“They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the
Geneva convention,” Markarova said after briefing members of the U.S.
Congress. “The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine
is large.” NationalPost
The Checehn Republic, a Muslim-majority federal subject of the Russian Federation headed by Islamist strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is reported to have sent forces to Ukraine to support President Vladimir Patin’s ongoing invasion of the country, with Kadyrov sharing video footage which purports to show Chehen fighters replacing the Ukrainian flag with a Russian flag at a captured military facility.
The “Azov fighters” of the National Guard of Ukraine who have filmed
themselves smearing bullets intended for “the Kadyrov orcs” with pig fat
— which Muslims consider fundamentally unclean — are almost equally notorious,
being former paramilitaries of the Azov Battalion, a volunteer militia
with strong neo-Nazi links which was only integrated into the Ukrainian
military proper in 2014." Breitbart
In a Facebook post, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukraine has agreed to talks with Russia on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
" Turkey ’s foreign minister said Sunday that the situation in Ukraine had become a war, a legal distinction that paves the way for Ankara to potentially ban Russian warships from entering the Black Sea through a strategic chokepoint," The Wall Street Journal reports. The terms of the 1936 Montreux Convention is now expected to be triggered. Speaking to CNN Turk Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said:
“We came to the conclusion that the situation in Ukraine has transformed into a war,” and this means “We will implement all articles of Montreux transparently.”
Last
Thursday - which was the first day of the all-out Russian invasion,
Ukraine's government urged Turkey to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles
Straits for all Russian warship passage." ZH
According to the service, the tanker "Athena", which was in the territorial sea of Romania, 22 miles from Snake Island, received an open channel of communication and security of navigation command to approach the Russian warship for inspection.
The ship-owner of the tanker "Athena" immediately informed all authorities in Ukraine.
At
the same time, maritime border guards recorded the fact of a sharp and
illogical change of course by another ship under the Ukrainian flag. The Princess Nicole dry cargo ship from Romanian waters was also headed for Snake Island....Almost as soon as both civilian ships approached Russian warships, the AIS was turned off and they stopped communicating." EXPRESS
These women have been referred to as “babushkas” — a Russian word referring to a grandmother or older woman....Smahlenko said she attended the training in preparation of defending her country.
“I am ready to fight if Russia does invade, even if I have to get
into a fistfight with them,” Smahlenko said. “They are not our
brothers.” WJ
Until Sunday, Russia's troops had remained on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million about 12.4 miles south of the border with Russia, while other forces rolled past to press the offensive deeper into Ukraine.
Videos posted on Ukrainian media and social networks showed Russian
vehicles moving across Kharkiv and Russian troops roaming the city in
small groups. One video showed Ukrainian soldiers inspecting Russian
light utility vehicles damaged by shelling and abandoned by Russian
troops on a street." JapanToday
Russian forces shelled the medical vehicle, blowing it up. A driver
and a patient were burned alive, Segodnya news site reported. The
patient was injured due to Russian shelling earlier that day." MichaelSavage.com
Ambassador Oksana Markarova told reporters at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington that “occupation forces are also handing out, actively, gas masks to local militants and the Russian military in Donetsk Oblast,” citing Ukrainian intelligence reports." WE
“Ukrainian rushes under enemy equipment so that the occupiers do not pass,” HB tweeted.
The video sparked comparisons to the photo of a man standing down a line of four Chinese tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The image, taken after the Chinese government had brutally cracked down on pro-democracy protests, has become a symbol of defiance in the face of authoritarianism, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential of all time.
It is unclear where the video was filmed. More than 10 vehicles are
in the convoy, many of which appear to have a “Z” painted on the side.
The Z symbol was spotted on Russian military trucks as troops gathered at the Ukraine border." ZH
The
outages on kremlin.ru came as Ukraine’s vice prime minister said it had
launched an ‘IT army’ to combat Russia in cyberspace." SydneyHerald
The full statement can be found here. It wasn't immediately clear which are the "selected Russian banks" or what "restrictive measures" will be taken against the central bank. It also does not detail whether oil and gas payments will stop (according to Bloomberg's in house energy expect Javier Blas, the answer is no)." ZH
Olga Larkina, the director of Russia’s Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, spoke to Russian investigative news outlet Meduza, describing how Russian conscripts – those fulfilling military enlistment requirements – had been pressured, or at times even forced to sign contracts to become soldiers for the Russian military.
"Mothers are telling us that
their sons have been calling them and saying they’re being forced to
sign contracts. We believe it’s wrong to force a conscript to become a
contract soldier," Larkina said, according to the translated article.
"The parents who have gotten in touch have told us their sons were just
taken by military officers, stamped, and that’s it — now they’re
contract soldiers." FOX
