Ukraine's health ministry said on today that 352 civilians, including 14 children, had been killed since the beginning of Russia's invasion. It also said that 1,684 people, including 116 children, had been wounded.
ONGOING ARMED CONFLICT Russia Declares Open War on Ukraine And Launches Missles on Major Cities
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Anti-War Protests Break Out Across Belarus
Protests broke out at several locations across Belarus on February 27 against the invasion of Ukraine. Crowds chanted "Glory to Ukraine!" and "No to war!" before police came and made hundreds of arrests. Participants uploaded numerous videos.
Hospital in Ukraine after several children were injured in an attack on civilians. Unfortunately I was unable to verify location and date this image was taken.
We only post such information after it is checked from several credible sources like ministry of interior of ukraine or ministry of health.
Just a few hours ago Kyiv's defence ministry said they have and store approximately 5,300 Russian corpses, and claimed that 191 tanks, 29 fighter jets, 29 helicopters and 816 armoured personnel carriers have been destroyed by Ukraine's forces.
AW SHUCKS !!!!There are no security cameras in Russian morgues.
Ukranian sailor attempted to sink private yacht owned by a Russian arms manufacturer.
BBC 2/28/22
A Ukrainian sailor has admitted trying to sink a yacht owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
The 48m (157ft) Lady Anastasia, which belongs to Rosoboronexport director general Alexander Mikheev, was docked in Majorca in Spain when the mechanic opened valves in its engine room.
He was arrested by Civil Guard officers on Saturday and later released on bail.
He told a judge that he regretted nothing and would do it again.
Local media report that he told Civil Guard officers in Port Adriano: "My boss is a criminal who sells weapons that kill the Ukrainian people."
At a court hearing on Sunday, the man said he tried to scuttle Mr Mikheev's yacht after watching news reports from Ukraine on the television,
"There was a video of a helicopter attack on a building in Kyiv," he was quoted as saying.
"They were attacking innocents."
On Saturday, a high-rise apartment building near Kyiv's Zhuliany airport was hit by a missile, leaving a hole covering at least five floors.
There was no immediate comment from Mr Mikheev or Rosoboronexport, which exports Russian defence products, including tanks, fighting vehicles, aircraft, ships, weapons and ammunition.
BBC 2/28/22
A Ukrainian sailor has admitted trying to sink a yacht owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
The 48m (157ft) Lady Anastasia, which belongs to Rosoboronexport director general Alexander Mikheev, was docked in Majorca in Spain when the mechanic opened valves in its engine room.
He was arrested by Civil Guard officers on Saturday and later released on bail.
He told a judge that he regretted nothing and would do it again.
Local media report that he told Civil Guard officers in Port Adriano: "My boss is a criminal who sells weapons that kill the Ukrainian people."
At a court hearing on Sunday, the man said he tried to scuttle Mr Mikheev's yacht after watching news reports from Ukraine on the television,
"There was a video of a helicopter attack on a building in Kyiv," he was quoted as saying.
"They were attacking innocents."
On Saturday, a high-rise apartment building near Kyiv's Zhuliany airport was hit by a missile, leaving a hole covering at least five floors.
There was no immediate comment from Mr Mikheev or Rosoboronexport, which exports Russian defence products, including tanks, fighting vehicles, aircraft, ships, weapons and ammunition.
BLOCKING RUSSIAN FLIGHTS
NEWSWEEK 2/28/22
A plane from Moscow bound for New York performed a U-turn over the sea mid-flight and headed back to Russia, amid fresh restrictions in the wake of the Ukrainian invasion.
Aeroflot flight SU124/AFL124 departed Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on Sunday and was due to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK.)
But hours into the flight, website FlightRadar24 shows the aircraft performed a U-turn over the ocean, just off the coast of Greenland, and headed back to Moscow.
The website indicates the plane had a delayed takeoff, finally departing at 12:55 UTC, before the U-turn appeared to take place about four hours into the flight.
The same route, scheduled for March 1, has since been canceled, according to the website.
The plane's flight path was shared to Reddit's There Was An Attempt forum on Monday, by Bostero2, where it received more than 27,000 upvotes. The flight map was captioned: "To fly to New York."
Canada moved to ban Russian planes from using its airspace on Sunday, likely one of the factors prompting the flight to turn back.
Canada's Transport Minister Omar Alghabra tweeted the edict on Sunday, saying: "Effective immediately, Canada's airspace is closed to all Russian aircraft operators. We will hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked attacks against Ukraine."
Alghabra added: "All of Canada is united in its outrage of President Putin's aggression against Ukraine. In response, we have closed Canadian airspace to Russian-owned or operated aircraft. The Government of Canada condemns Russia's aggressive actions and we will continue to take action to stand with Ukraine."
A release added: "The Government of Canada is prohibiting the operation of Russian-owned, chartered or operated aircraft in Canadian airspace, including in the airspace above Canada's territorial waters. This airspace closure is effective immediately and will remain until further notice."
Another Aeroflot craft fell foul of the ban soon after it was imposed, seeing Canada issue a warning to Russian planes.
Flight 111, traveling from Miami to Moscow, took off at 15:12 ET on Sunday, according to FlightRadar24, and used Canadian airspace.
"We are launching a review of the conduct of Aeroflot and the independent air navigation service provider, NAVCAN, leading up to this violation. We will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action and other measures to prevent future violations."
A spokesperson for Canada's transport minister claimed NAVCAN, their air-traffic control service provider, had mistakenly permitted the banned aircraft to use Canadian airspace, according to Reuters.
"We are currently cooperating with Transport Canada to investigate the occurrence, and are working with neighboring Air Navigation Service Providers to support rerouting of aircraft prior to them entering Canadian-controlled airspace," the site quoted NAVCAN as saying.
While there are no direct flights from Canada to Russia, previously numerous routes passed through the enormous country's airspace on their way to other destinations.
The European Union also moved to ban Russian planes from its airspace, the president of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, confirmed in a series of tweets on Sunday.
Announcing a slew of measures against Russia, she said: "First, we are shutting down the EU airspace for Russian-owned, Russian registered or Russian-controlled aircraft.
"They won't be able to land in, take off or overfly the territory of the EU. Including the private jets of oligarchs."
On Reddit, numerous people theorized the EU ban could have played a wider role in the diversion than Canada's ban.
Pizzzahero wrote: "If they had landed, they would have been considered a "new" flight on their way back and wouldn't have been allowed into EU airspace. So they turned around instead, because the EU wasn't going to enforce that on existing flights that were already in the air at the time of the announcement."
StenSoft commented: "Nope, they were approved all the way to New York with their flight plan. They returned because the European ban on new flights came in effect and they wouldn't be able to return to Russia after they landed in New York."
Ison-J wrote: "I'm not an expert at all but I believe a good number of European countries have decided to ban all Russian aircraft from entering their airspace so they'd have to go around multiple countries or not go back at all."
Newsweek reached out to Aeroflot for comment.
NEWSWEEK 2/28/22
A plane from Moscow bound for New York performed a U-turn over the sea mid-flight and headed back to Russia, amid fresh restrictions in the wake of the Ukrainian invasion.
Aeroflot flight SU124/AFL124 departed Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on Sunday and was due to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK.)
But hours into the flight, website FlightRadar24 shows the aircraft performed a U-turn over the ocean, just off the coast of Greenland, and headed back to Moscow.
The website indicates the plane had a delayed takeoff, finally departing at 12:55 UTC, before the U-turn appeared to take place about four hours into the flight.
The same route, scheduled for March 1, has since been canceled, according to the website.
The plane's flight path was shared to Reddit's There Was An Attempt forum on Monday, by Bostero2, where it received more than 27,000 upvotes. The flight map was captioned: "To fly to New York."
Canada moved to ban Russian planes from using its airspace on Sunday, likely one of the factors prompting the flight to turn back.
Canada's Transport Minister Omar Alghabra tweeted the edict on Sunday, saying: "Effective immediately, Canada's airspace is closed to all Russian aircraft operators. We will hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked attacks against Ukraine."
Alghabra added: "All of Canada is united in its outrage of President Putin's aggression against Ukraine. In response, we have closed Canadian airspace to Russian-owned or operated aircraft. The Government of Canada condemns Russia's aggressive actions and we will continue to take action to stand with Ukraine."
A release added: "The Government of Canada is prohibiting the operation of Russian-owned, chartered or operated aircraft in Canadian airspace, including in the airspace above Canada's territorial waters. This airspace closure is effective immediately and will remain until further notice."
Another Aeroflot craft fell foul of the ban soon after it was imposed, seeing Canada issue a warning to Russian planes.
Flight 111, traveling from Miami to Moscow, took off at 15:12 ET on Sunday, according to FlightRadar24, and used Canadian airspace.
"We are launching a review of the conduct of Aeroflot and the independent air navigation service provider, NAVCAN, leading up to this violation. We will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action and other measures to prevent future violations."
A spokesperson for Canada's transport minister claimed NAVCAN, their air-traffic control service provider, had mistakenly permitted the banned aircraft to use Canadian airspace, according to Reuters.
"We are currently cooperating with Transport Canada to investigate the occurrence, and are working with neighboring Air Navigation Service Providers to support rerouting of aircraft prior to them entering Canadian-controlled airspace," the site quoted NAVCAN as saying.
While there are no direct flights from Canada to Russia, previously numerous routes passed through the enormous country's airspace on their way to other destinations.
The European Union also moved to ban Russian planes from its airspace, the president of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, confirmed in a series of tweets on Sunday.
Announcing a slew of measures against Russia, she said: "First, we are shutting down the EU airspace for Russian-owned, Russian registered or Russian-controlled aircraft.
"They won't be able to land in, take off or overfly the territory of the EU. Including the private jets of oligarchs."
On Reddit, numerous people theorized the EU ban could have played a wider role in the diversion than Canada's ban.
Pizzzahero wrote: "If they had landed, they would have been considered a "new" flight on their way back and wouldn't have been allowed into EU airspace. So they turned around instead, because the EU wasn't going to enforce that on existing flights that were already in the air at the time of the announcement."
StenSoft commented: "Nope, they were approved all the way to New York with their flight plan. They returned because the European ban on new flights came in effect and they wouldn't be able to return to Russia after they landed in New York."
Ison-J wrote: "I'm not an expert at all but I believe a good number of European countries have decided to ban all Russian aircraft from entering their airspace so they'd have to go around multiple countries or not go back at all."
Newsweek reached out to Aeroflot for comment.
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ONE OF THE REASONS WHY UKRAINIANS ARE FIGHTING SO FIERCELY
From: The Week US
The genocide that still haunts Russian-Ukrainian relations
Opinion by Jason Fields - 4h ago 2/28/22
Russia once tried to kill millions of Ukrainians. The nation hasn't forgotten.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long regretted the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unsurprisingly, that nostalgia for a lost empire isn't shared by those in Ukraine he's now trying to conquer.
In a long, rambling broadcast as the invasion was beginning last week, Putin spoke of the shared history of Russia and Ukraine and what he called the tragedy of Ukrainian independence. "From the very first steps, they began to build their statehood on the denial of everything that unites us. They tried to distort the consciousness, the historical memory of millions of people, entire generations living in Ukraine," Putin said, according to the Reuters translation.
Yet calling on those shared memories seems a strange choice, as that history includes one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the 20th century: the HOLODOMOR.
The Holodomor (the Ukrainian term for death by hunger) was a famine that killed nearly 4 million people between 1932-33. It was artificially engineered by Joseph Stalin as an attempt to bring the rebellious Soviet republic to heel, and is widely acknowledged today as a genocide against the people of Ukraine.
The great starvation took place in Ukraine's farmland, sometimes called the Black Earth due to the color of its soil. It is among the most fertile land in the world and Ukraine itself was known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union; even today, the nation has been a source of much of the World Food Programme's aid to other countries. But at the end of the 1920s, with hunger spreading in Russia largely because of Communist policies, Stalin demanded farms and livestock be taken from their owners and collectivized, which he believed would be more modern and efficient. Many Ukrainian farmers refused to join collectives and were killed for their defiance, with thousands of others exiled to the desolation of Siberia.
The famine grew worse throughout the Soviet Union and reached its peak in 1932. In their zeal for wringing grain from Ukrainian farms, the Communists took not just every last morsel from many farmers, but even the seeds needed for the next year's planting. "The brigades took all the wheat, barley — everything — so we had nothing left," Holodomor survivor Nina Karpenko told the BBC in 2013. "Even beans that people had set aside just in case."
Finally, with nothing left to eat, people turned on each other, at times eating the corpses of their neighbors, even members of their families. Still other people resorted to murder. There are reports of mothers killing their weakest and youngest children to feed the others.
The tragedy is unimaginable. The scars on the survivors are permanent and passed down through generations of remembered trauma. But if Ukrainians have not forgotten the events of 1932-33, neither has Russia.
The Holodomor remains a politicized topic in Russia today, with the recent screening of a film in Moscow about the mass starvation broken up by masked men. Putin's government has since taken legal action against Memorial, the human rights group that was showing it, threatening to dissolve the organization. Clearly, even after 90 years, the deliberate starvation of Ukraine is not so far in the past.
Putin is right: Russia and Ukraine share a deep common history. But perhaps that history doesn't mean what he thinks it does. Rather than an argument for invasion, history may be Ukraine's greatest argument for independence.
This makes me wonder if one of Putin's objectives to annex this agriculturally rich nation is to hedge against climate change?
From: The Week US
The genocide that still haunts Russian-Ukrainian relations
Opinion by Jason Fields - 4h ago 2/28/22
Russia once tried to kill millions of Ukrainians. The nation hasn't forgotten.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long regretted the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unsurprisingly, that nostalgia for a lost empire isn't shared by those in Ukraine he's now trying to conquer.
In a long, rambling broadcast as the invasion was beginning last week, Putin spoke of the shared history of Russia and Ukraine and what he called the tragedy of Ukrainian independence. "From the very first steps, they began to build their statehood on the denial of everything that unites us. They tried to distort the consciousness, the historical memory of millions of people, entire generations living in Ukraine," Putin said, according to the Reuters translation.
Yet calling on those shared memories seems a strange choice, as that history includes one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the 20th century: the HOLODOMOR.
The Holodomor (the Ukrainian term for death by hunger) was a famine that killed nearly 4 million people between 1932-33. It was artificially engineered by Joseph Stalin as an attempt to bring the rebellious Soviet republic to heel, and is widely acknowledged today as a genocide against the people of Ukraine.
The great starvation took place in Ukraine's farmland, sometimes called the Black Earth due to the color of its soil. It is among the most fertile land in the world and Ukraine itself was known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union; even today, the nation has been a source of much of the World Food Programme's aid to other countries. But at the end of the 1920s, with hunger spreading in Russia largely because of Communist policies, Stalin demanded farms and livestock be taken from their owners and collectivized, which he believed would be more modern and efficient. Many Ukrainian farmers refused to join collectives and were killed for their defiance, with thousands of others exiled to the desolation of Siberia.
The famine grew worse throughout the Soviet Union and reached its peak in 1932. In their zeal for wringing grain from Ukrainian farms, the Communists took not just every last morsel from many farmers, but even the seeds needed for the next year's planting. "The brigades took all the wheat, barley — everything — so we had nothing left," Holodomor survivor Nina Karpenko told the BBC in 2013. "Even beans that people had set aside just in case."
Finally, with nothing left to eat, people turned on each other, at times eating the corpses of their neighbors, even members of their families. Still other people resorted to murder. There are reports of mothers killing their weakest and youngest children to feed the others.
The tragedy is unimaginable. The scars on the survivors are permanent and passed down through generations of remembered trauma. But if Ukrainians have not forgotten the events of 1932-33, neither has Russia.
The Holodomor remains a politicized topic in Russia today, with the recent screening of a film in Moscow about the mass starvation broken up by masked men. Putin's government has since taken legal action against Memorial, the human rights group that was showing it, threatening to dissolve the organization. Clearly, even after 90 years, the deliberate starvation of Ukraine is not so far in the past.
Putin is right: Russia and Ukraine share a deep common history. But perhaps that history doesn't mean what he thinks it does. Rather than an argument for invasion, history may be Ukraine's greatest argument for independence.
This makes me wonder if one of Putin's objectives to annex this agriculturally rich nation is to hedge against climate change?
Anonymous continues attacks on Russia -
Here's how Kharkiv looks today March 1 after Russian strikes
Russian forces bombarded a residential area in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city with rockets killing ten civilians, including three children, and wounded 37 others.
Analysis of Russian soldiers' morale in the Washington Post.
