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'Pure courage': Ukrainian boxing champs return home to join the fight against Russian forces

Boxers including world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk and Vasiliy Lomachenko have returned to Ukraine to help defend against the Russian invasion.
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World heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk should be training for his biggest fight to date — a defense of his titles against Britain’s Anthony Joshua and a multimillion-dollar payday.

Instead he is hunkered down in a Kyiv bomb shelter, having returned to his homeland from the United Kingdom to enlist in the Ukrainian capital’s territorial defense unit.

“What do you mean why?” Usyk said, looking slightly baffled when asked why he signed up by CNN on Wednesday. “It is my duty to fight, to defend my home, my family.”

The highly anticipated rematch against Joshua, whom he stripped of three of the four major titles in boxing’s blue riband division in September, will have to wait. Although a date had not been set, his highest payday to date would likely have taken place in spring or summer.


Instead, as Russian forces continue to attack the city and their invasion of Ukraine enters its third week, Usyk is preparing for a different type of fight, one that is considerably more deadly.

Usyk, alongside Vasiliy Lomachenko and brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, is a product of Ukraine’s world-renowned national boxing system that has trained some of the world’s most technically dazzling fighters of this generation.

Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion who is regarded by many as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, also traveled from Greece back to his home city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in southwest Ukraine, which is coming under increasing threat from Russian forces after they captured the city of Kherson around 180 miles away.

He has consistently stressed his desire for peace but said he had nonetheless signed up with a territorial defense unit.

Yaroslav Amosov, a mixed martial arts fighter and the current Bellator MMA welterweight champion, also returned home to fight, he said in an Instagram video late last month.

Their actions have not gone unnoticed, and their worldwide fame and millions of social media followers have allowed them to galvanize support for Ukraine and reach audiences that the country’s traditional political leaders could never hope to.

Mike Tyson, whose adoptive mother immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine, was filmed on Monday telling a group of Russian reporters to “get out” of the country.
 
It's really getting heart breaking............

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Moms in Poland left their baby strollers in rail road stations for the Ukrainian moms that fled carrying their children.
 
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Evacuation Route Offered to Fleeing Ukrainians Was Mined—Red Cross​

BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 3/7/22 AT 8:01 AM EST

An evacuation route out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in Ukraine was mined, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Stillhart said some ICRC staff had tried to get out of Mariupol on Sunday, but then discovered the road indicated to them was mined.

"We have a team on Mariupol on the ground," he said. "They were ready yesterday despite the fact that it was not entirely clear what exactly the agreement was. And as soon as they reached the first checkpoints, they realized that the road that was indicated to them was actually mined. So therefore, the agreement couldn't be implemented.
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Savage Bastards,,,,,,,

The Russians were also dropping mortar rounds on them as they tried to evacuate as the video below shows,

 
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WORLD

Evacuation Route Offered to Fleeing Ukrainians Was Mined—Red Cross​

BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 3/7/22 AT 8:01 AM EST

An evacuation route out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in Ukraine was mined, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Stillhart said some ICRC staff had tried to get out of Mariupol on Sunday, but then discovered the road indicated to them was mined.

"We have a team on Mariupol on the ground," he said. "They were ready yesterday despite the fact that it was not entirely clear what exactly the agreement was. And as soon as they reached the first checkpoints, they realized that the road that was indicated to them was actually mined. So therefore, the agreement couldn't be implemented.
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Savage Bastards,,,,,,,

The Russians were also dropping mortar rounds on them as they tried to evacuate as the video below shows,

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8 people were killed by that motar round including a mother & her 3 kids
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USA TODAY

Russia recruiting Syrian mercenaries: Live update​


Pentagon says Russia recruiting Syrian mercenaries​

Russia is recruiting Syrian mercenaries to fight its war in Ukraine, a senior Defense Department official said Monday. The Pentagon did not have an estimate on the number of fighters the Russian military is seeking from Syria, said the official who was not authorized to speak publicly about intelligence findings. There are no indications that Syrians had arrived in Ukraine. Russia intervened in Syria’s civil war in 2015, supporting the government of Bashar al Assad.

Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered an additional 500 U.S. troops based in the United States to Greece, Poland and Romania. The group includes air-refuelers, maintenance and other support troops, the official said.
 
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And that's why Putin has no respect for this administration.
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Bolton sheds light on why Putin didn’t invade Ukraine under Trump​

As Bolton sees it, Putin saw an American president moving in a direction Moscow liked, and the Russian leader was waiting for Trump to finish the job.


March 7, 2022, 3:20 PM EST
By Steve Benen
About a week ago, Donald Trump was apparently feeling a bit defensive after his praise for Vladimir Putin created some political troubles for him. It led him to release a ridiculous written statement in which he suggested he was responsible for rescuing NATO.
This is, as we discussed soon after, utterly bonkers: The only thing threatening NATO’s existence was Trump himself, who not only repeatedly disparaged the alliance, but who, on several occasions, expressed an interest in abandoning NATO altogether. By all accounts, it was a plan he intended to follow through on in a second term.

It was against this backdrop that John Bolton, who served as the White House national security adviser during the former president’s term, told The Washington Post late last week that he believes Trump would’ve withdrawn the United States from the NATO alliance in a second term. That wasn’t a surprising observation, but take note of its possible relevance:
“In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO,” Bolton said. “And I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin was waiting for that.”
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Let’s take a step back to consider how a quote like this one ties into the larger context.
For Trump and his allies, it’s a point of great pride that Putin didn’t invade any of his neighbors during the Republican’s term in the White House. The Russian leader launched offenses against bordering countries in 2008, 2014, and 2022, but between January 2017 and January 2021, Putin showed restraint.
This, we’ve been told to believe, is clear proof of ... something.
The standard line from the right is built on two pillars. The first is the idea that Trump was so strong and unpredictable, the Russian authoritarian was simply too afraid to provoke the Republican. The second is the belief that when the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, it signaled to Moscow that we’re weak and indifferent to international military offenses.
The former argument is so plainly ridiculous, it’s surprising Republicans would even peddle it. Trump spent four years going to almost comical lengths to make Putin happy, to the point that the then-American president’s own director of national intelligence later admitted he feared Trump had been compromised by the Kremlin.
As for the Afghanistan claim — a favorite of a great many leading Republicans — it isn’t much better. Putin’s preoccupation with Ukraine goes back a lot further than last summer. Indeed, there’s evidence that Russia began building up military forces around the Ukrainian border months before U.S. forces left Kabul.
The idea that Putin would’ve altered his yearslong ambitions in Ukraine if only President Biden had agreed to keep thousands of American troops in Afghanistan is plainly at odds with everything we know about recent events. (What’s more, if the right were serious about this line of rhetorical attack, it might lead to some awkward questions about the geopolitical effects of Trump’s February 2020 agreement with the Taliban to end the decades’ long war. Did this signal weakness to Moscow?)

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As Russia's Military Stumbles, Its Adversaries Take Note

CONSTANTA, Romania — When it comes to war, generals say that “mass matters.” But nearly two weeks into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — Europe’s largest land war since 1945 — the image of a Russian military as one that other countries should fear, let alone emulate, has been...
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A Russian warship that attacked Snake Island where Ukrainian soldiers cursed out invaders has reportedly been destroyed​


Rebecca Cohen
Tue, March 8, 2022, 9:57 AM


  • A Russian warship that attacked Snake Island has reportedly been destroyed by Ukrainian forces.
  • Military sources told The Times UK that the Vasily Bykov was destroyed.
  • It's the same ship that Ukrainian soldiers told to "go fuck yourself," sources told The Times.
A Russian warship that attacked Ukraine's Snake Island last month has reportedly been destroyed.

Ukrainian military sources told the Times UK that the large patrol corvette — named Vasily Bykov — was hit by Ukrainian rockets early Monday morning local time.

"Ship was destroyed, it is confirmed," one Ukrainian military source told The Times.

Military sources told The Times that Vasily Bykov was one of one of two ships that attacked Snake Island last month, in an incident in which Ukrainian soldiers told the Russian ships to "go fuck yourself."
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My heart says do anything even war to help UKRAINE....but my brain says NO...
The UKRAINES AND ZELENSKY have some balls!!!

Add UKRAINE to anyone in ASIA....as never go to war with people or countries

this is truly horrible....mankind will never change...BORN KILLERS
 
Miami Herald

Ukrainian patriots help each other. Misguided U.S. ‘patriots’ just can’t help themselves | Opinion​


Leonard Pitts Jr.
Tue, March 8, 2022, 3:56 PM

They drove 64 miles in a circle.

That’s the length of the Capital Beltway, the ribbon of asphalt that loops around Washington, D.C. For over four hours on Sunday, the so-called “People’s Convoy,” estimated at about a thousand trucks, RVs and cars, drove that circle in protest.
In protest of what? Well, take your pick. Many drivers — nearly all white, nearly all men — flew flags supporting Donald Trump or opposing Joe Biden. Some displayed Confederate battle flags and placards against vaccine and mask mandates, even though those mandates have largely been lifted. One lady told The Good Liars, an online comedy platform, that she’s protesting because she doesn’t want “them” to “digitile” us, a word that does not appear in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. The drivers uniformly claim to be fighting against tyranny.

Meantime, another convoy of trucks rumbles out of Berlin, bound for Ukraine. It carries donated toilet paper, batteries, medicine, pet food, baby food and other necessities of everyday life impossible to find in Ukraine since Russia began mauling that country almost two weeks ago.

“Somebody has to do this,” Vadim Pashkiuskiy, a 29-year-old Ukrainian driver, told The Washington Post. “My war is to deliver goods. It may be dangerous, but it’s my responsibility to my country. I’m not hiding. I’m doing whatever I can to help.”

The contrast between the convoys is painful. And telling.

In the almost 15 years since Barack Obama’s election panicked a certain subset of Americans, many of us have become inured to their performative displays of supposed "patriotism". We’ve seen them don tricorner hats and wave “Don’t tread on me” signs, storm the Michigan statehouse, carry long guns to make a Starbucks run, and, yes, ransack the U.S. Capitol. Now there’s this.

Such behavior has always seemed absurd, delusional and pathetic. But never so much as it does now, as Ukraine fights for its life.

Towns and lives reduced to rubble. Walls sheared off buildings, bedrooms and kitchens left open to the sky. Streets littered with chunks of masonry and blackened husks of cars. Parents weeping over their toddler’s corpse. And yet, defiance reigns. A man hops atop a Russian military vehicle waving a Ukrainian flag. An unarmed crowd advances on armed Russian troops, forcing them back. In a bomb shelter, a little girl sings in Ukrainian that favorite anthem of little girls, “Let It Go” from Disney’s “Frozen,” and her thin, sweet, child’s voice brings a world watching via social media to tears.

But we’re supposed to think refusal to wear a mask in a pandemic is fighting for freedom?

If these people had even a molecule of decency, they’d be ashamed. But they don’t, so they won’t.

For those of us who do, Ukraine is a reminder that resisting tyranny is not a performance, not something you cosplay. That reminder is vital, given that American democracy is fast eroding — not because of medical mandates, mind, you, but because of attacks on the right to vote, protest and speak freely. Against that troubling confluence of threats, the truckers who descended on D.C. provide vivid illustration that even at this dangerous extremity, the American capacity for blithe idiocy remains intact.

One would happily trade the thousand drivers of the “People’s Convoy” for one Vadim Pashkiuskiy. In the name of freedom, he’s driving his truck into a war zone.


Meantime, they’re driving theirs in circles.
 
PEOPLE ARE STUPID....Maybe it's time to drop the big one and start all over again

After receiving threats over the meaning of its name in recent days, a poutine restaurant chain in France wants to make one thing crystal clear: It has absolutely no relation to Vladimir Putin.

La Maison de la Poutine ("The House of Poutine" in English) has four locations in France, including three in Paris. As its name would suggest, the restaurant specializes in french fries coated in cheese curds and gravy, a Quebec delicacy known as poutine.


As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, some people have begun to assume (incorrectly) that the name of La Maison de la Poutine is associated with the president of Russia, whose surname translates to "Poutine" in French.

On its social media accounts last week, the restaurant set the record straight that it is "not linked to the Russian regime and its leader," after receiving "insulting calls and even threats" from confused people.
 

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