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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: 2) by Pav on Sunday February 27 2022, @02:27AM (7 children)

    by Pav (114) on Sunday February 27 2022, @02:27AM (#1225257)

    For the altzeimic : NATO was an anti-USSR/Warsaw Pact alliance. It should have been dissolved, but the US wanted to keep up arms sales, boots on the ground, and wars in and around Europe under its ageis (as we have seen in Kossovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Serbia, Libya etc...). If Europeans sort out their own problems US **ahem** **billionaire** interests might not be taken into account. Regarding Putin, one must remember Yeltsin hand-picked Putin as a gift to Washington... everyone was getting nervous about Yeltsin drinking himself to death after all. Everyone believed Putin would be another puppet... he was just the dumb guy facing reporters and taking hits for eg. the Moscow mayors corruption. Everybody expected him to allow a continuation of the biggest raping of wealth and natural resources in human history to continue. Putin became a "demon" when he ousted the ex-commies-now-oligarchs (who appreciated the capitalist freedom of giving up all pretenses, and just openly stealing). Unfortunately Putin kept some of the existing oligarchs who saw which way the wind was blowing. Putin also installed some new ones, though he actually nationalised some stuff again. Still, there's no denying he cultivated his own flavour of corruption, but at least Russia was getting fair market price for Russian resources, and average Russians stopped starving and freezing quite as much. Of course to the US this was UnAccCeptable!!!! He started getting demonised around this time. And since there has been a new undeclared cold war, and when Putin responds to some attack or other (apparently you often call those attacks a subcategory of "whataboutisms") he seems to quite deftly respond, even though he commands lesser resources. This is great because although theft from Russia is off the table for the moment, theft from US taxpayers is open season, and whole suburbs and yacht fleets are being purchased on the taxpayers dime while waving Putins mug around. Unfortunately Putin wasn't really a big enough justification for such gargantuan theft, at least at first... so Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Yemen etc... had to fill in... but for a while now all that anti-commie propaganda is reaping the ching ching again. Kaloo Kalay!!! Champaign showers and glasses all 'round!!! You must feel soooo... loved?! Is that what your voices are saying?

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 27 2022, @02:58AM (6 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 27 2022, @02:58AM (#1225269) Journal

    NATO was an anti-USSR/Warsaw Pact alliance.

    And well, that's what it's doing now.

    It should have been dissolved, but the US wanted to keep up arms sales, boots on the ground, and wars in and around Europe under its ageis (as we have seen in Kossovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Serbia, Libya etc...).

    And yet here we are with Russia doing that invasion thing that NATO was meant to counter. Looks like someone had a bit of foresight there.

    Regarding Putin, one must remember Yeltsin hand-picked Putin as a gift to Washington...

    Gosh, I didn't realize that every bit of bullshit could be blamed on Washington. Would that mean that Washington can change their minds and pick a new Russian leader? Because this would be a great time for that.

    Everybody expected him to allow a continuation of the biggest raping of wealth and natural resources in human history to continue.

    I guess you weren't around for the USSR then. But then given that Putin was former KGB, maybe that should have been our expectations. It certainly has played out with a pretty big raping of wealth and resources.

    Putin became a "demon" when he ousted the ex-commies-now-oligarchs (who appreciated the capitalist freedom of giving up all pretenses, and just openly stealing). Unfortunately Putin kept some of the existing oligarchs who saw which way the wind was blowing.

    In other words, Putin seized the wealth of his opponents and gave it to his allies. Classic kleptocracy behavior.

    And since there has been a new undeclared cold war, and when Putin responds to some attack or other (apparently you often call those attacks a subcategory of "whataboutisms") he seems to quite deftly respond, even though he commands lesser resources.

    Well, that's the point of propaganda. No point to making Putin look like a loser. As to the new undeclared cold war, well, I'm blaming Putin especially since he's now invaded the Ukraine.

    Still, there's no denying he cultivated his own flavour of corruption, but at least Putin allies were getting fair market price for Russian resources

    FTFY. Russia wouldn't have gotten this shitty, if he were trying to make it better.

    This is great because although theft from Russia is off the table for the moment, theft from US taxpayers is open season, and whole suburbs and yacht fleets are being purchased on the taxpayers dime while waving Putins mug around. Unfortunately Putin wasn't really a big enough justification for such gargantuan theft, at least at first... so Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Yemen etc... had to fill in... but for a while now all that anti-commie propaganda is reaping the ching ching again. Kaloo Kalay!!! Champaign showers and glasses all 'round!!! You must feel soooo... loved?! Is that what your voices are saying?

    This reminds me of your silly accusation [soylentnews.org] that the entire western media was completely beholden to the US military industrial complex. It's a profoundly stupid narrative that has nothing to do with reality.

    • (Score: 2) by Pav on Sunday February 27 2022, @03:18AM (5 children)

      by Pav (114) on Sunday February 27 2022, @03:18AM (#1225273)

      You're saying the US media (constricting under fewer and fewer banners) is NOT beholden to your own oligarchs ie. the ones that keep the lights on? I suppose funding individual propaganda... I mean "news segments"... has no editorial bearing at all (and its certainly a dispicable practice be it arms manufacturers, drug companies, plastic surgeons, whoever...). Hell... now direct propaganda by the government has been made legal all the three letter agencies just go on TV with little pushback or criticism, or else take the revolving door and become a host or contributor.

      These upstanding individuals sure have your best interests at heart.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 27 2022, @05:02AM (4 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 27 2022, @05:02AM (#1225283) Journal
        I find it interesting how we were talking about Putin's allegedly unfair treatment by NATO (like I should care?) and now segue into this completely irrelevant crap. We wouldn't have Putin invading Ukraine, if all the bad press about him was fake.
        • (Score: 2) by Pav on Monday February 28 2022, @07:12AM (3 children)

          by Pav (114) on Monday February 28 2022, @07:12AM (#1225498)

          Perhaps for people in schitzophrenia-land with a weak grasp of cause and effect.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday February 28 2022, @07:27AM (2 children)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 28 2022, @07:27AM (#1225503) Journal
            Sounds like a hell of a lot of projection there, Pav. You're the one who can't stay on topic nor give any reasons for the alleged "cause and effect".
            • (Score: 2) by Pav on Monday February 28 2022, @08:57AM (1 child)

              by Pav (114) on Monday February 28 2022, @08:57AM (#1225524)

              :) That's some Jobs level reality distortion... You should apply for a board position at Apple. They're missing some of that "magic" these days.