NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Ukrainian airforce is trying to repel the Russian airforce which is attacking army installations throughout the country. Russia claims that it is using targeted weapons against Ukrainian military infrastructure.
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05:15 GMT Gostomel Airport falls to Russians
04:30 GMT – Fighting continues at Gostomel airport, just 20 km north of Kyiv. Russians say they have conquered airport but Ukrainians say fighting is still going on.
02:00 GMT Fierce battles reported at Kyiv airport, which has reportedly fallen into Russian hands.
01:15 GMT Ukraine claims it destroyed four Russian tanks on road to Kharkov: ‘Enemy is suffering casualties’.
01:00 GMT Russia shelled Mariupol (Donbas): Apartment buildings and private sector houses were damaged, according to the Mariupol City Council.
01:00 GMT Uman warehouses on fire in area unrelated to local Jewish community
Wreckage after bombardment (Ukrainian Ministry of Interior)
Ukrainians taking cover inside a metro station in Kharkiv. pic.twitter.com/z2Q58MQhdI
— Bernie (@birdyloving) February 24, 2022
Ukrainians take cover in metro stations
A military aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell in the Kyiv region. This was reported by the press service of the State Emergencies Service.
There were 14 people on board. The plane caught fire, which resulted in the death of 5 people. pic.twitter.com/jxjfjmYqLx— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) February 24, 2022
12:00 GMT Ukrainian sources announce that military plane downed, 5 killed
Civilian footage of downing of helicopter:
A Russian helicopter was reportedly downed in Hostomel, Kyiv oblast. https://t.co/h3bBDsxgkG pic.twitter.com/YClVVVVziv
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 24, 2022
Downed Russian Ka-52 helicopter in Ukraine #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/mnzcAmrAyv
— MilitaryLand.net (@Militarylandnet) February 24, 2022
11:50 GMT – Ukraine claims to have downed 3 Russian helicopters near Kyiv, including the one below. Pilot taken prisoner.
11:27 GMT – Ukraine claims to have captured two Russian soldiers (pictured above)
11:15 GMT – NATO decides to increase forces on its eastern frontier.
11:00 GMT – Russian bombardment kills 18 people in Odessa Oblast. The local authorities reported that 18 people died as a result of Russia’s attacks on a military base in Lypetske village outside Oddesa, a Black Sea port city in the south.
10:45 GMT – President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Moscow as his country faced a wide-scale military assault.
He spoke as one of his advisers announced that more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers had died and dozens had been wounded.
10:30 GMT – Ukrainian ports closed, no harm to port infrastructure, trains to and from Kyiv running on schedule
10:00 GMT – Ukrainian government spokesperson: In Chernihiv Region, (North Ukraine, border with Russia and Belarus) the Ukrainian military managed to stop the attack — the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
9:10 GMT – Mariupol mayor says three ‘peaceful people’ killed in village near airport
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, has said three “peaceful people” were killed in Russian attacksnear the city’s airport.
He added others, including a child, were injured.
“I want to reassure you that our military spirit is at its highest level. Nobody will surrender Mariupol, we will defend our city and our land,” he said at a news conference.
9:05 GMT – Ukrainian government spokesperson: The Russian stock market is in free fall. Shares of Kremlin corporations fell by 30-50% and this is just the begging game of the auction. The ruble is falling sharply against the dollar and the euro.
9:00 GMT – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call Thursday that “the West would not stand by as President Putin waged his campaign against the Ukrainian people,” according to Downing Street.
Johnson and Zelensky spoke over the phone after Russia’s attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, according to a statement tweeted by Downing Street.
Johnson told Zelensky on the call that “he was appalled by the unfolding events in Ukraine,” said the statement. It added that Johnson hoped “Ukraine could resist,” and that the United Kingdom had Ukrainians in their thoughts “during this dark time.”
9:00 GMT – Ukrainian government spokesperson: Russian propaganda shares the news that Ukrainian army is leaving Mariupol (Donbas city). Its Fake. Ukrainian army is there and ready to defend the city.
08:48 GMT – Kyiv says anyone who can hold a weapon can join territorial defence forces
Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that anyone who is ready and able to hold a weapon can join the ranks of the territorial defence forces, as the police said they would distribute weapons to veterans.
08:45 – Ukrainian police ask people to report suspicious persons walking the streets
08:35 – GMT Ukrainian central bank restricts cash withdrawals after tens of thousands rush to take money out of banks.
08:25 GMT – Security camera footage shows Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukraine from Russian-annexed Crimea
07:44 GMT – Russian-backed separatist say goal is to capture Ukrainian regions
A Russian-backed separatist leader in eastern Ukraine has said their main objective was to regain control of all the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk where their breakaway territories are located, the Interfax news agency reported.
07:15 GMT – Ukraine says Russian military hardware entering from Crimea
Ukraine has that Russia was moving military equipment into the country from annexed Crimea and that Russia was shelling it across the country all the way to western Ukraine’s Lviv region.
07:15 GMT -Ukraine says at least 8 people killed by Russian shelling, as border guards says Russian columns have crossed into Ukraine.
At least eight people have been killed and nine were wounded by the Russian shelling, an advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs has said, according to Reuters news agency.
The border guard said separately Russian military columns have crossed Ukrainian border into Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions
07:00 GMT – Ukraine claims to have shot down Russian planes
The Ukrainian military says it has shot down five Russian planes and one helicopter in the Luhansk area. The claim could not be independently verified.
06:48 GMT – Separatists claim capture of Ukrainian towns
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have said they have captured the towns of Shchastia and Stanytsia Luhanska in Ukraine’s region of Luhansk, the RIA news agency reported. There was no immediate comment by authorities in Ukraine.
06:20 GMT – Russia says it has degraded Ukraine’s air defence
Russia’s defence ministry says it has attacked military infrastructure at Ukrainian airbases and degraded Ukraine’s air defences, according to reports by Russian news agencies. The claims could not be independently verified.
The ministry also denies reports that one of its aircraft had been shot down over Ukraine.
6:15 GMT – Poland says it expects NATO’s eastern flank to be reinforced
Poland expects a decision on reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, a Polish government spokesman said on Thursday.
“Now is the time to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank. We expect such decisions to be taken,” Piotr Muller said.
06:05 GMT – Ukrainian leader Volodya Zelensky declares martial law
Zelensky, in a brief national address, says “Russia conducted strikes on our military infrastructure and our border guards” and introduces martial law across Ukraine.
06:00 GMT – Ukraine says troops attacked from Belarus
Ukraine border guard service says the Russian military attacking Ukraine from Belarus as well as Russia itself.
05:45 GMT – Ukraine says eastern units under intensive shelling
Ukraine’s defence minister says Ukrainian units, military control centres and airfields in the country’s east are under intensive Russian shelling.
5:30 GMT – Russia suspends flights at domestic airports near Ukraine border until March 2.
05:25 GMT – Russia says targeting Ukraine military facilities with ‘precision’ weapons
“Military infrastructure, air defence facilities, military airfields, and aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being disabled with high-precision weapons,” the defence ministry says in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
05:00 GMT – Russia says targeting ‘junta’ in Kyiv
Russia’s ambassador to the UN tells an emergency Security Council meeting that Moscow’s military operation against Ukraine was targeting “the junta” in power in Kyiv.
“I wanted to say in conclusion that we aren’t being aggressive against the Ukrainian people but against the junta that is in power in Kiyv,” says Vassily Nebenzia.
05:00 GMT – Russian-backed separatists say they have attacked Ukraine-controlled town
Russian-backed separatists say they had launched offensives on the Ukrainian-controlled town of Shchastia in the Luhansk province and against Ukrainian forces along line of contact in Donetsk, Russia’s Interfax news agency said.
04:45 GMT – Ukraine shuts down its entire airspace in response to the Russian military operation in Donbass.
04:41 GMT – Kyiv mayor urges citizens to stay home following explosion heard in capital.
04:30 GMT – Ukraine says Russia has launched ‘full-scale invasion’
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia has launched a “full-scale invasion” of Ukraine and is targeting cities with weapons strikes.
04:15 GMT – Explosions heard near Kyiv, elswhere.
In the east, artillery fire is reportedly heard in pro-Russian rebel controlled Donetsk and explosions heard near Kharkiv.
04:00 GMT – Ukraine Ministry of Infrastructure announces passengers and staff evacuated from Kyiv airport
3:46 GMT – Explosions reportedly heard in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine
03:35 GMT – International condemnation
US President Joe Biden denounces Moscow’s “unprovoked and unjustified” attack on Ukraine, pledging the world will “hold Russia accountable”. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg echoes Biden’s statement, while United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, in an impassionate plea, says, “President Putin, in the name of humanity, bring your troops back to Russia.” Biden, in a phone call to Zelenskyy, also pledges support to Ukraine and its people.
03:00 GMT – Putin announces invasion
Putin announces an attack in Donbas and calls on Ukraine’s military to lay down its arms.The Russian leader warns other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen”.
Personally, I despise the Ukrainians even though, or perhaps because of, I was born and raised there.
However, despite the well deserved animosity towards the ukrainians: at present Putin’s Russia is incomparably more dangerous to the world at large and Israel in particular. Putin is not going to stop in Ukraine; he will continue invading and destabilizing the world until he is made to stop. Just like Sudetenland appeasement did the opposite of delivering “peace in our times” in 1938. Putin is a rabid dog who understands only the language of force. Hopefully military force can still be avoided, as the pro-Putin Russian oligarchs’ and high ranking bureaucrats’ ill-gotten wealth and even their families are parked in the West. All their secret bank accounts and real estate holdings can be easily traced by the CIA and the FBI, then confiscated(civil forfeiture or whatever else), with their family members residing in the West imprisoned on the money laundering charges. Cutting Russia off the world banking system would and all kinds of other economic sanctions can also be useful. However, emphasizing personal prosecution and confiscating billions from all the high ranking individuals in the Putin’s regime is way more effective than the general sanctions.
Unfortunately, can’t expect any efficient moves from the current White House regime. The pathetic Brandon Administration pretty much invited aggression from Russia and China with the Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco and his wokefication of the US military.
Putin is already causing problems for Israel with the Russian military bases in Syria and his support of Iran. Putin is not our friend, no matter his personal friendship with individual Jews and his verbal statements supposedly admiring the Jewish brain. It is the actions that matter, and his political actions are almost always anti Israel.
I really do not have time for this nonsense. It doesn’t concern me in the least possible way.
My priorities are:
1) Ensuring that CRT is studied in every American school.
2) Deciphering the latest addition to the alphabet.
3) Demanding that correct pronouns be used for the for the newest letter’s representatives.
4) Pushing for reparations for those who never worked a day in their lives, either as slaves, or as free men.
5) Setting the ultimate bail reform – immediately setting every criminal free after giving them a sum of money to sustain him, thus preventing his next offense.
I am also studying which statues must be torn down and which building and streets should be renamed.
I have also put my full concentration behind banning plastic bags and straws, and to allow every transformer to use the bathroom of their choice.
I am doing this because I am proud American of Democratic persuasion.
Like many other catastrophies,this never would have happened under President Trump. Bullies know a weakling when they see one.
I haven’t heard a neo from the squad
The last time Russia attacked the Ukraine was under Obama now his puppet in chief
world in turmoil high crime higher taxes higher gas prices and food prices. Economy on the rocks just like Obama’s presidency. Let’s keep supporting the democrats.
Under Trump there may not have been a war. Trump would have likely given his buddy-buddy Putin something far worse:
APPEASEMENT.
biden your words are empty and weak, you cannot handle the situation here in the states how can you handle Russia/Ukraine ? Step down and go back to your basement!!! American people had enough !!!!
Reports that UMAN has been shelled. Is Pootin good for the Jews?
THE RUSSIAN 47th MOTORIZED RIFLE BRIGADE JUST SURRENDERED TO UKAINIAN FORCES OUTSIDE CHERNIV. Commander said “We didn’t think we would be forced to kill people, but just to gather information”.
INVASION! Cities bombed, hundreds of casualties already. Pootin’s death squads have lists of people (incl Yidden) to KILL. A sad day, like 1939 again.
It says live updates, but it seems as if this has not been updated since 5:30am.
Who is Russia fighting? No one?! The Ukrainians themselves aren’t fighting. They don’t even have the capability to fire middles back into Russia. So why does Russia bother bombing and destroying infrastructure. They could just walk right in.
Did Biden eat his Ice cream today already?
To all my fellow American can someone tell the disgraced Biden to wake up!!! This is not a dream !!
Devolution & Current Events RE: Putin & Ukraine
“Here’s my take on what’s happening in Ukraine/Russia. I’m just spitballing here. Like everybody else I have more questions than I do answers but I think this plays into Devolution.
First think about what Ukraine is – It’s the epicenter of corruption for the political establishment. Victor Pinchuk, George Soros, Ihor Kolomoisky… All funding “deep state” agendas worldwide, all based out of Ukraine. We know their ties to the Clinton foundation and liberal politics in America.
If Trump was going to truly drain the swamp, he would have to tackle the corruption in Ukraine. The oligarchs have funded their own militaries in previous color revolutions. Trump could wouldn’t be able to take them down without a fight. So if Trump is going to clean up Ukraine he would likely need boots on the ground to do it.
Enter Putin.
It’s no secret that Putin hates Soros as he banned him from Russia long ago, and it’s also no secret that Putin despised the “deep state” tactics of implementing color revolutions to overthrow pro-Russian leaders and install ones that would play ball with the “deep state”. It’s speculated by many that Putin could be working with Trump in the fight against the “deep state” and it’s hard to argue with. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
So think of the brilliance that might be taking place right now.
Boots on the ground were likely necessary to fully remove the problem in Ukraine, but Trump couldn’t invade Ukraine with US troops. Somebody else would have to do it. However, if somebody like Putin were to do it while Trump was president, it would make Trump look week and the media would have a field day.
What better time to clean up the mess in Ukraine than with Biden in office? Kills two birds with one invasion. You make the Biden administration and the MSM look like fools, while taking on the “deep state” in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.
Putin is simultaneously helping Trump to serve up red-pills while fixing a problem that actually benefits the USA and the rest of the world – the denazification of Ukraine.
We won’t have any definitive answers until this blows over but make sure you guys are using the 24 – hour rule with news reports coming out about this stuff.” ~ PatelPatriot
Ukraine voted in support of UN anti – Israel resolutions over the years.
Is it true that Rabbi Lazar will become the Head Rabbi of Ukraine as well?
Russia is now a super power like it or not. Putin is the shrewdest one