Author: Blazingcatfur

“If Europe continues importing gas from Russia, why shouldn’t Ukraine benefit from it?”

Nearly every major American and European company has imposed its own form of sanctions on Russia even if they sometimes consist of pointless virtue signaling for the social justice set.

Lego announced a pause on shipments of toy bricks to Russia. Nike has closed all its stores preventing Muscovites from purchasing $75 t-shirts made by Vietnamese slave labor. Airbnb will no longer rent dachas, Netflix won’t allow Russians access to its library of social justice pedophilia, and Blizzard has announced Russians can’t battle orcs in World of Warcraft.

After Russian troops withdrew from the town on the outskirts of Kyiv, images of bodies lying in the streets subsequently emerged and members of media organisations also saw corpses.

Ukraine accused Russia of a “deliberate massacre” but Russia called it “a staged provocation by the Kiev regime”. It made a series of unfounded claims about the footage from Bucha.

After the Russian withdrawal, footage taken from a car as it drove through the town showed bodies on either side of the road.

Pro-Russian social media accounts then circulated a slowed-down version of the video, claiming that the arm on one of the bodies moved.

Also, can someone with a medical degree explain to me, how a dead person can move their arm, after being dead for several days? #bucha #fakenews #ukrainefakes pic.twitter.com/ToJhzJkcju

— Irina Molotova (@IrinaGalushkoRT) April 3, 2022

Sky’s @HaynesDeborah describes scenes of ‘absolute devastation’ in Bucha, where people gave harrowing accounts of brutal killings.

WARNING: This video shows distressing images of people who have been killed.

Read more here: https://t.co/aYjTb9OYCa pic.twitter.com/m3D3hvetV2

— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 4, 2022

Russia’s Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence

Recent images from the town of Bucha just outside Kyiv, captured as Ukrainian forces regained ground following the retreat of Russian forces, show widespread destruction and corpses in civilians clothes strewn across streets.

These images have been shared on social media and broadcast by members of the international press who have visited the town in recent days.

Initial reports from human rights organisations on the actions of Russian forces have detailed violence targeting civilians. Interviews with local residents, meanwhile, have accused Russian troops of carrying out summary executions of unarmed men over suspicions they had fought for Ukrainian armed forces in the Donbas in 2014, or even “simply for having a tattoo of Ukraine’s national emblem”.

Boxes filled with JT’s personal belongings littered the floor of his home in the west Ottawa suburb of Kanata as he readied to leave in mid-March.

Outside, a “For Rent” sign stands tall with the retired soldier telling his roommate to find a new place, unsure when, or if, the two will meet again.

The 50-year-old Ottawa resident — whom CBC News has agreed to not name due to safety concerns — is now in Ukraine as Russian forces continue their invasion of the sovereign nation.

BARDUFOSS, Norway, April 4 (Reuters) – The sound of gunfire echoed around the Norwegian fjords as a row of Swedish and Finnish soldiers, positioned prone behind banks of snow, trained rifles and missile launchers on nearby hills ready for an enemy attack.

The drill, in March, was the first time forces from Finland and Sweden have formed a combined brigade in a scheduled NATO exercise in Arctic Norway known as “Cold Response.” Neither country is a member of the NATO alliance. The exercise was long planned, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 added intensity to the war game.