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⚡️⚡️⚡️Ukrainian missile hit the hotel where RT military envoy Murad @msgazdiev Gazdiyev's film crew was staying:
"As you can see, there is not much left of the room. I was sleeping in this place."
All our targets. The cameraman Mikhail was crushed by the concrete slabs, but miraculously he survived and was almost unharmed.
After the blast the guys helped to get people out from under the rubble: "This is the room next to mine, now we can see the guy downstairs.
In addition, the explosion damaged vehicles standing near the hotel, including the SUV of our war correspondents. Though battered, the vehicle is still running.
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"As you can see, there is not much left of the room. I was sleeping in this place."
All our targets. The cameraman Mikhail was crushed by the concrete slabs, but miraculously he survived and was almost unharmed.
After the blast the guys helped to get people out from under the rubble: "This is the room next to mine, now we can see the guy downstairs.
In addition, the explosion damaged vehicles standing near the hotel, including the SUV of our war correspondents. Though battered, the vehicle is still running.
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In Alchevsk, LNR, a referendum polling station had to move to a bomb shelter due to shelling.
According to the commission's chairwoman, Olena Kravchenko, this morning there were bursts near the polling station.
Update : 6 HIMARs missiles were used in the attack.
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According to the commission's chairwoman, Olena Kravchenko, this morning there were bursts near the polling station.
Update : 6 HIMARs missiles were used in the attack.
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Forwarded from Eva Karene Bartlett (Yeva)
I was in Gorlovka today to watch people in that hard-hit northern city cast their votes, and to speak to them about their opinions on the referendum. Echoes of yesterday: they want peace, an end to Ukraine's shelling of their city for over 8 years, they want to join Russia...(videos to follow when I have time to subtitle & upload).
The city was being shelled before I arrived, but not heavily while there. Early this morning, however, a district of the city was shelled around 6 am, the shell landing near a city bus & exploding its windows, particularly the windshield in front of the driver's seat. Fortunately, he was luckier than the central Donetsk driver 2 days ago who was destroyed by the Ukrainian-fired shell, along with 5 other civilians in the area.
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The city was being shelled before I arrived, but not heavily while there. Early this morning, however, a district of the city was shelled around 6 am, the shell landing near a city bus & exploding its windows, particularly the windshield in front of the driver's seat. Fortunately, he was luckier than the central Donetsk driver 2 days ago who was destroyed by the Ukrainian-fired shell, along with 5 other civilians in the area.
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This morning's driver had just finished a round of his route, was taking a break for coffee and due to leave in 8 minutes when the shell struck. He was not injured, but definitely traumatized by the thought that just minutes earlier/later and he would have been killed.
A journalist with us showed me a small piece of the shell, noting that this type isn't designed to destroy military equipment, but to break into fragments and inflict more damage against whoever happened to be in the way. And Ukraine is firing them on residential areas.
He told me this district is heavily shelled by Ukraine, and that he'd been there a week prior. Ukrainian shelling nearly, but didn't, killed an elderly man in the area who lives alone & has no way to call for help if wounded, the cell reception is too weak. "If he had been injured, no one would have known," until possibly too late.
From a distance and beyond a lovely flower bed (which added incongruity to the scene), I looked at the bus, watching as a couple and their young child walked past. This area, I was told, is one of the hardest-hit in Gorlovka. Thankfully shells didn't rain down on that passing family...
We stopped at a hospital which, I was told, is treating 102 injured Donbass soldiers, 14 civilians (including an elderly woman who stepped on a Petal mine). The hospital apparently recently received several wounded Ukrainian soldiers, gave them basic preliminary treatment & they were sent on to Donetsk for further hospital care. "We don't differentiate between our soldiers & theirs," I was told, something I heard from a doctor treating wounded Ukrainian POWs, 71 of who were injured after Ukraine fired on Yelenovka detention facility in late July, killing 53 of their own (albeit Azov, but nonetheless, Ukrainian).
Although the issue of the day is the referendum on whether or not to join Russia, everything is intertwined, and Ukraine's shelling does not stop, including in Donetsk, which Ukraine repeatedly shelled today, wounding civilians.
This morning's driver had just finished a round of his route, was taking a break for coffee and due to leave in 8 minutes when the shell struck. He was not injured, but definitely traumatized by the thought that just minutes earlier/later and he would have been killed.
A journalist with us showed me a small piece of the shell, noting that this type isn't designed to destroy military equipment, but to break into fragments and inflict more damage against whoever happened to be in the way. And Ukraine is firing them on residential areas.
He told me this district is heavily shelled by Ukraine, and that he'd been there a week prior. Ukrainian shelling nearly, but didn't, killed an elderly man in the area who lives alone & has no way to call for help if wounded, the cell reception is too weak. "If he had been injured, no one would have known," until possibly too late.
From a distance and beyond a lovely flower bed (which added incongruity to the scene), I looked at the bus, watching as a couple and their young child walked past. This area, I was told, is one of the hardest-hit in Gorlovka. Thankfully shells didn't rain down on that passing family...
We stopped at a hospital which, I was told, is treating 102 injured Donbass soldiers, 14 civilians (including an elderly woman who stepped on a Petal mine). The hospital apparently recently received several wounded Ukrainian soldiers, gave them basic preliminary treatment & they were sent on to Donetsk for further hospital care. "We don't differentiate between our soldiers & theirs," I was told, something I heard from a doctor treating wounded Ukrainian POWs, 71 of who were injured after Ukraine fired on Yelenovka detention facility in late July, killing 53 of their own (albeit Azov, but nonetheless, Ukrainian).
Although the issue of the day is the referendum on whether or not to join Russia, everything is intertwined, and Ukraine's shelling does not stop, including in Donetsk, which Ukraine repeatedly shelled today, wounding civilians.
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I was in Gorlovka today to watch people in that hard-hit northern city cast their votes, and to speak to them about their opinions on the referendum. Echoes of yesterday: they want peace, an end to Ukraine's shelling of their city for over 8 years, they want…
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🇷🇺⚔️ Training of Mobilised Fighters
attack/defence of the convoy is already in full swing.
Cool, believe in the guys, victory will be ours 🇷🇺
attack/defence of the convoy is already in full swing.
Cool, believe in the guys, victory will be ours 🇷🇺
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Britain should not fuel the conflict in Ukraine, but try to achieve peace, Daily Mail writes
The newspaper notes that the conflict in Ukraine has already brought the world much closer to a real nuclear war, and it would be extremely foolish to disregard Putin's words about the use of nuclear weapons.
The newspaper notes that the conflict in Ukraine has already brought the world much closer to a real nuclear war, and it would be extremely foolish to disregard Putin's words about the use of nuclear weapons.
Kremlin warns Ukraine that trying to retake Donbas after referendums will be tantamount to attacking Russia
From News 360
The Kremlin has warned that, if the referendums on annexation to Russia initiated this Friday in the eastern regions of Ukraine succeed, they will be considered for all purposes territories of the Russian Federation and, therefore, the Constitution will be applied "immediately".
Therefore, potential Ukrainian attempts to regain the Donbas would be considered attacks on Russia, which from Moscow's point of view would legitimize any response.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, has defended that everything is "very clear" in the Constitution and, although he has avoided giving a deadline for the formal conclusion of the annexation of these territories, he has pointed out that it will be "fast", according to the Interfax news agency.
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The Kremlin has warned that, if the referendums on annexation to Russia initiated this Friday in the eastern regions of Ukraine succeed, they will be considered for all purposes territories of the Russian Federation and, therefore, the Constitution will be applied "immediately".
Therefore, potential Ukrainian attempts to regain the Donbas would be considered attacks on Russia, which from Moscow's point of view would legitimize any response.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, has defended that everything is "very clear" in the Constitution and, although he has avoided giving a deadline for the formal conclusion of the annexation of these territories, he has pointed out that it will be "fast", according to the Interfax news agency.
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Before Zelensky become a President...
Take all of your convictions today and imagine fighting for their complete opposite.... What's your price? 💲
Take all of your convictions today and imagine fighting for their complete opposite.... What's your price? 💲
🇺🇦🇷🇺 In 2021, Zelensky told his people in Donbass to leave. So they are.
Let's frame this up correctly; a nation-state is one where there is only one predominant ethnicity (i.e Japan). There are also nation-states that have two founding nations (ie Canada and Belgium). Most states are multiethnic states.
It would not be an alien concept to have introduced constitutional variations to allow different peoples to live within the territorial integrity of one state (aka Minsk Agreements). Ukraine is not a nation-state due to its large Russian minority, and smaller Hungarian, Polish, Romanian minorities.
How then do you "deoccupy" 4 million people living in Donbass? Would that not constitute ethnic cleansing? For anyone who had doubts as to Zelensky's plans for this region.
And yet his views were not racially divisive before he took office - see here. What happened?
Let's frame this up correctly; a nation-state is one where there is only one predominant ethnicity (i.e Japan). There are also nation-states that have two founding nations (ie Canada and Belgium). Most states are multiethnic states.
It would not be an alien concept to have introduced constitutional variations to allow different peoples to live within the territorial integrity of one state (aka Minsk Agreements). Ukraine is not a nation-state due to its large Russian minority, and smaller Hungarian, Polish, Romanian minorities.
How then do you "deoccupy" 4 million people living in Donbass? Would that not constitute ethnic cleansing? For anyone who had doubts as to Zelensky's plans for this region.
And yet his views were not racially divisive before he took office - see here. What happened?
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Could things have been different?
Zelenskiy campaigned on bringing peace to the Republics through the implementation of the Minsk agreements. It is likely a referendum would have resulted in the Republics requesting a degree of autonomy. That means the area would remain part of the country, with one's territorial integrity unscathed, but the region can usually legislate its own laws.
There are several of these within Russia already - such as the Jewish Autonomous Region (see purple) or the Republic of Chechnya (part of the green). Republics and autonomous regions have different constitutional obligations in respect of the central power structure.
If Kyiv was indeed not waging war against the Donbass (as they claim they did not) - why didn't they want to meet their people half way? 🤔
Zelenskiy campaigned on bringing peace to the Republics through the implementation of the Minsk agreements. It is likely a referendum would have resulted in the Republics requesting a degree of autonomy. That means the area would remain part of the country, with one's territorial integrity unscathed, but the region can usually legislate its own laws.
There are several of these within Russia already - such as the Jewish Autonomous Region (see purple) or the Republic of Chechnya (part of the green). Republics and autonomous regions have different constitutional obligations in respect of the central power structure.
If Kyiv was indeed not waging war against the Donbass (as they claim they did not) - why didn't they want to meet their people half way? 🤔
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🇷🇺Footage of the Tor-M2 missile system, which successfully hit Ukrainian targets
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The destruction of the BMP of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a Russian helicopter with the help of the Izdeliye-305 LMUR, the combat vehicle was hit on a pontoon crossing. Presumably, Kherson region.
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