#StandwithUkraine #StoptheWar
Ukrainian women vow to protect their soil the same way as men
The #RussianMilitary continued to push forward towards #Kyiv on the third day of the invasion. The #Ukrainian President #VolodymyrZelenskiy anticipated that they would be facing the toughest night ever.
Staying in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Congresswoman #KiraRudik posted a photo of her holding a rifle on #Twitter, saying that Ukrainian women ‘will protect our soil the same way as our men’.
She told CNN she would not leave Kyiv, for it is their city and their country.
The Ukrainian #government distributed weapons to citizens as a part of defending the Russian military.
The government also encouraged their people to prepare gasoline bombs.
CNN interviewed the ex-Ukrainian President #PetroPoroshenko, a current-militia, who accused Russian President #VladimirPutin ‘crazy’, and ‘entering Ukraine just for killing’.
He added that ‘Putin could never take over Ukraine’.
#Kyiv #Ukraine #RussiaInvasion
Source: inmediahk; #Feb25
https://bit.ly/3HmwJIz
Ukrainian women vow to protect their soil the same way as men
The #RussianMilitary continued to push forward towards #Kyiv on the third day of the invasion. The #Ukrainian President #VolodymyrZelenskiy anticipated that they would be facing the toughest night ever.
Staying in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Congresswoman #KiraRudik posted a photo of her holding a rifle on #Twitter, saying that Ukrainian women ‘will protect our soil the same way as our men’.
She told CNN she would not leave Kyiv, for it is their city and their country.
The Ukrainian #government distributed weapons to citizens as a part of defending the Russian military.
The government also encouraged their people to prepare gasoline bombs.
CNN interviewed the ex-Ukrainian President #PetroPoroshenko, a current-militia, who accused Russian President #VladimirPutin ‘crazy’, and ‘entering Ukraine just for killing’.
He added that ‘Putin could never take over Ukraine’.
#Kyiv #Ukraine #RussiaInvasion
Source: inmediahk; #Feb25
https://bit.ly/3HmwJIz
#OpinionArticle
Can China be trusted? As the Russia-Ukraine war shows, #Beijing often says one thing and does another
//The war in Ukraine helps to explain this paradox. Less than two months before Russia’s invasion, Chinese President #XiJinping told Ukraine President #VolodymyrZelensky that he attached “high importance to developing the Chinese-Ukrainian strategic partnership.” But only weeks later, Xi and his Russian counterpart, #VladimirPutin, declared that their countries’ budding alliance had “no limits.”
...There is debate regarding the extent to which Xi and other Chinese officials had advance knowledge of the invasion. If they did, that makes them complicit in aggressive war and ongoing Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It would also mean that claims of ignorance by Chinese officials are not to be trusted.
And if they didn’t have knowledge of the invasion, the Russians didn’t trust them enough to give forewarning. Either way, there’s distrust of China.
...According to reports, Russia has requested that China provide it with weapons to bolster the assault on Ukraine. It is unclear whether China will fulfil that request. Chinese writing on bomb fragments in destroyed Ukrainian hospitals and schools – favourite targetsof the Russians – would not be good for China’s reputation.//
Read the full article
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/23/can-china-be-trusted-as-the-russia-ukraine-war-shows-beijing-often-says-one-thing-and-does-another/
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Mar23
#RussianInvasion #WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis
Can China be trusted? As the Russia-Ukraine war shows, #Beijing often says one thing and does another
//The war in Ukraine helps to explain this paradox. Less than two months before Russia’s invasion, Chinese President #XiJinping told Ukraine President #VolodymyrZelensky that he attached “high importance to developing the Chinese-Ukrainian strategic partnership.” But only weeks later, Xi and his Russian counterpart, #VladimirPutin, declared that their countries’ budding alliance had “no limits.”
...There is debate regarding the extent to which Xi and other Chinese officials had advance knowledge of the invasion. If they did, that makes them complicit in aggressive war and ongoing Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It would also mean that claims of ignorance by Chinese officials are not to be trusted.
And if they didn’t have knowledge of the invasion, the Russians didn’t trust them enough to give forewarning. Either way, there’s distrust of China.
...According to reports, Russia has requested that China provide it with weapons to bolster the assault on Ukraine. It is unclear whether China will fulfil that request. Chinese writing on bomb fragments in destroyed Ukrainian hospitals and schools – favourite targetsof the Russians – would not be good for China’s reputation.//
Read the full article
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/23/can-china-be-trusted-as-the-russia-ukraine-war-shows-beijing-often-says-one-thing-and-does-another/
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Mar23
#RussianInvasion #WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis
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Can China be trusted? As the Russia-Ukraine war shows, Beijing often says one thing and does another
China’s rise over the last several decades, characterised by its expanding economic and military power, has been miraculous. But there is a paradox associated with that rise: as its power has incre…
Putin: Countries who set up a #Ukraine no-fly zone will be considered at war
Russian President #VladimirPutin said on March 5 that any country intending to set a no-fly zone above #Ukraine will be deemed as participating in an armed conflict.
According to AFP, #Putin told staff of Russian airline company Aeroflot that he needed a "demilitarised" and "denazified" Ukraine as a neutral neighbouring country. He also considered that the western measures on #Russia were like a declaration of war, "but thank God it has not come to that," he said.
Ukraine have been asking the West to set up a #NoFlyZone over their airspace. Putin commented that Europe and the whole world would face "colossal and catastrophic consequences" if countries followed Ukraine's call.
Source: TW Apple Daily #Mar06
https://tw.appledaily.com/international/20220306/NDT4MSZZD5HM5KH2UXA3RX7VBE/
#RussianInvasion
Russian President #VladimirPutin said on March 5 that any country intending to set a no-fly zone above #Ukraine will be deemed as participating in an armed conflict.
According to AFP, #Putin told staff of Russian airline company Aeroflot that he needed a "demilitarised" and "denazified" Ukraine as a neutral neighbouring country. He also considered that the western measures on #Russia were like a declaration of war, "but thank God it has not come to that," he said.
Ukraine have been asking the West to set up a #NoFlyZone over their airspace. Putin commented that Europe and the whole world would face "colossal and catastrophic consequences" if countries followed Ukraine's call.
Source: TW Apple Daily #Mar06
https://tw.appledaily.com/international/20220306/NDT4MSZZD5HM5KH2UXA3RX7VBE/
#RussianInvasion
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俄羅斯總統普丁(Vladimir Putin)周六(3/5)表示,任何國家若企圖在烏克蘭上空設置禁航區,將會被俄方視為介入武裝衝突。 法新社報導,普丁周六與俄羅斯航空公司員工會面時表示,他想要的是一個「非軍事化」和「去納粹化」的中立鄰國烏克蘭,並認為西方對俄進行的措施「形同宣...