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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: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 05 2022, @05:06PM (11 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 05 2022, @05:06PM (#1226941) Journal
    And notice it goes the other way as well. Putin is making himself safer by making a lot of other people less safe.
  • (Score: 2) by Pav on Tuesday March 08 2022, @07:22AM (10 children)

    by Pav (114) on Tuesday March 08 2022, @07:22AM (#1227566)

    You DO realise it's the Ukraine (or rather the Ukrainian ultra right) that are refusing peace. One of the Ukrainian peace negotiators was assassinated by the ultra-right because he took his job too seriously. The ultra right accused him of treason while the majority of the Ukrainian government called him a hero. The ultra right want armageddon, and they're not just in Ukranian (which people are only just starting to realise) so you'd better hope they haven't slipped the US chain too far.

    In choosing zero sum escalation over deescalation one suspects the powers that be don't actually desire safety for anyone anyway, but rather the contents of as many bank accounts as possible. One imagines you'll be wishing for more/better food, fuel and heating soon, let alone decent healthcare.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 08 2022, @07:15PM (9 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 08 2022, @07:15PM (#1227710) Journal

      You DO realise it's the Ukraine (or rather the Ukrainian ultra right) that are refusing peace.

      Yet another of your ridiculous red herrings, not only irrelevant to the topic, but conflating both the whole of the Ukraine with the "ultra right" and the "ultra right" with those actually involved in the assassination. On top of that, we're missing the Russians who are notorious for assassinations. It wouldn't be hard for them to kill this guy or bribe the guy who is taking credit for it.

      In choosing zero sum escalation over deescalation one suspects the powers that be don't actually desire safety for anyone anyway, but rather the contents of as many bank accounts as possible. One imagines you'll be wishing for more/better food, fuel and heating soon, let alone decent healthcare.

      I bet Europe and the US will have much less trouble with that than Russia will.

      • (Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday March 09 2022, @11:31AM (8 children)

        by Pav (114) on Wednesday March 09 2022, @11:31AM (#1227888)

        I'm not the one living in a country that already has had ultra-right nutcases attached to Ukraine wanting to bomb media, assassinate Beto O'Rourke etc... NPR just interviewed a Ukranian city mayor with a mass murdering WWII nazi framed on his wall... right in front of your face... and you still deny it like a cultist. He was probably greased into office on a snail trail of your tax dollars too. I guess this is some kind of recycling of Operation GLADIO?

        The US will have much less trouble than Russia? We'll see, though your betters seem to think you're going to get the shit kicked out of you... gold is at an all time high.

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 09 2022, @03:49PM (7 children)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 09 2022, @03:49PM (#1227936) Journal

          I'm not the one living in a country that already has had ultra-right nutcases attached to Ukraine wanting to bomb media, assassinate Beto O'Rourke etc...

          I find it interesting how hypocritical you are here. What again is your excuse for the war in Ukraine? You're just another nazi with a different fuhrer, willing to excuse the deaths of thousands (or more) of people only because you hung a label on them.

          NPR just interviewed a Ukranian city mayor with a mass murdering WWII nazi framed on his wall...

          So what? Your point would be just as bullshit, if you had a portrait of a mass murdering WWII nazi on your wall.

          right in front of your face... and you still deny it like a cultist.

          What part of the word, "irrelevant" do you just not get? I already made clear a zillion posts ago that the "But they're nazis!" excuse doesn't go anywhere with me. Yet here you are pushing that button like it still works. That tells me you have nothing else.

          Your mental illness is not my problem.

          The US will have much less trouble than Russia? We'll see, though your betters seem to think you're going to get the shit kicked out of you... gold is at an all time high.

          Don't be a dumbass. On each of those things you mentioned ("more/better food, fuel and heating soon"), the US is self-sufficient. The Ruble still has lost a third of its pre-war value (and probably is up to its present level only because of central bank shenanigans).

          And there's that war. Even if the Ukrainian government were to buckle and surrender tomorrow, Russia will lose in the long run. Either they take over and suffer from a long term asymmetric warfare or they leave a government in place and eventually lose out to NATO or the EU (which won't honor forced treaties).

          • (Score: 2) by Pav on Thursday March 10 2022, @06:09AM (6 children)

            by Pav (114) on Thursday March 10 2022, @06:09AM (#1228192)

            ...or a black flag behind him? Apparently you're a newborn who doesn't know history... the short term outsized ultility of violent dangerous ideologues in coups and proxy wars, and how long term they usually slip the chain and/or bite the hand... **shrug** And unlike certain other ideologies this one has deep roots in your society (and mine... I've known a few). But you do you.

            Self sufficient? You say that like it's a thing. Sure, it gets you some transportation advantages but that's it. In your neoliberal utopia he world will compete for your oil, gas and grain... and your betters will sell it to the highest bidder, not a penny less. At least half of your countrymen are already scraping by. There's going to be mass profiteering. This might even have something to do with the push to get people to stop hanging out at home and get back to work (and onto the roads). Hell, they even caffenated and wheeled out Biden to spread the message.

            • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 10 2022, @03:24PM (5 children)

              by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 10 2022, @03:24PM (#1228281) Journal

              ...or a black flag behind him? Apparently you're a newborn who doesn't know history... the short term outsized ultility of violent dangerous ideologues in coups and proxy wars, and how long term they usually slip the chain and/or bite the hand... **shrug** And unlike certain other ideologies this one has deep roots in your society (and mine... I've known a few). But you do you.

              Didn't happen in the short history of the Ukraine since 2014. For example, they had an election in 2019.

              Self sufficient? You say that like it's a thing. Sure, it gets you some transportation advantages but that's it. In your neoliberal utopia he world will compete for your oil, gas and grain... and your betters will sell it to the highest bidder, not a penny less. At least half of your countrymen are already scraping by. There's going to be mass profiteering. This might even have something to do with the push to get people to stop hanging out at home and get back to work (and onto the roads). Hell, they even caffenated and wheeled out Biden to spread the message.

              Indeed, self-sufficient is a thing here. Even in the world of low cost global trade, it still costs money to ship this stuff out of the US and hence, there's incentive to sell locally. In your hypothetical future of high oil prices, trade is similarly affected, meaning that premium to sell locally has gone up.

              As to the rest of your post, vague conspiracies about getting people back into the workforce are worthless. When one abandons concrete evidence just about anything could be possible.

              • (Score: 2) by Pav on Friday March 11 2022, @02:21AM (4 children)

                by Pav (114) on Friday March 11 2022, @02:21AM (#1228460)

                Welllll... unless you count the the american guy who felt part of a nazi international (and he may very well be) who wanted to spread knowledge of IEDs. Or the european nazis who've also been going to Ukraine for years for training. What for?

                And it's funny that you mention the election... BOTH Poroshenko and Zelensky campaigned on a normalisation of relations with Russia ticket. Poroshenko (in a Trumpian billionaire get-things-done way) said he'd get on the phone to Putin and sort things out in an hour. The Ukrainians have been sold out long before this.

                You're getting set to lose hard too, and not in the beta-who-joined-the-wrong-team kinda way... more in a not-important-to-your-betters kinda way ie. no matter what happens on the other side of the world. This is just another opportunity for you to become one of those who lose all their stuff... and actually believe you deserved it. Monopoly end-game.

                • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 11 2022, @05:57AM (3 children)

                  by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 11 2022, @05:57AM (#1228504) Journal

                  Welllll... unless you count the the american guy who felt part of a nazi international (and he may very well be) who wanted to spread knowledge of IEDs. Or the european nazis who've also been going to Ukraine for years for training. What for?

                  Why would I count a small number of crazies? As to spreading knowledge of IEDs, I suggest the world's militaries as a far more efficient and prevalent source of such knowledge than some american guy.

                  And it's funny that you mention the election... BOTH Poroshenko and Zelensky campaigned on a normalisation of relations with Russia ticket. Poroshenko (in a Trumpian billionaire get-things-done way) said he'd get on the phone to Putin and sort things out in an hour. The Ukrainians have been sold out long before this.

                  So no evidence that anything untoward happened? Seems par for your posts. I'll note to the contrary that this demonstrates that democratic voting actually worked since Poroshenko didn't get elected indefinitely unlike some Russian leader I could name.

                  You're getting set to lose hard too, and not in the beta-who-joined-the-wrong-team kinda way... more in a not-important-to-your-betters kinda way ie. no matter what happens on the other side of the world. This is just another opportunity for you to become one of those who lose all their stuff... and actually believe you deserved it. Monopoly end-game.

                  Cool story, bro. But what does that have to do with real life?

                  • (Score: 2) by Pav on Friday March 11 2022, @06:13AM (2 children)

                    by Pav (114) on Friday March 11 2022, @06:13AM (#1228506)

                    Time will tell the tale...

                    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 11 2022, @06:15AM (1 child)

                      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 11 2022, @06:15AM (#1228507) Journal
                      Better prepare to be enlightened. The future can't be faked.
                      • (Score: 2) by Pav on Friday March 11 2022, @06:47AM

                        by Pav (114) on Friday March 11 2022, @06:47AM (#1228509)

                        Hopefully the following weeks, months and years will be more interesting than devastating for the world.