Czar Wars: evening roundup
News and notes, mostly from Europe
Day 21 of Putin’s war. Russians attack Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Odesa coast
Russian television: It’s time to “de-nazify” Latvia
Zelensky urges Biden to be “leader of the world” in address to Congress
Lavrov suggests “hope” for a “compromise”
Ukraine’s Center for Counteracting Disinformation (which operates under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council) claims Putin is losing favor with his inner circle of oligarchs, creating conditions for his overthrow.
Among Putin’s “pocket oligarchs,” Yury Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko, and Sergey Chemezov, may still communicate with him in person. Oligarchs from the Yeltsin era are defiantly avoiding personal communication, and it is from their side Putin fears a “stab in the back.”
The Russian Embassy in Finland is putting out an appeal, on Twitter, to ethnic Russians: “Please report cases of violation of rights, discrimination and incitement of hatred against citizens of the Russian Federation and native speakers of the Russian language to the consular department of the embassy by e-mail.”
New: President Biden announced US $800 million in new military aid, which will include anti-aircraft systems. Says US helping Ukraine identify and obtain longer-range air defense systems.
Poland proposes NATO “peace mission” in Ukraine
Putin loses yet another general.
US warns Moscow against using chemical or biological weapons.
Two words and you’re in the paddy wagon:
This morning in Kiev, after a missile strike:
URBAN WARFARE: A GUIDE TO THE STRATEGIES AND TACTICS OF DEFENDING A CITY.
Russia may have used a killer robot in Ukraine. Now what?
Ukraine thanks Shoigu for his corruption:
From the RUSSTRAT Institute, a completely insane think tank close to the Kremlin (in Russian):
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