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Putin announces 'special operation' in Donbass

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Has the shit hit the fan in the Ukraine?

The special military operation is aimed at “the defense of” the newly recognized republics of Donetsk and Lugansk

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he ordered his country’s military to conduct a special operation in the Donbass region after the leaders of the breakaway republics asked Moscow for military assistance in response to what they claim is an increase in “Ukrainian aggression.”

“Circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action," the order reads. “The People’s Republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help. In this regard, in accordance with Article 51, part 7 of the UN Charter, with the sanction of the Federation Council and in pursuance of the friendship treaties ratified by the Federal Assembly and mutual assistance with the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, I have decided to conduct a special military operation,” Putin stated.

At the same time, in an address to the public, the Russian president said he wanted to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine. According to him, “we have no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory.” Within moments of the speech, a series of explosions were reported in cities across Ukraine, with CNN, CBC and a number of Ukrainian media outlets reporting a blast in the capital, Kiev.

In a statement, US President Joe Biden said that “the prayers of the world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by the Russian military forces.”

The decision comes days after Moscow recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk breakaway republics in the Donbass, alleging Kiev had not lived up to its obligations under the Minsk agreements struck in 2014 and 2015 to resolve conflict between separatists and the Ukrainian government.

Officials later authorized what they described as a “peacekeeping operation” in the region. Western leaders for months had predicted a looming incursion, claiming Russia has amassed troops near its border with Ukraine and in neighboring Belarus, where Moscow has conducted joint drills in recent weeks.

Russia has so far denied plans for an attack, however, and maintains its actions in the Donbass will be defensive in nature. The US and its European partners have already imposed sanctions on a series of Russian financial institutions, officials and lawmakers following the recognition of the break-away states, vowing to bring more penalties should Moscow “further invade” Ukraine.

#2

I highly recommend Vladimir Putin’s speech given earlier today, translations already reproduced in a variety of places including Saker

https://thesaker.is/address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation-february-24-2022/

The absolute best bit for me is emphasised in this snippet:

This brings me to the situation in Donbass. We can see that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 have seized power, are keeping it with the help of ornamental election procedures and have abandoned the path of a peaceful conflict settlement

Ornamental election procedures… that’s Grade A trolling. And true.

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#3

Can’t help my schadenfreudische glee at watching the utterly ballsless - because helpless - gibbering of the USuk clowns. There’s not a single thing that they can do to stop the Russian purging of USuk’s wilfully-injected poison from the Ukraine; nothing that wouldn’t get them into even deeper do-do than they’re in already.

Hilariously, they are still piling on a few more own-footer sanctionettes even so; also ballsless, ineffectual, and bound to hurt the provinces of the Anglozionist empire, as well as its metropolitan state, a good deal worse than they will hurt Russia, where water and ducks’ backs come to mind.

One upshot of this move by VVP - strongly backed as it is by all his colleagues in government, and by the whole Russian narodny - will be to demonstrate to the many disaffected peoples of the world, including many of us forced to live actually within the institutionalised sordidities of the Az empire, that the vaunted domination of the world by Western ‘power’ is a mirage; true once, but long evaporated, running on hallucinodollar fumes, and now fully exposed for the hollowed-out sham that it has become.

This purge by the - genuinely mighty - Russian army, of the nazi poison in the Ukraine will be remembered, I suspect, as a key moment when the shift from dominance by one self-proclaimed ‘indispensable’ people to a new multipolar world became unmistakable, and unstoppable.

Now taking bets about how soon, after completing their laxative purging work, and stabilising the situation to allow new, genuinely democratic choice of government to the Ukranians, the Russians will withdraw from the Ukraine, as promptly as they did from Kazakhstan, Georgia, etc. (And how soon, and how extensively, will eastern parts of current Ukraine vote, once they have a genuinely-free chance, to do a Krim, and reunite with their real motherland…? It’s even looking as if Transnistria is about to be rescued from its plight!) :rofl:

#4

Ukraine from 22/02/2022

This from the Daily Expose:

Has Russia just wiped out Ukrainian bio-labs in a series of rapid strikes throughout Ukraine? We only have one tweet source so it needs to be confirmed, I did find a reference to US bio labs in Georgia so these could have shifted to Ukraine who knows. Both Russia and China have accused the US of setting upsuch labs close to Russian and Chinese borders:

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/cbwprolif

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Allegations: The Russian government has accused the United States on multiple occasions of violating its commitments to the BWC, including by alleging in a 2010 compliance report that the United States undertook research on Smallpox, which is prohibited by the World Health Organization. Russia also accused the United States in 2018 of undertaking BW research at a series of U.S.-funded labs near Russia and China, specifically at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tbilisi, Georgia – an allegation which the U.S. Department of Defense denied.

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RT also reporting fierce fighting around Chernobyl plant:

https://www.rt.com/russia/550530-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-seized/

( no doubt this was in response to demands within Ukraine that they make some “dirty bombs “with nuclear material! )

The sooner Ukraine is denatzified the better imo , assuming our opinions are allowed to be uttered in the UK!

cheers

#5

The propaganda is hilarious. Apparently the evil Putin is butchering huge numbers of brave Ukraine freedom fighters, in order to capture what’s left of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in order to feed nuclear waste to babies…

Oh my God, I’m having the vapours. Please give me a pint of Absinthe - and make sure I don’t lose my pearls.

#6

More hilarity here:

“I asked them – are you with us?” Zelensky said. “They answered that they are with us, but they don’t want to take us into the alliance. I’ve asked 27 leaders of Europe, if Ukraine will be in NATO, I’ve asked them directly – all are afraid and did not respond.”

“We were left by ourselves. Who is ready to go to war for us? Honestly, I don’t see anybody. Who is ready to give Ukraine guarantees of NATO membership? Honestly, everybody is afraid,” the president added.

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#7

Oh dear, where is Alexei Navalny in NATOs hour of need? Maybe Pussy Riot could release a protest song?

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