From the BBC website.
Negotiations now said to still be ongoing.
I still think it’s a trap.
It seems like, from that, one of the main goals is to make Ukraine a landlocked country.
Hero
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Getting a bit close for comfort now.
“One option for him is to cut gas supplies to Europe, hoping that will make the Europeans climb down. Another option is to explode a nuclear weapon somewhere over the North Sea between Britain and Denmark and see what happens.”
For any of the ballistics experts on here can these nucleur missiles be shot down?
Some of them…one of putins gripes about nato encroachment was that legal defensive systems installed by the yanks in Romania could fire illegal rockets designed to cripple russias nuclear capability. The Americans proposed allowing Russian inspectors access to the sites
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God Bless America
Holy shit. From CNN.
21 min ago
Switzerland will forego “Swiss neutrality” and adopt same sanctions as EU against Russia
From CNN’s Inke Kappeler in Berlin and Sharon Braithwaite in LondonSwiss President Ignazio Cassis delivers a speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on February 28, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Swiss President Ignazio Cassis delivers a speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on February 28, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
Switzerland has announced that it will forego its commitment to “Swiss neutrality” in favor of adopting sanctions against Russia, Swiss Federal President Ignazio Cassis said Monday, adding that Switzerland’s sanctions will be in line with those already adopted by the European Union.“The Swiss Federal Council has decided today to fully adopt EU sanctions,” Cassis said during a news briefing. “It is an unparalleled action of Switzerland, who has always stayed neutral before.”
“Russia’s attack is an attack on freedom, an attack on democracy, an attack on the civil population, and an attack on the institutions of a free country. This cannot be accepted regarding international law, this cannot be accepted politically, and this cannot be accepted morally,” Cassis added.Speaking after an extraordinary meeting of the Swiss Federal Council, Cassis stressed that “in these dark days,” Switzerland stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and hopes that sanctions will encourage the Kremlin to “change its mind.”
“To play into the hands of an aggressor is not neutral. Having signed the Geneva convention of human rights, we are bound to humanitarian order,” Cassis said. “Other democracies shall be able to rely on Switzerland; those standing for international law shall be able to rely on Switzerland; states that uphold human rights shall be able to rely on Switzerland."
Switzerland will freeze the assets of “listed persons” and will also bring into force an entry ban for those highlighted by the EU’s packet of sanctions, according to the Swiss Federal President.
Cassis said that Switzerland was closing its airspace to all flights from Russia, including private jets, with the exception of humanitarian flights, search flights and emergency situations.
Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said entry ban will impact “oligarchs of Russian or Ukrainian nationality who are particularly close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
“These are five persons with strong economic connections into Switzerland,” Keller-Sutter highlighted, but said because of privacy reasons, she was not naming those oligarchs.
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Bah gawd, that’s alphorn music
Schwab has very strong ties to Switzerland, so no surprise there.
What intel is being shared behind the scenes I wonder
The war has come to LinkedIn.
Lads posting about heroic deeds in Ukraine and then drawing comparisons to their work achievements.
Glory to Ukraine!
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There is no “behind the scenes”.
The west is up front that it is sharing intelligence to help Ukraine win this war.
You seem to spend an unhealthy amount of time on linkedin.
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The Turkish TB2 drones seem to be proving very effective for Ukraine. Any Russian convoy is a sitting duck.
Lots of videos of them launching successful strikes on Twitter.
They’re essentially going for everything east of the River Dnieper I’d imagine.
He had no problem working for him along though …
Putin has repeated his completely untenable demands. These “talks” are a cod, a Russian ruse to try and justify going full Aleppo.
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