weapons, weapons.” “Either you help us now, and I’m talking days not weeks, or your help will come too late.”
- Russian radio traffic intercepted, talking about killing civilians.
- Mass graves in Bucha. Many were shot in the head.
- Russians are going house to house and stealing from the residents.
EUROMAIDAN PRESS
- Ukraine says Russian planes will be downed if they try to enter the airspace of Transnistria.
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UKRAINE WORLD
- Russians shelled railway in Kharkiv oblast used to evacuate civilians from Donbas.
- (Note: Ukraine World is publishing the photographs of Russian military people who are perpetrating atrocities.)
- Russia has shelled railroad near Barvinkove in the Kharkiv region thus rendering impossible evacuation of civilians from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk that are about to become hot spots in days to come.
- Russia’s rights of membership in the UN Human Rights Council has just been suspended.
- Russia has ruined virtually every hospital in the Luhansk region.
- 90% of those killed in Bucha were fatally wounded by bullets, not shrapnel.
THE KYIV INDEPENDENT
- Russia abducted more than 100 people in Melitopol.
- According to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Russia had lost around 18,900 soldiers since launching a full-scale invasion on Feb. 24.
- Russia plans to capture Mariupol, break through Donbas defense lines.
- 16 sabotage groups caught in Kyiv in past two days.
- Luhansk Oblast governor: No hospital survived in the region.
- After regrouping troops, Russia may attempt to capture Kyiv again.
- Dnipro mayor: Residents not involved in critical infrastructure should evacuate.
EUROMAIDAN PRESS
- As Russia is expelled from the UN Human Rights Council, it announces it has withdrawn.
- Russian troops get orders from their commanders to shoot civilians.
- Occupied Kherson had flour left for one week; Russian troops do not allow humanitarian convoys in.
- The US Senate has passed a bill to ban imports of oil and gas from Russia.
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MONDAY 4 APRIL 2022, 8:30
MSNBC: Chris Hayes
- Vindman: Three should have been a greater press to avoid this war because we knew the kind of barbarism that we would see. We must help Ukraine end this war. These types of incidents are going to increase as Russia gets frustrated. We need to give them everything they need.
- Hayes, quoting NYT: Men’s hands have been tied and they have been shot at close range. They were civilians.
- Michael Newton: Vanderbilt Law School: If Putin launched this to aggrandize Russia power and prestige there’s nothing more corrosive. Has the opportunity to galvanize the entire world. Russians have been violating laws during the occupation of Crimea.
- Hayes: Russian left these bodies to be found and then immediately denied it.
- Vindman: Demonstrates a callousness for human life. Increasing repression has bred this in the population.
- Hayes: Orban of Hungry has been “reelected.” He as been congratulated by MTG, and Gosar. He has eliminated independent media, taken control of the court system and gerrymandered to make Hungary’s Fidesz party hard to dislodge (Note: Shades of what we are facing here). This is a one-party state.
- “Strong Men” book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Hayes interviews Ben-Ghiat. Six opposition parties united against him. One of the far-right parties joined this opposition, but many of their members defected to Orban as a response. Orban has been “very smart” by pretending to be neutral in the Russian war. Orban has built a system that almost guarantees him electoral success. After Crimea, Orban was against EU sanctions. Hungary is dependent on Russian oil and gas. He played this to his supporters saying that if they didn’t elect him, oil and gas prices would go up.
- Hayes plays American Right: Bannon, huge admirer or Orban. Trump is as well. Tucker Carlson. “Orban has been vilified.” The right is celebrating this authoritarian leader.
- Ben-Ghiat: This is what the Republicans want, this kind of authoritarianism.
EUROMAIDAN PRESS
- After a call for assistance, 1500 volunteers called to help pick up debris in Irpin.
- In Izyum, Kharkiv, Russian forces are carrying out filtration measures and forcible deportations of local residents to Russia.
- “West is still reluctant to commit itself to the safety of Ukraine and doesn’t foresee the far-reaching implications of Russia’s war and Black Sea blockade. Ukraine urgently needs presence of NATO fleet in Black Sea, and there is not so much left before it might be too late.”
- In the village of Oleksandrivka, Kherson the Russian military destroyed a library of more than 16,000 books.
- Russian invaders tortured a local leader in Chernihiv and staged mock executions “for entertainment.”
- Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.
- 130,000 people are still trapped in Mariupol.
- Russian forces are preparing to attack and capture Kharkiv.
- Overnight, Kharkiv was hit more than 50 times by rocket and artillery strikes. This is day 40 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
- Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia will return. Lithuania expelled the Russian ambassador. Closes consulate.
- Anonymous claimed responsibility for releasing personal identifying information on 120,000 Russian soldiers allegedly fighting in Ukraine.
MSNBC: Ali Velshi
• Bucha was one of the first cities in Ukraine to fall. It had been under Russian control for a month. It was thought this was good news, but after they saw what was left, this changed. 410 civilians dead at least.
The bodies laying in the streets. When they arrived, Russians began indiscriminately attacking people for no reason. “they shot off his leg completely” one resident described a shooting
DOMESTIC POLITICS: Chris Hayes MSNBC
- Will there be a criminal referral for Trump? Unlikely.
- Rep. Elaine Luria: D -Va. (Jan. 6 Committee) It’s more important not to worry about political implications. The Committee will lay out the facts and if crimes occurred, we have to put that in our report and refer it to the DOJ.
- There is fear that it will look political if there is a criminal referral for Trump.
- Lindsay Graham: “If we were in charge, she would not have been before this committee.” Talking about Jackson. Hayes is talking about Republican “stunt politics.” Sarah Palin is back running for office. (Note Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace helped Sarah Palin campaign for office).
- Insurgency by Jeremy Peters, interviewed by Hayes: Palin clicks with voters because she is seen as one of them. She’s a mom, talked like them, didn’t have elitist airs. She needs to be taken seriously.
- Hayes: She wasn’t faking it. Donald Trump is faking it, faking being one “of the people.” Her rallies were characterized by “vitriol.”
- Peters: Her appeal in Alaska was started because somebody called her and people like her “trash.” They appropriated that and ran on it. It worked for them. That’s what Trumpism is – making people believe that others look down on them.
- Peters: This is a powerful seat she’s running for. Trump sought her out in 2016 and got her support.
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SUNDAY 3 APRIL 2022, 7 PM
CNN
- Jim Sciutto wins the prize of the day journalistically. He told an interviewee that they would watch a piece of video and talk about it “after it was over” rather than “on the other side.” Thanks God.
- Fareed Zakaria: saying that we must escalate in response to the Russian war crimes. This is “rage” or it is under instructions. A lot of women and children have fled otherwise a lot more of these dead bodies would be women and children. The sanctions are having an effect, havoc in Russia, are they affecting Putin and his inner circle, no. Numbers may go up to 2 or 3 million Russians trying to leave.
- Orban won reelection. Orban is close to Putin. Zakaria: “You can lose your democracy forever.” They have elections but they are fixed and the courts are fixed, no free press.
- Zakaria: “It’s very disappointing.” He has “fixed Hungarian democracy.” They have bought it all up. It’s right wing authoritarian populism.
- Panic buying in Russia, trying to get sugar and other items.
- CNN showing a mass grave in Bucha. They believe over 100 people buried there.
- Zelensky: Civilians have been decapitated and children tortured. “This is genocide.”
- Air strikes again in Odessa tonight.
FOX
- Good God, Lara Trump, is a regular on Fox News. (Note: Jesus)
TWITTER:
- Anastasila Lapatina: “Russians broke into my family’s house. Went through all our stuff. Took mom’s computer, all her shoes, her camera….Imagine a place where you grew up and lived your best moments violated in this manner.
- Garry Kasparov: “The latest horrors out of Putin’s war on Ukraine put the remaining Western holdouts against stronger action in an unbearable position. Excuses are now complicity, not prudence, not just cowardice.”
- Occupy Democrats: Heineken announces it will exit Russia.
- Kyle Griffin: Reuters: Ukraine has taken all areas around the capital, reclaiming complete control of the region for the first time since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
- Anders Aslund: 1. Ukraine should not give up anything when it is on the offensive…
- Olga Lautman: Kick Russia out of UN Security Council.
Ukraine Government
- Kuleba: “Bucha massacre proves tat Russian hatred towards Ukrainians is beyond anything Europe has seen since WWII. The only way to stop this: help Ukraine kick Russians out as soon as possible. Partners know our needs. Tanks, combat aircraft, heavy air defense systems. Provide them NOW.”
- Kuleba: “Bucha massacre was deliberate. Russians aim to eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can. We must stop them and kick them out. I demand new devastating G7 sanctions NOW.”
UKRAINE WORLD
- “This is true genocide.”
- “What if many Russians WANT atrocities like in Bucha or Mariupol? What if they do believe that Ukrainians are “nazis” and therefore should be wiped off the face of the earth?”
- Motyzhyn, near Kyiv. Collective grave where the village head and her family were buried by Russians, after having been tortured and killed.
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11:30 PM On Twitter @cjjohns1951
SUNDAY 3 APRIL 2022
MSNBC
- Mass civilian casualties reported in Ukraine. Toomas Ilves, former president of the Republic of Estonia. This is the first time anyone has used the threat of nuclear weapons for conquest. It is an excuse to say we can’t intervene without courting nuclear war. The Russians won’t stop in Ukraine. We must put a stop to this now. “If you don’t respond now, you will have to respond when they attack NATO.”
- Belchi asks what do you say to people who say that this will cost American lives? (Note: What an extraordinarily strange question.)
- Ilves: What does “never again” mean if you aren’t willing to cut off gas? “You’re trading gas for human lives.” “Nervous nelly anxiety” about giving MIGS that many have. “They should be given the tools to fight back.” Not helmets. There is so much that they need and they aren’t getting it yet. “I am flabbergasted by this.”
- Smoke rising from Odesa. First major strike by the Russians on the Black Sea port.
- Khurshudyan (Reporter): Odesa has been one of the safest cities in Ukraine. Nowhere is safe in terms of air attacks. There are ships off the coast of Odesa which have been there for weeks. The strike on Mykoliav (east of Odesa) were from these ships. They have been planning a landing in Odesa. But there’s no ground support because it is held up in Mykolaiv.
- Abramovich is participating in talks between Russia and Ukraine. He was one of the ones who showed symptoms of poisoning in March after negotiations.
UKRAINE WORLD
- Not only people, but animals are suffering from the Russian attack on Ukraine.
- In 2008, Putin commented that “Ukraine is not a state.” But Ukraine and Georgia didn’t even receive NATO membership action plans. This could have been stopped.
- Statement Russian Defense Ministry: “During the entire time of Bucha being under RU control, no local residents suffered from any violent actions.”
- Vasylkiv, a city near Kyiv, was hit by several missiles.
- A mass grave was found in Bucha containing 280 people.
- At least 5,000 civilians have been killed in Mariupol.
THE KYIV INDEPENDENT
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba demands new “devastating” sanctions from G7 countries over the Bucha massacre.
- Finland should decide whether to join Nato this spring.
Law, Power, and Justice 