Key things to know about hypersonic missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine
Ukrainian and Mariupol authorities have rejected an ultimatum to surrender the besieged city to Russian forces. Follow here for live news updates.
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Russia invades Ukraine - VI
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You know, most of us here are NW European and our heads are longer than broad, which is called "dolichocephalic." The same is true of the Sub-Saharan Africans, from whom we descend. OTOH, most Slavic people are "brachycephalic," or "round-headed," with the cranial index being closer to as broad as long. That guy may be the most brachycephalic specimen I've ever seen. His head is as round as a basketball, no matter how you measure it...
This is our pastor and wife (or reverse, since they're both ordained and appointed here by the bishop)...Huntsville family offering their home to Ukrainian refugees on new site
A new website allows homeowners to offer up extra space in their home to Ukrainian refugees.whnt.com
No. It is really hard to pull those off. The Red Army did achieve this fairly well at Stalingrad.
Just look at that little piece of [excrement]...
I'd love to be locked in a room with him for about 10 minutes.
Putin 'orders hit squads to kill HIS OWN men' if they try to desert war
VLADIMIR Putin has allegedly ordered execution squads to kill his own men if they try to desert his Ukraine invasion. The Russian tyrant expected a swift quick victory when he ordered the invasion …
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A survey like that is like a survey with a gun to your head.
I am sure there are a sizable number of Russians who support the war/Putin. Probably a good many who say so because they fear for their lives, their livelihood if they dare to speak out against the regime.
This isn't the Iron Curtain. Where Radio Free Europe was about the only place to get unfiltered news. VPNs can allow anyone to do and endrun on official censors.
I am sure Putin is bound to be hiding the bodies of dead Russian soldiers, but that will have a short shelf life if enough mothers start going without their sons.
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From an expat Russian friend who is now stuck in Moscow:
"From the horror of what is happening I want to hide myself anywhere, but I have to get up and go.. My daughter's nanny, Tina in Mariupol, a Georgian with a Russian passport, went to visit her daughter and grandchildren, was supposed to return on February 25. Still there, there is no communication, from the daughter-in-law's words, the day before yesterday her husband Edik died, his heart stopped, yesterday he was buried somehow, Tina is still in Mariupol... She recently had surgery on her spine according to the quota in Moscow, she can't walk well, every day I wait for news in inevitable horror... In Moscow, I go to pharmacies every day, there are no vital medicines (Euterox, Concor Cor and Zloft), when they are available, no one can answer... Sugar and pads are still available, as well as coffee in Shokoladnitsa..."
From another expat Russian friend in Lincoln, NE:
"My world collapsed 3 weeks ago. And it has been crushing into small pieces every day since. For 3 weeks I've watched how people I know and love have ran under fires and bombs, how some of them stayed in ruined cities, how some of us can't find our families. People who have cared about me and who shared their hospitality with me. And for 3 weeks I've been asking myself "how and why?". I belong to the generation who's grandparents and parents were affected by World War 2. All our childhoods, we were taught that war is the most terrible and evil thing in the world. When I was a child, we had this superstition that if you lose your eyelash, you have to put it on your hand, shake it off and make a wish. My two closest friends and I often wished for peace and no war. We were also supposed to make 3 wishes every New Year's Eve, and one of them was always for peace. We were naive and childish. We grew up and laughed at our childhood fears. The world seemed to be a stable place, so our grown-up wishes shifted to traveling to Paris or London, or to move to different place, etc. And today I'm asking myself, how and why the generation of pacifists changed into the generation who let this war happen? I know some of my friends haven't changed, I can see it in their eyes in their pictures, I can read it between the lines on their posts and messages. That little girl woke up in me again, and she is whispering her wish "for Peace, for no War".
"From the horror of what is happening I want to hide myself anywhere, but I have to get up and go.. My daughter's nanny, Tina in Mariupol, a Georgian with a Russian passport, went to visit her daughter and grandchildren, was supposed to return on February 25. Still there, there is no communication, from the daughter-in-law's words, the day before yesterday her husband Edik died, his heart stopped, yesterday he was buried somehow, Tina is still in Mariupol... She recently had surgery on her spine according to the quota in Moscow, she can't walk well, every day I wait for news in inevitable horror... In Moscow, I go to pharmacies every day, there are no vital medicines (Euterox, Concor Cor and Zloft), when they are available, no one can answer... Sugar and pads are still available, as well as coffee in Shokoladnitsa..."
From another expat Russian friend in Lincoln, NE:
"My world collapsed 3 weeks ago. And it has been crushing into small pieces every day since. For 3 weeks I've watched how people I know and love have ran under fires and bombs, how some of them stayed in ruined cities, how some of us can't find our families. People who have cared about me and who shared their hospitality with me. And for 3 weeks I've been asking myself "how and why?". I belong to the generation who's grandparents and parents were affected by World War 2. All our childhoods, we were taught that war is the most terrible and evil thing in the world. When I was a child, we had this superstition that if you lose your eyelash, you have to put it on your hand, shake it off and make a wish. My two closest friends and I often wished for peace and no war. We were also supposed to make 3 wishes every New Year's Eve, and one of them was always for peace. We were naive and childish. We grew up and laughed at our childhood fears. The world seemed to be a stable place, so our grown-up wishes shifted to traveling to Paris or London, or to move to different place, etc. And today I'm asking myself, how and why the generation of pacifists changed into the generation who let this war happen? I know some of my friends haven't changed, I can see it in their eyes in their pictures, I can read it between the lines on their posts and messages. That little girl woke up in me again, and she is whispering her wish "for Peace, for no War".
back in the us, back in the ussr....
‘We’re going back to a USSR’: long queues return for Russian shoppers as sanctions bite
After an hour and a half queuing for sugar, or worse still fighting for it in a market, Russians are feeling the effect of shortages caused by an unprecedented cutoff from the world
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The NKVD did that in the Second World War. I could see Chechens doing that for Ramzan Kadyrov.Putin 'orders hit squads to kill HIS OWN men' if they try to desert war
VLADIMIR Putin has allegedly ordered execution squads to kill his own men if they try to desert his Ukraine invasion. The Russian tyrant expected a swift quick victory when he ordered the invasion …www.the-sun.com
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