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Russia-Ukraine live news: Moscow blocking access to Facebook
As war continues, Kyiv and Moscow trade accusations at UN over attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
An aerial view following an air raid in the village of Byshiv, 40km west of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022 [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]
By Farah Najjar and Mersiha Gadzo
Russian forces will stop firing at 07:00 GMT (10:00 Moscow time) to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
NATO rejects Ukrainian calls to establish a “no-fly zone” amid Russian attacks.
Multiple news outlets say they will pause their work inside Russia citing a new law that could mean jail for those found to be intentionally spreading “fake” news.
US envoy to UN condemns Russia’s seizure of the largest nuclear power station in Europe, calling attack “reckless” and “dangerous”.
Ukrainian officials say attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant killed “several” people.
Moscow denies attacking the site, blaming a fire that broke out there early on Friday on Ukrainian “saboteurs”.
More than 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries, according to UN.
Russia says it is blocking Facebook and restricting access to Twitter, citing
restrictions on Russian media.
Here are all the latest updates:
6 mins ago (06:49 GMT)
Ceasefire to let Mariupol residents evacuate: Russian defence ministry
Russia’s defence ministry has announced a ceasefire to allow residents of two besieged cities, including the strategic port town of Mariupol, to evacuate.
“Today, March 5, from 10am Moscow time, the Russian side declares a regime of silence and opens humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha,” the ministry said.
23 mins ago (06:32 GMT)
Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine continue unchanged: RIA
Russian state gas company Gazprom was shipping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine in the same volume of 109.5 million cubic metres per day as on Friday, the state-owned RIA news agency has cited Ukraine’s pipeline operator company as saying.
26 mins ago (06:29 GMT)
Russia to allow humanitarian corridors in Ukraine, defence ministry says
Russian forces will stop firing at 10:00 Moscow time to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, according to Russia’s defence ministry, Interfax has reported.
1 hour ago (05:55 GMT)
Musk says Starlink has been told by some governments to block Russian news
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has said that its Starlink satellite broadband service has been told by some governments, not Ukraine, to block Russian news sources.
“We will not do so unless at ‘gunpoint’, sorry to be a free speech absolutist”, he said in a tweet.

Nasa
Nasa explores how to keep international space station in orbit without Russian help
Space agency says Northrop Grumman and SpaceX could assist after Russia raises prospect of pulling out over sanctions punishing its invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine Russia news: latest updates
Agence France-Presse
Tue 1 Mar 2022 03.20 GMT

International Space Station will plummet to a watery grave in 2031
Read more Nasa is exploring ways to keep the international space station in orbit without Russian help, but doesn’t see any immediate signs Moscow is withdrawing from the collaboration after the invasion of Ukraine .
The US side of the international space station (ISS) supplies power and life support, Russia is responsible for propulsion and keeping the station afloat: it does this by using docked Progress spacecraft to periodically give the station a boost to maintain its altitude of approximately 400km (250 miles).
Last week, though, Russia’s Roscosmos space chief Dmitry Rogozin raised the prospect of pulling out of the partnership in response to US sanctions.
Kathy Lueders, who heads the agency’s human spaceflight program, said US aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman had offered a reboost capability.
“And, you know, our SpaceX folks are looking at can we have additional capability,” she said.
Lueders added that operations at the space station were proceeding “nominally” and “we’re not getting any indications at a working level that our counterparts are not committed”.
“That said, we always look for how do we get more operational flexibility and our cargo providers are looking at how do we add different capabilities,” she said.
The last Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo vessel that arrived at the ISS on 21 February was the first to boast a capacity to “reboost” the outpost without Russian help.
On Friday, SpaceX boss Elon Musk tweeted his company’s logo in response to Rogozin’s rhetorical question about who would save the ISS from an uncontrolled de-orbit.
But Lueders stressed that such plans were a contingency measure only. “It would be very difficult for us to be operating on our own – ISS is an international partnership that was created … with joint dependencies,” she said.
“As a team, we are looking at where we may have operational flexibilities, but … it would be a sad day for international operations if we can’t continue to peacefully operate in space,” she said.
A symbol of post cold war detente, the ISS has been continuously habited for more than 21 years and has weathered past geopolitical storms, notably Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014. But some observers believe the invasion of Ukraine could hasten the demise of US-Russian space cooperation.

Ukraine and Russia have to end this war.

US intelligence are saying that Russia will destroy Ukraine Military in the coming days but they're doing their best to help them with intelligence to prevent this.

Russia cuts off rocket engine supply and threatens space station partnership
‘Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks,’ said Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s space agency
By Christian Davenport
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Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said Thursday it would no longer service the RD-180 rocket engines that are used by the United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, to launch national security missions for the Pentagon.
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It also said it would cut off the supply of the RD-181 engines used in Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, which is used to fly cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.
“In a situation like this, we can’t supply the United States with our world’s best rocket engines,” Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, said on Russian state television, according to Reuters. “Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don’t know what.”
Russia’s decision to withdraw any technical support probably would not affect any upcoming launches. ULA’s CEO Tory Bruno has said the company has been using the engines in its Atlas V rocket for years and has enough expertise in house to handle any issues that might arise with its engine supply. In a statement, ULA spokesman Jessica Rye said the company has “agreements for technical support and spares, but if that support is not available, we will still be able to safely and successfully fly out our Atlas program.”
After an effort to end reliance on the Russian engines for national security missions that was spearheaded by the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), ULA moved to develop another rocket, called Vulcan, that would use American-made engines supplied by Blue Origin , the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Those BE-4 engines have been delayed, but Bruno has said he expects to receive them this year and be able to start flying Vulcan.
Officials from Northrop Grumman and NASA did not immediately respond to requests for comment on how the lack of the RD-181 engines would affect any upcoming Antares launches to the space station.
Rogozin on Wednesday also threatened the partnership that has sustained the space station for more than 20 years. Speaking on Russia Today, a state-controlled English-language station, he said through a translator that Russia “will closely monitor the actions of our American partners and, if they continue to be hostile, we will return to the question of the existence of the International Space Station.”
That followed a series of tweets from last week asking whether the United States wanted to ruin the cooperation in operating the station. Rogozin reminded President Biden that Russia is responsible for firing the thrusters that keep the station in the correct orbit and said that without Russia , the station could come crashing down.
He reiterated that point in his appearance on Russia Today, saying that the United States would “want to maintain cooperation with Russia within the International Space Station despite the numerous sanctions.”
“Why?” he asked. “Because it is impossible to manage the space station without us. We’re responsible for its navigation and fuel delivery.”
NASA has sought to avoid any talk of ending its partnership with Russia. Earlier this week, Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, said the two space agencies “are still talking together. We’re still doing training together. We’re still working together. Obviously, we understand the global situation and where it is, but as a joint team, these teams are operating together.”
She added, “Obviously we need to continue to monitor the situation. … We’ve operated in these kinds of situations before and both sides always operated very professionally and understand the importance of this fantastic mission and continuing to have peaceful relations between the two countries in space.”
Later this month, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is scheduled to return from the space station with a pair of Russian cosmonauts on a Russian spacecraft. When asked about that flight, Lueders said NASA was still expecting Russia to fly Vande Hei home safely and that no changes had been made.
Also on Thursday, OneWeb, which manufactures satellites designed to provide Internet connectivity, announced it was suspending all launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where Russia launches its Soyuz rocket. The company had been scheduled to launch its next batch of satellites from there on Friday.
Rogozin said Russia would allow the launch only if the British government divested its stake in the company and if the satellites would not be used for military purposes.
War in Ukraine: What you need to know
The latest: Russia has taken a Kherson government building in its siege on Ukraine’s port cities. Meanwhile, the U.N. refugee agency says
more than 1 million people have fled Ukraine — a massive exodus that is set to become Europe’s worst humanitarian crisis this century.
The fight: Casualties are mounting as Russia advances and adopts siege tactics. France’s Macron talked with Putin on Thursday , and said “the worst is yet to come,” A Moscow is facing mounting allegations that it has used cluster and vacuum weapons .
Maps: Russia’s assault on Ukraine has been extensive with strikes and attacks across the entire country. The conflict playing out between Russia and Ukraine is one marked by land borders and shaped by strategic influence .
The response: President Biden announced that the United States has closed its airspace to Russian aircraft, a move that came two days after Canada and the European Union issued similar restrictions. The closures have come alongside sweeping sanctions that have caused the Russian ruble to plunge .
How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian people .
Read our full coverage of the Russia-Ukraine crisis .
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"Worst is yet to come": Putin told Macron he will continue war in Ukraine, Élysée Palace source says
From CNN's Nathan Hodge in Moscow and CNN’s Xiaofei Xu and Anaëlle Jonah in Paris
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that he will continue military operations in Ukraine during a 90-minute call initiated by Putin, an Élysée Palace source told reporters at a briefing on Thursday.
“This conversation is unfortunately an occasion to hear that President Putin will continue military interventions and to go all the way,” according to the Élysée source.
“[The call] allowed the President of the Republic to return to the disagreements we have with Russia, to plead for the diplomatic alternative to military operations, to tell the truth to President Putin about the way we see his war in Ukraine but also the consequences it will have for Russia in the long term,” the source continued.
The Élysée source said "the worst is yet to come" in Ukraine following Macron’s phone call with Putin.
"Without making a prediction, we should expect the worst is yet to come. The (French) president said so yesterday as well. There is nothing in what Putin said today that should reassure us," the source said.
Meanwhile, Russian state news agency TASS said Putin and Macron had "a frank exchange of views on the situation around Ukraine," the Kremlin's press service said Thursday.
A Kremlin pool report from the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti said the discussion was difficult, with Putin alleging the Ukraine had carried out a "seven-year sabotage" of the Minsk agreements, a peace process that was definitely ended by the Russian government in its recent recognition of two separatist republics in Ukraine's east.
The two sides agreed to keep the door of dialogue open, according to both the Russians and the French.
RIA's report added that Putin warned the West that if Russian-Ukrainian negotiations drag on, then Moscow will have new demands on Kyiv, and that the tasks of the "special military operation" — Russia's euphemism for its war in Ukraine — would be carried out in any case.
According to the Élysée source, Putin also denied having bombarded Kyiv and warned that the situation will worsen, but it’s the fault of Ukraine.
In response, Macron warned Putin that he is making a huge mistake, according to the source. Macron reiterated that Moscow’s demands of neutralizing and disarming Ukraine are unacceptable, and the responsibility of this conflict falls entirely on Putin.
But Macron also said that there is still time for diplomacy and dialogue to address Russia’s concerns and include Russia’s interests; however, the discussion can’t happen “under Russian control” and had to be organized by international partners, according to the source.
Macron also asked Putin to respect the Ukrainian president, his family, relatives, state officials and elected representatives, according to the source.
After his call with Putin, Macron spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Caseless:
The whole world knows that, if not for civilian consideration and other factors, it won't take Russia 24hrs to overrun Ukraine and take it over.

Zelensky should be smart enough to seek peace. Those he thinks would work for him have done their worse and Russia is still pushing.

You're correct but it's like some people or countries are urging him to continue thinking sanctions will make Putin/Russia back down.

Rather than back down, the Russians are going harder on the Ukrainians.

The US and other Western economies started to feel the effects of the sanctions they put on Russia.

I won't be able to post the details but check the below analyst...

How much oil does the US get from Russia?
Russian exports account for eight percent of the global oil supply, so if the market is disrupted, how badly could this hit the US?
The US imported an average of 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products from Russia [FIle: Angus Mordant//Reuters]
By Al Jazeera Staff
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered severe economic sanctions and condemnation from the United States and its allies.
Oil prices have surged due to concerns about disruptions to global supply, eight percent of which comes from Russian exports, leading traders to seek out alternative sources in an already tight market.
The spiralling prices are a particular concern for the US, the world’s biggest oil consumer, where inflation is already running at a four-decade high.
How much oil does the US import from Russia?
The US imports Russian oil, but it is not highly dependent on the country for its supplies.
In 2021, the US imported an average of 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products from Russia, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) trade association.
This represented three percent of US crude oil imports and one percent of the total crude oil processed by US refineries. By contrast, the US imported 61 percent of its crude oil from Canada, 10 percent from Mexico, and six percent from Saudi Arabia in the same year.
According to the AFPM, imports of Russian crude oil have increased since 2019, when the US imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry. US refiners also temporarily boosted Russian imports last year after Hurricane Ida disrupted oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.
How would restrictions on Russian oil exports affect the US?
There are two potential scenarios to consider, according to analysts.
“The first is with the oil supply, and the short answer is it would not affect the US that much,” Adam Pankratz, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, told Al Jazeera.
“If it really goes drastic the US has a strategic petroleum reserve,” he said.
However, according to Pankratz, there is also a broader economic effect to consider.
“If the US stopped importing Russian oil, that would mean that likely many other countries would also no longer be importing Russian oil, and that would make a very tight oil market already much tighter, and that would drive up the price of oil and that in turn can drive inflation, which in turn can affect the US economy,” Pankratz said.
While the sanctions against Russia have not specifically targeted its energy supply, the measures do cover banks and financial institutions, which indirectly hampers the country’s ability to export oil and other fuels.
On Wednesday, crude prices surged to more than $110 a barrel, posing a challenge for governments trying to curb rising inflation.
“While there aren’t sanctions in place [against the oil market] we are seeing a lot of self sanctioning,” Pankratz said.
“So banks and traders … they don’t know exactly what’s going to get caught up in the Russian sanctions, and they don’t want to risk getting an investigation for having imported or dealt with a Russian company when they shouldn’t have been doing that.”
Pankratz said Russian oil and gas “haven’t really been moving” in recent days.
“It’s not sanctioned fully, but it’s having trouble being sold, because people are nervous [about violating sanctions],” he said.
What will be the political fallout of rising oil prices for the Biden administration?
Inflation in the US rose at an annual rate of 7.5 percent in January, the Bureau of Labor Statics said, the fastest pace since July 1982.
That translates into a $276 increase in monthly expenses for the average American household, according to a recent study by Moody’s Analytics.
The war in Ukraine is likely to only make the situation worse.
Rising prices have already dealt a blow to US President Joe Biden’s approval ratings, which are in the doldrums after sinking to a record low of 33 percent in January. Further increases in inflation would further weaken the president’s standing ahead of crucial mid-term elections in November.
Pankratz said rising inflation could result in “enormous” political consequences.
“People tend to vote on what we would call the kitchen table issues,” Pankratz said. “What’s the price of gas? How much can we afford to go on holiday? Families are asking themselves if they are richer this year … and in that regard, inflation could be a serious problem.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

US Suspend ballistic Missile test Previously set for this week to avoid escalation with Russia.

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7 hours ago (21:18 GMT)
US postpones ballistic missile test: Pentagon
The Pentagon says the US has postponed an intercontinental ballistic missile test previously set for this week to avoid escalation with Russia.
“In an effort to demonstrate that we have no intention in engaging in any actions that can be misunderstood or misconstrued, the secretary of defense has directed that our Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test launch scheduled for this week to be postponed,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
“We did not take this decision lightly, but instead to demonstrate that we are a responsible nuclear power.”

Caseless:
The propaganda is too much. They even claim to have killed 6000 Russian soldiers. Lies everywhere.

The now claim they have killed 9,000 Russian soldiers while they're the ones going down.

The Russians haven't committed their full combat troops and equipment presently in Ukraine in combat against them even with them firing from Civilian areas and using civilians as human shield.

Ukraine need to seek for peace and end this conflict before it fully escalate beyond what they can handle.

Peace is always better than War.

People of colour struggle to escape Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine rejects claims of discrimination by border guards and says it operates on a ‘first come, first served’ approach.
Universities across Ukraine have been popular with international students due to the high-quality education on offer and relatively low fees [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
By Amanda Coakley
Záhony, Ukraine-Hungary border – After six years in Ukraine, Ayoub, a 25-year-old Moroccan pharmacy student, had built a life he was proud of in Kharkiv, a city in the country’s northeast. He learned the Russian language, which is widely spoken in the city of 1.4 million, studied Ukrainian culture, and made friends from around the world. He was due to graduate in three months, but
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced him to flee the country, and exposed him to a level of racism he had not previously experienced.
Initially, he had planned to wait out the invasion in Kharkiv, hoping the Russian assault would stop. But when that possibility appeared increasingly unlikely, he joined classmates to make a long trek across the country to the Polish border.
In Lviv, a city 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Polish frontier, it became clear to Ayoub that he, along with other non-white international students, would be stopped by Ukrainian guards from leaving the country.
“They wanted Ukrainians to go first, so it was white people who got priority. Taxi drivers were also charging us crazy money, but I thought there will always be opportunists, even in war. It wasn’t until I reached one of the ‘checkpoints’ on the approach to the Polish border that I was actually pushed back and told to wait,” he told Al Jazeera.
Instead of waiting, he decided to try crossing into Hungary, where he arrived on Wednesday.
“When I spoke to the guards in Russian, they told me I should be speaking Ukrainian and questioned whose side I was on. That was really upsetting because I had worked so hard to learn Russian, not just speak it, but read and write it as well.”
Moroccan students board a train to Budapest [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
Universities across Ukraine have attracted international students due to the high-quality education on offer for relatively low fees, ranging between $4,000 and $5,000 a year.
Students from countries such as India, Nigeria, and Morocco have helped to make Kharkiv a vibrant university city and their fees have contributed to the local economy. Many have stayed in Ukraine after graduating and taken jobs in the country’s hospitals and businesses.
But some international students said their schools did not offer them assistance to leave the country as Russian forces launched the invasion. In an email seen by Al Jazeera, dated February 24, the day of the invasion, students at one university received an email notifying them that classes would move online. Two days later, students at the same institution received an email announcing a “vacation” from February 28 to March 12.
“No one helped us to leave or coordinated anything, we were just left on our own,” said Deborah, a 19-year-old student from northern Nigeria. She asked Al Jazeera not to use her real name.
“My friends went to the Polish border and were treated awfully by the Ukrainian guards. It wasn’t just Black people like me; it was anyone who wasn’t white,” she added.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuted allegations of discrimination by border guards and said it operated on a “first come, first served approach” that “applies to all nationalities” with priority given to women, children, and elderly people in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Ayoub is annoyed that his teachers still expect him back in class on March 12. “I understand they want to keep morale high, but I am afraid they will charge us, or stop our studies if we don’t go back. I don’t understand why they cannot just suspend everything until further notice.” The experience has been so emotionally draining, Ayoub doesn’t think he will ever feel the same way about Ukraine again.
It is a sentiment shared by Deborah and her sister Aliyah, 19, who also studies in Ukraine. “This country has given me so much. The people of Ukraine don’t deserve this war and like everyone, I cannot understand why this has happened. Seeing pictures of these beautiful cities being shelled is awful. But I’ve seen a side that I cannot forget,” Aliyah added.
In recent days, word has spread among the international students fleeing Ukraine that they will likely have an easier time crossing into Hungary than Poland due to the smaller numbers of people waiting to get in. Of the refugees Al Jazeera spoke to, none reported problems boarding a train to the small Hungarian village of Záhony.
“I can see when you’re under crazy pressure and your country is being attacked you can act in terrible ways, but at the end of the day, everyone was running from the same danger,” said Deborah.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

People of colour struggle to escape Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine rejects claims of discrimination by border guards and says it operates on a ‘first come, first served’ approach.
Universities across Ukraine have been popular with international students due to the high-quality education on offer and relatively low fees [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
By Amanda Coakley
Záhony, Ukraine-Hungary border – After six years in Ukraine, Ayoub, a 25-year-old Moroccan pharmacy student, had built a life he was proud of in Kharkiv, a city in the country’s northeast. He learned the Russian language, which is widely spoken in the city of 1.4 million, studied Ukrainian culture, and made friends from around the world. He was due to graduate in three months, but
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced him to flee the country, and exposed him to a level of racism he had not previously experienced.
Initially, he had planned to wait out the invasion in Kharkiv, hoping the Russian assault would stop. But when that possibility appeared increasingly unlikely, he joined classmates to make a long trek across the country to the Polish border.
In Lviv, a city 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Polish frontier, it became clear to Ayoub that he, along with other non-white international students, would be stopped by Ukrainian guards from leaving the country.
“They wanted Ukrainians to go first, so it was white people who got priority. Taxi drivers were also charging us crazy money, but I thought there will always be opportunists, even in war. It wasn’t until I reached one of the ‘checkpoints’ on the approach to the Polish border that I was actually pushed back and told to wait,” he told Al Jazeera.
Instead of waiting, he decided to try crossing into Hungary, where he arrived on Wednesday.
“When I spoke to the guards in Russian, they told me I should be speaking Ukrainian and questioned whose side I was on. That was really upsetting because I had worked so hard to learn Russian, not just speak it, but read and write it as well.”
Moroccan students board a train to Budapest [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
Universities across Ukraine have attracted international students due to the high-quality education on offer for relatively low fees, ranging between $4,000 and $5,000 a year.
Students from countries such as India, Nigeria, and Morocco have helped to make Kharkiv a vibrant university city and their fees have contributed to the local economy. Many have stayed in Ukraine after graduating and taken jobs in the country’s hospitals and businesses.
But some international students said their schools did not offer them assistance to leave the country as Russian forces launched the invasion. In an email seen by Al Jazeera, dated February 24, the day of the invasion, students at one university received an email notifying them that classes would move online. Two days later, students at the same institution received an email announcing a “vacation” from February 28 to March 12.
“No one helped us to leave or coordinated anything, we were just left on our own,” said Deborah, a 19-year-old student from northern Nigeria. She asked Al Jazeera not to use her real name.
“My friends went to the Polish border and were treated awfully by the Ukrainian guards. It wasn’t just Black people like me; it was anyone who wasn’t white,” she added.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuted allegations of discrimination by border guards and said it operated on a “first come, first served approach” that “applies to all nationalities” with priority given to women, children, and elderly people in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Ayoub is annoyed that his teachers still expect him back in class on March 12. “I understand they want to keep morale high, but I am afraid they will charge us, or stop our studies if we don’t go back. I don’t understand why they cannot just suspend everything until further notice.” The experience has been so emotionally draining, Ayoub doesn’t think he will ever feel the same way about Ukraine again.
It is a sentiment shared by Deborah and her sister Aliyah, 19, who also studies in Ukraine. “This country has given me so much. The people of Ukraine don’t deserve this war and like everyone, I cannot understand why this has happened. Seeing pictures of these beautiful cities being shelled is awful. But I’ve seen a side that I cannot forget,” Aliyah added.
In recent days, word has spread among the international students fleeing Ukraine that they will likely have an easier time crossing into Hungary than Poland due to the smaller numbers of people waiting to get in. Of the refugees Al Jazeera spoke to, none reported problems boarding a train to the small Hungarian village of Záhony.
“I can see when you’re under crazy pressure and your country is being attacked you can act in terrible ways, but at the end of the day, everyone was running from the same danger,” said Deborah.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA.

People of colour struggle to escape Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine rejects claims of discrimination by border guards and says it operates on a ‘first come, first served’ approach.
Universities across Ukraine have been popular with international students due to the high-quality education on offer and relatively low fees [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
By Amanda Coakley
Záhony, Ukraine-Hungary border – After six years in Ukraine, Ayoub, a 25-year-old Moroccan pharmacy student, had built a life he was proud of in Kharkiv, a city in the country’s northeast. He learned the Russian language, which is widely spoken in the city of 1.4 million, studied Ukrainian culture, and made friends from around the world. He was due to graduate in three months, but
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced him to flee the country, and exposed him to a level of racism he had not previously experienced.
Initially, he had planned to wait out the invasion in Kharkiv, hoping the Russian assault would stop. But when that possibility appeared increasingly unlikely, he joined classmates to make a long trek across the country to the Polish border.
In Lviv, a city 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Polish frontier, it became clear to Ayoub that he, along with other non-white international students, would be stopped by Ukrainian guards from leaving the country.
“They wanted Ukrainians to go first, so it was white people who got priority. Taxi drivers were also charging us crazy money, but I thought there will always be opportunists, even in war. It wasn’t until I reached one of the ‘checkpoints’ on the approach to the Polish border that I was actually pushed back and told to wait,” he told Al Jazeera.
Instead of waiting, he decided to try crossing into Hungary, where he arrived on Wednesday.
“When I spoke to the guards in Russian, they told me I should be speaking Ukrainian and questioned whose side I was on. That was really upsetting because I had worked so hard to learn Russian, not just speak it, but read and write it as well.”
Moroccan students board a train to Budapest [Amanda Coakley/Al Jazeera]
Universities across Ukraine have attracted international students due to the high-quality education on offer for relatively low fees, ranging between $4,000 and $5,000 a year.
Students from countries such as India, Nigeria, and Morocco have helped to make Kharkiv a vibrant university city and their fees have contributed to the local economy. Many have stayed in Ukraine after graduating and taken jobs in the country’s hospitals and businesses.
But some international students said their schools did not offer them assistance to leave the country as Russian forces launched the invasion. In an email seen by Al Jazeera, dated February 24, the day of the invasion, students at one university received an email notifying them that classes would move online. Two days later, students at the same institution received an email announcing a “vacation” from February 28 to March 12.
“No one helped us to leave or coordinated anything, we were just left on our own,” said Deborah, a 19-year-old student from northern Nigeria. She asked Al Jazeera not to use her real name.
“My friends went to the Polish border and were treated awfully by the Ukrainian guards. It wasn’t just Black people like me; it was anyone who wasn’t white,” she added.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuted allegations of discrimination by border guards and said it operated on a “first come, first served approach” that “applies to all nationalities” with priority given to women, children, and elderly people in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Ayoub is annoyed that his teachers still expect him back in class on March 12. “I understand they want to keep morale high, but I am afraid they will charge us, or stop our studies if we don’t go back. I don’t understand why they cannot just suspend everything until further notice.” The experience has been so emotionally draining, Ayoub doesn’t think he will ever feel the same way about Ukraine again.
It is a sentiment shared by Deborah and her sister Aliyah, 19, who also studies in Ukraine. “This country has given me so much. The people of Ukraine don’t deserve this war and like everyone, I cannot understand why this has happened. Seeing pictures of these beautiful cities being shelled is awful. But I’ve seen a side that I cannot forget,” Aliyah added.
In recent days, word has spread among the international students fleeing Ukraine that they will likely have an easier time crossing into Hungary than Poland due to the smaller numbers of people waiting to get in. Of the refugees Al Jazeera spoke to, none reported problems boarding a train to the small Hungarian village of Záhony.
“I can see when you’re under crazy pressure and your country is being attacked you can act in terrible ways, but at the end of the day, everyone was running from the same danger,” said Deborah.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

US now indirectly calling for diplomacy...

ICC to begin investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine
Prosecutor says referrals by dozens of countries after Russian invasion enables court to ‘immediately’ launch probe.
A local militiaman carries a child as he helps a fleeing family across a bridge destroyed by artillery, on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, March 2 [File: Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]
By Al Jazeera Staff
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has said he will “immediately proceed” with an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine dating back to 2013, when protests erupted against a Russia-friendly government in Kyiv.
Karim A A Khan said late on Wednesday that the probe was starting after 39 countries that are parties to the Rome Statute that established the court –
including Canada and France – petitioned the ICC to begin an investigation.
“These referrals enable my Office to proceed with opening an investigation into the Situation in Ukraine from 21 November 2013 onwards,” Khan said in a statement, adding that its scope would encompass “any past and present allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide committed on any part of the territory of Ukraine by any person”.
The announcement comes a week after
Russia launched an all-out attack on Ukraine, drawing condemnation and sanctions from major world powers.
The ICC prosecutor had made public his intention to launch an investigation on Monday, saying that there was a “reasonable basis” to believe that war crimes have occurred during the conflict.
“I have notified the ICC Presidency a few moments ago of my decision to immediately proceed with active investigations in the Situation. Our work in the collection of evidence has now commenced,” Khan said in Wednesday’s statement.
Established in 2002, the Hague-based court investigates and prosecutes genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Last week, Khan warned the warring parties that his office had jurisdiction over Ukraine because the Ukrainian government accepted the ICC’s mandate in 2015, despite the country initially not being a party to the Rome Statute.
In the days since Russian troops began their offensive last Thursday, the violence has intensified in several major Ukrainian cities, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to flee the country in search of safety.
Russian forces entered the southern port city of Kherson late on Wednesday, its mayor was cited as saying by the Reuters news agency and The New York Times.
But the Russian military’s advance on the capital Kyiv “remains stalled”, the Pentagon said earlier in the day, as Moscow’s forces regroup and face logistical challenges and Ukrainian resistance.
The United States established a task force on Wednesday to go after wealthy Russians in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, vowing to seize their assets and to ensure that a series of financial restrictions are being enforced.
But as the fighting in Ukraine continues, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said diplomacy was still possible to resolve the crisis.
“It’s much more difficult for diplomacy to succeed when guns are firing, tanks are rolling, planes are flying,” Blinken told reporters. “But if Russia pulls back and pursues diplomacy, we stand ready to do the same thing.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

The Truth is coming out but the World need peace....

4 hours ago (21:49 GMT)
Kherson mayor says Russian troops in the streets
The mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, Igor Kolykhayev, has said Russian troops were in the streets and had forced their way into the city council building, the Reuters news agency reported.
Ukraine’s government had earlier played down reports that Kherson had fallen into Russian hands.
Kolykhayev urged Russian soldiers not to shoot at civilians and publicly called on residents to walk through the streets only in daylight and in ones and twos. “We do not have the Armed Forces in the city, only civilians and people who want to LIVE here!” he said in a statement.
The city is under Russian soldiers’ “complete control”, Russia’s Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said separately.
He said that the city’s civilian infrastructure, essential facilities and transport are operating as usual and that there are no shortages of food or essential goods.

On the road in eastern Ukraine, everywhere is the front line
Al Jazeera witnesses the scramble to defend eastern Ukrainian cities as Russian forces close in.
Empty streets of Mariupol on February 26 [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]
By Liz Cookman
Mariupol and Dnipro, Ukraine – On the morning we intend to leave Mariupol, it’s not yet clear if it’s possible to get out – there are reports the city has been surrounded by Russian forces and artillery attacks reverberate through the grey sky like thunder.
I had been in Mariupol for almost one month, but after Russia crossed the border on February 24, it was not so much a matter of if the port city in eastern Ukraine would be targeted in the advance, but when.
The city is key to President Vladimir Putin’s plans to establish a land corridor between Russia, breakaway territories in the Donbas region, and annexed Crimea. Cargo that passes through the port is key to Ukraine’s economy.
Mariupol’s eastern suburbs, 10km (six miles) from the front line with Russian-backed separatists, have already suffered years of violence, but during the last week, Russian troops have moved in from every direction and the area has been pounded incessantly with rockets and other projectiles.
Each day, the fighting on the outskirts of the city moves closer to the centre, the cracks and booms growing louder.
A school is destroyed. People watch from the window as burning orange flashes fly through the sky, wondering if their building is next.
The city has suffered casualties, although an exact figure is not clear.
At the city’s main hospital, I interview generous-hearted Ukrainians donating blood for the injured.
New military checkpoints spring up seemingly in moments, blocking roads with hastily felled trees, while a petrol station attendant advises my car full of journalists to leave and get far as far away as possible as it hurriedly shuts its doors, presumably expecting an imminent attack.
There is often no electricity, no heat and no internet. Friends I’ve never heard swear before start cursing.
This region speaks mostly Russian, many have relatives in Russia – the killings are a crime that is hard to compute.
Ukrainians now face a terrible choice: stay and face weeks, perhaps months, of deadly assault, or try to leave for the uncertainty of dangerous open roads and a life displaced.
But trains and buses out of Mariupol have stopped and for many, the window to escape safely may have already gone.
A translator, sick of nights in dusty bunkers, plans to come with us if we go but then can’t bring herself to leave her parents behind. They don’t have the paperwork they might need later, especially if they need to flee the country, and her father is of fighting age – it’s uncertain if he can travel.
On Friday, a soldier at the front sends me a message: “We barely got out alive yesterday. We have pulled back.”
“Welcome Russia!” a neighbour cried into the night sky as we debated whether to stay or go. What happens in a city surrounded by enemy troops if some residents want them there, but most do not? Stories of Russian saboteurs abound across the country, but are even more potent in a city that was once considered pro-Russian.
It was another uncertainty we did not want to risk.
As we drive out of the city on Sunday, I and a small group of two photographers, including Emre Caylak – also working for Al Jazeera, and a radio journalist, notice that a mural of the trident coat of arms of Ukraine has been crossed out with graffiti.
We are privileged in having the means to escape; we drive out from the northeast and are allowed to leave, even though there are rumours that Ukrainians who tried to were not. “Watch out for mines,” the checkpoint guard soldier tells us.
The landscape of flat, open agricultural fields feels both a comfort – we can see for hundreds of metres all around as – and a curse for its lack of shelter. The road is littered with burned-out cars, churned up mud from the tracks of tanks and all along soldiers are setting up new checkpoints.
As we pass cities, troops prepare to defend them, scrambling to dig new trenches. On the outskirts, villagers take down road signs to confuse Russian troops. Iron anti-tank barriers known as Czech hedgehogs are scattered everywhere.
Ukrainians taking down road signs to confuse Russian forces [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]
To our south, Melitopol and Berdyansk have reportedly been occupied by Russian forces. We are heading for industrial hub Dnipro, approximately 300km (186 miles) from Mariupol on the western side of the Dneiper river that marks the start of eastern Ukraine.
So far the city has mercifully seen less violence than Kharkiv to its north, where attacks – allegedly with cluster bombs – have been called war crimes by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, some military experts believe there is a plan to take cities to the north and south of Dnipro, before sweeping down to cut off the east up to the border with Russia.
Passing through the country, it is clear to us that nowhere is safe in this war, and everywhere is the front line.
As we skim the city of Tomak, we get a call to say it has likely been occupied. The stress of the situation has everyone paranoid – we stop for coffee and to take a picture and a woman demands we show our ID.
In Zaporizhzhia, we get petrol and there’s a news flash that the Russians are moving in on the city’s nuclear power station. Nowhere did we see more frantic attempts to fortify the city than here.
Arriving into Dnipro after hours of travelling and checkpoints, we can finally breathe again. It is a city of grand Soviet buildings and open streets, and while Mariupol felt suspicious and stifling, Dnipro has united in efforts to coordinate humanitarian aid to others.
We see people collecting food, water, clothing, and even making Molotov cocktails to throw at tanks.
Identities change before your eyes, as people acquire new labels that could define their future: volunteer, refugee, soldier, widow.
It’s only days since the start of this terrible war, but it feels like it has been months. Time has become lost in a stream of phone notifications, each one could bring news of more disaster, while every loud noise is a possible attack.
Days no longer have the same structure – instead of time for work and time for rest, they are divided by sirens and no sirens; before curfew and after.
Makeshift bomb shelters in places that long served as storage for broken furniture and knick-knacks are now a lifeline, with residents filing in to check long-ignored electricity cables and put in light bulbs, and to sweep away huge, draping cobwebs and years of accumulated dust.
By 9:30pm on our first night in Dnipro, the sirens sound for the sixth time and we head into our hotel’s shelter again.
A child works on his homework, practising reading aloud, learning literacy skills for a future I desperately hope will be peaceful.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
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On the road in eastern Ukraine, everywhere is the front line
Al Jazeera witnesses the scramble to defend eastern Ukrainian cities as Russian forces close in.
Empty streets of Mariupol on February 26 [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]
By Liz Cookman
Mariupol and Dnipro, Ukraine – On the morning we intend to leave Mariupol, it’s not yet clear if it’s possible to get out – there are reports the city has been surrounded by Russian forces and artillery attacks reverberate through the grey sky like thunder.
I had been in Mariupol for almost one month, but after Russia crossed the border on February 24, it was not so much a matter of if the port city in eastern Ukraine would be targeted in the advance, but when.
The city is key to President Vladimir Putin’s plans to establish a land corridor between Russia, breakaway territories in the Donbas region, and annexed Crimea. Cargo that passes through the port is key to Ukraine’s economy.
Mariupol’s eastern suburbs, 10km (six miles) from the front line with Russian-backed separatists, have already suffered years of violence, but during the last week, Russian troops have moved in from every direction and the area has been pounded incessantly with rockets and other projectiles.
Each day, the fighting on the outskirts of the city moves closer to the centre, the cracks and booms growing louder.
A school is destroyed. People watch from the window as burning orange flashes fly through the sky, wondering if their building is next.
The city has suffered casualties, although an exact figure is not clear.
At the city’s main hospital, I interview generous-hearted Ukrainians donating blood for the injured.
New military checkpoints spring up seemingly in moments, blocking roads with hastily felled trees, while a petrol station attendant advises my car full of journalists to leave and get far as far away as possible as it hurriedly shuts its doors, presumably expecting an imminent attack.
There is often no electricity, no heat and no internet. Friends I’ve never heard swear before start cursing.
This region speaks mostly Russian, many have relatives in Russia – the killings are a crime that is hard to compute.
Ukrainians now face a terrible choice: stay and face weeks, perhaps months, of deadly assault, or try to leave for the uncertainty of dangerous open roads and a life displaced.
But trains and buses out of Mariupol have stopped and for many, the window to escape safely may have already gone.
A translator, sick of nights in dusty bunkers, plans to come with us if we go but then can’t bring herself to leave her parents behind. They don’t have the paperwork they might need later, especially if they need to flee the country, and her father is of fighting age – it’s uncertain if he can travel.
On Friday, a soldier at the front sends me a message: “We barely got out alive yesterday. We have pulled back.”
“Welcome Russia!” a neighbour cried into the night sky as we debated whether to stay or go. What happens in a city surrounded by enemy troops if some residents want them there, but most do not? Stories of Russian saboteurs abound across the country, but are even more potent in a city that was once considered pro-Russian.
It was another uncertainty we did not want to risk.
As we drive out of the city on Sunday, I and a small group of two photographers, including Emre Caylak – also working for Al Jazeera, and a radio journalist, notice that a mural of the trident coat of arms of Ukraine has been crossed out with graffiti.
We are privileged in having the means to escape; we drive out from the northeast and are allowed to leave, even though there are rumours that Ukrainians who tried to were not. “Watch out for mines,” the checkpoint guard soldier tells us.
The landscape of flat, open agricultural fields feels both a comfort – we can see for hundreds of metres all around as – and a curse for its lack of shelter. The road is littered with burned-out cars, churned up mud from the tracks of tanks and all along soldiers are setting up new checkpoints.
As we pass cities, troops prepare to defend them, scrambling to dig new trenches. On the outskirts, villagers take down road signs to confuse Russian troops. Iron anti-tank barriers known as Czech hedgehogs are scattered everywhere.
Ukrainians taking down road signs to confuse Russian forces [Emre Caylak/Al Jazeera]
To our south, Melitopol and Berdyansk have reportedly been occupied by Russian forces. We are heading for industrial hub Dnipro, approximately 300km (186 miles) from Mariupol on the western side of the Dneiper river that marks the start of eastern Ukraine.
So far the city has mercifully seen less violence than Kharkiv to its north, where attacks – allegedly with cluster bombs – have been called war crimes by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, some military experts believe there is a plan to take cities to the north and south of Dnipro, before sweeping down to cut off the east up to the border with Russia.
Passing through the country, it is clear to us that nowhere is safe in this war, and everywhere is the front line.
As we skim the city of Tomak, we get a call to say it has likely been occupied. The stress of the situation has everyone paranoid – we stop for coffee and to take a picture and a woman demands we show our ID.
In Zaporizhzhia, we get petrol and there’s a news flash that the Russians are moving in on the city’s nuclear power station. Nowhere did we see more frantic attempts to fortify the city than here.
Arriving into Dnipro after hours of travelling and checkpoints, we can finally breathe again. It is a city of grand Soviet buildings and open streets, and while Mariupol felt suspicious and stifling, Dnipro has united in efforts to coordinate humanitarian aid to others.
We see people collecting food, water, clothing, and even making Molotov cocktails to throw at tanks.
Identities change before your eyes, as people acquire new labels that could define their future: volunteer, refugee, soldier, widow.
It’s only days since the start of this terrible war, but it feels like it has been months. Time has become lost in a stream of phone notifications, each one could bring news of more disaster, while every loud noise is a possible attack.
Days no longer have the same structure – instead of time for work and time for rest, they are divided by sirens and no sirens; before curfew and after.
Makeshift bomb shelters in places that long served as storage for broken furniture and knick-knacks are now a lifeline, with residents filing in to check long-ignored electricity cables and put in light bulbs, and to sweep away huge, draping cobwebs and years of accumulated dust.
By 9:30pm on our first night in Dnipro, the sirens sound for the sixth time and we head into our hotel’s shelter again.
A child works on his homework, practising reading aloud, learning literacy skills for a future I desperately hope will be peaceful.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
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Where are Russian markings or flag on the military equipment destroyed?
Ask yourself.

Russian military appears to have taken central Kherson,

4hr 23 min ago
Russian military vehicles seen across Kherson after heavy shelling
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy and Jake Tapper
(From Telegram)
The Russian military appears to have taken central Kherson, screenshots posted to social media and a video obtained by CNN show.
The screenshots from a webcam and the video have been geolocated, and their authenticity verified by CNN.
The video shows Russian military vehicles at a roundabout in northern Kherson on Tuesday. The screenshots from the webcam show Russian military vehicles parked on Svobody Square in central Kherson.
The Kherson Regional Administration building sits on Svobody Square.
Entering the city: On Tuesday, CNN reported that Russian military vehicles had been seen on the eastern side of the city after days of shelling and intense fighting.
The videos provide new evidence that the Russians are moving throughout Kherson, apparently unimpeded. It also shows that the Russian forces from Crimea have advanced and established a crossing across the Dnieper River.
Mayor's desperate plea: On Tuesday afternoon, Kherson Mayor Igor Kolykhaiev posted a stark message on Facebook, warning the city was under attack. "Residential buildings and urban facilities are burning," he wrote.
"We are NOT military! But I will hold the city and its functioning as long as I can," he wrote. “If the Russian soldiers and their leadership hear me. I ask: leave our city, stop shelling the civilians. You have already taken everything you wanted. Including human lives.”


As for me, peace is better than War.

We don't always have to result to War if we all reach an agreement that's favourable to all side not one block lording over others.

live and let others live....( Never side with the enemy of your friend or neighbor that's not your enemy).

Ukraine and Russia were never enemies till the Ukrainians protected and overthrew their legitimate Government based on ideology difference.

They wanted to join the EU due to financial problem and they made a request to EU for help but EU came short on amount and gave them term like ( IMF gave to Nigeria which lead to SAP in the 80s - Most of us can still remember what people less privileged around us went through, even those of us whom our parents were in the middle class them felt it).

The President of Ukraine and those in his government felt like these is too much and turned back and travelled to Moscow and Moscow agreed to give them the money without any terms. The West were angry about this and instigated the people to protect violently and after several pleading and warnings the police and other security agencies were deployed.

This lead to total break down of law and order and President flee the country to prevent a war.


The above lead to their Russian speaker organising a counter protest but Ukrainians went out against them, attacked and killed some of them and this lead to what lead to Donbass war, taken over of Crimea by Russian little green men and then this war.

please check out Minsk accord which was meant to end Donbass fight but Ukraine refused to sign it. ( France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia were fully part of the negotiations )

TrueNigerian300:
Lol. One thing I am still confused about his how they are unable to read Putin body language. The guy already taken everything into consideration and prepare for anything that would happen. He knows that if Russia demands are not meant now he can never be met again. Russia already seen this as a war just waiting for any fool in the west to join. He has ordered the nuclear to be put at high alert and these foolish western politicians are still thinking it is a joke. smh. Sure Russia can't win them combined but Putin will nuke everywhere than loosing.

Please just read between the lines and pick one or 2 things which you can do investigating journalism on.( Please don't mind my English as I'm a little busy and have to respond quickly)

Putin was formerly a Top KGB spy who was based in Germany during Soviet union.

He was very good at his job then and keep only few people very close to him hereby making information about his next move difficult to get.

Though he is fighting for the right of Russia to survive and be treated as equals by the West while all the west has done due to US insistence is trying to make Russia irrelevant in the world and this gets on Putin's nerve.

The west want Russia out of the way as she is the main obstacle to their aim for world domination.( This is a fact know by most world leader know this but can't do much as the west control most of the world economy and media)

Russia can not defeat the west alone but several Countries will definitely join the war against US and Nato if they go to war with Russia. ( WW3 will break out and it will be deadliest war ever). Russia is part of CSTO which is not as powerful as NATO as they're very few and also have allies all over the world.

Despite the above, Russia is more than able to do tremendous damage to the US and NATO alone even without support from another country and they know this and ain't ready for military intervention in Ukraine which will quickly lead to WW3.

Many countries are waiting patiently for the west to make the move and west Knows this...


Russia have a genuine demand which the West Knows but their Oga at the top is the one that tells them NO as they're trying to negate Russian advantage in missile defense and incapacitate her hereby having a advantage in any future war with Russia.

Me I like the west but have to be objective because US will never accept 1/10th of what they're doing to Russia.( They would have gone to war a long time ago)

Just think about this, US threatened World court ( ICJ) seriously when they wanted to look into criminal activities committed by US soldiers in wars and they quickly stopped! Isreal did the same!!

But you have former Yugoslavia and some former presidents of African countries sentenced to prison by the same ICJ with Western backing.(The West Lord over others).

Russia has over 900,000 soldiers and less than 130,000 are in combat with Ukraine at the moment.

They have 21,000 Plus military tanks
about 4,000 military plane or a little more.

Their army is the most powerful in the world ( man for man not others that's always calling for air strikes)

Do the maths.

Us Air Force is the most powerful Air Force in the world followed by Russia.

Us Navy and Russian Navy are almost at par with Us navy a little bit stronger.

Air defense systems - Russia stand out.

Nuclear weapons - Russia have the most powerful ones and the quantity of what they have out numbers all others owned by United States and all other countries combined.

Even French Minister got scared and changed words used against Russia after he got response from Medvedev of Russia..( Medvedev is a former president of Russia)

3/1/2022, 12:28:34 PM
Medvedev warns on consequences of economic war
Victor Mallet in Paris
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s security council and a former president, has warned that economic wars have “turned into real ones” in response to a French threat to provoke the collapse of the Russian economy.
“Today, some French minister has said that they declared an economic war on Russia. Watch your tongue, gentlemen!” he said on Twitter on Tuesday. “And don’t forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones.”
Earlier, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said the west was using sanctions to wage “total economic and financial war against Russia, Putin and his government”. Le Maire said: “We will provoke the collapse of the Russian economy.”
After Medvedev’s tweet, Le Maire told Agence France Presse that he should not have used the word “war”, calling it “inappropriate and out of step with France’s strategy for de-escalation.”
He added: “We are not in a conflict with the Russian people.”
This post has been updated to include Le Maire’s response.

1 Mar, 2022 02:58
Japan responds to nuke-sharing idea
Tokyo’s long-standing nuclear policy rules out any arms-sharing plan with Washington, Japan’s prime minister said
FILE PHOTO: A US Titan nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile is seen in a silo at a site in Arizona. © Getty Images / Michael Dunning
Japan will not be seeking a nuclear weapons-sharing deal with the United States, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, after a former Japanese leader claimed the idea should not be considered “taboo.”
Speaking to parliament on Monday, Kishida rejected a nuclear-sharing arrangement as
“unacceptable,” citing Japan’s “stance of maintaining the three nonnuclear principles,” according to Kyodo News.
Japan has long vowed to never produce, possess or allow other nations to bring nuclear weapons on its territory, having been the only nation in history to be attacked with atomic bombs. While it is protected under the US ‘nuclear umbrella,’ its non-nuclear status has been enshrined as a guiding principle for Japanese policy.
Kishida was responding to recent remarks by former PM Shinzo Abe, who said during a Sunday interview that Japan should consider a sharing deal as an option. “It's essential to understand how the world's security is maintained, and we shouldn't treat those discussions as a taboo,” he argued, though also reiterated previous calls for the ultimate abolition of nukes altogether.
In addition to the UK and France, five non-nuclear NATO members – Turkey, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands – currently host American nuclear bombs on their soil,
according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Seven other NATO states provide assistance for nuclear missions through conventional air support, and all 30 members, excluding France, belong to a body to discuss nuclear policy issues, the Nuclear Planning Group.

DONETSK, March 1. /TASS/. Commander of "North" tactical operational group General Dmitry Krasilnikov and many officers have been killed in the event of joint actions of the Russian Armed Forces and the People’s Militias of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Deputy chief of the DPR’s People’s Militia Eduard Basurin said on Tuesday referring to intelligence.
"As a result of successful joint actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR’s People’s Militias, the headquarters of the operational tactical group "North" was destroyed today. Most of the staff officers have been killed. According to our intelligence, the commander of "North" tactical operational group General Krasilnikov is also among the casualties," the statement reads.
The situation at the line of engagement in Donbass escalated on the morning of February 17. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) reported the most massive bombardments by the Ukrainian military over past months, which damaged civilian infrastructure and caused civilian casualties. On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced recognizing the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Russia signed agreements on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with their leaders. President Putin said in a televised address on the morning of February 24 that in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation. The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories.
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ken6488:
please the source

TASS NEWS

I also check guardian and BBC (UK), DM(Germany), CNN( US), Al Jazeera ( Qatar) and TASS and RT(Russia) likewise indian sites but I discovered that TASS gives you better update on events.

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russian forces will strike objects of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO) in Kiev, Russian Defense Ministry warned Tuesday.
"In order to thwart informational attacks against Russia, [Russian forces] will strike technological objects of the SBU and the 72nd Main PSO Center in Kiev. We urge Ukrainian citizens involved by Ukrainian nationalists in provocations against Russia, as well as Kiev residents living near relay stations, to leave their homes," the Ministry said.

Na WA O! Confusion hit them and the still did the below.

Let Ukraine seek for peace and end this war before it gets out of hand.

They failed to sign the Minsk accord which was agreed with France, Germany and Russia to stop the donbas military crisis which they have with their Russian speaking population there but they won't for years.

Seeking for peace is not stupidity or mean one is a coward....

Russia-Ukraine live news: Huge Russian convoy nears Kyiv
Miles-long Russian convoy nearing the capital after high-level talks fail to produce ceasefire.
The vast convoy of armoured vehicles, tanks, artillery and support vehicles stretches for about 65km, according to satellite imagery [Photo by Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies/AFP]
By David Child, Zaheena Rasheed and Ali Harb
Updated: a few seconds ago
RUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for no-fly zone to stop Russian bombardment, but White House says US is not considering such a move.
At least 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery attack in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, says a local official.
ICC prosecutor says he plans to launch investigation into alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow end with no agreement except to keep talking.
Civilian death toll now stands at 352 people, including 14 children, Ukraine’s health ministry says.
More than 520,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began, UN says.
FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football.
Here are the latest updates:
26 mins ago (07:57 GMT).

Na WA O! Confusion hit them and the still did the below.

Russia-Ukraine live news: Huge Russian convoy nears Kyiv
Miles-long Russian convoy nearing the capital after high-level talks fail to produce ceasefire.
The vast convoy of armoured vehicles, tanks, artillery and support vehicles stretches for about 65km, according to satellite imagery [Photo by Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies/AFP]
By David Child, Zaheena Rasheed and Ali Harb
Updated: a few seconds ago
RUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for no-fly zone to stop Russian bombardment, but White House says US is not considering such a move.
At least 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery attack in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, says a local official.
ICC prosecutor says he plans to launch investigation into alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow end with no agreement except to keep talking.
Civilian death toll now stands at 352 people, including 14 children, Ukraine’s health ministry says.
More than 520,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began, UN says.
FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football.
Here are the latest updates:
26 mins ago (07:57 GMT)

Over 70 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian troops.

They better seek peace and stay neutral as this way is a US + NATO war with Russia.

You don't like and I don't care but you're now joining forces with my enemy!!!

I like Ukraine but they missed it since 2014.

I won't support what is wrong even though I like the west.

Russia-Ukraine live news: Huge Russian convoy nears Kyiv
Miles-long Russian convoy nearing the capital after high-level talks fail to produce ceasefire.
The vast convoy of armoured vehicles, tanks, artillery and support vehicles stretches for about 65km, according to satellite imagery [Photo by Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies/AFP]
By David Child, Zaheena Rasheed and Ali Harb
Updated: a few seconds ago
RUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for no-fly zone to stop Russian bombardment, but White House says US is not considering such a move.
At least 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery attack in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, says a local official.
ICC prosecutor says he plans to launch investigation into alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow end with no agreement except to keep talking.
Civilian death toll now stands at 352 people, including 14 children, Ukraine’s health ministry says.
More than 520,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began, UN says.
FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football.
Here are the latest updates:
26 mins ago (07:57 GMT).

Over 70 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian missile strike.

Russia-Ukraine live news: Huge Russian convoy nears Kyiv
Miles-long Russian convoy nearing the capital after high-level talks fail to produce ceasefire.
The vast convoy of armoured vehicles, tanks, artillery and support vehicles stretches for about 65km, according to satellite imagery [Photo by Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies/AFP]
By David Child, Zaheena Rasheed and Ali Harb
Updated: a few seconds ago
RUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for no-fly zone to stop Russian bombardment, but White House says US is not considering such a move.
At least 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery attack in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, says a local official.
ICC prosecutor says he plans to launch investigation into alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow end with no agreement except to keep talking.
Civilian death toll now stands at 352 people, including 14 children, Ukraine’s health ministry says.
More than 520,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began, UN says.
FIFA and UEFA suspend Russia from international football.
Here are the latest updates:
26 mins ago (07:57 GMT)

Cantonese:
Olodo.

You think it is a Chelsea vs Liverpool match.

Your father is a slowpoke! Right now your stupid ancestors will be rolling in their graves due to your stupidity....

You better be sensible and make your comments on NL and sleep well or you will get whatever your miserable life is looking for..

Have not attacked anyone who made contrary statements or have a contradictory opinion to mine on NL..

Chelsea vs Liverpool match- Hiss, Smello even streets dey play ball and scores dey pass Chelsea vs Liverpool own..

Ode omo didirin be warned and stop reasoning from your anus!!

Omugo decode the lines and go play with KG1 kids...

No say I no warn you O!!!?

Two humanitarian corridors to be organized for Mariupol residents — DPR’s People’s Militia
It will be possible to leave Mariupol until March 2
DONETSK, March 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Armed Forces and the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will organize two humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of Mariupol residents, Deputy Head of the DPR's People's Militia Eduard Basurin stated on Tuesday.
"For all civilians wishing to temporarily leave for a safe location, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation jointly with the directorate of the DPR’s People Militia are organizing two humanitarian corridors," he said.
According to the military official, it will be possible to leave Mariupol until March 2. "We guarantee the safety of movement along the sections of the Е58 motorway in the direction both of the Zaporozhye Region and the territory of the Russian Federation: in western direction: Mariupol - Mangush, in eastern direction: Mariupol - Bezymennoe," he specified.

If true RIP to her.

but why ain't the body picture on the paper as it could gain more support for Ukraine.

Anyway Ukraine is losing territories and soldiers and the president should stop playing to western gallery..

MOSCOW, February 28./TASS/. Troops of the Lugansk People’s Republic advanced during the day towards the Kremennoye settlement, advancing by another three kilometers. Troops of the Donetsk People’s Republic moved by 16 kilometers, capturing the settlement of Zamozhnoye, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday.
"The group of forces of the Lugansk People’s Republic continued to conduct an offensive towards the settlement of Kremennoye during the day, advancing another three kilometers, while units of the Donetsk People’s Republic armed forces advanced 16 kilometers during the day, capturing the settlement of Zamozhnoye," Konashenkov said.
The Russian troops destroyed 1,146 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities during their special operation for demilitarizing Ukraine, the major-general added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address on February 24 that in response to a request by the leaders of the Donbass republics he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation. The Russian head of state stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories. Russia’s Defense Ministry reported later on Thursday that Russian troops were not delivering strikes against Ukrainian cities. It emphasized that Ukrainian military infrastructure was being destroyed through the use of precision weapons. Civilians are not threatened, the Russian military assured.
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Some people don't understand how the war is really going despite western propaganda.

Ukraine is a military capable country which manufactures most of it weapons and also export some eg T80 tanks, drones, war ships, anti tank weapons etc

Ukraine is the 2nd most powerful member of the Soviet union and it's land mass is 2-1/2 to 3 times the size of the UK.

They're cousins to the Russians and have all the nuclear secrets of making nuclear weapons and other weapons.

Ukraine started getting military trainings from US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Poland etc as well as weapons from NATO countries for 8 Years running.

Almost all Ukraine citizens speak Russian fluently and several Russians also speak Ukrainian language.

17% of Ukrainians are ethnic Russians and the region most profitable are Russians speaking areas of Ukraine.

No matter the propaganda and support the west gives Ukraine, Russia will crush Ukraine even with Ukraine resulting to use of banned phosphorus since the war started and using civilians as human shields.

Ukraine military are firing weapons from close to civilian areas and Russia made a call yesterday that civilians should leave Kyiv etc.

Just think deep, why are the west and Ukraine calling Putin on his direct line asking him to stop the war and withdraw his troops?

They're sending Presidents of countries close to Putin to met him one on one on Ukraine!

They're begging India's president Modi to talk to Putin as he is a good friend of Russia but he is staying neutral because of the west did to India during to the India Pakistan war.

Only 60,000 - 80,000 Russian Soldiers are presently fighting Ukraine 230,000 soldiers + 400,000 reserve + Volunteers who are guided by NATO military instructors and NATO war rooms,.
the Russians other 80,000 - 90,000 reserve at the border are yet to join the fight with heavier weapons.

Do the maths.....

Ukraine military are been destroyed and the west don't want the world to know or see it that's why every other media with real time updates are banned..( The Arab news body came out yesterday saying all their outlets should be careful with the way they're putting out only western narrative of the war )

If the Russians are not winning why are the west and Ukraine calling Putin and asking him to withdraw Russian Soldiers from Ukraine?

Why ask Putin to instruct Russian Soldiers to withdraw from land/territories inside Ukraine if they the Russians have not captured those places?

Another propaganda is well you keep saying you repealed Russian troop from Kyiv when they're actually 20km from Kyiv? They were 30km before and now 20 or 17km as at 12:30am today.

No be Ukrainian soldiers them they fight for road? What's the casualties on the Ukrainian side during the Russian advance? They won't tell you so as to keep the spirit and morale of people high.

Where is the ghost pilot they promoted via propaganda and said he has shot down 7 Russian get over Ukraine Kyiv? They said su 24s, Su25s, Su35s etc were shot down by the ghost pilot! no image and the ghost pilot is no where to be seen!

Ukraine said they shot down Russian plane few days ago over Kyiv but it later turned out that it was the Russians who shot down an Ukrainian fighter jet.

Ukraine should just make peace and stop this war before it enter into a face of total devastation.

Even the united state won't allow Cuba, mexico and Venezuela to join a military alliance with Russia CSTO and Russia or CSTO deploying troops to those countries.

What did the west do When Armenia and Azerbaijan with Turkey support and Israel and Turkish weapons went to war with Armenia? Next to nothing till Russia Soldiers were killed when Azerbaijan troops shot down Russian military helicopter in an area where war was not going on or contested..