Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Ali_Baba]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60635927

TikTok suspends livestreaming and new content in Russia​

Video app TikTok says it is suspending livestreaming and new content to its video service in Russia while it reviews the safety implication of a new law which threatens to jail anyone the authorities deem to have spread "fake" news on the armed forces.
The platform says its in-app messaging service will not be affected.
"We will continue to evaluate the evolving circumstances in Russia to determine when we might fully resume our services with safety as our top priority," the company says.
There are an estimated 70 million monthly users of TikTok in Russia, but developers there have launched a rival service.
A number of international media organisations have suspended their work in Russia, citing concerns over their workers' safety with the new law. They include the BBC, Bloomberg News, Canada's CBC, German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF and Italy's Rai, among others.
The Russian government meanwhile has banned access to Facebook.

 

[Viet]

Go Ukraine go
The US Congress is about to give $10 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine.

 

[Qutb-ud-din-Aibak]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60635927

TikTok suspends livestreaming and new content in Russia​

Video app TikTok says it is suspending livestreaming and new content to its video service in Russia while it reviews the safety implication of a new law which threatens to jail anyone the authorities deem to have spread "fake" news on the armed forces.
The platform says its in-app messaging service will not be affected.
"We will continue to evaluate the evolving circumstances in Russia to determine when we might fully resume our services with safety as our top priority," the company says.
There are an estimated 70 million monthly users of TikTok in Russia, but developers there have launched a rival service.
A number of international media organisations have suspended their work in Russia, citing concerns over their workers' safety with the new law. They include the BBC, Bloomberg News, Canada's CBC, German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF and Italy's Rai, among others.
The Russian government meanwhile has banned access to Facebook.

Wait is TikTok not China controlled?

 

[sammuel]

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In Yekaterinburg, security forces beat a man with batons.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500411289058922497

 

[Madni Bappa]

This is significiant development.. Russians claiming warplanes that is landing in Romania is attacking them

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500503124536143872

CBS News: Blinken says NATO countries have "green light" to send fighter jets to Ukraine.

Blinken says NATO countries have "green light" to send fighter jets to Ukraine

The secretary of state says the U.S. is considering providing fighter jets to Poland if the country sends its own to Ukraine.

www.cbsnews.com

Gorey pagal ho gae hain bhai. Lagta youm e hisab a gya hai.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500550763516465155

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Russian MANPADS captured by Ukrainian forces

 

[The SC]

They say 5 of these drones were shot down and other news said 8,, it depends on the date of publishing..

 

[Ashesh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500559614273892354

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500550719421751303

 

[LeGenD]

Bullsh*t.

Why don't you go back a little further in history.

Bucharest Summit Declaration issued by NATO Heads of State and Government (2008)

www.nato.int

Check item 23.

That basically set it off.

Your opening statement is rude but thanks for this information.

Ukraine is a sovereign country and it can decide its security considerations like any other state.

But Russia does not wants it to - the classic case of the POWERFUL dictating / oppressing the WEAK.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500551253226573826

 

[LeGenD]

Not that Russians can easily get there, but they dont need a visa to come for a holiday, so you never know.

 

[Meengla]

lol I laugh at people ignorance when they think Russia is in any real contention with NATO in a conventional war.

US defence budget is 2/3 of the entire Russian GDP in 2021. Just let that sink in for a moment.

And then you look at Ukraine and they manage to make a big mess out of it. Against NATO?

I don't remember when is the last time any Army lost 3 generals in combat. Probably have to go all the way to Korean War....

Yes.
People are still living in the pre 1980s time when the old mighty Soviet Union sent massive amount of troops here and there and did various proxy wars and truly intrepid move like the Cuban Missile crisis. Those days ended a LONG way ago with suckers like Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

The Russia of today is a joke with nukes to blackmail the world. A has been, sick power. This is no 'bear' to poke as a lot of people here saying---and I had suspected that many years before this war. Russia is a spent force with nukes to blow up the world as its biggest asset. It's sad for me so say this but it is what it is.
PS. Not that I have changed my overall reading of this conflict, as mentioned many times above.

 

[Qutb-ud-din-Aibak]

Not sure if this is confirmed.. Heavy fighting is going on in Mariupol right now as per some sources

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500564298317320199

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500563780178227202

 

[Iñigo]

The cruelty towards Ukraine

The State Department knew perfectly well that Ukraine was divided into two camps, and that is precisely why the State Deparment provoked a civil war. "Ukraine" means "border", "borderlands", and one part is Polish-Ukrainian and another part is Russian-Ukrainian.

They filled their heads with promises, lies and fantasies, to use them as pawns and cannon fodder. As if impoverished Ukraine could magically become Denmark or Norway as long as they killed Russians and were very obedient to the Master in Washington.

A neutral Ukraine was beneficial for all: beneficial for Ukrainians, for Russians and for Western Europeans. The only losers were the fanatics in London and Washington.

Washington and London have been spitting on the USSR's grave for 30 years. This war started in 2008 and now the Russian army is ending it.

The blind Western fanaticism can be seen in this very thread: Crimea is Russia before California, Texas and Nevada was USA and yet some say it is sacred an internal administrative decision of the USSR from 1954. This is the degree of fanaticism: the USSR can be divided; but the Ukraine created by Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev is sacred and cannot be divided. Ukraine can be separated from the USSR but no territory can be separated from Ukraine.

And, of course, Washington should not be upset if Iran's military advisers train Mexico's army, nor should it be upset if China invites Canada to join a military alliance, and London should not be upset if Scotland rents a naval base to the Russian fleet.