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3rd March 2022… South Front News
Mariupol is a big port city, mainly ethnic Russian, situated in the part of Donetsk still controlled by Ukraine, between the Russian controlled areas of Donetsk Repuiblic (DPR) and Crimea. The Ukranian Nazis aim to again keep the city by any means (as they did in 2014) and have prepared a trap which threatens to cause a bloodbath as Russian and DPR troops close in.
The city of Mariupol remains blockaded by the joint forces of Russia and the DPR. Fighting is going on the outskirts of the city. At the same time, the joint forces do not begin the major assault, but several clashes were recorded in the city’s outskirts.
On March 2, the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko confirmed the beginning of street fighting in the city. According to him, Mariupol is being stormed from the northern and northwestern directions.
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No attempts of counter-offensive attacks by Ukrainian forces were reported.
Given the large number of Ukrainian armed forces and nationalistic fighters in the city, it will not be possible to take it quickly. The main place of concentration of Ukrainian nationalist forces is Ordzhonikidze district, the left bank of the Kalmius River.
However, the UAF have no forces in the region to deblockade the city. The roads leading to Mariupol are under control of the joint forces of Russia and the DPR. On March 2, the DPR units closed the ring around Mariupol and took control over the settlements of Primorskoye, Priazovskoye, Shevchenko and Berdyansk.
As previously stated by the representative of the DPR, there is still a chance to organize the evacuation of civilians. For example, the Consulate General of Greece in Mariupol is compiling lists of residents with their own vehicles, for whom a “green corridor” should be secured, so that they could go to Romania and further to Greece. The evacuation of women and children is also reportedly being worked out.
However, the nationalist battalions, which are hiding in large numbers in residential areas of the city, are in no hurry to let their ‘human shields’ go.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that in Mariupol, militants of the Azov battalion mined the workshops of the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal. Nationalists are ready to blow up the plant with people in case of a breakthrough in the city. Also, the Russian representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia claimed the preparation of provocations with civilians in hostage, including women and children, were detected in the local schools.
At the same time, unlike in Kharkiv, the civilian territorial defense is inactive in Mariupol. The distribution of weapons is limited.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in the city is deteriorating. There is no food and medicine supply in the city, people are starting to starve.
In many areas, power grids, water utilities and various civil infrastructure have been damaged. Despite the fact that the assault has not yet begun.
Felines owned by Russians have been banned from international competitions as punishment for Moscow’s attack on Ukraine
A cat sits near a laptop showing a live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the nation © Sputnik / Nikolai Khizhniak
The International Feline Federation (FIFe) has weighed in on the Ukraine crisis, banning Russian-owned cats from competing in its shows as a sanction for Moscow’s military attack on the former Soviet republic.
“The FIFe executive board is shocked and horrified that the army of the Russian Federation invaded the Republic of Ukraine and started a war,” the Paris-based federation said on Tuesday. The group added that it “cannot just witness these atrocities and do nothing.”
As a result, cats belonging to Russian residents will be banned from entry at FIFe shows. In addition, no cats bred in Russia can be imported and registered in a FIFe pedigree book, the group said.
No cat belonging to exhibitors living in Russia may be entered at any FIFe show outside Russia, regardless of which organization these exhibitors hold their membership in.
The sanctions will remain in place through at least May and may be extended, presumably depending on what transpires in Ukraine. FIFe said it will use some of its budget to support cat breeders and fanciers in Ukraine. “Our Ukrainian fellow feline fanciers are desperately trying to take care of their cats and other animals in these trying circumstances,” the federation said.
3 Mar, 2022 14:51 Home RT Russia & FSU
The two sides met earlier this week on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border
Russian and Ukrainian delegations shake hands before the talks begin in Belarus. © RT
The second round of peace talks between representatives from Kiev and Moscow has kicked off in Belarus as Russia’s armed forces continue to attack Ukraine.
On Thursday, the head of the Servant of the People party in Ukraine’s parliament, David Arakhamia, revealed that discussions were due to take place shortly.
Arakhamia, who is serving as a member of Ukraine’s delegation during the peace discussions, issued a statement detailing what Kiev is intending to achieve from the negotiations with Moscow.
According to him, the “minimum” Ukraine is seeking to gain from the crunch talks is the guarantee of humanitarian corridors, while everything else “depends on the circumstances.”
Moscow’s chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said on Wednesday that the two sides will discuss a ceasefire during their talks in Belovezhskaya Pushcha near the Polish-Belarusian border.
Belarus hails Russia-Ukraine negotiations
Representatives from Kiev and Moscow first met for five hours on Monday in Gomel Region, Belarus. Initially, Kiev rejected a proposal for the talks to be hosted in the former Soviet republic, accusing Minsk of supporting Russia’s incursion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed dissatisfaction with the first round of the peace talks, insisting that “so far, we do not have the result that we would like to achieve.”
“Russia stated its position. We voiced our counterarguments [on how to] end the war. We received some signals. When the delegation returns to Kiev, we will analyze what we have heard and then we will decide how to proceed to the second round of negotiations,” he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last Thursday following requests from the leaders of the recently recognized Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (DPR) People’s Republics for “help in repelling the Ukrainian military aggression.”
Putin insisted that there are no plans to occupy the former Soviet republic’s territory, arguing that the objective of the attack is the“demilitarization” and “denazification” of its neighbor.
LA VICEPRESIDENTA SEGUNDA DEL GOBIERNO Y MINISTRA DE TRABAJO Y ECONOMÍA SOCIAL, YOLANDA DÍAZ, HA VUELTO A DEFENDER HOY QUE ESPAÑA ENVÍE MATERIAL ARMAMENTÍSCO OFENSIVO A UCRANIA, DESTACANDO QUE EL LIDERAZGO EN LA POLÍTICA EXTERIOR LE CORRESPONDE AL PRESIDENTE DEL GOBIERNO. SUBRAYÓ QUE PESE AL ENVÍO, NUNCA VAN A ABANDONAR LA VÍA DIPLOMÁTICA Y LAS […]
ANTE TODO, DIGNIDAD — RE-EVOLUCIÓN
In support of lunatics in charge of the Washington asylum, the NYT and other MSM provide press agent services for their crimes of war and against humanity — at home and abroad.
According to Times fake news, preeminent peace and stability advocate Vladimir Putin is an “aggressor (sic).”
Citing nonexistent US intelligence, the Big Lie about hostile Russian intentions against Ukraine persists.
No satellite images show Russian hordes massed near Ukraine’s border.
No evidence of a planned Russian “false flag attack” or other provocation exists to invade Ukraine or for any other reason.
No Kremlin plot to install a pro-Russian government in Kiev.
No Kremlin “information warfare” on all things Ukraine and the West.
No Russian breaches of international law of any kind.
Yet NYT fake news falsely reported otherwise.
Like countless earlier Russia bashing reports, its latest one reads like a White House, Pentagon, CIA and/or State Department press…
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info from Aletho New | February 27, 2022
Ukraine is releasing jailed far right murderers and criminals with a military background so they can join the fight against Russia’s “special operation” in the country, an official in Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office confirmed on Sunday.
Katya Handziuk
Katya was doused with acid in July 2018 on a street outside her home and died in the hospital with severe burns 3 months lateer, still demanding justice, after suffering 12 operations for terrible burns .
Sergey Torbin, a former combat veteran, was one of the inmates released. Torbin previously fought in the conflict with the DPR and LPR. He was jailed for six years and six months in 2018 leading the gang who murdered Kateryna Viktorivna Handziuk a Ukrainian civil rights and anti-corruption activist.
Sinyuk said Torbin has now handpicked former inmates for his squad after his early release. Impunity has become normal in Ukraine, Kiev is a capital of the global far-right, inviting neo-Nazis and white supremacists from around the world to visit.
One of the men picked is former combat veteran Dmitry Balabukha, who was sentenced to nine years in jail for stabbing a man to death at a bus stop after an argument in 2018.
Katya is one of hundreds attacked or killed by legalised Ukranian nazis. Many victims are trans, minority or LGBT. In her case she had campaigned against rampant corruption, but probably received especial cruelty for being a woman and allegedly speaking in support of ethnic Russian victims besieged in Donbass.
During her whistle-blower career, she exposed everything from local police corruption to illegal logging operations. Katya’s photo, even when dying disfigured in hospital was published, especially by the BBC. But consider why we cannot find a photo of Sergey Torbin on the internet as he now walks free.
Sergey and his followers had participated in the 8 year siege of Donbass by Ukranian army and volunteer nazi battalions in which nearly 15,000 people died before Russia finally invaded on 24 Feb 2022. .He was only finally arrested for killing Katya after a huge internatiional public campaign for justice.
Far right nazis and thugs are now admired in male popular culture, attacking leftists, gays and feminists is accepted as nationalist sentiment and monuments to Ukranian nazi leaders, including Stepan Bandera the ‘Ukranian Hitler’ have been erected around the country, since the 2014 “coup”.
The climate of impunity is aided by ‘carter blanche’ support from the US, EU and IMF. Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch mentioned in testimony on 15 November 2019 before the United States House Permanent Select Committee that she was honoring Kateryna Handziuk on 25 April, when she received a phone call from Washington, DC ordering her to leave Ukraine.[13]
“I’m far from the first person who’s fallen victim to Ukrainian far-right groups, nor anywhere near the most serious”..said attacked US journalist Michael Colborne. “Their members have attacked Roma camps multiple times, even killing a Roma man earlier this year. They’ve stormed local city council meetings to intimidate elected officials. They’ve marched by the thousands through the streets to commemorate WWII-era nationalist formations who took part in ethnic cleansing. They’ve acted as vigilantes with little to no negative reaction from state authorities. Ex President Petro Poroshenko and almost 1,500 neo-Nazis and friends threw a two-day Hitler-salute-fest. “.
Sinyuk said Torbin handpicked former inmates for his squad after his early release. He added that another ex-serviceman, Dmitry Balabukha, sentenced to nine years in jail for stabbing a man to death at a bus stop after an argument in 2018, had also been released.
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Note: We don’t publish the above to defend any Russian attacks on civilians.
But we do signal the ignorant hypocrisy of those who shout for peace, call Russians nazis and applaud the dozens of states now shipping free armaments to the Ukraine military, despite their history of corrupt killings, impunity and attempted genocide of minorities like the Russian miners in Donbass.
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