WAR IN UKRAINE 2022

2022-04-18 16:45:06 The occupiers are preparing to start a massive air strike on Azovstal today

According to the Ukrainian military, russia plans to attack the plant with FAB 1000 and FAB 3000 aircraft bombs.

According to the police, the plant is being used as shelter by civilians - about 1,000 people and many children among them. Open / Comment

2022-04-18 16:01:20 The New York Times:

Russian forces targeted the city of Lviv in western Ukraine with as many as five missiles on Monday, local officials said, causing large explosions and sending dark plumes of smoke into the air. The extent of the damage or any casualties was not immediately clear.

“Five powerful missile strikes at once on the civilian infrastructure of the old European Lviv,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, wrote on Twitter. “The Russians continue barbarically attacking Ukrainian cities from the air, cynically declaring to the whole world their ‘right’ to … kill Ukrainians.” Open / Comment

2022-04-18 15:44:56 Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 18 April 2022 Open / Comment

2022-04-17 23:56:46 There were a lot of shellings in Kharkiv today. In the video the moment of the repeated shelling, when rescuers tried to help the wounded.

5 people killed, another 13 injured in Russian shelling of Kharkiv.

Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov said on April 17 that Russian forces shelled Kharkiv 23 times in the past 24 hours.

Video: Jerome Starkey. Open / Comment

2022-04-17 23:43:49 The leftovers from the AFU’s barbecue party today: the russian «Tor» missile system, a tank and supply vehicles

The 93rd Independent Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region knows how to fry ‘em. Open / Comment

2022-04-17 23:27:56 Defenders of Mariupol “gently” turned down another offer of the occupiers to surrender

The Ukrainian military still controls several areas, said the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Although the city has not capitulated, its residents are suffering: "they have no water, no food, no heat, no electricity. They ask all our partners to support and help stop this humanitarian catastrophe."

Video: Mariupol, February 22, 2022 Open / Comment

2022-04-17 23:19:22 The swinish faces of russians in all their glory

This is what the "second army of the world" really looks like. Haters might say it’s Photoshop. Open / Comment

2022-04-17 23:16:15 Port ban for russian ships is already in effect in five of the 27 EU countries

Not long ago more than 30 countries closed the sky to russian aircraft. In view of the latest terrorist acts of the rf and attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea, the same fate awaits russian ships. Five EU countries (out of 27) have already closed ports for russian ships, - said Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President. These are Italy, Belgium, Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania.

The port ban applies to all ships registered under the russian flag. Restrictions also apply to ships that (to avoid possible bans) have changed their russian flags or russian registration to any other state after the start of russia's invasion of Ukraine. Open / Comment

2022-04-17 23:11:42 In the past 24 hours, there have been 50 cases of escape of soldiers of the monster army directly from the training grounds in the russian federation

From the trainings before sending units to participate in the war with Ukraine, more than 50 cases of unauthorized personnel’s departure from field camps have been recorded at training grounds on the territory of the russian federation, the General Staff reports.

At the same time, in the Donetsk and Tauride directions, the enemy stepped up hostilities. The city of Mariupol is being bombed and rocketed, including with the use of Tu-22M3 strategic bombers.

They flee like hares, they are afraid to fight - they want to live. The only thing they can do is throw bombs. But the ruscists will soon enough run out of them as well. The sanctions will put an end to that too. Open / Comment

2022-04-17 22:58:11 Easter card from The Times

“President Putin’s propaganda machine doesn’t want to announce bad news,” the newspaper writes. Open / Comment