A man wrapped up in himself
makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Parking this here, foldspace’s offerings yestereday about the theater blowing up rang a bell. This is what I read at the time, and since I have been following the news on the Ukraine/Russia war carefullY (obsessively...?), this is the other side of the news. I remember that the Azov battalion had forced a lot of citizens into that building as hostages. Foldspace, I know you and I have very different views about Putin and Russia doings. I read about this event in real time, over a period of days. The Ukrainian military and paramilitary battalions regularly fired from civilian buildings and would often force the people inside the buildings so they could not escape, even locking doors shut. I remember when Russia wanted to have a truce to created a corridor allow citizens to escape the city and Ukraine was not cooperative, still fired on civilians.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552101-mariupol-theater-ukraine/
The Russian military said it was aware of reports that Azov militants had kept civilians inside the theater as a human shield, and had not considered the building a target for airstrikes for that reason, Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
“Previously, it was known from the refugees who got out of Mariupol that the Nazis of the Azov Battalion might be holding civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as firing points,” Konashenkov said.
Taking into account the potential danger to those sheltering, and what he alleged was “the provocation already carried out by the nationalists on March 9 at Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol, the theater building in the city center was never considered a target for destruction,” he added.
According to Konashenkov, the “available reliable information” indicated that the Azov militants had committed what he called “a new bloody provocation by blowing up the theater building they had mined.”
The paramilitary unit, the emblem of which depicts Second World War Nazi symbols, has allegedly made Mariupol its base, and reportedly forbade civilians from fleeing to safety as Russian forces and fighters from the Donetsk People’s Republic surrounded the city.
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A man wrapped up in himself
makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
"The FDNY said it tended to a small paint can fire in a utility room at 3 a.m. The Port Authority said an electrical panel failure overnight caused the fire. For the rest of the day, there were no inbound or outbound flights to Terminal 1."
ransomnote: The story doesn't sound quite right. I looked up Terminal 1 and it handles international flights.
"A number of international airlines fly to and from JFK's Terminal 1, including Air France, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, and more."