Posted on 02/24/2022 9:05:15 AM PST by elpadre
More than 150 senior Russian officials have signed an open letter condemning Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine as 'an unprecedented atrocity' and warning of 'catastrophic consequences'.
The deputies said they were 'convinced' Russian citizens do not back the war and blamed Putin 'personally' for ordering troops into Ukraine in an attack 'for which there is no and cannot be justification'.
Putin in the early hours of today gave the order to attack, delivering an extraordinary address to the Russian nation in which he declared a 'special military operation' to 'de-militarise' and 'de-Nazify' Ukraine in what amounted to a outright declaration of war.
Missiles and bombs rained from the sky, tanks rolled across the border, troops parachuted down on eastern regions and explosions were seen across the country in the early hours and into the morning.
The letter urged Russians 'not to participate in the aggression' and called on citizens to speak out against the invasion because 'only massive popular condemnation can stop the war'.
Among the letter's signatories were Moscow deputies Elena Rusakova, Maxim Gongalsky, Andrey Morev, Elena Kotenochkina and Elena Filina as well as St Petersburg officials David Kuvaev and Polina Sizova and Veliky Novgorod deputy Anna Cherepanova.
It was a surprising step for Russian officials to speak out against Putin, who usually holds an iron grip on dissent and last week televised a meeting with Moscow's top security chiefs in which they appeared to be railroaded into backing his plans to invade Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Have they all slipped and died Bob Saget style yet?
My my my.
White House Message from Brandon Junta:
“President Zelenskyy reached out to me tonight and we just finished speaking. I condemned this unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces. I briefed him on the steps we are taking to rally international condemnation, including tonight at the United Nations Security Council. He asked me to call on the leaders of the world to speak out clearly against President Putin’s flagrant aggression, and to stand with the people of Ukraine. Tomorrow, I will be meeting with the Leaders of the G7, and the United States and our Allies and partners will be imposing severe sanctions on Russia. We will continue to provide support and assistance to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
I’m sure that will scare the crap out of Putin. /s/
We’ll see if Putin allows them to go unscathed for this.
I assume they’ll be rounded up and shot, at worst?
150 Russian officials soon to be gone!
more:
“...The Russian Defense Ministry said it was not targeting cities, but using precision weapons and claimed that ‘there is no threat to civilian population.’
Yet Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv in the east of Ukraine all reported coming under attack, with blasts also reported in the west - in Zhytomyr and Lviv, close to the border with Poland.
Meanwhile pro-Russian rebel forces pushed out from the occupied Donbass region, capturing two villages and appalling video from Uman, Cherkassy region, central Ukraine, showed the moment a shell hit a cyclists riding by.
A wounded woman is seen on the streets of Kharkiv in Ukraine after airstrikes hit an apartment complex...”
They signed an “open letter.”
As opposed to a “closed letter?”
Now THAT will definitely scare them.
In America they would all lose their vaccine passports, vehicles, and have their assets frozen, followed by a public dress down by Jimmy Falon and the entire CNN network as “deplorables”.
Has the local government oligarch media branded them as “Agents of Trump” and “white supremacists?”
Oh wait. Sorry. I was confused by a very similar situation elsewhere....
Will Putin subcontract to Trudeau to come in and take their vehicles, pets, children and bank accounts?
Talk like Biden's is probably what convinced him to invade, rather than wait and get a little bit at a time without military action.
Ping.
Bye Bye 150 senior Russian officials.......
Putin isn't Stalin, I believe he's on shakier ground than people may think.
Hope they have a quick travel bag packed with extra pairs of Siberian rated long johns.
“speak out clearly against President Putin’s flagrant aggression”
Is this the same as a sternly worded letter?
The Gulag Archepelego is about to get new tenants.
Putting themselves off of Santa’s List this year?
Putin now has a list of 150 people who will shortly be executed for opposing Tsar Vlad.
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