https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1500213943012319252

In 2014, during the Battle of Ilovaisk, they agreed to let surrounded Ukrainians withdraw, then they massacred them.

As observed by the Heritage Foundation:

“Russia has rarely, if ever, signed an arms control treaty that it did not violate. Russia is in violation of

the Helsinki Final Act,
the Istanbul Commitments of 1999,
the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives,
an agreement to remove its military from Georgia and Moldova,
the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty,
the Budapest Memorandum (in which Russia promised to “respect the independence and sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine” and “refrain from the threat or use of force,” among other things),
the Chemical Weapons Convention,
and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

Russia is possibly in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as interpreted by the United States.”

I think Russian phisolophy considers adherence to treaties to be a form of weakness, therefore they go out of their way to demonstrate that they’re unbound by treaties . . . or common decency.

I really want this to be true:

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shot and killed during the detention a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team Denis Kireyev. He was suspected of high treason, reported Ukrayinska Pravda and several Ukrainian media outlets, citing representatives of the security forces and politicians.

It sounds like a high-level traitor was killed during his arrest.

Story here.

https://twitter.com/JominiW/status/1500004075420721154

Russian “influencers” on TikTok defend the invasion of Ukraine by giving the same exact propagandist speech as each other.

Evacuation of Irpin, the suburb of Kyiv. Today Russians bombed railway which had to carry evacuation trains for civilians. The city is an active fighting zone, for several days it was under intense airstrikes.

On the right is a professional Ukrainian singer, Andriy Khlyvniuk, lead singer of “BoomBox”. He left a tour of the USA to join the Kyiv territorial defense force. On the left, I is The Kiffness, an electronic artist from South Africa, who did the remix.

St. Sophia’s stands in the background.

I’m not sure I understand this.

As I understand, coca cola has also joined.

Major Brands that continue to operate in Russia:
Auchan
BASF
Bayer
British American Tobacco
Bosch
Burger King
Henkel
Imperial Tobacco
KFC
LG
Nestle
McDonald’s
Metro AG
Miele
Pepsico
Philip Morris
Pirelli
Starbucks
Stellantis
Swatch
Tesco

Corporations that have suspended operations in Russia:
Airbnb
Apple
BP
Budvar
Carlsberg
Boeing and Airbus
Coca-cola
Daimler Truck
Dell
Disney
Equinor
Exxon
Ford Motor Company
Google
H&M
Harley-Davidson
Ikea
Mercedes-Bens
Meta
Nike
Samsung
Siemens
Shell
Volvo
TikTok

Russian helicopter shot down over #Ukraine by anti-aircraft missile, Kyiv Oblast, reportedly.

Ukrainian Army shot down Russian fighter jet in the outskirts of Chernihiv. Other footage showed two parachutes in the sky.

Apparently, these are all from today:

As astonishingly good as the news has been for Ukraine, I would also say that it’s probably too good – both because Ukraine and forces sympathetic to Ukraine are doing their own info ops, and also because we are biased toward what we want to believe.

The news is indeed positive compared to what most analysts thought to be the expected outcome, but let’s keep it measured, and mindful of the grinding progress still being made by Ukraine’s enemies.

This is certainly interesting. I’m not nearly well enough informed to comment on the technical plausibility of this.

“Stop firing” staff at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant pleaded with Russian soldiers as they directed fire on buildings.

Video sent to @MarcSantoraNYT
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More: https://nytimes.com/live/2022/03/0