Posted on 02/28/2022 4:37:30 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Here on Day 5 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, things are dramatically heating up as Putin order Kyiv to be hit with massive shelling, sending giant fireballs of explosion into the night sky. But when we remember that Day 5 of the Russian Invasion is really Day 714 Of 15 Days To Flatten the Curve, things begin to make more sense.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (KJB)
On the Podcast today, we explored these things and what we found was that Putin’s war is actually creating a mobilized Europe, specifically Germany who is now pledging to spend $113 billion on beefing up their war machine capabilities. Whether intentional or merely opportunistic, the moment is not being lost on the very same people who brought us World Wars 1 and 2 over the last century. What is happening on the surface and played out in the headlines is not what is happening behind the scenes down the rabbit hole. Europe is mobilizing, that’s the real story.
FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: Dramatic video filmed in the Ukrainian capital showed the moment that the night sky lit up with an enormous fire ball that reportedly stemmed from a military radar communication center. The new explosion took place hours after the Kremlin warned civilians to leave the city via a ‘safe route’ to the south-west, amid fears that the city was about to come under further heavy attack. Russia used similar tactics in Syrian cities while fighting alongside Basahar al-Assad before its forces heavily bombed them. Russian armour was working to surround Kyiv with tank manoeuvering to cut it off from the west, after attacks by advanced forces failed to penetrate the outskirts.
New satellite images also showed how a military convoy that stretched more than 17 miles (27km) was moving closer to the capital, a private U.S. company said. Private U.S. company Maxar Technologies Inc said the convoy on the eastern edge of Antonov airport contained hundreds of armoured vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and logistics support vehicles and continued to move south towards Kyiv. Colonel General Alexander Syrsky said early Monday that Kyiv had survived another night while inflicting ‘heavy losses’ on Russian attackers.
Earlier, Russia had appeared to use banned cluster munitions to indiscriminately shell civilian areas in Ukraine’s east that had stood up to Vladimir Putin’s invasion in what would constitute a war crime. Kharkiv, which has witnessed some of the heaviest fighting of the war so far, was hit by rockets fired from Russian positions on Monday – with video showing a shopping centre in the Serpnia area blanketed by explosions. A military source told MailOnline that the videos showed ‘cluster’ munitions had been used.
‘THE BM-21 GRAD IS A MULTIPLE LAUNCH ROCKET SYSTEM USED FOR ‘AREA DENIAL’, DROPPING CLUSTER BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATED AREA,’ THE EXPERT SAID. ‘IT’S MAINLY USED ON ENEMY TROOPS BEFORE AN OFFENSIVE. USED AGAINST CIVILIANS, IT’S NOT ONLY A WAR CRIME, BUT HAS ONLY ONE PURPOSE – TO SPREAD TERROR AND ALARM AMONG THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.’
Graphic images and video revealed streets littered with the bodies of dead and badly wounded civilians, with other images showing showing spent BM-21 Grad rocket cartridges laying in the streets and having fallen through apartment roofs.
Cluster munitions were also to destroy a school in Okhtyrka, activist group Amnesty said, in which three people including a child were killed. The attack ‘appears to have been carried out by Russian forces, which were operating nearby, and which have a record of using cluster munitions in populated areas,’ Amnesty said.
‘THERE IS NO POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATION FOR DROPPING CLUSTER MUNITIONS IN POPULATED AREAS, LET ALONE NEAR A SCHOOL,’ SECRETARY AGNES CALLAMARD ADDED.
The blasts mark some of the most-serious attacks on civilians since the war began five days ago, and came despite Ukrainian and Russian delegations sitting down in Belarus for ‘peace talks’.
Ukraine said ahead of the negotiations that it is seeking a ceasefire and total withdrawal of all Russian forces from its country, with President Zelensky saying he was not hopeful of results but had to try. Moscow would not be drawn on what its ambitions are. Observers have warned that the talks could pre-sage an increase in violence, as Putin increasingly deploys heavy weaponry that was absent from early fighting in an attempt to force a victory that he has been unable to achieve by subtler means.
Putin himself dashed many hopes for the talks today when, in a call with Emmanuel Macron, he said that he is willing to negotiate with Ukraine – but on the basis that it is disarmed, ‘de-Nazified’, recognises Crimea as Russian soil and declares neutrality. Kyiv is highly unlikely to accept those terms. US intelligence believes around 75 per cent of Russian forces positioned on the borders with Ukraine are now inside the country.
Though Russian advanced forces have been fighting in Kyiv’s outskirts for several days, the bulk of Putin’s assault force is still located around 20 miles away having been slowed up by determined resistance fighters – with satellite images revealing a huge column of vehicles headed for the city. The cities of Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, and Chernihiv were also bombed overnight, with air raid sirens sounding in other areas.
In the south, Russians reported capturing the port city of Berdiansk with troops and armoured vehicles shown rolling through the centre, and were closing in on the city of Mariupol which was in danger of becoming surrounded – though remained under Ukrainian control as of the early hours.
Speaking on Monday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for Ukraine to be ‘immediately’ admitted to the EU – after the alliance stepped up to supply hundreds of million of dollars of military aid to Ukraine, a first in the bloc’s history – saying his country had ‘earned’ the right. He also said Russia’s attack had so-far killed 15 children, and wounded dozens more. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says her office has confirmed that 102 civilians, including 7 children, have been killed, and 304 others injured in violence in Ukraine since Thursday, as she cautioned that the tally was likely a vast undercount.
Doesn’t Ukraine have/make rockets ? Target Moscow
I lived in Las Vegas when the Cuban missle crisis was going on and it was scary. What’s happening now makes that look like a boy scout jamboree. I’ve never seen stuff like this since. I feel this will end up going nuclear. I’m not joking. A little Brandon lingo there.
So true! Maybe if an additional 20 countries sent 100 or so rockets each hitting Moscow all at the same time.
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Where is Harry, and the Ghost of Diana???
A little Brandon lingo there.
= = =
OK,
But what is your Number One, and Number Two??
[Doesn’t Ukraine have/make rockets ? Target Moscow]
I suppose the Russians are now making the rubble bounce. I read on FR this morning that Kiev was carpet bombed last night.
So true! Maybe if an additional 20 countries sent 100 or so rockets each hitting Moscow all at the same time.
Don’t you think, just maybe, some innocent women and children live in Moscow? The people of Russia do not support this. A handful of people at the top started this with a crazy man at the tip top.
Video has been out for at least 12 hours and it’s quite clear cluster munitions are involved.
CC
That was another city, Kharkiv
Super. Rock Around the Giddy Minds Clock.
“So true! Maybe if an additional 20 countries sent 100 or so rockets each hitting Moscow all at the same time.”
You people are effing retards. You really do want a nuclear response. This isn’t a damn video game, you don’t get to respawn and neither do your loved ones. Judging by your strategedy I’m guessing you have no loved ones.
Just out of curiosity- why do you give a tinkers damn what goes on over there? A more appropriate use of “20 countries sending 100 missiles each” might be better targeted to go straight up your ass
Russia, the US and China never signed the Cluster Munition Convention treaty, so this is a nothing-burger.
Understand your sentiment, and no one wants a gamma barbeque, but Putin’s tactical offensive calculus is precisely designed around “0” stomach for his forced reintegration of Ukraine into Kremlin controlled CIS, (and ultimately others).
If he knew we were all in on MAD, this probably wouldn’t be happening.
The opposite has happened.
Last year, after the US leftists (who have long been aligned with, and trading favors with Chinese and Russian governments), their joint fraud elected puppet install, cut US energy, and began importing Russian energy —
The White House puppet is planning to import Iranian oil.
We are already recently began importing Russian oil -
We were already importing oil and gas from Iran, and the fraud puppet did this even with “sanctions” -
The point is, right up to present, Putin knows we won’t respond in a meaningful way long term.
As such, “the sky’s the limit”.
Although I am not so sure this doesn’t escalate quickly anyway at this point.
Using cluster munitions on civilians is obviously wrong.
Were they after any troops in the area? Still wrong, but it would kind of explain why they would do something so blatantly unnecessary in the eyes of the rest of the sane world.
It will continue to get worse for the inhabitants of cities if they simply decide to flatten everything before moving in, and that could last for a long while.
We’re really starting to get sanctions on Russia now, but I hope we’re not putting them in a position that they think they have nothing to lose. We’ll all lose.
It’s not a possible War Crime.
It IS A WAR CRIME to drop that kind of bomb on civilians.
Only if you lose.
Winners get to declare "military necessity" and live happily ever after.
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