The Ukraine news overnight

[Mark Kohut]

Heikki,

I will stop the Ukraine posting. And arguing with some about Ukraine.  I
know it was too much but I wanted to get news down
as it happened before IT happened........but this is not the list for
that...

I will do Pynchon still. If pynchon posts can keep you on, I hope you
stay....

Mark

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 9:43 AM Heikki R <
situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Belarus, there are presently at least 1050 political prisoners. Since
> the electoral farce of 2020 and the consequent uprising, more than 40000
> political arrests have been made. Almost 5000 political trials have been
> conducted. All of this has been made possible by Putin’s support. Some
> observers were not totally certain whether Putin would continue supporting
> the unpopular and heavy-handed Lukashenko. Well, he did, and now we are
> witnessing the main reason why he did.
>
> In November 1939, Putin’s idol Stalin staged a pretext to start a winter
> war. (Finland was included in the USSR’s “sphere of influence” in the
> Molotov-Ribbentrop pact signed three months earlier.)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila
>
> Now pretexts for another wintery war are in the making.
>
>
>
> For melancholy reasons, I’m withdrawing from this list for an indefinite
> time.
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 1:10 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sources within Russia report that Russian media are reporting more and
>> more
>> often
>> on aggressive acts toward Russians in Ukraine. The creation of a defense
>> for the invasion is
>> escalating. There was a major shelling in the Donbass region which
>> resulted
>> in one publicly proclaimed
>> slow death of a Ukrainian soldier. There was a planned film of an
>> exploding
>> pipeline, Russian news trucks
>> just happened to be there to film Ukraine's surprise explosion. Open
>> source
>> analysts prove metadata shows Russia
>>  filmed scenes of "the evacuation" two days ago, 16th. The day before they
>> stepped up shelling and before
>> the evacuation was announced.
>>
>> Others say that Russian actions, firing, along the border toward Kiev are
>> up. Way up. No movement into Ukraine yet.
>> Most say Kiev being targeted. Rockets to ground troops very active.
>> Movement likely along a river to it. New: Russian backed puppet
>> governments
>> in Donbass announce mobilisation. All men 18-55 barred from leaving.
>>
>> When a Ukrainian evacuation of a major dangerous area was asked for, only
>> 3400 left. Social media posts of
>> many, many, who said they would stay and be ready to fight. The Daily
>> Beast
>> spoke to the head of an orphanage
>> responsible for 225 children as they made the dangerous journey to a
>> Russian checkpoint.
>> “[It’s] a very tiring and stressful day and it is not even over,” Olga
>> Volkova said, exasperated.
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>