Wednesday, March 9, 2022

World is watching numb how Putin while avoiding to use directly nuclear bombs(he seats on nuclear button terrorizing world during siege on Ukrainian nation), still is annihalating Ukraine with damage equal or exceeding nukes - they don't show this on Yahoo where constant fearmongering in respect to Russian nukes is used "what if...lalala"

Visit foreign sites to see what goes on in reality in Ukraine... Ukraine so far didn't fire a single bullet(since 2014 Russian invasion on Ukraine) on Russian soil...
Its not Ukraine with dirty nuclear bomb, its filthy Russia that threatens world with no less than 6,257 nuclear warheads. World is not afraid of Ukraine, but knows what dirty Russia looks like.
 
 
 

Russia-Ukraine war: Russia admits using thermobaric weapons, UK says; fears Putin could use chemical attack – live


An injured pregnant woman walks downstairs in the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine. A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
Emergency employees work at the site of the damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/APPeople fleeing advancing Russian forces file across wooden planks crossing Irpin River below a destroyed bridge as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues in Irpin. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters  People attempt to board a train leaving the Kyiv station, Ukraine. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP

Industrial conglomerate 3M announced that it is suspending its business in Russia, the latest Western company to do so following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

From Reuters:

“After re-assessing our business in Russia, we have decided to suspend all business operations there,” the company told Reuters in an email, adding that its focus continues to be on the safety of its employees and their families.

Rival industrial conglomerate Honeywell International Inc had also announced the suspension of its business in Russia, as the West continues to pressure Kremlin with severe economic sanctions.

Today, Nestle as well as tobacco brands Philip Morris and Imperial Brands temporarily stopped business in Russia, with McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo making similar announcements yesterday.


Russian’s delegation at peace talks with Ukraine “will not concede a single negotiating point,” reported a RIA news agency today.

From Reuters:

Russia’s delegation at peace talks with Ukraine “will not concede a single negotiating point,” RIA news agency cited negotiator Leonid Slutsky as telling a television station on Wednesday.

The two sides have carried out three rounds of talks since the start of the Russian invasion. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to have talks in Turkey on Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.


Julian Borger

John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, has been talking about the plan to deliver Polish MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. In short, the plan is off.


He said the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin had being talking to his Polish counterpart, and had “stressed that we do not support the transfer of additional fighter aircraft to the Ukrainian Air Force at this time, and therefore had no desire to see them in our custody either.”


Kirby went through the reasons, the US was against the transfer of combat aircraft.


“First, we believe the best way to support Ukrainian defense is by providing them the weapons and the systems that they need most to defeat Russian aggression, in particular, anti-armor and air-defense. We, along with other nations, continue to send them these weapons and we know that they’re being used with great effect. The slow Russian advance in the north and the contested airspace over Ukraine is evidence alone of that.”

“Although Russian air capabilities are significant, their effectiveness has been limited due to Ukrainian strategic operational and tactical ground-based air-defense systems surface to air missiles, and Manpads [shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles]. Secondly, the Ukrainian Air Force currently has several squadrons of fully mission capable aircraft. We assess that adding aircraft to the Ukrainian inventory is not likely to significantly change the effectiveness of the Ukrainian Air Force relative to Russian capabilities. Therefore, we believe that the gain from transferring those MIG-29s is low.”

“Finally, the intelligence community has assessed the transfer of MiG-29s to Ukraine may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in a significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with Nato. Therefore, we also assess the transfer of the MiG 29 to Ukraine to be high risk. We also believe that there are alternative options that are much better suited to support the Ukrainian military in their fight against Russia. We will continue to pursue those options.”

Updated

Systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that were monitoring nuclear material at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have stopped transmitting data, said the agency today, reported Reuters.

Yesterday, the same interruption of data was reported at the Chernobyl power plant amid an urgent request by Ukraine to the IAEA, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, about rotating the 210 technical personnel and guards working at the plant.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi “said he was concerned about the sudden interruption of such data flows to the IAEA’s Vienna headquarters from the two sites, where large amounts of nuclear material are present in the form of spent or fresh nuclear fuel and other types of nuclear material,” said the IAEA in a statement.

The US is reportedly considering sanctions against Russian nuclear power supplier Rosatom.

From Bloomberg’s Ari Natter:

SCOOP: The Biden administration is considering sanctioning Russian uranium supplier Rosatom. Huge implications for domestic uranium mining and nuclear power operators. No decision has been made yet.


Ukraine is preparing to potentially move its sensitive data and servers to another country if Russia’s invasion continues deeper into the country, said a senior cybersecurity official to Reuters.

Victor Zhora, the deputy chief of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, emphasized his department was planning for a contingency, but that it is being considered at all suggests Ukrainians want to be ready for any Russian threat to seize sensitive government documents.

“We are preparing the ground,” Zhora said. Plan A was to protect IT infrastructure within Ukraine. Removing it to a another country would only be a “Plan B or C”.

The move could only happen after regulatory changes approved by Ukrainian lawmakers, Zhora said.

Government officials have already been shipping equipment and backups to more secure areas of Ukraine beyond the reach of Russian forces, who invaded on Feb. 24 and are laying siege to several cities.

Last month Zhora told Politico there were plans to move critical data out of the capital Kyiv should it be threatened, but preparations for potentially moving data abroad go a step further.

Ukraine has received offers to host data from a variety of countries, Zhora said, declining to identify them. For reasons of proximity “a European location will be preferred,” he said.

“There are a lot options,” he said. “All the proposals are highly welcome and worth considering.”

Zhora gave few details of how such a move might be executed, but he said past efforts to keep government data out of Russia’s grasp involved either the physical transport of servers and removable storage devices or the digital migration of data from one service or server to another.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings, the multinational hospitality company, said today it would be stopping all new developmental activity in Russia.

Hilton also said that it had closed all its Moscow offices, citing the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Here is Hilton’s full statement:

Hilton joins those around the world in shock and disbelief at the tragic events unfolding in Ukraine. Our hotels have always been part of the fabric of our communities that we serve, and we take seriously our promise to positively impact the places where we live and work. In addition to the steps we have already taken to protect our Team Members and guests, we are taking the following further actions in response to the current crisis:

  • We are donating up to 1 million room nights to support Ukrainian refugees and humanitarian relief efforts across Europe, in partnership with American Express, #HospitalityHelps, and our community of owners.
  • We have closed our corporate office in Moscow and will ensure continued work and pay for any impacted Team Members.
  • We are suspending all new development activity in Russia.
  • We will donate any Hilton profits from business operations in Russia to the humanitarian relief efforts for Ukraine.
  • And as previously announced, the Hilton Effect Foundation has contributed $50,000 to World Central Kitchen and Project Hope to further assist with humanitarian aid.

Hilton continues to monitor the situation as it evolves. We are keeping our Team Members and all those impacted by these events in our thoughts and hope for a peaceful resolution to this crisis.



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