@iamflox@KyivIndependent It is horrific what is happening there but so is the mass censorship of what led to the conflict and a lot of what is going on there. I’m so much smarter than you
⚡️ Lithuania becomes first EU country to ban Russian gas.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that starting in April, the country will not import Russian gas.
He added that other European countries should follow the Lithuanian example.
@iamflox@KyivIndependent Didn’t the president arm his civillian population
Muddies the water a bit when saying Russians killed civilians don’t you think
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, we were able to get Americans vaccinated, schools open, and businesses humming.
Moody’s estimates that because of the Rescue Plan, 4 million more jobs were created and unemployment is 2% lower than it would have been had we failed to act.
re: Azovstal in Mariupol, from a source on the ground: "You can't just bomb it out, it's a concrete sarcophagus. It's the biggest factory in Ukraine. It's like a separate concrete city. I watched it and the port from a roof today - it was hit so hard that everything was shaking."
Let me just add to close this thread that is was known the Russian invasion force was planning to kidnap people and have the make forced confessions on camera. It was for this exact reason that the AP crew in Mariupol had to evacuate.
Very concerning news. Marianna, the pregnant girl from #Mariupol, turns out to be one of the refugees that has been taken to #Russia in violation of the evacuation agreement.
There they put her in front of a camera and have her say there was no aerial attack on the hospital.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: pro-separatist Telegram sources are reporting a loud as explosion in government-controlled territory of #Donetsk.
This source describes the development as "disturbing"