I find it very interesting that Abramovich uses the word "war" to describe the conlifct in Ukraine when we know it's forbidden by Russian propaganda.
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I find it very interesting that Abramovich uses the word "war" to describe the conlifct in Ukraine when we know it's forbidden by Russian propaganda.
Not necessarily. All the videos I've seen have been individuals filming them, it only counts if it was the government doing it. Also as they're not in distress its less likely to be a breach.
Those are the rules for TV coverage anyway because the Geneva Convention is hideously outdated.
Interesting. An appeal to Trump and his supporters?
get the feeling Le Pen, Farage, and Trump are all thinking very carefully about how they play this given no one knows what will happen
Trying to rile up their fifth column in America
PuAnon.
Guys, urgent one - which ways out of Kyiv seem to be blocked?
My mates fiancé is stuck there with her parents and they want to flee as soon as they can. I would advise them to go to Lviv but not sure if it’s still safe.
My mates fiancé is stuck there with her parents and they want to flee as soon as they can. I would advise them to go to Lviv but not sure if it’s still safe.
It is out of date. But it does extend beyond TV.
Interesting. NATO looking to do everything they can whilst still having plausible deniability:
My takeaway is Putin is basically Voldemort.
The oligarchs are like his horcruxes, hidden away and shrouded in secrecy to keep him powerful and as they start to drop he will become more and more vulnerable.
How do you say 'bitch' in mandarin? That's what Putin has made Russia to be in a few years time. Vassal state.
There should be a serious criminal investigation into the likes of Farage, Le Pen, Salvini and, Mr Nordsteam himself, Schröder. All effectively advancing the interests of a hostile foreign state.
Well Le Pen took a loan from Russia to finance her campaign so...
Plus china has $350B invested in Europe. They have skin in the game.
German AfD also receive dark money from Russia.
Lviv is relatively safe at the moment, but the city is a bit swamped and isn’t necessarily where you want to go if you want to leave.
They should probably call their embassy to get advice. Some embassies are publishing estimated wait times at some borders, but you need to have the transport to get to these places.
Disgusted but not surprised by us abstaining. Very dependant on Russia + we're now working with the Russia to evacuate the students via the Russia Ukraine border.
Hungarian journalists who got out yesterday were advised that trains are pretty much the only way out. They got on one that was supposedly going to Romania then transferred in another town to get to Lviv.
Hi everyone. Just been on the phone to my mum. She's appalled by what's going on, as we all are. She's wanting to take in a couple of refugees in as she has a spare room. What's the best way to go about this? We are in Northern UK by the way.
Many thanks in advance.
Many thanks in advance.
This India? Would add fuel to the rumours of heavy attacks on Kharkiv tonight if so, as India was telling students to move to neighbouring towns by 18:00 tonight.
No doubt a PR move but hopefully this will be a success and they can get everyone out quickly.
Replace Brazil with Pakistan (who also abstained) and guess what it makes us all.
The problem is Ukrainians can’t get into the UK unless they have a British or an otherwise-settled family member in the UK to sponsor their visa. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/further-support-for-ukrainians-fleeing-russia-invasion
If you read that link it's only a "suggestion" while they admit you can't do a hard rule. And I'm fairly certain that only applies to official sources and not just random people sharing videos like that. And generally the purpose of it is to not parade prisoners down the street and subject them to humiliation. That doesn't really apply here.
Dumb. Why announce it so early? I bet PL matches are mysterious blocked this weekend in Russia.
Yep
If you have a twitter account, look up Walter Lekh @walterlekh . He's pretty busy monitoring the situation in Ukraine and hosting a twitter 'spaces' discussion, but if you can get hold of him by DM he'll be able give some up to date advice or forward to you someone who can.
I imagine the PL is probably looking at the legal ramifications of cutting broadcasts to Russia anyways.
I am afraid that things for Ukraine are going to get a lot worse before it is under full occupation by the Russian Invaders.
I just hope that Russia will not decide to use the Thermobaric bombs. Because that is pretty much unthinkable.
The thing is that those of us watching this barbaric action by Russia are feeling somewhat helpless because we are not able to do anything meaningful.
And it is my firm view the at some point, NATO is going to have to get off the fence and do something more than it is now.
If Russia takes Ukraine/Kiev I definitely can see them beating the people to the submission by taking out all locals/community leaders over time and instilling brutality and fear in the rest once the have the full control of the country. The plan is to go down the Belarus route over next few years. It’s all or nothing for Ukrainians right now.
It's been reported that Western intel fears the Russians have prepared something like a kill list.
This decision and BP‘s announcement that it is dumping its 25bn Russian interest are symbolically drawing to a close the period of engagement between Russia and the West. Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003, the same year BP made its huge investment in TNK. Hopefully there are other parallels with the late 90s/early 00s as a war and a debt crisis leads to a change of regime in Moscow.
Seems to be breaking on Twitter that a bomb may have gone off near the central station in Kyiv. Will delete if not true.
Videoing a POW upset on the phone to their parent I'm almost certain is not deemed as acceptable under it.
The problem with these videos is there is often no source or background. It's something that's very clearly in the Ukrainian tool kit as is seen by the petrified Russian soldiers being made to spout whatever they are requested to in some of these videos. So trying to figure out what is an oblivious civilian recording a legitimate moment and what is staged to encourage further Russian surrender by the state is very hard to tell. What concerns me about that specific one is why the other woman seems so keen to offer food when he's very clearly only halfway through what he's currently eating. You can also see Ukrainian military in the background.
Thanks very much for this, I will look into it. I've just emailed British Ukrainian aid directly too
Feck me Blinken is really bad at this.
What's he doing?
Reading off a teleprompter. Badly.
Where I grew up there are loads of people of Ukrainian decent, they're just like that. Eat, eat, eat.