Emma Graham-Harrison and Kuke Harding in Kyiv, Daniel Boffey in Paris and Elias Visontay – The Guardian Feb 25, 2022
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Vladimir Putin of targeting civilian as well as military sites, as explosions were heard in Kyiv and Russian ground forces reportedly came within 20 miles of the capital.
“They say that civilian objects are not a target for them. It is a lie, they do not distinguish in which areas to operate,” he said.
Zelensky made the claim in a televised address early on Friday, in which he vowed to continue to defend his country. “Russia will have to talk to us sooner or later about how to end hostilities and stop this invasion. The sooner the conversation begins, the smaller Russia’s losses will be.”
The president, who also criticised world leaders for “watching from afar”, spoke after large explosions were heard in the capital, and after a warning from US secretary of state Antony Blinken that “all evidence suggests that Russia intends to encircle and threaten” the city. Zelenskiy has vowed to stay in the capital.
The president said missile strikes resumed at 4am and some images soon emerged of damaged and burning tower blocks amid footage containing the sound of air raid sirens. Early on Friday, Ukraine’s military said it had shot down a Russia aircraft over the capital.
The UK Ministry of Defence said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had provided “fierce resistance across all axes of Russia’s advance” and that is was unlikely Russia had achieved all its objectives for the first day of the invasion.
The International criminal court (ICC) said on Friday it might investigate possible war crimes, though did not provide any further details.
Ukrainian troops are battling Russian forces advancing toward Kyiv as part of the biggest invasion of a European state since the second world war. “We believe Moscow has developed plans to inflict widespread human rights abuses – and potentially worse – on the Ukrainian people,” Blinken told a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday.
In an earlier late-night video address, Zelenskiy said 137 people had died since Putin launched an invasion by land, air and sea on Thursday, with hundreds of others injured, and claimed that Russia had named him “target number one”.
He warned: “My family is the number two target. They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. I will stay in the capital. My family is also in Ukraine.”
The Ukrainian president also voiced frustration after speaking to the heads of Nato member states. “We have been left alone to defend our state,” Zelenskiy said. “Who is ready to fight alongside us? I don’t see anyone. Who is ready to give Ukraine a guarantee of Nato membership? Everyone is afraid.”
Asked if he was worried about Zelenskiy’s safety, Blinken told CBS: “To the best of my knowledge, President Zelenskiy remains in Ukraine at his post, and of course we’re concerned for the safety of all of our friends in Ukraine –government officials and others.”
Ukraine announced it had lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site near the country’s northern border with Belarus hours after Russian troops began an invasion of its neighbour on Thursday, and the White House said it was “outraged” by credible reports that Russian forces were holding facility staff there hostage.
“This unlawful and dangerous hostage-taking, which could upend the routine civil service efforts required to maintain and protect the nuclear waste facilities, is obviously incredibly alarming and gravely concerning,” press secretary Jen Psaki said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was following the situation “with grave concern” and appealed for maximum restraint to avoid any action that may put Ukraine’s nuclear facilities at risk.
The west scrambled to respond to Putin’s aggression with a range of new sanctions against Moscow, with the US also announcing it would send 7,000 more troops to Germany to shore up Nato’s eastern borders. But even after the invasion there were divisions on the strength of the response, as Russian forces advanced undeterred by the threats.
The EU faced furious remonstrations from Kyiv after Europe’s leaders looked set to hold back from imposing the potentially most damaging sanction on Russia: blocking Russia from an international payments system through which it receives foreign currency. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said European and US politicians would have “blood on their hands” if they failed to impose the heaviest toll on Moscow by cutting Russia from the so-called Swift payments system.
The president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said the EU was united after discussions of the five-pillar sanctions package targeting the financial, energy, transport and export industries and visa controls.
She said: “Today’s events are a watershed moment for Europe. Bombs are falling on innocent women, men and children. They fear for their lives and many are dying. All of this happens in 2022 – in the very heart of Europe. President Putin chose to bring back war to Europe.
“Let me stress that these events, indeed, mark the beginning of a new era. We must be very clear in our analysis: Putin is trying to subjugate a friendly European country. And he is trying to redraw the maps of Europe by force. He must, and he will, fail.”
Leaders of the 30 Nato allied nations will meet on Friday, US president Joe Biden confirmed, as they come under pressure to go further than the two rounds of sanctions already announced, after what British prime minister Boris Johnson described as a “dark day in the history of our continent”.
The United Nations security council will also vote on Friday on a draft resolution condemning Russia’s invasion and requiring Moscow’s immediate withdrawal. However, Moscow can veto the measure, and it was unclear how China, which has rejected calling Russia’s move an “invasion, would vote.
Hilarious,
“The UK Ministry of Defense said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had provided “fierce resistance across all axes of Russia’s advance” and that is was unlikely Russia had achieved all its objectives for the first day of the invasion.”
Earlier in the tripe, they tell us that :-
“Russian ground forces reportedly came within 20 miles of the capital.”
That’s ‘ground forces’.
Clearly. Map reading, Geographical knowledge & common sense are completely lacking within the UK
Ministry for defense & the Guardian rag,
Quite a swift operation I’d say.
A whole new meaning of Shock & awe I’d say,
The western plebs are apparently disgusted that ‘civilians’ have been targeted,
Is there a word better than Hypocrisy ?
( I liked Lewis’ Spazmong the other day 😉 )
‘Nam,
Korea,
Serbia,
Afghanistan,
Iraq,
Libya.
Syria,
Donbass regions.
I wonder how the public in those nations feel about the Yank/Limey governments.
Somehow Ursula never cared about the ethnic Russians being killed in E. Ukraine over the past EIGHT yrs. Or the thousands of Europeans killed/raped by hostile “migrants” since 2015.
The Guardian?
Really?…
” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Vladimir Putin of targeting civilian as well as military sites ”
What a surprise: the ‘guardian’ is running the same story as the British Bullshit Corporation.
” They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. I will stay in the capital. My family is also in Ukraine ”
So you’re not fighting? Well, who’d have thought it. Let the slaves die in your place right? You brought this about to enrich yourself, and now you let others get killed to protect yourself. The usual garbage “leader”.
” We believe Moscow has developed plans to inflict widespread human rights abuses – and potentially worse – on the Ukrainian people ”
Gave up at this point. Iraq. Syria. Lebanon. Yemen. Palestine. Need I go on?
If you want sonething closer to the truth then read tass.
So as stated before, I ain’t reading Guardian/MI6 propaganda.
The stinking bile pouring from the fake news and politicians is a marker for their complete and utter foreign policy failures. Even Biden admitted that he/they new sanctions would never stop Russia.
This all stared with WW2, which was UK/US construct, & as that war ended, largely won by Russia, the next phase started. The Cold War was a money making control mechanism which kept Western and occupied countries in line.
When the Cold War rather abruptly ended, we had free system where the City and Wall Street were losing control. Not only that, they had but economies. The Dotcom bubble was largely a cash generator by getting Amerikan sheeple to use the cc’s to buy huge amounts of worthless tech and Internet stocks.
Then they rolled out their war on terror with 9/11. Of course, this WOT did start earlier, but 9/11 was the show starter. This was another control mechanism which started fake wars, Arab Spring, & brought in sheeple controls and fear to a new level. They put the WOT on the back burner. Funny how thousands of UK terrorists just stopped doing what they allegedly do, especially when long lines of shoppers were standing outside supermarkets, just how could they resist such an inviting target?
Then we had the Covid release, but Putin xxxxed that one up in August 2020, and MI6 had to rush out enough info so big pharma could catch up, or the gene therapy jabs were already waiting before Covid release. Either way, MI6 Covid timeline was blown apart.
Even some of the most diligent YouTube channels who question the vaccine and Covid narrative are caught out trying to involve Russia in the M-RNA conspiracy, so I am beginning to be skeptical about what they claim to be in these jabs.
The war in Eastern Ukraine has been going on for 8yrs with the UKraine military shelling sheeple in the Dombas. These claims that Russia has bought war to Europe are liars. Putin is 100% right in what he is doing. It is a humanitarian operation, but it is more than that.
Zelensky, who heads a NAZI regime, where forces wear NAZI badges, emblems and carry NAZI flags, has said that UKraine should acquire nukes and use them against Russia. Reports that Russian special forces are in Kiev and elsewhere looking for Zelensky and other officials, sounds believable, and I hope they find him, take him to that square and shoot him for the Zionist shill he is.
There’s two ways to look at how the NWO has played this. One, they wanted Russia to invade, two, they were calling Putin’s bluff, believing he didn’t have it in him to invade. I think it is a mix of the two, and I believe the West has totally got it wrong.
Just as NWO states have come down on their own sheeple, Russia will now be forces to do the same, as Russian 5th column goes into hyperdrive. The Russians who are sticking their heads above the parapet were always there, just waiting to be given their orders… let’s face it, they’ve been getting CIA and MI6 pay checks for years.
Some say Putin and Russia will suffer due to sanctions. No matter what Putin or Russia did, these sanctions were going to be implemented anyway, and those affected by these sanctions know this as well.
The UK ragime and deep state have now used three constructs to cover up the dire bankruptcy facing the UK.
First we had Brexit. The UK economy was – 16% before actual Brexit. Then we have Covid ruse to hide the broken economy, & a good excuse for more QE. Now we have a deliberate foreign policy failure which has led to a wider war in UKraine. All three constructs to hide the UK failed state.
The thicko sheeple haven’t a clue. They are busy hating Putin & Russia.
Things are going to get worse, because the failure of US and UK economies MUST reflected in all of Europe. The UK and US can’t been seen to suffer alarming falls in living standards while the EU ticks along nicely. So Europe must be crippled.
I was listening to a commentator who I didn’t catch his name, but he was rather good. Europeans can’t afford to pay 40% on utilities, so as he says, we could see revolutions in Europe.
The West is going to collapse. You’ll be unlikely to hear it said in the fake news, but this is a fact. Sheeple can’t pay for gas, businesses will close. The shelves will go bare, because we could be heading for £2/3 per litre of fuel. No one ships food, if no one can afford it. No one ships food, if your lorries get attacked, assuming the supermarkets still open.
Just as Putin doesn’t care about sanctions, bacause they were coming anyway, no matter what he did, the West doesn’t care about the sanctions damaging their own economies, bacause collapse was coming anyway.
Just an add on: fake news was suggesting yesterday that conscription could be coming to you or your lambs. Another social control mechanism… clap for the military.
Jews “defiant”, Aryans wounded. What a happy chance.
He keeps on going to play his Komic rol, he wash an teather men en still is, he should as a Jew stopped the groing Nazi’s in his country an te fucking USA with their Bio Labs, but he plays his rol to the end !
Zelenski is a pathetic fool, in a televised message to his people, he said he had spoken with President Biden! This fool still believes west is going to save him, he has forgotten all those scenarios around the world and the failure of so many wishful thinking leaders.
They handed out weapons and wooden AK47 to children and women saying people are going to resist and fight Russian invasion… but that too proved to be a joke. Ukrainian military surrendered and many escaped. The EU, NATO and US and UK all spoke! … and that’s it! Some more sanctions and that’s it, Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, etc… can all form a club of sanctioned countries and they can avoid USD in their trade dealings. Sanctions only direct trade, sanctioned countries deal among themselves and the sanctioned ones do the same, looser countries are the ones that are neither sanctioned no sanctioning! Gone are the days of imposing sanctions, even so, no country has even been sanctioned like Iran and still Iran survived.
The power vacuum in the world demands a reshuffling and new borders to be drawn. China too will invade Taiwan sooner or later, I’d say Bahrain and some Persian Gulf artificial states including Israel should be extra careful.
US and Europe are witnessing transfer of power from west to the east, many blame Biden but the truth is even under Trump, maximum pressure had failed against Iran, some clear examples:
1- Iran captures RQ-170
Obama kindly asks for it back!
2- Iran shoots down RQ-4 Global Hawk
Trump thanks Iran for not shooting down the accompanying manned U2 spy-plane.
3- Iran ships oil to Venezuela and saves the anti-US government there, in US backyard, both countries defying US sanctions.
US tries to bribe the tankers’ captains.
4- Iran send missiles and drones to Venezuela
US have done nothing.
5- US assassinated Qassem Suleimani, Iran retaliates attacking two US bases with missiles for the first time ever since Pearl Harbor, and Trump backs down from its original threat of attacking 52 targets in Iran. What does China and Russia see?!
6- UK and US capture Iran tanker in Gibraltar, Iran captures a UK flagged tanker in s similar fashion in Persian Gulf, they releases Iran’s and then 2 days later Iran releases theirs.
7- Iran captures on two occasions US SEALS and UK Commandos (harmless sailors) blinds fold them and parades them on TV, then gives them Kebab and relieves them of their military uniforms for suits! and then on the request of the then Iran’s liberal governments releases them sooner than intended!
So US weakness has only been accumulating. And the world has been watching this, Iran has been the chief demonstrator of US weakness in the world and shattering the image of US superiority at every opportunity.
Today China, Russia and Iran are the key players in the multi-polar world of 2022. In terms of ideology only Iran’s Shiite Islamic Revolution and Zionism are kicking in the world, Liberalism has been de-fanged and no longer a threat.
Why did Russia need to take control of Chernobly given that the area is largely deserted and still a radioactive risk?
My guess, to reduce the chance of a false flag event..
There’s still a high chance that UK special forces will false flag at some point.
I think it’s clear that Russia is fighting a large contingent of ex Western military employed as mercenaries, which will be a big problem for the West when foreign bodies and prisoners are put on display.
It’s all good, the harder these mercenaries fight, the more of them will die and the more damage gets done. As we’ve seen, many regular UKrainian soldiers have surrendered. I really do believe those who are fighting the hardest are hired guns.
Ben Wallace is making statements as if he’s talking to the SAS on the ground in Ukraine. That’s not to say he’s telling the truth.
The BBC says Russian armoured vehicles are in the outer suburbs of Kiev. Soon we could see the MI6 tunnels at work. If so, the Russians will use thermobaric weapons, including fuel/air tunnel clearing tactics… ugly.
There’s an interesting 44-second video from Tulsi Gabbard giving us a few facts about Ukraine which our western establishments do not want us to know.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZMyz3e3b84uO/
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Good analysis. How do you explain Russia,China and Iran being supposedly key players in this multi-polar world, but show obsequiousness to global big Pharma?
Notice when Hitler invaded ‘Poland’ they declared war on him within a few days, but when their Chabad Lubavitch boy invades & violates Ukraine’s ‘sovereignty’, nothing is done…oh that’s right..they’re all on the same yarmulke wearing team, just pretending they’re ‘enemies’ for goyim…
Nico X .. Ukraine then was run by Komissars speaking Yiddish as e.g.
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And today those Komissars are speaking Hebrew ….
To Two Rials–globalists like Bernard Russell were looking forward to a world modelled on the ant-men of China a hundred years ago. It is easier for banks and their owned politicians to rule soulless and machine-like ant-men.
“The International criminal court (ICC) said on Friday it might investigate possible war crimes,” The unmitigated gall. The ICC didn’t seem to say jack shit about at all the flagrant, wildly immoral and grossly illegal acts of aggression committed by the Jewnited States, Jew-K, Israel, and coalition of the lackeys over the past few decades, but they are going to squawk at Russia for taking an affirmative step to address an inflammatory build-up right on Russia’s doorstep? Russia’s response to that should be to turn the ICC into a pile of smouldering rubble.
Then we have that repugnant Jew asshole Tony Blinken vomiting out, ““We believe Moscow has developed plans to inflict widespread human rights abuses – and potentially worse”. Ok, you pig-f*cking degenerate, because if anyone knows about inflicting “widespread human rights abuses” it’s a Jew cartel member.
And that festering depraved c*nt Ursula von der Leyen puked this out of her lie-hole, “Bombs are falling on innocent women, men and children. They fear for their lives and many are dying. All of this happens in 2022 – in the very heart of Europe.” … Where was von der Leyen when tons and tons of bombs were falling on innocent women, men, and children in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine ….?
@Carl Jones is correct. Foreign mercenaries are on the ground in Ukraine, directing operations and probably taking part. No doubt the Russians have made capturing them one of their priorities.
The emphasis given to capturing Chernobyl is significant. The Russians understood that Ukraine was going to either blow up the plant as a false flag, or use it to blackmail the West into intervening. The destruction of US biowarfare in Ukraine labs shows a similar understanding.
so it’s a soft war for the “west”- ag=ainst the “east”. Hegelian dialectic.
The website has really fallen on hard times. You numbnuts actually believe Putin is on your side and that he is the great white savior. Putin is no more a puppet that Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He is an actor and comedian who just so happens to be the leader of Ukraine.(Well, we had a failed actor and comedian for the USA President between 2017 to 2020). Why don’t you look up his IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3305952/?ref_=tt_ov_st
This website DOES NOT beliee Putin will save anyone. Some of the commentators on the site may think differently. But this website DOED NOT believe that Putin will be anyone’s “saviour”.