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UKRAINE UPDATE

March 24th, 2022
THURSDAY 24 MARCH 2022

CNN
- The Ukrainians are reporting that the Russians are moving equipment into Belarus in preparation for Belarus joining the war.
- The Ukrainians have destroyed a large Russian ship in the port city of Berdyansk.
- Biden is meeting with G7 leaders.
- Blitzer is advancing the narrative that Biden has prepared all his life for this challenge. (Note: The corporate media is binge worthy in its readiness to create some kind of emotional story out of events.)
MSNBC
- Human Rights Watch has reported the use of phosphorus bombs in Ukraine.
- Richard Engel: Phosphorous bombs are also used by the US military. But, there are limits on how these weapons can be used – i.e., to protect troops. The ship in Berdyansk was bringing in supplies for Russian troops.
- Zelensky: Don’t tell us that the Ukrainian army doesn’t meet the NATO standards.
- Iuliia Mendal interviewed: US rejects to supply fighter planes. Poland was talking about peace keeping mission and partial no-fly zone. These proposals have not been accepted.
NEW YORK TIMES
- The U.S. will accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
- North Korea tested another missile.
- Conservatives are pressuring Manchin and Sinema to vote against Brown Jackson.
UKRAINE WORLD (@ukraine_world) and podcast
- The US imposed new sanctions including sanctioning the head of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank Herman Gref, 328 members of the State Duma and the State Duma itself, as well as companies from Russia’s defense industry.
- Ukraine publishes in German.
- Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland is predicting aggression against Poland.
TWITTER
- Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) in Lviv reports that Russians are targeting Ukraine’s cultural heritage, raiding libraries, destroying Ukrainian history books especially those that mention the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, Russia’s war in Donbas and Soviet repressions.
- Lapatina also reports that in Russia, Ukrainians are “offered” official employment. Those who agree receive documents banning them from leaving the assigned regions for two years. Offered regions include Sakhalin, the island close to Japan.
- Earlier, Lapatina reported that Russians were deporting Ukrainians from Mariupol to Russia. At least 6,000 people have already been displaced.
- Andrei Kurkov (@AKurkov) reports that Putin accomplices Shoigu and Naryshkin have not been seen in public since 11 of March.
- Kurkov reported that Russian opposition journalist Oksana Baulina who worked with Navalny had to flee from Moscow to Kyiv and was killed yesterday in Kyiv.
- Kurkov: The director of Kherson Theatre was released by the Russians after mass protests in and outside Kherson.
- Kurkov: Arhip Kuindji, born in Mariupol. There was a museum dedicated to his works. This has now been destroyed.
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Sunday News Notes:

Ukraine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/01/putin-ally-challenges-russian-president-calling-zelensky-nice/
- Founder of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, challenges Putin.
- Prigozhin praised Ukrainian president, Zelensky, on his social media platform.
- “Although he is the president of a country that’s hostile to Russia right now, Zelensky is a strong, confident, pragmatic and nice guy,”
- In a second post, Prigozhin followed up with a warning: “Don’t underestimate him.” The second post was described by the Telegraph as “explaining why he was offering such a discordant view of” Zelensky.
- Prigozhin holds no formal role with the Russian government, but his position has increased in importance as he has funneled more and more soldiers into Ukraine fighting for Russia.
- His statement is not in line with the Kremlin presentation of Zelensky as a drug-addled Nazi. And, it is not the first time Prigozhin has challenged Putin. Earlier he questioned the military’s conduct of the war.
- The Washington Post reported that Prigozhin along with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, has become more vocal in their criticisms of military leaders prosecuting Putin’s war.
- According to the Telegraph: “British lawyers McCue Jury and Partners on Tuesday announced they were bringing legal action against Wagner for “terrorism” in Ukraine, aiming to claim compensation for victims of the mercenary group”
- Prigozhin was filmed in September of 2022 recruiting soldiers in Russian prisons. He promised them they would be freed is they survived six months in Ukraine. He also promised they would be shot if they tried to desert.
- “In another public message, he defended recruiting rapists and murders on the basis that it meant “your sons” would not be sent to the front. Weeks later Putin announced a mobilisation that has sent around 300,000 extra men to war.”
- Telegraph: “The Institute for the Study of War in its latest report on Tuesday said that Mr Prigozhin was “establishing himself as a political force, using his popular status and his affiliation with Wagner to criticise his opponents within elite circles”.
- In testimony to British parliament on Tuesday, Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky confirmed reports of Mr Prigozhin’s special place in Putin’s court, describing him as a “significant tool for the Kremlin”.
- “The number of meetings with the dictator is the only currency that’s in demand in that regime, and Mr Prigozhin has got a lot of those meetings,” said Mr Khodorkovsky, who was released after a decade in Russian prison in 2013, and was formerly the country’s richest man.”
Ukraine Update

February 14th, 2022
Interfax: 2/14/22

There is a report that the Russian Duma is going to vote on 2/15/22 on “two resolutions asking for Putin to recognize the independence of the “self-proclaimed republics of Donbas” This will kill Minsk and open the way for Putin to invade Ukraine.

Other reports:
- Ukrainian International Airlines is moving seven of its 25 planes out of the country “at the request of lessors.”
- Spokesman for the Pentagon, John Kirby is being asked about potential refugees from Ukraine.
- Anne Applebaum is calling for the British to announce the names and addresses of Russian oligarchs in London who will be sanctioned and whose sources of income and donations to the Tory party are under investigation. Twitter
- Richard Engel on MSNBC is reporting that several European media outlets had been claiming that the Russian attack could come on the 16^th. Zelensky gave a speech in which he referenced the 16^th, but his office is now saying that he was referencing those media reports, not his own evaluation.
- Ukraine has requested 12,000 anti-tank missiles from Germany.
- Richard Engel notes that Putin wants to get rid of Zelensky and get a more compliant government in Kyiv.
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Sunday News Notes:

Ukraine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/01/putin-ally-challenges-russian-president-calling-zelensky-nice/
- Founder of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, challenges Putin.
- Prigozhin praised Ukrainian president, Zelensky, on his social media platform.
- “Although he is the president of a country that’s hostile to Russia right now, Zelensky is a strong, confident, pragmatic and nice guy,”
- In a second post, Prigozhin followed up with a warning: “Don’t underestimate him.” The second post was described by the Telegraph as “explaining why he was offering such a discordant view of” Zelensky.
- Prigozhin holds no formal role with the Russian government, but his position has increased in importance as he has funneled more and more soldiers into Ukraine fighting for Russia.
- His statement is not in line with the Kremlin presentation of Zelensky as a drug-addled Nazi. And, it is not the first time Prigozhin has challenged Putin. Earlier he questioned the military’s conduct of the war.
- The Washington Post reported that Prigozhin along with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, has become more vocal in their criticisms of military leaders prosecuting Putin’s war.
- According to the Telegraph: “British lawyers McCue Jury and Partners on Tuesday announced they were bringing legal action against Wagner for “terrorism” in Ukraine, aiming to claim compensation for victims of the mercenary group”
- Prigozhin was filmed in September of 2022 recruiting soldiers in Russian prisons. He promised them they would be freed is they survived six months in Ukraine. He also promised they would be shot if they tried to desert.
- “In another public message, he defended recruiting rapists and murders on the basis that it meant “your sons” would not be sent to the front. Weeks later Putin announced a mobilisation that has sent around 300,000 extra men to war.”
- Telegraph: “The Institute for the Study of War in its latest report on Tuesday said that Mr Prigozhin was “establishing himself as a political force, using his popular status and his affiliation with Wagner to criticise his opponents within elite circles”.
- In testimony to British parliament on Tuesday, Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky confirmed reports of Mr Prigozhin’s special place in Putin’s court, describing him as a “significant tool for the Kremlin”.
- “The number of meetings with the dictator is the only currency that’s in demand in that regime, and Mr Prigozhin has got a lot of those meetings,” said Mr Khodorkovsky, who was released after a decade in Russian prison in 2013, and was formerly the country’s richest man.”

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