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Always coming with a great bunch of caveats, the website Grayzone offers a very different coverage than the mainstream media
Further to the DPR and LPR
Using data from UN
Activist Aaron Mate claims from 2018 to 2021, 81.4% of civilian casualties in the Donbas war came in rebel-held territory. 16.3% were in Ukrainian gov’t-controlled territory.
A UN report for 2014-2016 blaming both sides for violations
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/OHCHRThematicReportUkraineJan2014-May2016_EN.pdf
Scenes from Georgia in support of Ukraine. Not surprising since they too were attacked by Russia in 2008 and have a breakaway republic, South Ossetia, on its doorstep
#Prague tonight, during #Zelenskyy’s video link address to European cities.
Freedom, EU solidarity and peace.
Unbreakable, unshakable, and utterly beautiful.
🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦#StandWithUkraine️ #StopPutin pic.twitter.com/qZ422nKaml— Brendan May (@bmay) March 4, 2022
Zelenskyy is determined to spread the war into a European one by demanding a NATO imposed No-Fly zone over Ukraine. Yet the media won’t describe him as a war-monger.
Lost in all this media coverage is any news from the pretext of the war, the DPR and LPR breakaway republics.
This Australian news story is one of the few accounts and expresses the power of propaganda fed to them
And from Al Jazeera
And from Russian government TASS
https://tass.com/world/1412121
And an example of war propaganda we won’t read here
It is a cliche, ALB, but truth is the first casualty of war.
We fully accept that there are atrocities and war crimes committed in a war. We fully admit war is brutal and dehumanising.
Yes, war can bring out the best in people, the empathy and solidarity but it also brings out the worse, cruelty and callousness.
People don’t like to think of themselves as pawns in a power struggle but that is what they are.
This is why we oppose capitalism the harbinger of inhumanity.
Sentimental sympathy and sorrow, won’t end wars.
Remember when America re-named french fries, freedom fries in retaliation of the French opposition to the Iraq invasion,
Chicken kiev is to have its name changed by Sainsbury to Ukrainian spelling, chicken kviv
The story is more complicated than what we simply saw, AC
Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
The Israeli government has called on Ukrainian Jewish refugees to immigrate to Israel and removed bureaucratic hurdles to secure their arrival as quickly as possible.
“We call on the Jews of Ukraine to immigrate to Israel – your home,” Israel’s Ministry of Immigration and Absorption said
Israel is keen on bringing in Ukrainian Jewish refugees for the purpose of maintaining Jewish demographic “supremacy”.
The World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division announced the building of 1,000 housing structures for Ukrainian Jewish families in both Israel and settlements in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.
We had talked about the risk to Ukraine’s nuclear power staions previously and the possibility of a potential catastrophe being narrowly avoided has just been brought home to us
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60532634
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, is on fire. Mayor Dmytro Orlov of nearby Enerhodar says the fire was caused by “continuous enemy shelling” The International Atomic Energy Agency had called on all sides to stop any fighting near the plant.
Lucky for all of us, the fire has not affected the vital operating equipment and a nuclear melt-down was averted.
A close call, though.
The environmentalist Friday for Future had slogans a bit better than their earlier ones in their antiwar protests.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/03/climate-youth-fill-worlds-streets-standwithukraine
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Russia and Ukraine agree on local temporary ceasefires to permit the flow of refugees.
Zelenskyy seeks direct talks with Putin.
One small contribution of solidarity we can make is to draw attention to the anti-war pro-peace movement in Russia.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/03/stop-war.html
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-international-ukrainian-russian.html
We can also be critical, too
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/03/no-war.html
The problem of reports of disaffection within the Russian army is difficult to verify but I also think any reports that claim it exists and is spreading should be shared.
Probably more effective is that key Russian industries are exposing the backlash to war
Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil is calling for an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
In a statement on its website, the company said it was concerned by the “tragic events in Ukraine” and supported the negotiations to end the conflict.
Its board called for “the immediate cessation of the armed conflict and fully supports its resolution through the negotiation process and through diplomatic means”.
Putin can ignore the man and woman in the street but when his business leaders are openly against the war, it shows the divide that is widening
