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04/04/22 6:27 PM

#408690 RE: BOREALIS #408687

Many make the mistake of thinking there are no relative good guys in Putin's FSB. Those who would be unhappy with Putin's invasion. Also, undoubtedly there would be many others of some influence in Russia who would be unhappy Putin had put Russia on the world stage i this way:

The grisly images of battered bodies left out in the open or hastily buried led to calls for tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, namely a cutoff of fuel imports from Russia. Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies, and U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.

“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,” Biden said, referring to the town northwest of the capital that was the scene of some of the horrors.


Your link - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-business-moscow-3a40c029638ffddb289ceba89462c1aa

Just as many in America make the mistake of STILL not understanding how much Trump and Putin are alike. This from the post you replied to there:

Jeffrey Edmonds, a former CIA and National Security Council official specializing in the region, told The Wall Street Journal that "It is hard to imagine some senior intelligence person talking with Putin and not telling Putin what he wants to hear, especially if it is a belief that is deeply held, like Putin’s beliefs about Ukraine." https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168432188
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fuagf

04/05/22 4:38 AM

#408738 RE: BOREALIS #408687

Surrounded by War, Compassion Endures

"Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets"

Small moments of humanity still sing out in Ukraine. Times journalists shared the moments of courage and kindness they’ve witnessed while covering the conflict.


Serhiy Perebyinis’s family was killed in a mortar attack. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

By Emmett Lindner
April 3, 2022

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.

More than 10 million Ukrainians have been displaced and more than 4 million have fled the country .. https://www.unrefugees.org/news/four-million-refugees-from-ukraine-where-are-they-going/ .. since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Cities and towns throughout the country continue to be bombarded by Russian artillery. Some are now nearly unrecognizable. Civilians have died, families have been ripped apart and lives have been forever changed.

But within the chaos and disruption, reporters have witnessed moments of humanity and resilience: Neighbors helping one another; families reuniting after panic; people organizing aid.

Below, Times journalists on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere share some of the displays of courage and acts of kindness they’ve seen over the course of the conflict.

Valerie Hopkins, Moscow correspondent, reporting from Lviv, Ukraine

I interviewed Eduard Zarubin, a 50-year-old urologist from Mariupol, Ukraine .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/world/europe/ukraine-mariupol-russia-war.html . The city is currently under siege — residents have no heat, water or gas, and it is nearly impossible to communicate with the outside world. There is very little food .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/world/europe/mariupol-ukraine-russia-war-food-water.html .

For three weeks, before he was able to get out of Mariupol, Mr. Zarubin and his son walked nearly eight miles every day to get clean water. I wrote about Mr. Zarubin’s experience in his home city .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/world/europe/ukraine-mariupol-russia-war.html , which now looks apocalyptic.

After I shared the article on Facebook, I noticed a comment written in Russian: “Eduard Zarubin and his family saved me and my wife. In besieged Mariupol, he brought me bread, medicine, and gave me hope for salvation. When we were ready to die, he took us out of the war zone. Now we have not been hiding from Russian planes, shells and missiles for a week now. Sincerely grateful for the rescue.”

Mr. Zarubin had not told me any of this in our interview. I was touched that in the worst of conditions, when no one had enough food or water, Mr. Zarubin was still able to provide so much help to those around him. To me, it really demonstrated the triumph of humanity over barbarity, and is indicative of the tremendous solidarity Ukrainians have shown one another.


In Mariupol, Eduard Zarubin trekked daily for water. via Eduard Zarubin

Clare Toeniskoetter, senior producer on “The Daily,” reporting from a train station in Przemysl, Poland

I met a young volunteer named Dmitriy at the train station. He was from Ukraine and had been working as a teacher’s assistant in Poland. He was there to help Ukrainian refugees in any way he could — by offering them a car ride or helping them find housing. He didn’t speak English, but we were able to communicate by using Google Translate on my phone. He kept desperately grabbing my arm, looking at me in the eyes with incredible sadness and saying all he could in English: “My family in Ukraine,” and “No war. No war.”

Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporter, reporting from Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Natalya and Aleksandr Stanislavchuk .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/world/europe/ukraine-mykolaiv-russia-war.html .. were driving their white S.U.V. around Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, delivering food to needy residents, when they received the call they had been waiting for.

It was their son, Yegor. After spending days hiding from the Russian forces that overtook the Kyiv suburb where he lived, he had escaped. In the confusion, he had lost all of his documents and his phone.

“All of that can be worked out,” Ms. Stanislavchuk told him. “You made it out alive — that’s the most important thing.”

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Russian atrocities. The growing evidence that Russian soldiers killed scores of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, leaving their bodies behind as they withdrew, spurred calls by Western leaders to hold Russia accountable. A Times analysis of satellite imagery refuted claims by Russia that the killings occurred after its soldiers had left.

Pushing for more sanctions. The images of dead Ukrainians prompted some E.U. leaders to demand a total ban on Russian gas imports, though the bloc is divided over taking such a drastic step. President Biden said what happened in Bucha was a “war crime” and that the United States would bring “more sanctions” against Moscow.

On the ground. As Russian forces have retreated around Kyiv, Ukrainian and Western officials said that Russia appeared to be positioning troops for an intensified assault in the eastern Donbas region, where the port city of Mariupol remains under a brutal siege.
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Minutes later, an air-raid siren sounded and the Stanislavchuks rushed into a basement bomb shelter.

Anton Troianovski, Moscow bureau chief, reporting from Istanbul

Tens of thousands of Russians, horrified by the war, descended on places like Istanbul, scrambling to escape a country growing more repressive by the day. Many of them lacked access to their bank accounts after Visa and Mastercard suspended operations in Russia.

They faced an unfathomable and uncertain future.

They tried to help each other: In Telegram chat groups, they exchanged tips about Covid-19 vaccines, Turkish residency laws and job openings. They volunteered to help Ukrainian refugees and joined protests. Those with money or connections organized aid groups and collected donations to provide the Russian exiles in greatest need with housing and legal aid.


Ukrainians living in Poland made sandwiches for refugees. Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times

Lynsey Addario, photojournalist, reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine

What does it take to go to the morgue to identify one’s entire family, to sign the necessary paperwork, to collect the shredded and bloodied mauve coat of your true love and tuck it into a plastic bag to keep as one of your final memories? This, to me, embodies resilience.

It is hard to imagine the courage a husband and father (Serhiy Perebyinis) has to find to print out and frame portraits of his wife (Tetiana, 43) and two children (Mykyta, 18, and Alisa, 9 .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world/europe/ukraine-family-perebyinis-kyiv.html ), only to place them by their graves as reminders of their lives before they were upended and cut short by the constant, indiscriminate bombardments of war.

Learn how The Times reports on the war in Ukraine.
How We Verify Our Reporting on the Ukraine War
March 11, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-war-journalism.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

Correction: April 3, 2022
A previous version of this article misstated the city where Clare Toeniskoetter
was reporting. She was in Przemysl, Poland, not Kraków.


Emmett Lindner has covered international protests, worked on live briefings and asked the tough questions about frozen reindeer meat for The Times. @emmettlindner

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/insider/ukraine-war-journalists.html