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Ukraine open thread

By Scott Lemieux

On February 25, 2022

At 1:07 am

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FILE – In this Friday, May 10, 2002 file photo, Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author of the book “Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within” is photographed at his home in London. A former agent for the KGB and its post-Soviet successor agency FSB, Col. Alexander Litvinenko defected and fled to London, where he fell violently ill in 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma in a hospital in Siberia Thursday Aug. 20, 2020 after falling ill from a suspected poisoning. (AP Photo/Alistair Fuller, File)

Putin’s butchers are going directly after Kyiv now:

Russian forces renewed bombing Ukraine in the early hours of Friday morning, with central Kyiv rocked by explosions, after President Vladimir Putin ordered an offensive that he said was aimed at toppling the government.
According to Ukrainian news outlet Liga.net, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that three people had been injured, one of them critically, when a rocket fragment hit a residential building in the city. The building is on fire and might fall, Mr. Klitschko said.
“Horrific Russian rocket strikes on Kyiv. Last time our capital experienced anything like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany,” Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter: “Ukraine defeated that evil and will defeat this one.”
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had sustained 137 dead and 316 injured on Thursday. He said Russia wasn’t only striking military targets but also civilian sites.

Remember that just yesterday clowns like Greenwald and Tracey were claiming that it was CIA propaganda to call what Russia planned to do an “invasion?” Truly one of the great moments of desperate goalpost-moving in defense of unprovoked fascist aggression ever.

Putin and his oligarch friends seek a divided world and the destruction of democracy. We must stand with the Ukrainian people against this war, and with the Russian people who are demonstrating against their corrupt, reckless president who started it. pic.twitter.com/xVCM8gwQ6Q— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 25, 2022