For delivery in March, the gas price goes up 40%, to about €125 per
megawatt-hour (MWh). The price for the supply of electricity is also
rising some 40%, to €300 per MWh, reports the Belga News Agency." BrusselsTimes
“In a situation like this it is important that Sweden’s long-standing
security policy stays firm. That we are predictable and clear,”
Andersson said." TheLocal
But Patreon told CNBC that using the site to support the purchase of military equipment was banned.
“Patreon
does not allow any campaigns involved in violence or purchasing of
military equipment, regardless of their cause,” a company spokesperson
told CNBC in an email. “We are investigating because of representations
on their donation page for
how the funds will be used. We have suspended the campaign in question
while we investigate. If a page is ultimately removed our policy is to
send the creator the remaining funds or refund all pledges.” CNBC
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes the announcement saying the UN and its humanitarian partners “are committed to staying and delivering, to support people in Ukraine in their time of need … regardless of who or where they are.”
“With deaths rising, we are seeing images of fear, anguish and terror
in every corner of Ukraine,” the UN chief says. “People — everyday
innocent people — always pay the highest price.” Times Of Israel
The Ukraine Armed Forces will now determine the number of conscripts that must be drafted to contend with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country, according to the official decree.
Zelensky began conscripting reservists aged 18 to 60 on Wednesday, but had previously ruled out a general mobilization of the population." NYP
The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported
on a network of pro-Russian infiltrators and turncoats that Ukrainian
officials believe constitute a “fifth column” in the country’s capital." NYP
Another 306 Ukrainian citizens have been wounded, Zelensky said." NYP
In 2017, hired guns from Russia’s Wagner Group, a private paramilitary outfit, were reportedly behind the savage mutilation and beheading of a Syrian army deserter.
They have also been linked to widespread rapes and robberies of civilians in the Central African Republic last year, according to human rights groups.
In recent weeks, some 300 Russian operatives from Wagner arrived in the separatist enclaves of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine wearing civilian clothes.
While it’s not clear what their purpose is in the region, Wagner’s paramilitaries, who are largely made up of former Russian soldiers, have, allegedly, increasingly been involved in some of the bloodiest conflicts in the world where Russia has an interest.
In 2018, US-led coalition forces in Syria injured and killed 300 Wagner-linked operatives, according to reports. Russia has aligned itself with Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad in the country’s nearly 11-year civil war.
The Wagner Group was reportedly founded by Dmitry Utkin, a former special forces colonel and veteran of the two wars in Chechnya. The company is named after Utkin’s call sign (“Wagner”), itself said to be an homage to Adolf Hitler’s favorite opera composer, Richard Wagner. The firm is believed to be owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin who is also known as “Putin’s cook” because restaurants and catering companies he owns have hosted lavish dinner parties for the country’s political elite." NYP
"I’m a freelance reporter and was invited as a guest to a press trip you organized for me in Kramatorsk and confirmed at 8 p.m. yesterday," she tweeted Thursday. "At 5:54, while I was on the night train, you cancelled my trip by WhatsApp and told me you will not even pick me up!"
She said she
was left alone, without body armor, and told it was up to her where to
disembark from the train "while hostilities were going on all around."
Her whereabouts could not immediately be independently confirmed." FOX
"We have no intention of fighting Russia," Biden declared. "We want to send an unmistakable message, though, that the United States, together with our allies, will defend every inch of NATO territory and abide by the commitments we made to NATO."....the proclamation was undercut by the fact that Ukraine — the object of Putin's aggression — is neither a member of NATO nor in its protection zone.
"At this point, this is a problem for Eastern Europe, between Russia and the Ukraine and the rest of Europe," retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness, a security expert, told Just the News. "It is not a NATO problem at this point, because Mr. Putin has not threatened a NATO country."
Biden's handling of the Russia-Ukraine crisis has drawn multiple rebukes, starting with a decision in the early days of his presidency when he revoked permission for the Keystone pipeline in America while giving Putin a long-sought U.S. blessing for Russia's Nordstream II pipeline in Europe.
That move changed the geopolitical equation for Russia, whose economy is one-dimensionaly dependent on energy exports. Suddenly, American and Western counterparts were made more reliant on Russian energy, and Putin's often-stretched treasury fattened with rising oil prices.
Then Biden made another blunder, suggesting he was ready for Putin to make a "minor incursion" into Ukraine. He had to retract the statement within a day as it looked to be a permission slip for Putin to take action in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Biden's reversals have continued. On Wednesday, he sanctioned the very Nordstream II pipeline he had approved, exposing for critics the folly of his earlier approval.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) told Just the News that he believes Biden
set the stage for Russian aggression with the pipeline decisions
followed by the bungled U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan." JN
"The fate of the Antonov An-225 Mriya remains unknown after its home airport fell under
Russian control. The fate of the world’s largest
fully operational aircraft is uncertain in light of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine. The one-off Antonov An-225 Mriya, from the Ukrainian “Мрія,”
or “Dream,” has been at Hostomel (or Gostomel) airport northwest of Kyiv
since it landed there on February 5. While there has been heavy
fighting at the airport, there are unconfirmed reports that the Mriya is
still intact, at least for now, although it is now in Russian hands.
The An-225 is based at Hostomel Airport, sometimes referred to as
Antonov Airport, which is used primarily as a commercial cargo hub." Drive 
“I’m concerned about Ukraine because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk, in terms of international law and trying to change boundaries of international law by force. I thought we lived in a world that had said no to that kind of activity. And I hope diplomacy will win.
But massive emissions
consequences to the war – but equally importantly, you’re going to lose
people’s focus, you’re going to lose certainly big country attention
because they will be diverted and I think it could have a damaging
impact. So, you know, I think hopefully President Putin
would realize that in the northern part of his country, they used to
live on 66% of the nation that was over frozen land." TP
NBC
News reported that the options presented to Biden include disrupting
internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, and
tampering with railroad switches to hamper Russia's ability to re-supply
its forces." JP
"Poland would be primarily affected, not only due to its proximity, but the significant Ukrainian community living in the country, which could act as hosts to others at least in the early stage," Magdalena Majkowska-Tomkin, director of migration issues for the Open Society Foundations philanthropy (George Soros funded group), said in an interview before the invasion." ZeroHedge
The Russian Defense Ministry, for example, released a statement saying that: “According to intelligence, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ troops and
service members are leaving their positions in large numbers, dropping
their weapons. No strikes are being carried out on the positions of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces’ units that have laid down their arms.” TP
Advisor to Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko said that Russian troops from the territory of Belarus entered the zone of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP).
Gerashchenko stressed that "if a nuclear waste storage facility is destroyed as a result of enemy artillery strikes, then radioactive dust can cover the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and the EU countries!"
“I’ve made the decision to conduct a special military operation,” Putin said. “Our analysis has concluded that our confrontation with these forces [in Ukraine] was inevitable.”
“As for the military sphere, modern
Russia, even after the collapse of the USSR and the loss of a
significant part of its nuclear potential, is today one of the most
powerful nuclear powers. And moreover, it has certain advantages in a
number of the latest types of weapons. In this regard, no one should
have any doubt that a direct attack on Russia will lead to defeat and
dire consequences for a potential aggressor,” he said, making it clear
that he was threatening nuclear retaliation against the U.S. and NATO if
they interfere with his attack on Ukraine." Breitbart
The tyrant declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine with a dawn raid after months of amassing his forces on the border and brazenly lying to the world about his plans to invade.
The world is waking up to what could the most horrific crisis since World War 2 as Putin seeks to tear down the world order.
His full scale invasion of Ukraine is all part of his plan to rebuild the Soviet Union amid his paranoid fears over Nato.
Ukrainians faced the sound of booming explosions and blaring air raid
sirens as missiles, airstrikes and artillery shells fell on their
homeland." TheSun
The
ministry said eight Chinese J-16 fighters and one Y-8 reconnaissance
aircraft were involved, which flew in an area to the northeast of the
Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands at the top end of South China Sea." JP
"A quickly-deleted social media post - released to the public apparently by accident - provides
a rare glimpse of how the CCP’s
messaging on the escalating Ukraine-Russia tension is channeled to the masses.Horizon News, a video news network under state-run Beijing News, on Feb. 22 instructed staff to avoid posting any Ukraine-related content on China’s Twitter-like Weibo that may come across as unfavorable to Russia or pro-Western.
“Let me review your draft before you first put it out,” stated the Weibo post, which has since been removed. Commentaries, it added, must be “carefully selected and controlled,” while topic selections should follow the lead of People’s Daily, Xinhua, and CCTV—three of the country’s foremost Party mouthpieces.
“Whoever publishes them will be held responsible,” the post stated, noting that each post should be monitored for at least two days." ZeroHedge
In the Joined Forces Operation area 5 aircraft and 2 helicopters of Russian Aerospace Forces were shot, two tanks were damaged, several trucks of the armed forces of the Russian Federation were destroyed.
The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave orders to inflict the maximum losses to the aggressor." Pabia
Source: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
Quote: "The Ukrainian military is defending itself.
According to available information, the Russian Federation is launching
an offensive from Konotop." Pabia
Russia's terrifying arsenal of thermobaric weapons launches a barrage of fuel-air explosive warheads so powerful they can "melt" an opposing army.
Sebastian Roblin, a military expert, writing for 19fortyfive.com, said: "A TOS-1 rocket barrage will wipe out everything within the 200-by-300m blast zone."
Further from the blast zone, pressure can break bones, dislocate eyes, cause internal haemorrhaging, and rupture eardrums, bowels, and other internal organs.
They can also suck the oxygen out of lungs, causing them to collapse, suffocating their victims to death." DailyMail
