https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...7475781534.jpg
[3 people were killed and five wounded after
Russian shelling caused a fire at a market
in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city,
emergency services said.]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Mariupol.html

Apparently he was rescued in a 'special operation' which is pretty gutsy

Well done, the Good Ukraine Troops.

the russians seem to be completely incompetent. I think this is where putin is at his most dangerous. He is likely to use some form of devasting weapon. I wish sometimes that the west would stop saying the russians have stalled etc, because it's inviting worse action from the russians

To make matters worse the chain of command and communication lines seems to be extremely shaky... meaning there are a lot of Russian forced "going rogue", mainly small-scale stuff from troops, but I'd hazard a guess some larger strikes as well... which makes it difficult to know which actions have been handed down as orders and which are actions taken further down the chain of command. That both increases the risk to civilian targets, and introduces deniability when they are deliberately hit. "This civilian target was destroyed, that's a war crime" - "That strike wasn't ordered so this was hit by accident and is just collateral damage."

I agree with this part. Lots of premature celebrating and crowing from people who are trying to be supportive (all across the mainstream press, too) but the unintended effect will just be Putin seeking to "prove" that he's still in control of the situation.

Accurate and plainly-stated information is what's needed in situations like this. The reporting on this entire thing has been ludicrous in my opinion as I think I've made clear. The politics are extremely complicated and it's undeniable that the action taken by Russia has been brutal and barbaric, but the reporting on the politics behind all of it has veered off into utter fiction. These are issues that have been brewing for decades, we know what they are, and we know that the situation on the Russian border has been "poking the bear" for many years... the number of daft alternative explanations for this war are baffling.

The Pentagon's conservative assessment is 7,000 Russian troops dead and between 14,000-21,000 wounded. If you were a part of that Russian build up of troops on the border at the start of the year there's a 1 in 5 chance you're now dead or wounded which is pretty horrifying odds

the moral of the russian troops will get lower and lower. Many didn't want to be there in the first place and now they are sitting ducks being picked off. Being the aggressor, all their dead will just build up around them. Most of the troops havent moved in the last week or so .... that is going to be really grim

In the famous words of Limp Bizkit

"It's all about the he said she said bullish!t"

Wow !

[emoji599] The BBC have released damning new evidence against Roman Abramovich. [emoji635]

He is implicated in:

[emoji3502]The robbery of a train filled with diesel in 1992
[emoji3502] Buying an oil company via rigged auctions in 1995
[emoji3502]The Moscow kidnapping of a Chinese competitor in 2002

(Source: BBC)


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A USA citizen has been killed

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...7539705243.jpg

[The edited clip appears to show Zelensky calling
on troops to lay down arms
It is circulating on Russian social media
and was aired on Ukraine TV by hackers
Experts say it shows the next stage
of the Kremlin's disinformation campaign]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rendering.html

On GMBHD itv Live
Associated Press Reporter Ciaran McQuillan
in Lviv confirmed 6 Russian Cruise Missiles
were fired from a ship in the Black Sea.

2 of them were Downed by Ukrainian forces
but 4 Hit them, near their Airport
Hitting a repair factory,

Russian state-backed news channel RT has had its licence to broadcast in the UK revoked "with immediate effect", media regulator Ofcom has said.

"We do not consider RT's licensee, ANO TV Novosti, fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence," it explained.

Ofcom is carrying out 29 investigations "into the due impartiality of RT's news and current affairs coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine".

The channel had already disappeared from all broadcast platforms in the UK.

It was removed earlier this month as a result of a ban imposed by the European Union.

Although the UK is no longer in the EU, the bloc applied sanctions to satellite companies in Luxembourg and France, which provided the RT feed to Sky, Freesat and Freeview in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60791734

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...7569997221.jpg
[Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at a
warehouse after a bombing
in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...7525642871.jpg
[The 74-year-old film producer said: 'The strength and the heart
of the Russian people have always inspired
me and that is why I hope that you will let
me tell you the truth about the war
in Ukraine and what is happening there']

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rect-plea.html

The delusions of a Hollywood millionaire.

[Hell in Mariupol: 'Hundreds' of women and children are
still trapped in rubble of destroyed theatre
as one woman who escaped describes horror
of watching people bleed to death
in the streets while Russia claims its
troops are fighting in the city centre]



https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...7601407272.jpg
[Local residents seeking refuge in the basement
of a building are seen in the besieged
southern port city of Mariupol]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-theatre.html