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Mr. Clever from Moskow is making the world blue! And yellow! He had scored his perfect own goal – so it stands 1:0 for the rest of the world! Support Ukraine and make your world blue and yellow – Slava Ukraini! #makeitblueandyellow
to the propaganda and lies of a war-criminal . A German family sitting round the radio > Volksempfänger< during World War II.
Putin's legacy: Bombing civilians in an unprovoked war. Photos courtesy of: www.facebook.com/UkraineNOWOfficial.
President Putin visited Amsterdam today and was in Dam square to lay a wreath @ the war monument. This picture was taken several hours prior to the event, when all the officers (most of whom had been waiting for hours) were getting seriously bored and started joking around...
I just happened to pass by but this was so much fun to watch that I did a whole series on the preparations surrounding the wreath laying, hope to find the time to upload more later on.
Putins Geiseln
vor der Botschaft der Russischen Föderation Berlin
*Im heutigen Russland gibt es 550 politische Gefangene, darunter 394, die wegen ihrer Religion verfolgt werden. Außerdem sitzen mehr als 180 ukrainische Bürger im Gefängnis, die meisten von ihnen Krimtataren, die von den Besatzungsbehörden seit Beginn der Invasion zu insgesamt mehr als 1.300 Jahren verurteilt wurden.
Weitere 568 werden ohne Freiheitsentzug verfolgt, d.h. sie stehen unter Hausarrest, haben Bewährungsstrafen erhalten oder das Land verlassen.
* Nach Angaben des Menschenrechtszentrums MEMORIAL vom Februar 2023 und des ukrainischen Außenministeriums vom Dezember 2022.
Darüber hinaus haben die russischen Behörden zeitgleich mit dem umfassenden Einmarsch in die Ukraine interne Repressionen in einem noch nie dagewesenen Ausmaß eingeleitet. Nachstehend die Zahlen allein für das Jahr 2022.
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Personen, gegen die wegen ihrer Antikriegshaltung ein Strafverfahren eingeleitet wurde
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proclaiming another major military victory as putin bombs a theater in Mariupol killing innocent women and children....may he burn in hell...prison would be way to good for this poor excuse of a man....
Because frankfurt belongs to you! - changed to:
Because Frankfurt belongs to Putin!
Communist mayoral candidate for Frankfurt
Not much of an image but I figure with war blowing everything up in Ukraine, a simple reminder of why we need to live in peace!!! F-U Putin!! Hitler 2.0
Freezing (Frieren) on the sidelines of the Corona protests.
Saturday's demonstration in Frankfurt against Corona policy, April 23, 202
A protest against Putin's war in Ukraine. However the war ends there is no hole deep enough to hide the stench of that man.
This morning (2022.05.31), 416 035's last bogey derailed while arriving at Pestszentimre station with train no. 2949.
One of the tracks got damaged, and the other was left occupied by the beached Russian DMU for the better part of the day, so train replacement buses were transferring passengers on the locked out section.
Two crews arrived to help the railcar get back onto the rails, one with the rescue trainset hauled by an M44 shunting loco, the other from Székesfehérvár, with the classy Rába truck on the right.
The DMU got put back on the rails by 6:30 pm, with the help of hydraulic jacks, after which it left the scene of the incident on its legs.
A memorial today on Dam squire in Amsterdam, to honour the courageous man Alexey Navalny, who dedicated his life to fighting for freedom in Russia which is a dictatorial country where is only one state television,telling the truth of the Kremlin, and everyone who is not thinking like the boss/Tsaar in the Kremlin, can be put into a prison for years and years, and also being killed , just like that, poisoned or simply being pushed out of a high placed window, if this dictator man Putin wants it.. It was Alexei Navalny 's fate to be put to prison and to be murdered by Putin. But he will be remembered for ever to be this eternal fighter for justice and freedom! Путин убийца On March first 2024 thousands of brave and also sad mourning people went to say grace to him where he was buried, A sad but also a day of protest against a cruel dictatorship.
the insane leader of Russia attacks Ukraine, but also Europe and the whole world - and leads all of us, including the russian people, into the abyss of fear and poverty
"since 5.45 we are shooting back" Hitler. 01.09.1939
"since 5.30 we are shooting back" Putin. 24.02.2022
caricatures found in Marijke B.'s stream (as often, what a great collection - bedankt!) www.flickr.com/photos/91916338@N07
Demonstrators assemble in London's Whitehall to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. People from countries all around the world have been attending marches and protests against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Thousands attended a protest in Whitehall outside Downing Street and Trafalgar Square in London over the weekend, including many Russian people.
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I post this series of photos of a pro-Ukraine protest in London's Trafalgar Square as a neutral observer (more photos will be following soon). I'm no fan of either Russian or Western imperialism and military aggression and I have every sympathy with the Ukrainians who are facing a war of aggression from their more powerful northern neighbour, part of the motive for which seems to be to rebuild the prestige and power of Russia, as a sort of new Russian empire reflecting the former hegemonic influence over Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union. All at an immense cost in lives, and also a clear and grave violation of international law. Putin's decision to escalate the nuclear standoff with the West by publicly placing his nuclear forces on high alert should be another reminder of just how dangerous he is.
However, the West should also share a significant portion of the blame for this war. The Russian invasion is far from "unprovoked" as many media commentators claim. First, we have to remember recent history and how Russia has good reason to fear NATO which was originally set up to combat the threat of the 'Russian hordes.' It is remarkable how in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, despite his familiarity with Germany's responsibility for having invaded Russia twice during the twentieth century (in 1914 and 1941), agreed to allow East Germany to join West Germany inside a hostile military alliance. There was however a quid pro quo, as promised by President George H. W. Bush (senior) and Secretary of State James Baker that NATO wouldn't move "another inch to the east" but that promise was soon broken as during the Clinton presidency, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joined, and then under President George W. Bush, the NATO alliance was further extended to include Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic States, and further still under Obama to Croatia and Albania.
This means that NATO forces are now frequently deployed right around Russia's western borders (except for Ukraine and Belarus). One can imagine, Washington's paranoia, if say in the 1960s or 1970s, Mexico and Canada had declared their intention to join the Warsaw Pact and many people may be familiar with how Cuba's desire to station Soviet missiles on its territory to deter a feared US invasion (and frequent terror attacks), almost led to a nuclear war, though fortunately Khrushchev saw wisdom and backed down in the face of JFK's terrifying brinkmanship and secretly the United States did agree to withdraw some of its older strategic nuclear missiles from Turkey.
At the same time the United States sees Ukraine as occupying a key space on the strategic chessboard, and has ensured that Ukraine has become increasingly dependent on foreign debt and Washington's goodwill, and has continued to plan for Ukraine's eventual incorporation into NATO. That would mean Ukraine, which occupies a vital strategic position on Russia's southern flank and with its border just 350 miles from Moscow, would also become a potential platform for an assault on Russia and even if no assault ever occurred, the mere fact of NATO's enhanced power, would inevitably greatly diminish any remaining influence Russia had to counterbalance US hegemony in Europe. That's why Ukraine's membership of NATO is something which no Russian leader was ever likely to accept. It is of course easy to see a possible compromise - that Ukraine should remain neutral but that in return all countries should respect its territorial integrity, although allowing some autonomy for the Russian speaking areas in Crimea and the Donbass.
Western media has downplayed the suffering of the Russian population in the Donbass region, which for years has been subjected to constant shelling from government forces, and although Ukrainian civilians have also been killed by Russian backed separatists, the UN figures clearly show that year after year, it was the Russian population which suffered a far higher level of fatalities and serious injuries, including the deaths of many children.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
Western media also holds up Ukraine as a beacon of freedom and democracy, but while there have been some important gains for civil society in recent years, Russians have good reason to be unhappy. The Ukraine government has harassed and detained several opposition and pro-Russian journalists and in February 2017 it banned the commercial importation of books from Russia and a new education law made Ukrainian the sole language of instruction in secondary schools, which obviously discriminated against its Russian population. Fascist militias are also growing in number and corruption is endemic while the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture suspects the Ukrainian government of operating secret prisons.
However, it should be noted that the human rights record of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have also received intense criticism from the UN OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) and various NGOs for suspected human rights abuses, while Russia's appalling human rights record and its increasing authoritarianism is well known.
To avoid the enormous risk of a nuclear confrontation the West has to start thinking of a way to allow Putin to climb down, without jeopardising European security or sacrificing the freedoms of the Ukrainian people and the obvious way would be to agree to recognise Ukraine as a neutral sovereign state which would remain outside NATO and with a real democratic autonomy for the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
If the West continues to funnel enormous quantities of high tech military equipment into Ukraine, without any attempt to reach a political compromise (by recognising Russia's legitimate security concerns and autonomy for the Donbass region while still guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty) there's a very real risk that an increasingly frustrated Putin will issue an ultimatum for the tactical use of nuclear weapons in order to regain the upper hand on the battlefield, and this will be an incredibly dangerous moment for humankind.
A huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing a flood.
Ukraine's military and Nato have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from low-lying areas either side of the river Dnipro.
UN humanitarian aid chief Martin Griffiths has warned of grave and far-reaching consequences. Here's what we know so far.
Where is the dam?
The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant is in the city of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region. The city is currently under Russian occupation.
The dam was built in the Soviet era and is one of six that sit along the Dnipro river, which stretches from the very north of the country into the Black Sea. In Kherson region, Russia occupies the left, or southern, bank while Ukraine controls the right, or northern, bank.
The dam holds back a huge reservoir, which locals call the Kakhovka Sea as you cannot see the other bank in certain places.
What happened?
Video footage showed a massive breach in the dam, with water surging through it and flooding downstream in the direction of Kherson.
Ukrainian dam operator UkrHydroEnerho said the Nova Kakhovka station was "fully destroyed" and could not be restored.
It's unclear when exactly the dam was first damaged, but satellite images suggest its condition deteriorated over a number of days.
As water from the vast Kakhovka reservoir poured through the damaged dam, agricultural land and dozens of villages and towns were quickly flooded.
Thousands of people from both sides of the river have been evacuated from their homes, but the full scale of the disaster is not yet clear. BBC