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Live updates: Russia attacks Ukraine

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Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION


Military Times
Live Twitter updates from Russia’s massive Ukraine invasion

“As Russian President Vladimir Putin tonight announced a special “special military operation” and reportedly launched a major attack on neighboring Ukraine, President Joe Biden responded that the Russian government would be held accountable for “catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.”

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Marina Ovsyannikova: Journalist fined for Ukraine war protest on Russia TV (cnbc.com)
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  • ''The Russian journalist who interrupted a state TV news bulletin and denounced the war in Ukraine has been fined 30,000 roubles ($280) by a Russian court.
  • Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Russian-owned Channel One, burst onto the set of a live broadcast of the nightly news on Monday evening, holding a sign protesting the invasion.
  • Concerns for the journalist’s safety arose when she was not heard from following the incident.''
 
EMERGENCY - Russian ships open fire on Odessa (Video)

"Russia will besiege Odessa in order to occupy it and in combination with that of Mariupol to achieve full control of the coastal areas of Ukraine, completely cutting it off from the Black Sea.
We wrote earlier that Russian warships were located off Odessa.

Now things are getting worse since according to locals the Russian ships opened fire

At the same time, Russian paratroopers are preparing to fall on the outskirts of the city of Odessa, to encircle the city by land, cutting off all land supply access...."

(Link has vids from locals)

Google Translate from:
ΕΚΤΑΚΤΟ-Άνοιξαν πυρ τα ρωσικά πλοία κατά της Οδησσού (Βίντεο)
 
"The biggest moment of the war in Ukraine in a few hours

World public opinion is watching the Russian attack on Ukrainian cities with embarrassment.

Russian warships, including amphibious vessels, are moving towards Odessa today, according to satellite photos."

Just this afternoon, an American UAV Global Hawk (reg. 10-2045 - FORTE11 badge) from Sigonella that flew on a surveillance mission over the Black Sea, spotted the Russian convoy.

Ρωσικά πολεμικά αποβατικά πλοία ανοικτά της Οδησσού - Η πιο μεγάλη μάχη για την Ουκρανία

^(Article , includes tweets with map)^
 
"It is also true that the president has to look at decisions that are made through the prism of what is in our national security interest and global security interest," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday.

"He continues to believe that a no-fly zone would be escalatory, could prompt a war with Russia," she continued. "I don’t believe there is a lot of advocates calling for that at this point in time from Capitol Hill, but we certainly understand and recognize that is still a call from President Zelenskyy."
White House insists no-fly zone over Ukraine 'could prompt a war with Russia'
 
Ukraine-Russia war live updates: E.U. leaders visit Kyiv amid crisis (nbcnews.com)
March 15, 2022, 3:46 PM EDT
By NBC News
''Russia's relentless assault increasingly threatened Ukraine's capital as deadly strikes hit a residential area of Kyiv, underscoring a dire humanitarian crisis that has shocked the world and forced nearly 3 million people to flee the country.

Kyiv, under increasing fire, imposed a new 35-hour curfew starting later Tuesday as its mayor warned the city faced a "difficult and dangerous moment."

But even as the fighting raged and the war entered its 21st day, the leaders of three European countries traveled to Ukraine's capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a bold show of support. ''

5m ago / 3:46 PM EDT
''The European Union targeted Russia with a new set of sanctions on Tuesday as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine, banning investments in the Russian energy sector and transactions with the Kremlin's "military-industrial complex."

The E.U. is also instituting an export ban on luxury goods, such as cars and jewelry, and broadened its list of sanctioned persons and entities to include "more oligarchs and business elites linked to the Kremlin."

''In addition to this fourth wave of sanctions, the E.U. said its bloc joined the World Trade Organization in agreeing to deny Russia's privileges as a "most favored nation," which allows countries to move goods at lower tariff rates.''
 
"""A career diplomat, Yovanovitch is familiar with the players and politics of both Russia and Ukraine. She says she used to view Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "bully." Now, she sees him a "war criminal" who is intent on reconstituting the the Soviet Union."""

"""If [Putin] is successful in Ukraine, I think he will continue to move forward, maybe not immediately, because he's bitten off an awful lot with Ukraine. That's what the history shows us: Where he invaded Georgia in 2008 and got away with it. He invaded Ukraine in 2014 and got away with it. And now, 2022, he's invading Ukraine again."""

Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch warns Putin will move west if he wins in Ukraine
 
Ukraine said Tuesday that Russia seemed to soften its stand in the talks aimed at halting the fighting, even as Moscow’s forces stepped up their bombardment of Kyiv, smashing apartments, a subway station and other civilian sites.

Elsewhere around the country, civilians in at least 2,000 cars fled Mariupol along a humanitarian corridor in what was believed to be the biggest evacuation yet from the desperately besieged seaport, where bodies have had to be buried in mass graves.

Also, the leaders of three European Union countries — including Poland, a NATO member on Ukraine’s doorstep — visited the embattled capital in a bold show of support amid the danger.

The talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives, with the latest round held Tuesday via video, have become “more constructive,” and Russia has stopped airing its demands for Ukraine to surrender, said Ukrainian presidential aide Ihor Zhovkva.

Ukraine: Tone improves in Russia talks even as Kyiv is hit | AP News
 
Russian Navy Landing Ships Seen Approaching Ukrainian Coast Near Odessa - Naval News
  • ''Click to Enlarge. Analysis of Sentinel 2 satellite imagery shows three groups of warships approaching the coast. We can say with confidence that these are Russian, and include landing ships.''
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15 Mar 2022
''Russian Navy ships can be seen in satellite imagery approaching the Ukrainian Coast. The Sentinel 2 satellite image, taken at 11:47 local time, shows at least 14 vessels.

The vessels were found by Naval News with the help of Damien Symon, an independent defense analyst. Preliminary analysis of the vessels suggests 3 groups. Two are made up of combatants, and one has several landing ships. The landing ships appear to have sailed directly from their staging position off the Crimean coast. Analysts are searching the imagery for more vessels.

Provisional identification of the ships
The northern group, in a line-astern formation, appears to be led by a tug boat or minesweeper. Behind it are two Ropucha class landing ships, another tug boat and a trailing Ropucha.

The second group, labelled Group 2 on the graphic, are in a square formation. These appear to be smaller warships such as missile corvettes.

The southern group, labelled Group 1, is led by the Slava Class cruiser Moskva. This appears to have two Alligator class landing ships, and the Ivan Gren class landing ship Pyotr Morgunov. There is also a smaller warship, possibly a Buyan-M class missile corvette.''
 
Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova appears in court after on-air Ukraine protest

The offense is an "administrative charge," which is comparable to a misdemeanor in the U.S. The Russian news agency RIA reported Ovsyannikova was fined 30,000 rubles ($280) by the court.

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Marina Ovsyannikova holds up an antiwar sign behind an anchor during a live Russian state television newscast Monday night. (Imago via ZUMA Press)

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Boosted by far-right influencers on the day of the invasion, an anonymous QAnon Twitter account titled @WarClandestine pushed the “biolabs” theory to new heights, using the same “US biolabs” graphic initially included on the Gab post that went largely unshared the week before.

Russian and Chinese officials have also boosted the theory. On Tuesday, China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry began pushing the conspiracy theory, asking for a “full account” of Ukraine’s “biological military activities at home and abroad.”

Much of the false information is flourishing in Russian social media, far-right online spaces and U.S. conservative media, including Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News.

PolitiFact has debunked the theories, and no evidence of U.S.-run bioweapons labs in Ukraine has been put forward. Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee the U.S. has no evidence that Ukraine has pursued bioweapons and that the only assistance provided by the U.S. was “in the context of biosafety.”

Russian propaganda on Ukraine's non-existent 'biolabs' boosted by U.S. far right
 
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