March 3, 2022

4 Russian fighter planes violated Swedish airspace at Gotland

https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1499101194580643842?s=20&t=oHuhihpBlZuWdSMnj0whLQ


Four Russian fighter planes violated Swedish airspace at Gotland.
At the same time Finland and Sweden are having a joint military exercise on the island with both Finnish F/A-18:s and Swedish JAS-39:s operating in the area!
#BREAKING #sä


https://twitter.com/heikki_hakala/status/1499111236096692224?s=20&t=oHuhihpBlZuWdSMnj0whLQ


Edited to add: A Swedish commenter said that this happens fairly often as Russia likes to play games and intimidate them, so probably meaningless.

A Norwegian commenter said that because they're a member of NATO , Russia never does this to them.

March 2, 2022

Putin has Paul Manafort's friend Yanukovych waiting in Minsk, Belarus to be Pres. of Ukraine

https://twitter.com/alfonslopeztena/status/1498996534066696195?s=20&t=JOYGgE1kLGYOiU8v-Jlw1g


Putin wants to reinstate Yanukovych as president of Ukraine — Viktor Yanukovych is in Minsk, and the Kremlin is preparing an operation to replace Zelensky with the ex-president ousted by the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014




But that’s not how U.S. diplomats saw it at the time. A U.S. embassy cable sent from Kiev to Washington in 2006 described Manafort’s job as giving an “extreme makeover” to a presidential hopeful named Viktor Yanukovych, who had the backing of the Kremlin and most of Ukraine’s wealthiest tycoons. His Party of Regions, the cable said, was “a haven” for “mobsters and oligarchs.”

Making things harder for Manafort were the candidate’s rough manners and criminal past, which had dimmed his chances of winning elections. Oafish and inarticulate, Yanukovych had served jail time in his youth for theft and battery. He also had a hard time speaking Ukrainian – the national language – as he had grown up in the Russian-speaking province of Donetsk. Yet Manafort accepted the challenge of trying to make Yanukovych electable. The man paying the exorbitant bills for these efforts was an early backer of the Party of Regions, the coal and metals magnate Rinat Akhmetov, who soon began calling Manafort his friend.

https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/


Yanukovych is a total thug just like Belarus' Lukashenko

March 1, 2022

Russians attack Babyn Yar Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv

Russian missiles and shells pounded Kyiv on Tuesday and also struck the site of Babyn Yar, where tens of thousands of Jews were massacred during the Holocaust.

Andriy Yermak, Chairman of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said: "Russia has launched a missile attack on the territory where the Babyn Yar memorial complex is located. These villains are killing Holocaust victims for the second time."


https://www.jpost.com/international/article-699034


Fuck this asshole. He's calling Ukrainians, Americans and Europeans neo-nazis but it's pure projection.

March 1, 2022

Russia just struck a TV tower. They released a statement saying they were going after communications

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/1498677878250164227?s=20&t=FRUxbFWq7qNYdh6NDoUJWg

March 1, 2022

The MAGA Trucker Convoy Is Mad Ukraine Is Getting All the Attention Right Now

Even the “truckers for freedom” Telegram channel with its 96,000 subscribers can’t decide if it’s more interested in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or their very own convoy puttering across the U.S. of A.

As many of the groups organized as a part of the so-called Trucker Convoys protest (the vast majority of the vehicles taking part are not big rigs) enter the final portion of their long haul, the group aiming to end COVID-19 health measures are disappointed by the lack of eyes on them, particularly after the Canadian version captured the attention of right-wing Americans for weeks on end.


Even the organizing pages are being peppered with conversations about the war, updates on Russian advancements, and brainstorming on how to make this about them. “Wasn't this group originally about the global freedom convoy? How did it get highjacked so easily?” one supporter asked. Others desperately tried to direct people Ukraine-posting toward other chats. A few “truckers” are upset that people think what the Ukrainian people are going through is as bad as being asked to wear a mask or vaccine mandates.

“People now say: Well, those ‘Freedom Truckers’ sure picked a bad week to try and get attention for being victims of tyranny,” wrote one Trucker fan annoyed by the war in Ukraine. “They are starting to twist the events by saying oh our suffering is somehow much less. NO IT IS NOT!”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ngk9/trucker-convoy-usa-ukraine-attention