While the Russian Army keeps pounding Ukraine cities ?
There has been movement on other levels….
There have two negotiating sesions and more coming between the parties….
Russian officals now say they will NOT ‘occupy’ the country ( just level its cities and terrorise its populations into NOT joining the rest of Western Europe?…Which doeswn’t look like it’s gonna work))
Russian and Ukrainian forces have agreed to a cease fire corridoor for those leaving the country…..
Those in the city of Kherson say the agreement isn’t being kept by the Russian nmilitary there….
Over 1% of the 44 million Ukrainans have left the country for neighboring countries , mostly Poland….
Some males are returnin to the Ukraine….
Foreigner’s are trickling into the Ukraine to join the fight….
The Ukrainian President is begging NATO and the US to establish a ‘No’Fly’ Zone over the country…..
THAT is NOT gonna happen ….
Biden and and NATO will not put things into the West vs Russia DIRECTLY….
Western nations ARE ramping ups military hardware and weapons to the Ukrain fighters…
The Eurpean Union has given the Ukraine, or what’s left of it, a temporary status in its organisation….
Battles involving airstrikes and artillery continued Friday northwest of Kyiv, and in the northeast, with the cities of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka coming under heavy strikes, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said.
Ukrainian defense forces were holding on to the northern city of Chernihiv, and have prevented Russian efforts to take the important southern city of Mykolaiv, he said.
Ukrainian artillery have been defending Odesa from repeated attempts by Russian ships to fire on the Black Sea port city, he said, insisting there’s no immediate threat to the city.
A Russian airstrike Thursday also destroyed the power plant in Okhtyrka, leaving the city without heat or electricity, the head of the region said.
NATO is refusing to police a no-fly zone over Ukraine. The 30-nation military organization believes that such a move could provoke widespread war in Europe with nuclear power Russia….
US Intel going to the Ukrainan’s…..
The US has multiple channels open and is sharing intelligence with Ukraine at a “frenetic” pace, US officials said Thursday, disputing criticism that the Biden administration is not sharing battlefield intelligence fast enough.
Is this believeable?
A top Russian diplomat insisted Friday that his country will not occupy Ukraine.
“The goal is very clear: Denazification and demilitarization,” Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s ambassador in Geneva, said of the invasion — which he called a “special military operation.”
“We are not going to stay in Ukraine militarily. We are not going to occupy this country,” he told the U.N. Geneva press association ACANU. “I don’t now all the details of the military plan, but the political goal is as I described it.”
He said the definition of “demilitarization” was being discussed in diplomatic talks between Ukrainian and Russian envoys.
“We want to secure — or to have guarantees — that the threat is not coming from Ukraine against the Russian Federation.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to legitimize Russia’s moves in Ukraine by claiming a desire to “denazify” Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government. Historians see Putin’s invocation of World War II as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further the Russian leader’s aims….
Note…
There has been several media over reaction’s and holes in reporting….
The fire at the nuclear reactor story by media fails to report generally that the fire was NOT actually in the rector building….
The number of people leaving the Ukraine is a LOT…But only slightly more tha. 1% of the population…Most people of the coutry have hunkered down or move to the Western part of the country…
The Putin nuclear story is a stretch ….The Russian President put ALL of his military one step up in alertness…The nuclera part is just that…a part…Puin regullarly wants people to know he has nuclear weapons…So does the UK and France…
The Ukraine had them…
But gave them up to the Russian’s in total by 2001…
The media is NOT reporting that the increase in gas price globally is because of the sanctions aginst Russia…..
Odds Favor Putin
Eurointelligence: “The reason Vladimir Putin has the power to invade a country the size of Ukraine is western money. Each day the west is importing energy from Russia to the tune of $700 million. We even increased our reliance on Russian energy after he annexed Crimea. At no point did we ever solve the problem. Going after the yachts of some oligarchs is one of many ways of not solving the problem. Inviting President Volodymyr Zelensky to a grand-standing session in the European parliament is another one. We are not going to make Ukraine a member of the EU.”
“We now see a clear path for Putin to win this war. He encircles and destroys. He will do to Kiev what he did to Aleppo, Grozny, and most recently to Kharkov. Putin is a very predictable military strategist.”
I’ll have a post later on how Putin’s ace card going forward IS OIL/GAS….
Gas prices around my way at $4.00 a gallon and climbing