Paul - when there are reports of "increases in what we call long-range fires, bombardments, rocket attacks, artillery, as well as missile strikes, and we do assess that these strikes are hitting civilian targets, infrastructure, residential areas."
Do you think these are accidents and that they're just off on missing their military targets? Or are these reports anti-Putin propaganda?
Fair criticism. More accurate choice of language would have been "attacks nuclear plant" which is misleading. I'm pretty sure that most people think that attacking a nuclear plant involves attacking the reactor.
On the other hand, the initial reporting that failed to differentiate between the training center and the plant and led many to believe that Russia "bombed" the plant.
Medinsky said that the expectations from the negotiations with Ukraine did not materialize
"The discussion continued on political and military aspects, but it is not going well. It is too early to talk about something positive. We arrived with a large set of documents, took specific agreements, projects and proposals, we hoped that today, in terms of those items on which We would have already agreed in principle, it would be possible to sign at least a protocol, but the Ukrainian side took all these documents home for study, they could not sign something on the spot.
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Paul - do you have details of with the docs were Russia brought over? From state media - it sounds like Russia is doing everything they can to come to a resolution. Apart from stopping the bombing campaign.
No. I doubt that anyone beyond the negotiators and higher up knows.
Zelensky told ABC News that Putin "is living in an informational bubble."
“When the Kremlin says the three conditions to end the war that you must give up joining NATO, recognizing Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the independence of those two separatist regions [the Donbas and Luhansk] in the East, to Vladimir Putin, who will get this message from you, you say it’s a nonstarter, not willing to those three conditions right now,” anchor David Muir asked Zelensky in a clip posted on Twitter by ABC News on Monday."
Zelensky responded:
The question is more difficult than simply acknowledging them. This is another ultimatum. We’re not prepared for ultimatums. We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items. What needs to be done is for President Putin to stop talking, start the dialogue, instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen. I think that’s where he is. He is in this bubble. He’s getting this information and you don’t know how realistic that information is that he’s getting.
Fair criticism. More accurate choice of language would have been "attacks nuclear plant" which is misleading. I'm pretty sure that most people think that attacking a nuclear plant involves attacking the reactor.
On the other hand, the initial reporting that failed to differentiate between the training center and the plant and led many to believe that Russia "bombed" the plant.
Paul, I think you must know jack sh*t about the dangers inherent in the regular operations of a nuclear plant, let alone if that plant is being attacked, bombed, or otherwise subject to destructive forces against the containment building, ancillary equipment, fuel areas, pumps, etc.
If you did, you wouldn't try to make such a silly distinction. To repeat:
Zelensky told ABC News that Putin "is living in an informational bubble."
“When the Kremlin says the three conditions to end the war that you must give up joining NATO, recognizing Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the independence of those two separatist regions [the Donbas and Luhansk] in the East, to Vladimir Putin, who will get this message from you, you say it’s a nonstarter, not willing to those three conditions right now,” anchor David Muir asked Zelensky in a clip posted on Twitter by ABC News on Monday."
Zelensky responded:
The question is more difficult than simply acknowledging them. This is another ultimatum. We’re not prepared for ultimatums. We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items. What needs to be done is for President Putin to stop talking, start the dialogue, instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen. I think that’s where he is. He is in this bubble. He’s getting this information and you don’t know how realistic that information is that he’s getting.
David Muir says "you say it's a nonstarter" but Zelensky says "We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items". Will this be reported on the evening news?
If only people would understand that it was necessary to start a war in Ukraine in order to prevent a war in Ukraine.
FM #Lavrov: The goal of Russia’s special military operation is to stop any war that could take place on Ukrainian territory or that could start from there. pic.twitter.com/tLf7798DIh
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) March 7, 2022
Zelensky told ABC News that Putin "is living in an informational bubble."
“When the Kremlin says the three conditions to end the war that you must give up joining NATO, recognizing Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the independence of those two separatist regions [the Donbas and Luhansk] in the East, to Vladimir Putin, who will get this message from you, you say it’s a nonstarter, not willing to those three conditions right now,” anchor David Muir asked Zelensky in a clip posted on Twitter by ABC News on Monday."
Zelensky responded:
The question is more difficult than simply acknowledging them. This is another ultimatum. We’re not prepared for ultimatums. We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items. What needs to be done is for President Putin to stop talking, start the dialogue, instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen. I think that’s where he is. He is in this bubble. He’s getting this information and you don’t know how realistic that information is that he’s getting.
David Muir says "you say it's a nonstarter" but Zelensky says "We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items". Will this be reported on the evening news?
Fair criticism. More accurate choice of language would have been "attacks nuclear plant" which is misleading. I'm pretty sure that most people think that attacking a nuclear plant involves attacking the reactor.
On the other hand, the initial reporting that failed to differentiate between the training center and the plant and led many to believe that Russia "bombed" the plant.
Paul, I think you must know jack sh*t about the dangers inherent in the regular operations of a nuclear plant, let alone if that plant is being attacked, bombed, or otherwise subject to destructive forces against the containment building, ancillary equipment, fuel areas, pumps, etc.
If you did, you wouldn't try to make such a silly distinction. To repeat:
Zelensky told ABC News that Putin "is living in an informational bubble."
“When the Kremlin says the three conditions to end the war that you must give up joining NATO, recognizing Crimea as part of Russia and recognize the independence of those two separatist regions [the Donbas and Luhansk] in the East, to Vladimir Putin, who will get this message from you, you say it’s a nonstarter, not willing to those three conditions right now,” anchor David Muir asked Zelensky in a clip posted on Twitter by ABC News on Monday."
Zelensky responded:
The question is more difficult than simply acknowledging them. This is another ultimatum. We’re not prepared for ultimatums. We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items. What needs to be done is for President Putin to stop talking, start the dialogue, instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen. I think that’s where he is. He is in this bubble. He’s getting this information and you don’t know how realistic that information is that he’s getting.
David Muir says "you say it's a nonstarter" but Zelensky says "We have the possible solution, resolution for these three items". Will this be reported on the evening news?
The word "bombed" implies that Russia dropped a bomb from an airplane on the nuclear power plant. That didn't happen.
I think less weaselly people would understand "bombed" in this context to mean the use of a loosely targeted explosive munition around a super sensitive target.
ok, so when the news headline is Bombardments are increasing on major cities - is this correct? Or are they not bombardments with if they don't come from planes? Thanks for correcting the syntax of the "invasion".
Man - there must be more nazis then we realized in these "civilian" sectors.
I think less weaselly people would understand "bombed" in this context to mean the use of a loosely targeted explosive munition around a super sensitive target.
Fair criticism. More accurate choice of language would have been "attacks nuclear plant" which is misleading. I'm pretty sure that most people think that attacking a nuclear plant involves attacking the reactor.
Reports of shells that hit or landed between reactors notwithstanding. Attacks on perimeters can apparently get a little messy.
Fair criticism. More accurate choice of language would have been "attacks nuclear plant" which is misleading. I'm pretty sure that most people think that attacking a nuclear plant involves attacking the reactor.
Reports of shells that hit or landed between reactors notwithstanding. Attacks on perimeters can apparently get a little messy.
I think Paul has an uninformed view of what is meant by the term "Nuclear Power Plant". It's more than just the reactor containment vessel.
To make it more confusing, some Germans, apparently having some expertise in the matter, are claiming that saying Nazis are in control of Ukraine is wildly inaccurate.
To make it more confusing, some Germans, apparently having some expertise in the matter, are claiming that saying Nazis are in control of Ukraine is wildly inaccurate.
It's mainly in the areas that Russia is trying to carry out humanitarian missions.
ok, so when the news headline is Bombardments are increasing on major cities - is this correct? Or are they not bombardments with if they don't come from planes? Thanks for correcting the syntax of the "invasion".
Man - there must be more nazis then we realized in these "civilian" sectors.
"Bombardments" doesn't have the same connotation as "bombing".
The number of neo-nazis in the Ukraine military are a small minority of the total and don't account for most of the fighting. Mariupol might be different.
"Bombardments" doesn't have the same connotation as "bombing".
The number of neo-nazis in the Ukraine military are a small minority of the total and don't account for most of the fighting. Mariupol might be different.
so - how does Vlad know when he's accomplished one of his primary directives?
I guess there were a lot of Nazis in this city, so it was bombarded, or bombed, or whatever word one thinks is appropriate to describe causing a lot of explosions, damage and deaths.
An Al Jazeera team was able to enter the devastated city of Kharkiv in Ukraine after Russia announced a pause in fighting to allow people to leave.
Paul - when there are reports of "increases in what we call long-range fires, bombardments, rocket attacks, artillery, as well as missile strikes, and we do assess that these strikes are hitting civilian targets, infrastructure, residential areas."
Do you think these are accidents and that they're just off on missing their military targets? Or are these reports anti-Putin propaganda?