🇷🇺 Address by the President of the Russian Federation

Excerpts

💬 President Putin: It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe.

In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns.

❗️ Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.

Focused on their own goals, the leading NATO countries are supporting the far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, those who will never forgive the people of Crimea and Sevastopol for freely making a choice to reunite with Russia.

☝️ They did not leave us any other option for defending Russia and our people, other than the one we are forced to use today. In these circumstances, we have to take bold and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass have asked Russia for help.

In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Chapter VII) of the UN Charter, with permission of Russia’s Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation.

The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime.

Disarming Ukraine - Day 1
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-1.html

On February 15 Professor John J. Mearsheimer gave a talk (video) about the Ukraine crisis. He starts out (at 3min) by explaining who has caused it: The United States, mainly, and its allies are responsible for this crisis. I recommend...

Ukraine Open Thread 2022-17
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/ukraine-open-thread-2022-17.html

ONLY for news & views RELATED TO UKRAINE ...

🎙 Russia's President Meeting with Security Council permanent members

💬 Vladimir Putin: According to available information, and this is confirmed by objective monitoring – we are seeing this; Banderites and neo-Nazis are putting up heavy weapons, including MLRS, right in the central districts of large cities, including Kiev and Kharkov. They plan to force return fire by Russian strike systems vs residential quarters. They are acting in the same way terrorists act all over the world – using people as shields.

It is known for a fact that all this is being done on the recommendations of foreign consultants, primarily American advisors.

❗️ Once again, I am appealing to the military of the armed forces of Ukraine. Do not allow neo-Nazis and Banderites to use your children, wives and elders as a live shield. Take power into your own hands. It seems it will be easier for us to come to terms with you than with this gang of drug addicts & neo-Nazis that have settled in Kiev and that have taken the Ukrainian people.

CIA backing an insurgency that will cause immense civilian casualties!
This is NOT something that Russia can be blamed for

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-25/ukraine-cia-insurgents-russia-invasion

#Twitter says it will consider censoring "Emerging Narratives" about #UkraineCrisis

These problematic “narratives” are almost certainly likely to be ones that question narratives being put out by the #Biden White House and #NATO sources

https://t.co/rIHkIylpiF

#censorship

Disarming Ukraine - Day 3
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-3.html

Yesterday the Russian military halted its advance to give time to the Ukrainian president Zelensky to agree to ceasefire talks. The U.S. however told him not to hold such talks and said he should leave Kiev. Up to this morning...

‼️‼️‼️Боевики «Азова» расстреливают гражданских прямо на трассе под Мариуполем. Реально страшное видео

Специально для тех, кто видит розовых пони добрых украинцев с оружием, а не людей, воюющих с нашей страной. Сейчас Мариуполь практически окружен, руководство ВСУ отдало приказ никого из него выпускать. Автор видео об этом не знал и хотел выехать из Мариуполя, но напоролся на кордон бойцов «Азова». Прямо у него на глазах из машины стали жестко вытаскивать людей и наставили на них оружие. Завязалась драка, поняв, что это могут стать последние секунды его жизни, автор ролика втопил на газ и рванул. Украинские солдаты сразу же открыли огонь по нему, машине лишь чудом удалось прорваться.

ПРИЗЫВАЕМ НАШИХ ВОЕННЫХ УНИЧТОЖАТЬ ЭТУ НАЦИСКУЮ ПАДАЛЬ!!!
И В ПЛЕН НЕ БРАТЬ!

ПРОСИМ РЕПОСТ!

#US #Afghanistan moment in #Ukraine

https://archive.is/Gh6iM

Medvedev called the condition for the arrest of funds of foreigners in Russia

In the event of the arrest of money from Russians and domestic companies abroad, it is necessary to respond symmetrically, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, believes. This is how he commented on the sanctions against members of the Security Council adopted in connection with the military operation in Ukraine.

https://news.mail.ru/economics/50221615/?from=newsapp

LOL Even #BBC debunks #Ukraine #FakeNews

https://archive.is/Yq3dQ

War In Ukraine Day 3: Russia’s Advance Slowed Down. Ukrainian Forces Resist (Videos 18+)
https://southfront.org/war-in-ukraine-day-3-russias-advance-slowed-down-ukrainian-forces-resist-videos-18/

Disarming Ukraine - Day 5 | Money War On Russia - Day 1
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-5-economic-war-on-russia-day-1.html

Historian Anne Morelli has summarized Arthur Ponsonby's classic book Falsehood in War-Time as this: We do not want war. The opposite party alone is guilty of war. The enemy is inherently evil and resembles the devil. We defend a noble...

How Russia will bypass western economic warfare

https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/7385

#US "Hague Invasion Act".

📍 https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/us-can-invade-the-hague/

📍https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act