While Russians lose the opsec and PR war, Ukraine wants America to stick to its word. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum was a deal between Ukraine and the West. They gave up their nukes. We promised to protect them. We lied. Now Zelenskyy is saying no peace without a firm guarantee of American intervention if Ukraine is attacked again. Will we agree? Will Putin?
Russian Americans are sending their relatives in Russia accounts of the war in Ukraine produced by Western and other media outlets that contrast with what Russian state media is reporting https://t.co/D7Wy2sW7N6
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 30, 2022
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FNC: Ukraine is seeking concrete security guarantees during peace negations in Turkey, including promises of military assistance during a future conflict from the world’s “leading armies,” including those with nuclear weapons, in exchange for adopting neutral status.
“The Treaty on Security Guarantees essentially assumes, not in theory, but in practice, to obtain an effective instrument for protecting our territory and sovereignty,” Mihailo Podolyuak, top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said of the talks. “The guarantor countries become, so to speak, the leading armies of the world, including those with a nuclear component, which take on specific legal obligations — to intervene in any conflict on the territory of Ukraine, to immediately supply weapons.”
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Zelenskyy holds tough on sanctions. “The issue of sanctions cannot even be raised until this war is over, until we return what belongs to us, and until we restore justice,” he said.
“Sanctions must be intensified, intensified weekly, and they must be of high quality. Not just for headlines in the media that sanctions have been imposed, but for a real peace. The real one,” he added.
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Almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population of 40 million has been displaced since the start of the Russian invasion. The UN Refugee Agency says that over 6.5 million people have been displaced within Ukraine and another 3.7 million Ukrainian refugees forced to evacuate the country, going to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and other countries.
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Are the Ukes shelling Russia? Russian media claimed Tuesday that two border villages had been shelled from Ukraine. Interfax, a Russian government controlled publication, reported that a shell from Ukraine exploded in the village of Zhuravlyovka. The shelling forced evacuations of Zhuravlyovka and nearby Niekhoteyevka to the Russian town of Belgorod. Either the Ukes have hit back or the Russians will use this false report as a reason to escalate in order to “defend the Motherland.”
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Idiotic and suicidal Russian forces have kicked up radioactive dust around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, workers at the site said. Russian soldiers in a convoy did not use anti-radiation gear and inhaled toxic dust that will most likely cause internal radiation in their bodies. The soon to be dead Russians are still not wearing radiation gear.
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Yaryna Arieva, 21, and her 24-year-old husband, Sviatoslav Fursin, married as soon as Russia’s invasion began in February. Then they both joined Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces.
“We will still be fighting until the last drop of blood, but if Ukraine falls, then someone will be next. Russia never stops,” Arieva told press. “They have nothing. They have nothing to feed their people, but still, they will try to take other countries and bring their Russian world – and the Russian world looks like complete [destruction] and fear.”
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Send in those damn MIGs & other arms A-Z OK Now
& Good Intel
We should all STOP!
Back up a few feet.
LOOK! at what we’re all doing.
ASK ourselves:
Have we LEARNED nothing?
So, he expects from the PUPPET in the WH to do the right thing – sticking to the promise that was made in 1994 – good LUCK with THAT, they are all already pooping their pants……..
This is not America’s war, nor is it their business. If J. Biteme and his pervert son had not invested American monies into the Ukraine (and the pathological labs) and pushed the Ukraine toward UN membership. And if Zelenski had not refused to allow Russia to annex the previously Russian province (which is populated by mostly Russians) this probably would never have happened. This whole mess lands directly into the lap of the liberal left and the idiot RINO and neo-cons who are pushing for the one world government.