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2022-02-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Western reports round-up: Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv: Satellite images show THREE mile-long convoy heading towards capital after failing to take the city, as its mayor Klitschko warns 'we are at the border of a humanitarian catastrophe'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Sunday night - Kiev's mayor says evacuation not possible since his city is now completely surrounded:

In an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, after a grueling night of Russian attacks on the outskirts of the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko was silent for several seconds when asked if there were plans to evacuate civilians if Russian troops managed to take Kyiv.

“We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked,” he finally said, speaking in English. “All ways are blocked and right now we are encircled — everywhere is Russians and we don’t have a way to evacuate the people. And everyone who had plans to evacuate himself already moved.”

Posted by Bob Bucket8193 2022-02-28 02:11|| 2022-02-28 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, the Azov fighters: fascism's finest. And you guys pretend that Ukraine isn't full of neo-Nazis. Do you work for Fakebook?

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/

In a statement to The Intercept, Facebook spokesperson Erica Sackin confirmed the decision to allow previously-banned Azov but declined to answer questions about why the 180-degree switch to the new policy.

Azov’s formal Facebook ban began in 2019, and the regiment, along with several associated individuals like Biletsky, were designated under the company’s prohibition against hate groups, subject to its harshest “Tier 1” restrictions that bar users from engaging in “praise, support, or representation” of blacklisted entities across the company’s platforms.

Facebook’s previously secret roster of banned groups and persons, published by The Intercept last year, categorized the Azov Battalion alongside the likes of the Islamic State and the Ku Klux Klan, all Tier 1 groups because of their propensity for “serious offline harms” and “violence against civilians.” Indeed, a 2016 report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that Azov soldiers had raped and tortured civilians during Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.

Posted by Rupert Prince of the Huns1693 2022-02-28 02:18|| 2022-02-28 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ..you understand you can seat all the existing Klan in one high school stadium bleachers. There are so few that the race mongers in our country have to make up hoax racist events to get attention trying to keep the story alive. We'll see how 'kinder and gentler' your Chechens are that you are importing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-28 07:05|| 2022-02-28 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 More importantly, black "culture" is a bigger threat to blacks than most of what the klan managed.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-28 07:20|| 2022-02-28 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't imagine the Russians committing an atrocity and blaming someone else, can you?

*cough*Katyn Forest*cough*

A convoy three miles long is three miles of road blocks waiting to happen.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-02-28 08:06|| 2022-02-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW -- parents stay, send kids to safety... sounds like the opposite of what we see with Muslim refugees.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-02-28 08:06|| 2022-02-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

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