Russia’s attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. However, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm also revealed that the reactors at the facility are being “safely shut down.” DW
Thursday, March 3, 2022
U.S. Activates Nuclear Incident Response Team As Russia Attacks Ukrainian Nuclear Plant
Russia’s attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. However, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm also revealed that the reactors at the facility are being “safely shut down.” DW
Sudanese Military Gov Reaffirms ‘No Problem’ With Opening Russian Naval Base in Red Sea Port
in Port Sudan, a strategic port in the Red Sea. A deal agreed to in 2019 was put on hold after Sudan’s longtime military ruler, Omar al-Bashir, was overthrown in a popular revolution months later.
“We have 730 kilometers along the Red Sea. If any country wants to open a
base and it is in our interests and doesn’t threaten our national
security we have no problem in dealing with anyone, Russian or
otherwise,” Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti said." Sputnik
Russia sends a message to all of Ukraine by hitting civilian areas in city
rockets raining on panicking shoppers outside a supermarket. People walking through a park forced to rush to safety as shells explode around them.
These were some of the attacks that residents of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, endured in recent days as Russian forces targeted residential areas, hitting civilian infrastructure such as schools, shops, hospitals, apartment blocks and churches." CNN
The Ukrainian Navy’s Flagship Appears To Have Been Scuttled
sunk. As Russia continues its advance on Ukraine’s southern Black Sea-facing flank, it appears that the Ukrainian Navy is taking no chances in providing Moscow with a major battlefield trophy — the flagship of its fleet, the Hetman Sahaidachny (U130)." NYP
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham Calls For Putin Assassination
both assassination of Julius Caesar and the failed 1944 assassination attempt on German dictator Adolf Hitler." Mediaite
Zelensky says it's a 'pity' Biden and the West's support came after the war started and the 'end of the world has arrived' in defiant news conference as US warns 90% of Putin's border forces have now crossed into Ukraine
protect his country from the might of the Russian army and described how 'the end of the world has arrived' during a news conference on Thursday
He appealed for more help during a defiant appearance in his capital Kyiv as fighting entered its second week. A
Pentagon official said Russia has now sent almost all its assembled
combat power across the border into Ukraine, while reports suggested
they were gaining ground across the south." DM
Top Russian general is killed by Ukrainian sniper
major blow to the Russian invasion.
Major
General Andrey Sukhovetsky, who was the deputy commander of the 41st
Combined Arms Army of Russia's Central Military District, died yesterday
as Ukrainian defence forces repelled the Russian offensive." DailyMail
Biden WON'T ban Russian oil: Press kicked of Cabinet meeting during questions on Russian energy and Psaki snaps at reporters as Nancy Pelosi leads lawmakers urging White House to stop imports
Jen Psaki, despite even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joining in on the calls for the U.S. to cease buying Moscow's fuel.
'We don't
have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy, and
that would raise prices at the gas pump for the American people,' Psaki
told reporters Thursday.
Reporters shouted down President Biden on Thursday as he took part in a Cabinet meeting.
'Will
you ban Russian oil?' a reporter asked as the press pool was ushered
out of the meeting before the Cabinet began its discussion.
'He
said No! Let's go!' a Biden staffer said as they ushered press out of
the room. 'No, he didn't.' 'He didn't respond to anything,' multiple
reporters were heard grumbling.
The press secretary ruled out resurrecting the Keystone Pipeline as a means for upping U.S. fuel production." DM
Futures Tumble After Reports Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's Largest, Is On Fire After Shelling
which has sent Treasuries, the dollar, yen and gold soaring, after reports that Russia has started shelling Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Europe’s largest, which accounts for one quarter of Ukraine's power generation, and which has caught fire." ZeroHedge
Pro-Russian mayor of Ukrainian city reportedly killed after being kidnapped from home
reportedly been killed after being kidnapped from his home. Volodymyr Struk, 57, who was mayor of Kreminna since 2020, suffered a “gunshot wound to the heart” after being abducted, according to Ukrainian news agency UNIAN. On March 1, Struk’s wife told police he’d been kidnapped by men in camouflage. “There is one less traitor in Ukraine. The mayor of Kremenna in Luhansk region, former deputy of Luhansk parliament was found killed,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, wrote in a post on Telegram." NYP
Russia-Ukraine Talks End In Agreement For 'Humanitarian Corridors'
'humanitarian corridors' in the midst of the fighting in order to protect fleeing civilians. The head of Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky issued this statement:
“We have thoroughly discussed three points – military, international and humanitarian, and the third one is an issue of a future political regulation of the conflict. Both positions are clear and written down. We managed to agree on some of them, but the key thing that we have reached an agreement on today was a matter of rescuing civilians who found themselves in a military clash zone. Russian and Ukrainian defense ministries agreed on providing humanitarian corridors for civilians and on a possible temporary ceasefire in areas where evacuation is happening." ZH
Russian Troop Relocation Indicates Little Interest in Expanding the Conflict to the High North
“For now, I consider it highly unlikely that the
conflict should expand to Norway’s High North. that is simply because I
think Russia neither has the will nor the ability to expand the
conflict”, stresses Associate Professor Håkon Lunde Saxi.
Saxi explains that although the Northern Fleet is on
high alert, Russia has relocated large parts of the land forces that are
usually stationed on the Kola Peninsula to protect its military bases
there. These divisions are, like most of the best Russian army
divisions, currently tied up to the conflict in Ukraine." HighNorthNews
Norwegian Mayor Decries Arms Help to Ukraine
send arms to Ukraine amid a Russian special operation there, arguing that her party comrades in parliament should have said no.
"When Norway chose to send weapons to Ukraine, then people started to
feel a little scared here. Remember, we are Russia's closest Norwegian
neighbor. I haven't experienced the population here having felt this
way before", Bergeng told the newspaper Verdens Gang.
Local residents have in recent years enjoyed close cross-border
relations with Russians, with trade and services booming – to the point
of Kirkenes sometimes being referred to as "Little Russia" due to signs
in Cyrillic for Russians' convenience. According to Bergeng, stifled
trade would make life difficult for many local inhabitants.
Earlier this week, the Norwegian government decided to donate up to
2,000 M72 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, as fellow Nordic countries also
expressed their desire to help." Sputnik
Zelenskyy condemns Russian missile attack on Holocaust memorial: 'Beyond humanity ...
took out the Holocaust memorial site Babi Yar in the capital city of Kyiv in a news conference Tuesday, calling the destruction "This is beyond humanity," Zelenskyy said, according to a translation from the Associated Press. "Such missile strike means that, for many Russians, our Kyiv is absolute foreign. They know nothing about our capital, about our history. They have orders to erase our history, our country and all of us." FOX
Dead soldiers....Ukraine town on the front lines prepares to battle Russians
bags picked their way around the burnt husk and scattered detritus of a ripped-apart armored personnel carrier. Its occupants weren’t far away — not far from the mall’s service entrance, the bodies of two Russian soldiers lay side by side near a piece of fallen, crumpled yellow cladding.Two more had been tossed onto the train tracks on the opposite side of the street; they lay in the mud, spread-eagled at right angles near a streak of red and some discarded bullets.
The Ukrainian soldiers on this end of the bridge, which remained in
government hands as of Tuesday afternoon, had fortified their position
ahead of what is reported to be a 40-mile-long column of Russian
armored vehicles stretching to Antonov Airport, a scant four miles
away. Yet the small arsenal that the Ukrainians had — a couple of
armored personnel carriers, a double-cannoned antiaircraft gun and a
bulldozer — underscored the imbalance of the forces fighting for Kyiv.
So far, though, the Russians’ advance had been limited, the soldiers said." yahoo
Russian Embassy in Australia Evacuated After Suspicious Package
suspicious packages were delivered to the building on March 3.
Emergency services were dispatched to investigate the substance, with
authorities placing an emergency filtration tent around the item." EpochTimes
Russian Billionaire Usmanov’s Yacht Seized in Germany
authorities in Hamburg as a direct result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Forbes reports." Newsmax
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