Ukraine Always Get What You Want

When you shut the free press, there's no Daniel Dalanovich to fact check you.

 

Not clean, beautiful coal?

 

Would love to know about the back-room discussions being had with the oligarchs.

"Get rid of him and you get your money back."

 

Ukraine Live Updates: Zelensky Signals That Mariupol Is Close To Falling

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/17/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

 

Russia-Ukraine war: Russian deadline for Mariupol defenders to ‘surrender or die’ passes – live

 

Warsaw’s mayor explains how his city is coping with a 17% increase in its population

Millions of people have fled Ukraine and 2.5m have arrived in Poland alone. We estimate that more than half a million refugees have passed through Warsaw, Poland’s capital. Another 300,000 have chosen to stay in the city and its suburbs. In just a month the population of Warsaw has increased by 17%.

 

good thread

 

Tim Mak, NPR.

 

‘They Are Gone, Vanished’: Missing Persons Haunt Ukrainian Village

In a Russian-occupied village, five men went off to feed cattle. Their relatives and neighbors are wondering what happened to them.

 

Just looking at a map, I don't know that Mariupol falling to Russia — which is probably inevitable absent a flanking move by the Ukrainians from outside — is going to be much of a gamechanger. It's almost baked into the cake at this point.

The Russians still have to hold Mariupol with a finite number of troops, as well as hold a "land bridge" with Crimea. And they won't be going after Odessa anytime soon to cut the country off from the sea.