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Feb 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ukraine medics fight in vain to save girl (6) who died after Russian attack

In Mariupol, where Ukrainians are trying to fend off a Russian advance, an ambulance raced into a city hospital on Sunday, carrying a 6yr girl mortally injured in Russian shelling independent.ie/world-news/eur…
The girl was raced inside and doctors and nurses huddled around her. One gave her an injection. Another tried to revive her.

One of the doctors who struggled to save her looked straight into the camera and said “Show this to Putin…the eyes of this child and crying doctors” Image
They were unable to save her.

He closed his eyes.

A family left with a devastating, heartbreaking loss.

One of a growing number.

Russia’s illegal war. And now Belarus’s.

War crimes.

Keep the evidence as there will be a reckoning.
Mariupol. See in the south eastern part of Ukraine, a port in the Sea of Azov, south of Donetsk Image
He closed *her* eyes.

So desperately sad.

A 6yr old girl with her whole life ahead of her. What right has he to terrorise kids? War criminals.

#CowardsInTheKremlin
This. Make no mistake about it.

The sheer depravity of Putin and his regime and those who facilitate and support him.

This has been illustrated for years. Decades.

It is not new. Just an escalation of the depravity.

War criminals.

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Mar 2
A Few Members of Russia's Parliament Speak Out Against War - The New York Times

They say they were told that troops were going in as peacekeepers in Luhansk and Donetsk …not that it would be a full scale invasion. That’s what they voted on.

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Mar 1
The Russian soldiers “believed they were the good guys, coming to liberate oppressed Ukrainians from their Nazi overlords. They believed the Kremlin, which said they'd be welcomed, thanked.

Instead, they are being berated as "оккупанты" - occupiers…by people who speak Russian…
Look like Russians. Shops that look familiar to Russians. They may have holidayed in Odessa & swum in the Black Sea.

Soldiers who may have family & friends in Ukraine.

Yet they are being told “Go Home. What are you doing here?”

And they are supposed to kill them? Image
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

What does that do to morale?

And what messages will they be sending home….

When they can.
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Mar 1
“The past has invaded the present. Russia’s military aggression has burst over Ukraine like a storm cloud gathered from a different, darker time. It is raining terror and destruction on a country that has seen tank columns like the one Vladimir Putin has ordered to Kyiv before…”
“.. but not in the last seven decades.
The Kremlin claims to be landing surgical strikes. The reality for civilians on the ground is butchery. Until this happened, the western imagination struggled to process the idea that Putin would go through with it.”
“His cynical disregard for human life was never doubted, but his callousness was thought to include rational self-interest.”

One helluva article from @rafaelbehr
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Mar 1
U.S., other world powers to tap strategic oil reserves in bid to ease gasoline prices - The Washington Post

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A dilemma brewing fast. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
To try and stabilise prices the USA has agreed to release 60 mill barrels of oil from their reserves.

Oil prices have already risen to $100 dollars a barrel and could hit $130 a barrel. Image
It’s the 4th time since 1974 that the USA has taken this step. Image
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Mar 1
How much are these to buy? Anyone know?.

Responses suggest the Russia Army has about 100.

It looks as if Serbia bought 6 a couple of years ago.

(Link tweet two) for details.
Serbia’s purchase

overtdefense.com/2021/12/06/ser…
Several responses put the value for export at around US$13-15million.

H/t @antartica81 for the most specific response.

“$13.15 million–$14.67 million a unit for export. Which likely mean about a third of that for domestic use.”

That’s still a VERY expensive fire.
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