What Did Zelenskiy Really Say?
Influential Americans Lie About Ukraine. Why?
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War Day 371: Leading American Conservatives and Senior Ex-Pentagon Officials: Why Are You Misquoting Zelenskiy?
from Wednesday 29 February: My daily Ukraine report on Chicago's WGN Radio with Bob Sirott
KHARKIV—Today, amid frequent alarms, while Bakhmut holds amid terrible odds, I awoke to see prominent American voices texting me and tweeting the world a lie about Zelenskiy. Here's what he really said in that viral video, the beginning of which of course none of the re-tweeters shared.
Here’s a sample of some of those Tweets:
And I share the story of popular American conservative voice Jack Posobiec, who came to visit Ukraine, witnessed the horrible reality of war, and still peddles crazy theories against the Ukrainians.
It’s an air-alarm here, one of many today, and I explain what Posobiec did in the YouTube clip above, but I’m too tired to write about it.
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DAILY SITUATION SUMMARY: The USA exposed China for helping the Russian Federation in the war, the shelling of Avdiivka in Donetsk region
BY PAVLO VITENKO
Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Wednesday, March 1, 2023
HEADLIINES:
—"The only issue in the country on which there is a consensus": 80% of Israelis support Ukraine
—Russia is recruiting Palestinian mercenaries in Lebanon for the war against Ukraine
—The Chinese company provided Russia’s "Wagner" with satellite images
… but first, the Summary by regions:
DONETSK REGION
In the morning – aerial rocket shelling of the center of Avdiivka, massive artillery shelling of the old part. Information on the damage of the destruction and the injured is being established. Yesterday, shelling did not stop along the entire front line - Vuhledar, Mariinka, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Siversk, Lyman.
Enemy activation in the area of Ocheretyn community: during the day shelling from heavy artillery and MLRS, three rocket airstrikes on the settlements of Tonenke and Lastochkine (as a result of which 2 people died in the village of Lastochkine, at least 15 houses were destroyed and damaged, the building of the territorial center and apartment in the village of Tonenke was destroyed).
At night - shelling of positions along the line of operations, artillery shelling of the village of Ocheretyne, rocket shelling of the village of Orlivka. Three houses were damaged. There are no casualties among civilians.
During the day, the villages of Dubovo-Vasylivka and Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Vasyukivka, Fedorivka, Rozdolivka of the Soledar community were shelled. there is no communication, information about the victims is being clarified.
The previous evening – artillery shelling of the industrial part of the city and the Avdiivka coke chemical plant. At night, only single arrivals in the city were recorded. On the defense line around Avdiivka, shelling continued almost all night. Assault actions of the enemy in the directions of Krasnohorivka, Vesele, Kamianka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske and Nevelske.
In the Donetsk region: three dead, four injured in a day.
KHARKIV REGION
This morning, the enemy fired on the city of Chuhuiv. The 5-storey apartment building is damaged, the apartment on the second floor burns. Rescuers work in place. Previously, without the victims.
In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy performed mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Gatyshche, Strileche, Morokhovets, Lukyantsi, Ternove, Vovchansk, Potykhonove, Komisarove, Vilkhuvatka, Tykhe, Ustynivka and Anyskine.
In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy beat the artillery on the settlements of the Dvorichne, Hrianyvka, Zapadne, Lyman Pershyi, Holubivka, Kurylivka, Pishchane, Kyslivka and Tabaivka.
Yesterday afternoon the enemy fired at Kupiansk again. Damage was to a nursery building and 2 residential buildings, and the building of the 44th Fire and Rescue Unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine was also injured. A 63-year-old man was killed in Kupiansk City Park of Culture and Recreation of Kupiansk.
As a result of yesterday's shelling, Vovchansk of the Chuhuiv district was damaged by an apartment building.
Read the full report here.
“I always loved Jordan Peterson,” my friend Sasha, a Ukrainian knifemaker in Lviv, told me recently. “But we don’t need him now. He’s left us. He doesn’t understand us.”
Read “Missile Strikes vs Ice Baths: Why Do Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson Ignore Reality of Ukraine?” from Poland’s TVP World.
Six unpopular truths about Ukraine
1. Russia’s war on Ukraine is happening for one reason: Ukrainians insist on freedom.
2. The talk of war crimes misses the point. The entire war is a war crime.
3. Ukraine’s democratic corruption is not as awful as in numerous other countries.
4. Most Ukrainians are unvaccinated against coronavirus.
5. Hunter Biden made money from Russia, and not from Ukraine.
6. The US has actually given less support to Ukraine than it seems.
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