March 11, 2022

BBC Report from the front: If Kharkiv falls, all of Ukraine falls.

On the front line: If Kharkiv falls, all of Ukraine falls
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Lieutenant Yevgen Gromadsky
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Lieutenant Yevgen Gromadsky
In the early days of the invasion, Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine fought back a Russian armoured column. Since then, it has suffered nightly Russian airstrikes and shelling, with dozens of civilians killed and hundreds injured. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway have spent the week with the Ukrainian forces as they fight to stop a further Russian advance.

This report contains material some viewers will find disturbing

The first casualty of war is time. Ask the young soldier at the front when the attack happened, or the old lady in the hospital bed when her home was shelled, and they look at you confused. Was it 24 hours ago, or 48? The days have become one, they tell you.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, time is elastic. It's close to the border with Russia and the nightly shelling from Russian artillery and warplanes gives no rest. The past two weeks have seemed like an eternity, yet peace can be remembered as if it were yesterday.

In a frozen landscape on the city's north-eastern edge, 21-year-old Lieutenant Yevgen Gromadsky stands with hands outstretched. There are trenches dug in nearby. "Outgoing," he says, lifting his right hand to accompany the thump of fire from his positions. "Incoming," he says, and his left hand ticks up. With a crump, Russian shells are fired from their positions 900m away across snow-covered fields.

The shelling continues like clockwork at the edge of this bombed-out village - "Incoming, outgoing, incoming, outgoing," Lt Gromadsky flicks his hands with each report.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60693166

March 10, 2022

We shall pay any price!

No Fly Zone Now!

March 10, 2022

Putin moves to seize property of companies that leave Russia

Communism is back!

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1501935395092631556

March 10, 2022

Sergei Lavrov: Family Man!

https://twitter.com/pevchikh/status/1501878715709632518

Interesting thread!

March 10, 2022

Annals of diplomacy:

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1501558422940102660

March 10, 2022

I enjoyed this little video

So I decided to post it.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1501874452090560515

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1501895374939774977

March 10, 2022

Kyiv Independent: No result for Foreign Minister talks. Ukraine foreign minister press conference.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on March 10 in Turkey, in an attempt to broker a 24-hour ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor to the southern port city of Mariupol, encircled by Russian troops.

According to Kuleba, no results were reached since Lavrov didn’t have the mandate to sign any agreements.

“I came here with a humanitarian purpose, to walk out of the meeting with a decision to arrange a humanitarian corridor to and from Mariupol,” Kuleba said, adding that they didn’t reach an agreement with Lavrov.

Kuleba said he is ready to meet again “if there will be prospects to a solution.”

https://kyivindependent.com/national/kuleba-lavrov-meeting-ends-with-no-result/

Interesting to get the Ukraine perspective. A hint the talks would fail happened last night when TASS took down five stories about the peace talksand put up one that said not to expect anything to happen quickly

And if you're curious, I did once have a job interview with the CIA. They were interested in me for a position that involved reading everything.

March 10, 2022

New US estimate of Russian casualties

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1501718359099981835


Hard to believe so high a number. That would mean 15000 or so wounded. If true it is unsustainable.

March 10, 2022

UK Ministry of Defense update on Ukraine

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1501701763921059845

March 9, 2022

Russia confirms it intentionally targeted a Ukraine Maternity hospital

Rarely do you get a video confession to a war crime:

https://twitter.com/olehbatkovych/status/1501622416581218309

https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1501616320139468817