The number of Ukrainian refugees will soon exceed 2 million. Humanitarian corridors through which civilians could safely evacuate cities under siege are being negotiated. It seems that the ground is being prepared for the second act of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which combat operations will intensify
The West imposed the most extensive and detailed sanctions on Russia in history. The Serbian Government supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine and voted for the UN resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but refused to join the sanctions against Russia. The economic consequences, however, will not bypass Serbia. New price increases are inevitable
The port city of Mariupol is under Russian siege and is threatened with a humanitarian disaster. It stands in the way of a land corridor between Crimea and the self-proclaimed pro-Russian Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic, which is apparently one of the goals of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Puk Azov, a radical right-wing unit that uses neo-Nazi symbols and is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is also involved in the defense of the city.
Perhaps Tolstoy was right when he wrote that all happy families are the same, and unhappy ones are always unhappy in different ways. But this does not apply to refugees, the refugee tragedy is always, and everywhere, exactly the same. Everyone who is shaken by pictures from Ukraine should remember that
The destruction of cities in the path of the Russian offensive shows what will happen to anyone who refuses to accept Russian rule. The goal, obviously, is the capture of the entire Black Sea coast, the surrender of Mariupol and Odessa, the establishment of a land corridor between Crimea and the breakaway self-proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, and, finally, the capitulation of Kiev.
The battle for Europe's largest nuclear power plant led to a fire that was quickly put out. There was no radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, but the fear spread across the continent this March morning, which will affect the further course of war conflicts in Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine has triggered a new refugee crisis in Europe. In just eight days, more than a million Ukrainians fled to the EU, and the UN warns that they should prepare for another three million. Unlike refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe generously opened all doors for Ukrainians and provides them with the necessary assistance
Just as Serbia was never Slobodan Milosevic, neither is Russia Vladimir Putin. She is on the streets and in the newsrooms of independent media. And those who defend the Russian invasion in Serbia are not real Russophiles, but Putinophiles. They have nothing to do with real Russian culture. Kandinsky, Malevich, Platonov, Stravinsky mean nothing to them. They are much closer to the rulers of the Romanov dynasty, Rasputin or Stalin
For humans, a thermobaric bomb has catastrophic consequences, often without visible external signs: eardrums burst, lungs collapse, internal organs are damaged, but the brain is usually preserved. The victim dies in the most severe agony, remaining all the time in a fully conscious state. The worst thing is that the fatal wave bypasses all obstacles after its impact. The Russians took this bomb to the campaign against Ukraine
Chinese media reports that "the largest evacuation of Chinese in history" has begun and that around 2500 of its citizens, out of six thousand in Ukraine, have already been transferred to neighboring countries. The evacuation is being carried out with the help of the Ukrainian authorities, which was interpreted in Beijing as another example of good relations between the two countries. But the departure of the Chinese does not encourage hope for a calming of the situation. On the contrary
The initial happiness of the Russian troops was short-lived because the marching columns became too long, and the Ukrainians managed to organize a defense. If the Russian army does not want to get stuck like the JNA in 1991 near Vukovar, it must within an acceptable period, with controlled losses, go to the left bank of the Dnieper, occupy Kiev and form a new pro-Russian government. That is why the Russians will enter the second week of the war with reinforcements, which includes mobilization
Vučić took the torch of Milosevic's lack of freedom and continued to destroy the country relying on the same motives: therefore, he does not understand what is happening in the world, or does not want to understand. The fact that, in the middle of the Ukrainian crisis, he was brought to opt for peace, instead of Putin's darkness, is a consequence of 1. his essential insecurity, or 2. mere trade to support another mandate to destroy Serbia
The war is heating up, victims are measured in thousands, refugees in hundreds of thousands, the end is not in sight. In record time, the entire Western Hemisphere united in isolation, economic strangulation and condemnation of Russia, in all possible assistance to Ukraine. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, overnight became a movie hero of the fight for freedom and democracy, with whom citizens throughout the Western world can identify. The message is that Europe is defending itself in Kiev. The image of his video-link address to the European Parliament is an image, at least temporarily, of a united Europe. Serbia is not in that picture
The United Nations adopted a resolution condemning the Russian attack on Ukraine and demanding that Russia withdraw its troops. Serbia voted for the Resolution
The European Union, which bans Russian propaganda media such as RT and Sputnik on its territory, simultaneously sends a message in a similar media in Serbia that Serbia should condemn Russia's aggression in Ukraine, which was placed after the text entitled "Hypocrisy, the West condemns Russia for aggression, and NATO did the same to Serbia in 1999"
The world's mass audience is culturally primed for a personified struggle between good and evil: Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader; Batman v Joker; John McClain vs. Hans Gruber; God against the devil - Zelensky against Putin. Good must win, the world stands behind Zelenski. Except it's not war fiction
We see on television how women in Ukraine are preparing Molotov cocktails in case Russian armored vehicles penetrate the cities. I remember the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. I was there as a young journalist. There are some similarities with what is happening before our eyes in Ukraine, where a large column of Russian armored vehicles is heading towards Kiev.
On the afternoon of Sunday, February 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin put the nuclear command of the Russian Federation on "alert status" and raised the "deterrent force" to the mode of "combat alertness", i.e. combat readiness. In accordance with the "doctrine of assured mutual destruction". and the U.S. armed forces have raised their combat readiness proportionately puzzling that the West ignores it to such an extent
Not only the conventional military, but also American and Russian cyber units were raised to a higher level of combat readiness after the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Both of them know the weak points of their opponents, but a direct confrontation on the Internet has not yet occurred because the damage on both sides would be enormous. The US, however, has one significant advantage: almost all of the resources that represent the backbone of the Internet are under the control of the US Department of Commerce
The US and the EU have approved arms deliveries to Ukraine. Sanctions against Russia have brought down the ruble. On the front, Russian troops are acting aimlessly. Anti-war demonstrations spread to Russian cities. Putin reminded the world that Russia is a nuclear power. On Monday between 8 and 9 in the morning, Rasha Tudej showed a documentary about the Second World War emphasizing the double game of the Western allies in relation to the USSR. Alcohol produced in Russia is withdrawn from sale in the USA and Canada
In response to the escalation of the invasion of Ukraine, Western countries introduced a "nuclear" economic measure: the exclusion of certain Russian banks from the SWIFT system. In addition, the West closed the airspace for Russian airlines and banned the operation of state media
The translator, who lives in the west of Ukraine, did not believe "that an open, cynical attack, a ground invasion, rocketing of the whole of Ukraine is possible." He says that this war is the realization of the plan to create a new Russian empire. He does not foresee its end, he believes that good will defeat evil and says that despite everything, Ukrainians do not seem scared
Roman Abramovich, a Russian businessman close to Putin, handed over the management of Chelsea FC, which he owns, to the club's charitable foundation after the West imposed sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
It is absurd that it would be in the interest of Russia, as well as the West, to end the war as quickly as possible, at least from the Western point of view, no matter how painful it may be, with the defeat of Ukraine and the installation of a pro-Russian government. If the bloody conflict with many civilian casualties drags on, both sides will be forced to raise the stakes. In resisting the Russian invasion, Ukrainians were left to fend for themselves. If NATO intervened directly, the world would be on the brink of war with unforeseeable consequences
Comedian, actor and sixth president of independent Ukraine. It strives for close ties with the EU and NATO. He blames the West for not doing enough to protect Ukraine. He says that he is the "main target of Russian aggression" which aims to "demilitarize" and "denazify" Ukraine. As for the latter, Zelensky is a Jew
The Russian invasion descended on Ukraine like Armageddon. In the second day of Putin's "special military operation", the fight for Kiev continues. Ukrainians are resisting in major cities, but the question is how long they will last
Ukraine is not only the country where the world's largest nuclear accident occurred 35 years ago, but also a country with an impressive fleet of active nuclear reactors, which in the middle of a war represent a greater hazard than Chernobyl encased in concrete.
