Russia Ukraine Update Thread - part 2

originally posted by: Grimpachi

originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: Grimpachi

The info on the killing of the Ukrainian officers is not being reported by anyone but Russia.

And?

UA is still calling Azovstals unconditional surrender an evacuation. I am sure they are working on some type of positive spin for this.

If the tooth fairy appeared right now and admitted that russian army is very powerful, and everyone else had always been lying about everything, would Ukraine suddenly lose the means to shoot back?



Too late.



The russian propaganda machine was already defeated, and has zero hopes of ever recovering.

It cost russia the war and 50,000 soldiers, it's entirely up to russia whether it also costs them their country

A guard at the detention center where Azovstal "extracted" POWs are kept said one interesting thing:

"Do you know how we immediately could tell the difference between Azov and regular Ukrainian soldiers? Azov nazis all had a lot of cash on them: dollars, euros, grivnas. Lots of money. And they also had gold. Gold with certification stamps on it.

All of the Azov battalion POWs will be transferred to a detention facility where criminals are kept, they all have criminal cases against them. According to the DPR law, they face 15 to life sentences or the death penalty.

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Severodonetsk captured, fighting on the outskirts. Kadyrov reported accurate 2 days ago, the inner city hasn't seen a lot of fighting and majority of the buildings are still intact. Everything indicated upon a major withdrawal of Ukrainian militants.

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine proposed to legalize bribes for men leaving Ukraine to avoid conscription, even all but certain death.

Viktor Andrusiv, an adviser to the interior minister, proposed exempting men of military age for an "insurance fee" of $3,000-$5,000. Currently only certain categories of men are exempted abroad.

The reason for such an initiative is simple: earlier, for a bribe of about the same amount, men could leave the country illegally. But the money ended up in the pockets of smugglers and other “fixers”.

If such a decision is made, this money will go to the budget, and from there - into the pockets of Zelensky and his team.

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It looks Russian Armed Forces are stationing troops in Sumy...We might see advance from Sumy and opening a new front towards Ukraine from Russia.

Sat photos

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Tour around Severodonetsk with the Chechens

Video
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[ Video ]
The Russian military destroyed an Italian-made howitzer battery in Ukraine.

Personnel of the Ministry of Defense.

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[ Video ]
🇷🇸When NATO bombed our children — it was "collateral damage", in Ukraine for them it is "poor civilians".

This is how Serbian director Emir Kusturica commented on the reaction of the West to the Ukrainian crisis.

"In 1999, NATO turned out to be at our side and even in our country: bombing and separation of part of our territory," he told @rt_russian.

Kusturica stressed that the same thing is happening in Ukraine today as it was 20 years ago, when the whole West justified the bombing of Yugoslavia.

"But when someone is killed in Ukraine, the same people and the media shout: poor children, poor civilians. This is unacceptable."

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[Forwarded from ASB Military News]
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Attempted Ukrainian counterattack near Avdiivka. Not a single russian unit was present. All the work has been conducted remotely via 12 RC quadcopters which transmitted targeting data to Russian command centres — which in turn sent it to MLRS commanders and struck Ukrops in their tracks. They started to retreat after taking losses within minutes.

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War in eastern #Ukraine️
Between 01-18 May, 2022.

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30 May update

Key Takeaways

* Russian forces continued to incrementally capture areas of Severodonetsk but have not yet fully encircled the city.

* Russian forces focused on regrouping near Izyum to renew offensives towards Slovyansk and Barvinkove and conducted only minor, unsuccessful, attacks. Russian forces are making incremental advances towards Slovyansk and seek to assault the city itself in the coming weeks, but are unlikely to achieve decisive gains.

* Russian forces in Kharkiv continue to focus efforts on preventing a Ukrainian counteroffensive from reaching the international border between Kharkiv and Belgorod, and Ukrainian forces have not conducted any significant operations in the area in recent days.

* The limited Ukrainian counterattack in northern Kherson Oblast did not take any further ground in the last 48 hours but has disrupted Russian operations. Russian forces launched several unsuccessful attacks against the Ukrainian bridgehead on the east bank of the Inhulets River.

* Mounting casualties among Russian junior officers will further degrade Russian morale and command and control capabilities.

Map of area south of Izyum. Map source: OpenTopoMap


More at URL above.

Cheers

a reply to: fuzz4262

EU oil embargo against Moscovite Rus oil fails.

No it hasn't.

Russian seaborne oil to be banned by the end of the year, with a temporary exemption for pipeline oil. Two-thirds of Russian oil arrives by sea

www.bbc.co.uk...

* - Fake: Zelensky to Legalize “Polish Seizure of Ukraine”

* - Fake: Zaporizhzhia Rules Out Returning to Kyiv Control

* - Fake: Kadyrov Foundation Repairs Abandoned Hospital in Rubizhne

* - Fake: Erdogan Says Turkey Unwilling to Get Involved in “Ukraine show”

Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war

coauthored with Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York), Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley) and Ilona Sologoub (VoxUkraine)

Dear Professor Chomsky,

We are a group of Ukrainian academic economists who were grieved by a series of your recent interviews and commentaries on the Russian war on Ukraine. We believe that your public opinion on this matter is counter-productive to bringing an end to the unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine and all the deaths and suffering it has brought into our home country.

Borodyanka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2022. Source: apimagesblog.com...

Having familiarized ourselves with the body of your interviews on this matter, we noticed several recurring fallacies in your line of argument. In what follows, we wish to point out these patterns to you, alongside with our brief response:

Pattern #1: Denying Ukraine’s sovereign integrity

In your interview to Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept from April 14, 2022 you claimed: “The fact of the matter is Crimea is off the table. We may not like it. Crimeans apparently do like it.” We wish to bring to your attention several historical facts:

First, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 has violated the Budapest memorandum (in which it promised to respect and protect Ukrainian borders, including Crimea), the Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation (which it signed with Ukraine in 1997 with the same promises), and, according to the order of the UN International Court of Justice, it violated the international law.

Second, “Crimeans” is not an ethnicity or a cohesive group of people – but Crimean Tatars are. These are the indigenous people of Crimea, who were deported by Stalin in 1944 (and were able to come back home only after the USSR fell apart), and were forced to flee again in 2014 when Russia occupied Crimea. Of those who stayed, dozens have been persecuted, jailed on false charges and missing, probably dead.

Third, if by ‘liking’ you refer to the outcome of the Crimean “referendum” on March 16, 2014, please note that this “referendum” was held at gunpoint and declared invalid by the General Assembly of the United Nations. At the same time, the majority of voters in Crimea supported Ukraine’s independence in 1991.

Pattern #2: Treating Ukraine as an American pawn on a geo-political chessboard

Whether willingly or unwillingly, your interviews insinuate that Ukrainians are fighting with Russians because the U.S. instigated them to do so, that Euromaidan happened because the U.S. tried to detach Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence, etc. Such an attitude denies the agency of Ukraine and is a slap in the face to millions of Ukrainians who are risking their lives for the desire to live in a free country. Simply put, have you considered the possibility that Ukrainians would like to detach from the Russian sphere of influence due to a history of genocide, cultural oppression, and constant denial of the right to self-determination?

Pattern #3. Suggesting that Russia was threatened by NATO

In your interviews, you are eager to bring up the alleged promise by [US Secretary of State] James Baker and President George H.W. Bush to Gorbachev that, if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin NATO, the U.S. would ensure that NATO would move ‘not one inch eastward.’ First, please note that the historicity of this promise is highly contested among scholars, although Russia has been active in promoting it. The premise is that NATO’s eastward expansion left Putin with no other choice but to attack. But the reality is different. Eastern European states joined, and Ukraine and Georgia aspired to join NATO, in order to defend themselves from Russian imperialism. They were right in their aspirations, given that Russia did attack Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Moreover, current requests by Finland and Sweden to join NATO came in direct response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, consistent with NATO expansion being a consequence of Russian imperialism, and not vice versa.

In addition, we disagree with the notion that sovereign nations shouldn’t be making alliances based on the will of their people because of disputed verbal promises made by James Baker and George H.W. Bush to Gorbachev.

ETA -
* - Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No”
* - Gorbachev Confirms: NATO Never Promised to Not Expand East

Pattern #4. Stating that the U.S. isn’t any better than Russia

While you admittedly call the Russian invasion of Ukraine a “war crime,” it appears to us that you cannot do so without naming in the same breath all of the past atrocities committed by the U.S. abroad (e.g., in Iraq or Afghanistan) and, ultimately, spending most of your time discussing the latter. As economists, we are not in a position to correct your historical metaphors and, needless to say, we condemn the unjustified killings of civilians by any power in the past. However, not bringing Putin up on war crime charges at the International Criminal Court in the Hague just because some past leader did not receive similar treatment would be the wrong conclusion to draw from any historical analogy. In contrast, we argue that prosecuting Putin for the war crimes that are being deliberately committed in Ukraine would set an international precedent for the world leaders attempting to do the same in the future.

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Pattern #5. Whitewashing Putin’s goals for invading Ukraine
In your interviews, you go to great lengths to rationalize Putin’s goals of “demilitarization” and “neutralization” of Ukraine. Please note that, in his TV address from February 24, 2022, marking the beginning of the war, the verbatim goal declared by Putin for this “military operation” is to “denazify” Ukraine. This concept builds on his long pseudo-historical article from July 2021, denying Ukraine’s existence and claiming that Ukrainians were not a nation. As elaborated in the ‘denazification manual’ published by the Russian official press agency RIA Novosti, a “Nazi” is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian, the establishment of a Ukrainian state thirty years ago was the “Nazification of Ukraine,” and any attempt to build such a state has to be a “Nazi” act. According to this genocide handbook, denazification implies a military defeat, purging, and population-level “re-education”. ‘Demilitarization’ and ‘neutralization’ imply the same goal – without weapons Ukraine will not be able to defend itself, and Russia will reach its long-term goal of destroying Ukraine.

Pattern #6. Assuming that Putin is interested in a diplomatic solution

All of us very much hoped for a cease-fire and a negotiated settlement, which could have saved many human lives. Yet, we find it preposterous how you repeatedly assign the blame for not reaching this settlement to Ukraine (for not offering Putin some “escape hatch”) or the U.S. (for supposedly insisting on the military rather than diplomatic solution) instead of the actual aggressor, who has repeatedly and intentionally bombed civilians, maternity wards, hospitals, and humanitarian corridors during those very “negotiations”. Given the escalatory rhetoric (cited above) of the Russian state media, Russia’s goal is erasure and subjugation of Ukraine, not a “diplomatic solution.”

Pattern #7. Advocating that yielding to Russian demands is the way to avert the nuclear war

Since the Russian invasion, Ukraine lives in a constant nuclear threat, not just due to being a prime target for Russian nuclear missiles but also due to the Russian occupation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

But what are the alternatives to fighting for freedom? Unconditional surrender and then elimination of Ukrainians off the face of the Earth (see above)? Have you ever wondered why President Zelenskyy, with the overwhelming support of the Ukrainian people, is pleading with Western leaders to provide heavy weapons despite the potential threat of nuclear escalation? The answer to this question is not “Because of Uncle Sam”, but rather due to the fact that Russian war crimes in Bucha and many other Ukrainian cities and villages have shown that living under Russian occupation is a tangible “hell on earth” happening right now, requiring immediate action.

Arguably, any concessions to Russia will not reduce the probability of a nuclear war but lead to escalation. If Ukraine falls, Russia may attack other countries (Moldova, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Finland or Sweden) and can also use its nuclear blackmail to push the rest of Europe into submission. And Russia is not the only nuclear power in the world. Other countries, such as China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are watching. Just imagine what will happen if they learn that nuclear powers can get whatever they want using nuclear blackmail.

Professor Chomsky, we hope you will consider the facts and re-evaluate your conclusions. If you truly value Ukrainian lives as you claim to, we would like to kindly ask you to refrain from adding further fuel to the Russian war machine by spreading views very much akin to Russian propaganda.

Should you wish to engage further on any of the above-mentioned points, we are always open to discussion.

Kind regards,

Bohdan Kukharskyy, City University of New York

Anastassia Fedyk, University of California, Berkeley

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley

Ilona Sologoub, VoxUkraine NGO

Hopefully these facts will put an end to the Russian propaganda some like to push while at the same time educating some of those people in the process.

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Should You Trust Opinion Polls In Russia?

Today, several months into Russia’s war on Ukraine, a climate of fear is beginning to spread among ordinary Russians. As a result of the censorship laws and the repressive attitude by Russian authorities to force forward displays of loyalty no-one can fully trust the integrity of pollsters in Russia, Belarus or any other autocratic society.
Dressing it up

The authorities use surveys as a weapon for their political ends, so public support for what the Kremlin is doing must be unwavering. Whenever corrupt leaders feel that the population might be critical of their policies, tampering with the results is the standard trick. In other words, polling results become manipulated because either the methodology seldom takes account of respondents simply giving dishonest answers out of fear or – more bluntly – the data results are falsified.

The “fear factor” comes from having created an atmosphere with intimidating opposition voters, outlawing opposition parties and jailing – even killing– key opposition figures. Just like election results are mostly falsified, due to ballot box stuffing, “carrousel voting” (casting several votes in different polling stations) or just cheating in the vote count if the ruling class senses that its grip on power is loosened.

Recent polls in Russia about the war of aggression in Ukraine (which the Kremlin call a “special military operation”) are very indicative of these trends.

The state-controlled pollster VTsIOM, which originates from the Research Department of the USSR Ministry of Social Affairs, published yet another survey recently on 5 March 2022 and according to VTsIOM, 84 per cent of respondents trusted the Russian army and 71 per cent of respondents supported the “special military operation”.

Another actor in this field, Russian Field, which styles itself as an independent agency, reported 58.8 per cent of support for Russia’s action in a poll conducted from 26 to 28 February 2022.

A poll carried out by Savanta ComRes, a British agency, on 23 February 2022 showed that 50% of respondents would support Russia’s use of force to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.

It seems the further the polling agency is from the Kremlin, the less support for Putin’s policies it shows. Even 50 per cent support for Putin’s war is a significant figure, but the Russian state, which is increasingly operating like the Soviet Union in its heavy censorship and state control, wants to see an overwhelming majority.

Another VTsIOM poll of 5 April 2022 showed even greater support for the war with 74 per cent of respondents speaking in favour of it, which is a 3 percentage point increase from the previous poll. This information cannot be independently verified, like the results of other polls held by government-related polling agencies. It appears remarkable that war support would actually grow by early April. It was the time when Russian forces had been pushed back from Kyiv and reports of atrocities like in Bucha had begun to appear on 1 April and the pro-Kremlin media got busy denying it, – see more here.

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Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russia claims that the West wants to destroy Russian culture

...Policy & Research
Energy blackmail

In its latest attempt to use energy supplies as a threatening weapon against Europe, Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after demanding their payments in rubles, a move that would have curbed sanctions against the Kremlin. This was the first practical consequence of the controversy around Moscow’s intentions to force energy transactions from “hostile” countries into rubles, a reaction that at the same time threatens its revenues, which are crucial funding for the war. The cut was a warning shot not only to the two countries involved but to Europe as a whole, applying significant pressure on gas prices while the continent is still heavily dependent on Russian supplies.

Poland has reduced its dependence on Russian gas in recent years and is now confident in its ability not to depend on its resources, not least because its gas stocks in storage are at 76% of capacity. In contrast, despite evidence that gas flow has drastically reduced in a couple of days, Gazprom denies that it has stopped supplying gas to Poland and dismisses the situation at the country’s refusal to follow the new payment procedure. Bulgaria, on the other hand, in response to the drastic measure, has finally decided to join most of its NATO allies indirectly supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia while it seeks alternative suppliers. The decision was made by Bulgaria’s prime minister, Kiril Petkov, in contrast with the position of the president, Rumen Radev, a retired non-interventionist general who has spoken out against sending weapons so as not to further fuel the conflict.
War Hacktivism

The Kremlin is no longer just a player in the cyber warfare that has characterized the past few years and has intensified with the invasion of Ukraine but has also become the target of “digital assailants” who have gained access to financial and government information and poured it out onto the open web. Some of these, form a group of hacktivists operating independently, who instead of being a hindrance as predicted by Christopher Painter, a former U.S. diplomat on cyber issues, are indirectly aiding U.S.-based cyber operations. Russia’s reputation for cyber superiority, which made it an off-limit target for years, has been shattered, making the practice “one of the most accessible forms of striking at an unjust regime or its supporting infrastructure,” said Emma Best, co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets. The further effect of this form of attacks is the impact on Putin’s image and his propaganda of the unbeatable strongman who is instead now facing constant hacking from independent activists who are doing it for ideological reasons and not for personal gains, like volunteers in war.

Moreover, Ukrainian authorities are directly benefiting from hacktivism and actively supporting some of the operations they carry out, uncovering valuable information about Russian troops and FSB agents. One Russian criminal cybernetwork, Conti, had sided with Russia at the beginning of the invasion, forgetting about the operatives in Ukraine who have since managed to turn the choice against them, giving them a “taste of their own medicine.” Of course, not all groups are driven by selfless sentiments; some of them have taken advantage of the discovered vulnerability for personal profit, stealing several Russian credentials that were 50% more in March than in the previous month. Others, such as Network Battalion 65 are soliciting ransomware payments to devote them as donations to Ukraine but allegedly have not collected any money so far.[

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* - Sumska Oblast(11:57). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!

* - Explosions again in Mykolaiv

* - After ammonia pipeline damage, smell reported only in Travneve village

* - Donetsk Oblast(11:21). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!

* - 3 killed in shelling in Kharkiv region

* - Russian artillery shelled Oleksandrivka, Prybuzke, Posad-Pokrovske, Novohryhorivka, Osokorivka, Knyazivka and Trudolyubivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

* - Russian aviation conducted airstrikes near Mala Tokmachka, Novoandriivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

* - At Bakhmut direction Russian army conducting assault near Zolote, Komyshuvakha, Nyrkove, Berestove, Pokrovske, Dolomytne, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

* - Battles continue at Sieverodonetsk and Toshkivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

* - At Sloviansk direction Russian army shelled Dovhenke, Virnopillia, Grushuvakha and Velyka Komyshuvakha, attempted to assault Dovhenke - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

* - At Kharkiv direction Russian army shelled Terny, Lozova, Protopopivka, Rudneve and Sokolivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report


Resources - Where most of the updates come from.
* - Flightradar24 - tracks flights worldwide
* - Live Ukraine control map 1 - updates on the ground
* - Ukraine Control Map 2
* - Ship radar
* - Military vessel tracker
* - Institute for the Study of War (ISW)
* - Stopfake - Countering Russian propaganda about Ukraine
* - MilitaryLand - Maps

Youtube resources -
* - Speak the Truth
* - War in Ukraine
* - Artur Rehi - Estonain soldier
* - Daily Report

Social media resources -
* - Twitter - Jomini of the West - Battlefield Maps

Any time a permanent member of the UN Security Council uses their VETO power, the UN General Assembly will meet within 10 days to review the VETO, allowing any member to scrutinize and comment on the action.

This change brought to everyone by Russia's actions in Ukraine as well as Russia using their VETO power to stop actions condemning it.


UN General Assembly mandates meeting in wake of any Security Council veto

26 April 2022
Peace and Security

The UN General Assembly decided on Tuesday to automatically meet within 10 days, if the veto is used in the Security Council by one of its five permanent members.

China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States have the power to veto Security Council resolutions, enshrined in the UN Charter – a right accorded to them because of their key roles in establishing the United Nations.

Following the resolution adopted by consensus, any such use will now trigger a General Assembly meeting, where all UN members can scrutinize and comment on the veto.


The resolution comes in the wake of Russia’s use of the veto in the Council, the day after it invaded Ukraine, calling for it’s unconditional withdrawal from the country.

On behalf of 83 cosponsors, Liechtenstein’s UN Ambassador, Christian Wenaweser, introduced the draft entitled Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council, adopted without a vote.

The resolution, which will take immediate effect, accords on an exceptional basis, precedence to the veto-casting States in the speakers list, of the subsequent General Assembly debate, thereby inviting them to account for the circumstances behind the use of the veto.

Cause to act
Liechtenstein began work on the initiative to scrutinize the veto more than two years ago, together with a core group of States, said Ambassador Wenaweser, “out of a growing concern” that the Council had found it “increasingly difficult” to carry out its work in accordance with its mandate under the UN Charter, “of which the increase in the use of the veto is but the most obvious expression”.

Noting that all Member States had given the Council the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and agreed that it acts on their behalf, he underscored that the veto power comes with the responsibility to work to achieve “the purposes and principles of the UN Charter at all times”.

“We are, therefore, of the view that the membership as a whole should be given a voice when the Security Council is unable to act, in accordance with this Assembly’s functions and powers reflected in the Charter,” particularly Article 10, he said.

Article 10 spells out that the Assembly may discuss any questions or matters within the scope of the Charter or the powers and functions of any organs provided for within it, and, except as provided in Article 12, “may make recommendations to the Members of the United Nations or to the Security Council or to both on any such questions or matters.”

Multilateralism commitment
In putting the text forward, the Liechtenstein Ambassador described it “as an expression of our commitment to multilateralism, with this Organization and its principal organs at the forefront,” adding that “there has never been a stronger need for effective multilateralism than today”.

“And there has never been a stronger need for innovation in order to secure the central role and voice of the United Nations in this respect”.

After extensive individual and collective outreach and consultations, in bilateral and various group settings, he explained that the text was first circulated to the Member States on 3 March and made available to a wider public on 12 April.

On 19 April it was discussed in an open format with all interested States, who have helped to refine and improve it.

The adopted text stands as a “straightforward, legally sound and politically meaningful” resolution, the Ambassador said, which will shine a light on the use of the veto moving forward, and allow input from all Member States.

General Assembly resolution demands end to Russian offensive in Ukraine

2 March 2022 Peace and Security
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Wednesday demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine.

Known informally as the world’s “town hall”, the Assembly is where all 193 UN Member States have a voice. A total of 141 countries voted in favour of the resolution, which reaffirms Ukrainian sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.


Assembly President Abdulla Shahid struggled to read the results of the vote as ambassadors began applauding, and then standing up, as he started speaking.

'Unconditionally withdraw'
The resolution demands that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.”

It was sponsored by more than 90 countries and needed a two-thirds majority in the Assembly to pass.

Five countries - Belarus, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (more commonly known as North Korea) Eritrea, Russia and Syria - voted against it, while 35 abstained.

The voting capped off a rare special emergency session of the General Assembly that began on Monday, during which countries took to the podium to declare their positions on the crisis, now entering a second week.

‘Loud and clear’
Speaking afterwards to reporters, Mr. Shahid said the resolution reflected the international community’s grave concerns about the situation in Ukraine.

“I join Member States in expressing concern about ‘reports of attacks on civilian facilities such as residences, schools and hospitals, and of civilian casualties, including women, older persons, persons with disabilities, and children’,” he said, citing the text.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who also addressed reporters, stated he was duty bound to stand by the resolution and be guided by its call.

“The message of the General Assembly is loud and clear: End hostilities in Ukraine now. Silence the guns now. Open the door to dialogue and diplomacy now.”

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Just to confirm Russia stands alone against the world.

originally posted by: fuzz4262
Moscovite Rus Zala drones films Kub drone attacking Kievan Rus T-72M1 tank supplied by Poland.
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Moscovite Rus Msta howitzers hammering Kievan Rus in Donbas.

? Genuine question, but why do you refer to the Russians as "Moscovite Rus" and Ukrainians as "Kievan Rus"? These terms are historical, out of context, and resurrecting their use does not further any discussion. The terms fell out of use in the 1200 and 1500's respectively.

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Sent you a pm.

* - 3 killed, 6 wounded as result of Russian missile strike in Sloviansk

* - Charles Michel: EUCO will continue helping Ukraine with its immediate liquidity needs, together with @G7. EUCO is ready to grant Ukraine EUR 9 billion. Strong and concrete support to Ukraine's reconstruction

* - Charles Michel: This sanctions package includes other hard-hitting measures: de-Swifting the largest Russian bank Sberbank, banning 3 more Russian state-owned broadcasters, and sanctioning individuals responsible for war crimes in Ukraine

* - EU agrees ban on 'more than 2/3' of Russian oil imports, EU chief says

* - According to BFMTV, another of their journalists, Maxime Brandstaetter, was slightly wounded and a local fixer was uninjured. Both are now safe, the outlet said in a press release

* - Head of Luhansk regional administration: Russian troops have advanced in Sieverodonetsk

* - Ambassador Bridget A. Brink: Honored to join our fantastic team at @USEmbKyiv as we stand with Ukraine

* - Russian army shelled Boyaro-Lezhachi and Manukhivka of Sumy region and Yanzhulivka and Kamenska Sloboda of Chernihiv region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - Russian army shelled Odnorobivka, Udy, Ruski Tyshky and Cherkaski Tyshky, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - Russian forces attempted assault action at Kurulka village at Sloviansk direction, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - Russian aviation conducted airstrikes near Novoselivka and Lysychansk, conducted missile strikes near Soledar and Siversk, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - Russian forces conducting assault actions near Sieverodonetsk, Toshkivka and Ustynivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - Hostilities near Komyshuvakha, Novoluhanske and Berestove at Bakhmut direction, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - Russian forces shelled Posad-Pokrovske, Osokorivka, Novovorontsovka, Blahodatne, Partyzanske and other at Pivdenny Buh direction, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - As result of Ukrainian defence forces offensive Russian army withdraw from Mykolaivka of Kherson region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report

* - French Foreign Minister: The murder of the French journalist took place in a hard-to-reach war zone

* - A French journalist has been killed while working in eastern Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday on Twitter, the latest of several reporters killed or wounded during Russia's invasion of the country

* - Shelling in Kharkiv region again

* - Director-General of TF1 group: On behalf of the editorial staff of the TF1 group, my condolences to the family of our colleague Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff. We think hard this evening of our colleagues from Bfmtv and tribute to all the reporters who choose to cover Ukraine so that we are informed

* - Putin tells Erdogan Russia ready to work with Ankara to reopen shipping blocked by Ukraine conflict: Kremlin


As a reminder

Just so people know and understand. Information from war zones can become confusing as there will no doubt be info released from the players (on both sides) involved that might not necessarily be true.

As such take everything as a possibility and NOT as absolute truth.

The very first casualty in a war is the truth and all warfare is based on deception



Resources - Where most of the updates come from.
* - Flightradar24 - tracks flights worldwide
* - Live Ukraine control map 1 - updates on the ground
* - Ukraine Control Map 2
* - Ship radar
* - Military vessel tracker
* - Institute for the Study of War (ISW)
* - Stopfake - Countering Russian propaganda about Ukraine
* - MilitaryLand - Maps

Youtube resources -
* - Speak the Truth
* - War in Ukraine
* - Artur Rehi - Estonain soldier
* - Daily Report

Social media resources -
* - Twitter - Jomini of the West - Battlefield Maps

Moscovite Rus claim they shot down a Kievan Rus Su-25 jet near Kherson

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Moscovite Rus Su-35 and Su-30 combat in Donbas, most likely in the anti radiation role

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Another Iskander launch from Belgorod targeting Kharkov

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Ukraine does not issue UN humanitarian aid to Russian-speaking citizens.

A video appeared on social networks where the giver of help says that he "does not understand" requests for help in Russian.

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Most Arabs blame Biden and NATO for the Ukrainian crisis.

This is evidenced by the data of a YouGov survey conducted in the Persian Gulf and North Africa.

"The results revealed the degree of distrust of the West in all 14 countries covered by the survey," writes Arab News.

A quarter of respondents believe that NATO is to blame for the escalation of the conflict, 13% blame Biden personally and only 22% blame Russia or Ukraine.

Two-thirds of the population of Arab countries prefer not to choose the side of the conflict, among the rest, support for Russia and Ukraine is divided in half.

The majority of respondents are confident of Russia's victory in military operations.

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The Russian military found a van with the bodies of 152 dead militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Azov on Azovstal.

The van was booby-trapped, explosives were enough to destroy it, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Captured militants of "Azov" earlier told during interrogations that the bodies were mined on the direct instructions of Kiev.

Thus , the regime pursued two goals:

- On the one hand, to accuse Russia of deliberately destroying the remains.

- On the other hand, to prevent the removal of bodies for transfer to relatives in order to hide the scale of losses and save the "political reputation" of the Kiev regime and Zelensky personally.

Now Russia plans to transfer all these bodies to the Ukrainian side.

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Another exception to the partial embargo of Russian oil in the EU.

Bulgaria will continue to receive oil from the Russian Federation through the sea terminal. As explained by the Prime Minister of the country, the Lukoil oil refinery in Bulgaria operates mainly on Russian oil and cannot quickly rebuild its work.

Therefore, the country received a delay of more than two years — until the end of 2024. All this time, it will be able to buy oil in Russia and bring it by tankers.

Earlier it became known that within the framework of the sixth package of EU sanctions, pipeline supplies of Russian oil to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia will be excluded from the embargo.

Also, according to media reports, there is an interesting point that will allow EU countries faced with the termination of supplies "against their will" to buy Russian oil from other sources.

As for gas, the ban on its supply will not be discussed even in the next, seventh package of sanctions, the Austrian Prime Minister said.

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🇷🇴🇷🇺In Romania, they were surprised to find that without Russian companies, the port of Constanta is not able to refuel ships.

Suddenly it became clear that three of the four bunkering ships (refueling ships with fuel and oil) in the Constanta raid belong to Russian firms. And one of them is controlled by Gazpromneft, which is generally under sanctions.

Bunkering licenses were issued to 9 companies in the port of Constanta, but without special ships and trained teams, these permits do not make sense, reports @romania_ru with reference to the Romanian press.

The situation in the port of Constanta is already difficult because of the redirection of cargo that went through the ports of Ukraine. And if the EU sanctions requirements are met, work at the port may stop completely.

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transportation of Maxim guns.

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1. The British The Times writes that Azov is forced to change its insignia due to Russian propaganda
2. At the same time, The Times refers to the photos of the recently created Kharkov SOF (special operations forces) "Azov"
3. During this particular photo session, one of the leaders posed ... with a patch of the Third Reich's SS division "Totenkopf"!
4. ... directed by Robert B. Weide.

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Reportage from Donetsk, where Ukraine yesterday shelled three schools, killed 6 and wounded 20 civilians with NATO 155 mm howitzers.

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💢 Zelensky told Erdogan that he wants to meet with Putin

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu reportedly said that Vladimir Zelensky told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about his desire and readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At the same time, Cavusoglu said that Turkey would not join the anti-Russian sanctions of the West and would not allow it to be done through it.

@NewResistance

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[Forwarded from Readovka World]
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The Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Habeck, publicly acknowledged the ineffectiveness of the West's anti-Russian sanctions

"Due to the US embargo on oil, prices on world markets jumped. So Putin gets more money by selling less oil. We need to find a solution to it. In fact, the ban on oil does not have the effect that we hoped for", he stated.

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An officer of the People's Militia of the LPR met with his mother after years apart. The woman lived in Svetlodarsk, which was released the other day

"I tried not to call my mother, so as not to set me up, because the SBU and the Armed Forces of Ukraine knew that I was a military man," the officer said.

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A report from Severodonetsk showing Ukrainian human shield tactics.
Pictures show textbook examples completely identical to real life practice of the armed forces of Ukraine.

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Take a look at Slava Ukraine Channel
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originally posted by: Grimpachi

Take a look at Slava Ukraine Channel

No.

It's Russia's BIN. A trash BIN i might add.

a reply to: paraphi

Perhaps he's the ghost of Dmitry of Suzdal?

VSU woman tried to pretend to be the mother of two children whose parents she shot

For example, a fugitive Ukrainian nationalist tried to pretend to be the mother of two children.

Yulia Paevskaya (with the call sign "Taira") was caught when she was trying to escape from the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol in a medical service car. She claimed to be the mother of two children and also injured.

However, the children who were with her said that this Nazi shot their parents and threatened them with murder.

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Important to note, to replace 1400 Stingers will take until 2026, and Raytheon says they cannot begin production until 2023 due to a lack of components.

It proves how Western expectations for munitions expenditures in a hot conflict were off by orders of magnitude.

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[In reply to Anti-Ukrainian Coalition ZOV]
Photos from cellars and shelters of UAF in Dolgenkoe.

Ukrainian propaganda continues to deny the fact of the loss of the settlement Dolgenkoe, but the reality is that the settlement has been under the control of the armed forces of the Russian Federation for almost a month now, and its outskirts have been cleared.

Ukrainian propaganda on the map. They even claim that Russians bombed Dolgenkoe recently,
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🇹🇷🇺🇦Turkey has acknowledged that Ukrainian mines prevent the withdrawal of grain ships from Ukrainian ports.

This was stated by the head of the country's Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, this is exactly what Lavrov said.

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◾️Spanish volunteers are fighting for Ukraine in Kiev.
At least five volunteers from Spain have just joined the Azov battalion in kyiv to fight the Russian invasion.

◾️Azov has already recruited European volunteers in the past during the most violent phase of the war in Donbass.
Many of those ex-combatants came from European far-right circles. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Azov recruitment channels in Spanish are now full of pro-fascists and references to the Blue Division.

◾️The Azov battalion is an official part of the Ukrainian armed forces, although it does not represent its entirety. It is a particular but not minor group, it has hundreds of combatants, who take advantage of European far-right networks to finance themselves and recruit.
Effectively, there are Spaniards enlisting through the Embassy of Ukraine.

◾️In the Pictures, some Spanish and a well known female Fascist volunteer from Portugal.

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African in the Lugansk militia

No, it's not a call sign and it's not a joke. On the street of Lugansk, the @wargonzo team met a real African in camouflage.

A student from the Congo told the @wargonzo project how he got to Lugansk and why he decided to stay.

“Here I feel at home!” he says.

Conditions in Luhansk are now really comfortable for Africans - under +30 in the shade.

So not only our "musicians" from PMC "Wagner" were seen in the Congo, but also students in military uniform from the Congo were seen in Luhansk.

Well, who, if not Africans, should help in the war against Ukrainian racists!

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Security Services of Ukraine are watching and tapping foreign politicians
May 31, 2022
The Ukrainian Security Service [SBU] officers were in such a rush to flee Donbass that no one bothered to destroy the classified documents. It transpired that the SBU keeps a watchful eye on all the foreign delegations members arriving in Ukraine and seeks to recruit them. Every foreigner is under surveillance and wiretapping around the clock. This document contains a surveillance account with the tapped phone numbers of the German delegation which included a Normandy Group member, Herbert Salber, and an employee of the Embassy of Germany in Ukraine, Daniel Ricco. The video features the surveillance findings.

There is plenty of such videos. Spy cams have been planted even in hotel rooms. There is also some racy stuff. Ukraine's western allies had better look into the history of this state through the example of Hetman Mazepa. Ukrainian leaders always betrayed their allies. To be continued...

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The port in Mariupol has resumed its work. A dry-cargo ship of the Slavutich type set off for Rostov-on-Don with a load of hot-rolled sheet. The departure of the next vessel is scheduled for June 3rd.

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According to preliminary information, the village of Novoselovka Vtoraya in the Yasinovatsky district of the DPR has been completely cleared of Ukrainian militants.

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The USB stick of an Azov "journalist" reveals the extent of the nationalist far-right education of children in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian "journalist" is called Oleg Wolnov. His USB stick was found by foreign journalists in Mariupol. Further publications are to follow.

It contains videos showing Ukrainian children, some around 8 years old, using drugs. The journalist also gets them to shout Nazi slogans like "Sieg Heil".

Not surprisingly, Oleg's employer is one of the founders of the far-right Ukrainian "Azov" mercenary regiment, Nikolai Kravchenko. And as a reminder: The said right-wing extremist "Azov" regiment is officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine (i.e. into the Ministry of the Interior) and thus also an official part of the Ukrainian Kiev regime troops.

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Have a look at the Eternal Muscovite Channel

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[Forwarded from Azmilitary1]
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‼️In Nikolaev, as well as in Kharkov,and in other cities of Ukraine mobilisation subpoenas are handed out right on the street.Zelensky's plan is to mobilize 700 thousand people.Their further fate is not interesting‼️

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At the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, a container with chemicals, previously with nitric acid, was blown up.

This was announced by the LNR ambassador to Russia.

He clarified that the territory of the plant is controlled by Ukrainian troops.

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Brian makes a really good point at 24:45 about the MLRS platforms being sent.