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posted by janrinok on Thursday February 24 2022, @07:52AM   Printer-friendly

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Reuters: Russian forces launch invasion of Ukraine with strikes on defence

MOSCOW/KYIV, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Russian forces fired missiles at several cities in Ukraine and landed troops on its coast on Thursday, officials and media said, after President Vladimir Putin authorised what he called a special military operation in the east.

Shortly after Putin spoke in a televised address on Russian state TV, explosions could be heard in the pre-dawn quiet of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Gunfire rattled near the capital's main airport, the Interfax news agency said, and sirens were heard over the city.

WSJ: The Latest News on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Live Updates

Russian troops and tanks pushed into Ukraine and airstrikes hit the country's capital and more than a dozen other cities early Thursday after President Vladimir Putin said he ordered a military operation to "demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine" and bring its leaders to trial.

Ukrainian officials said an initial wave of strikes targeted military installations, airfields and government facilities across the country. Ukraine's border service said its troops came under attack all along the country's frontiers with Russia and Belarus as well as Crimea. Heavy shelling targeted the city of Mariupol on the Azov sea. Air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv after 7 a.m. and the city's airport came under attack. Ukraine's military said it shot down five Russian warplanes and one helicopter. Russia denied any of its aircraft were hit.

CBS: NATO officials say Russian attack on Ukraine has begun

Russia has begun attacking Ukraine, NATO officials confirmed. The late-night attack began moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had "decided to conduct a special military operation" to protect eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. CBS News correspondents reported hearing loud blasts in the capital city, Kyiv, and in the eastern city of Kharkiv.

A Ukrainian government spokesperson said early Thursday that "cruise and ballistic missile strikes are underway at the control centers" in Kyiv.

BBC: Ukraine conflict: Russian forces invade after Putin TV declaration

Russian forces have launched a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.

In a pre-dawn TV statement Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia did not plan to occupy Ukraine and demanded that its military lay down their arms.

Moments later, attacks were reported on Ukrainian military targets.

Ukraine said that "Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine".

Russian military vehicles were said to have breached the border in a number of places, in the north, south and east, including from Belarus.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday February 24 2022, @08:10AM (17 children)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24 2022, @08:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24 2022, @08:33AM (#1224387)

    yes, it's now available here as well.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Thursday February 24 2022, @03:39PM (15 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday February 24 2022, @03:39PM (#1224497) Homepage Journal

    You expect Trump's puppet master to be any more truthful than he is? BTW, Trump called Putin a genius for invading. THE HEAD OF ONE OF AMERICA'S TWO MAJOR PARTIES IS ALL FOR RUSSIA INVADING UKRAINE!

    WTF??

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 24 2022, @05:00PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 24 2022, @05:00PM (#1224539) Journal

      Trump, displaying his knowledge on the Ukraine situation:

      Fox News host corrects Trump after he mistakenly thought US troops were landing in Ukraine as Russia launched its attack [businessinsider.com]

      Things would be going so much better now if he were still in charge!

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 24 2022, @05:44PM (12 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 24 2022, @05:44PM (#1224551)

      I believe the slogan on the flyover state T-shirts and ball caps was "Better Russian than Democrat."

      I wonder if any of those people understand the balance of payments in the federal budget and what would happen to their jerkwater "bread basket" states if they were cut off from the "Democrat" tax base cities and made to pay their own way on the open market for all the federal services they receive from tax income on the grain that MegaAgCorp produces in their neighborhood?

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 24 2022, @06:06PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 24 2022, @06:06PM (#1224561) Journal

        "Better Russian than Democrat."

        Better American than Republican

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24 2022, @08:39PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 24 2022, @08:39PM (#1224619)

        Good plan. Let's cut 'em off. Toss 'em out. Hear 'em cry!

        Please.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 25 2022, @05:09PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 25 2022, @05:09PM (#1224882)

        I wonder if any of those people understand the balance of payments in the federal budget and what would happen to their jerkwater "bread basket" states if they were cut off from the "Democrat" tax base cities and made to pay their own way on the open market for all the federal services they receive from tax income on the grain that MegaAgCorp produces in their neighborhood?

        Silly question. Maybe the bread basket states standard of living goes down a little. How do you propose that New York, Chicago, and LA are going to feed themselves? Your highly populated cities exist only because the rest of us are willing to feed you. Maybe it's time all the agricultural states got together, and started jacking prices up. $50 loaf of bread, anyone? $80 gallon of milk? You should start paying your way, and stop relying on government subsidies to feed you.

        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 26 2022, @02:18AM

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday February 26 2022, @02:18AM (#1224992)

          How do you propose that New York, Chicago, and LA are going to feed themselves? Your highly populated cities exist only because the rest of us are willing to feed you.

          Free market, capitalist sources of food. When the flyover states are no longer protected by the same Federal government as the coastal cities, they will both be dealing with global market forces to find sources and buyers of food.

          Somehow, I doubt that Nebraska would be getting paid as much for its corn if it weren't in the same country as New York, Chicago and LA.

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      • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday February 26 2022, @01:05AM (1 child)

        by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday February 26 2022, @01:05AM (#1224986)

        I wonder if any of those people understand the balance of payments in the federal budget and what would happen to their jerkwater "bread basket" states if they were cut off from the "Democrat" tax base cities and made to pay their own way on the open market for all the federal services they receive from tax income on the grain that MegaAgCorp produces in their neighborhood?

        I bet you could get most of them to vote for a constitutional amendment banning any state from receiving more tax dollars than it pays in.

        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 26 2022, @02:22AM

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday February 26 2022, @02:22AM (#1224993)

          I bet you could get most of them to vote for a constitutional amendment banning any state from receiving more tax dollars than it pays in.

          Resident voters, hell yeah, you could sell that with two 30 second spots on talk radio. Fortunately for them, their elected representatives usually figure out how these things work pretty quickly - as soon as their lobbyists educate them about it. Lobbyists love flyover states, much easier to manipulate.

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 26 2022, @12:52PM (5 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 26 2022, @12:52PM (#1225062) Journal
        Money that goes to a state doesn't stay in the state. Anything having to do with finance or IT probably mostly ends up in New York or California, for example.
        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 26 2022, @01:10PM (4 children)

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday February 26 2022, @01:10PM (#1225070)

          Yes, the miracle of flowing money as opposed to hoarded dragon's gold. But without the federal redirection of tax dollars through the breadbasket, they wouldn't even get that one smell of the money as it passes through town on the way to provide the things that money can buy.

          If they weren't all brainwashed since the New Deal against welfare (including all the ones on disability, unemployment, SNAP, etc.) they much more than the evil city dwellers would benefit from UBI - money direct to the people instead of the lobbyist employers.

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          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 26 2022, @03:30PM (3 children)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 26 2022, @03:30PM (#1225096) Journal
            Point is you're operating under false assumptions. "Smell of money" isn't money.
            • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 26 2022, @04:56PM (2 children)

              by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday February 26 2022, @04:56PM (#1225115)

              Smell of money is infinitely better than never seeing any money at all - like, oh say, Malawi or Yemen.

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              • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 26 2022, @05:37PM (1 child)

                by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 26 2022, @05:37PM (#1225122) Journal
                I don't buy that in the least.
                • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 26 2022, @05:50PM

                  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday February 26 2022, @05:50PM (#1225124)

                  Smell of money is better than no money at all

                  I don't buy that in the least.

                  Oh, but it has been sold so convincingly: smell of money means jobs, infrastructure, all kinds of intangible benefits to the locals while MegaCorp reaps the profits. Incentivize MegaCorp to build in your town by building roads, water, police, fire, and hospital services for them, they'll use the locals for cheap labor as long as the megabucks are rolling in from the rape of the local natural resources.

                  Interesting twist: we all think of farmland as a renewable resource, but the way large scale farming has been practiced for the past 150+ years, it isn't [theguardian.com].

                  So, when that topsoil is all gone, there will still be roads and hospitals and semi-safe to drink water, hopefully. Better off than the people in places that never got a smell of money... sometimes.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 25 2022, @06:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 25 2022, @06:45PM (#1224907)