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I thank my friend Mr. President of Turkey @RTErdogan and the people of Turkey for their strong support. The ban on the passage of Russian warships to the Black Sea and significant military and humanitarian support for Ukraine are extremely important today. The people of Ukraine will never forget that!
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Russia-Ukraine war: Turkey denies closing Black Sea to Russian warships
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan didn't tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Turkey would close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to Russian warships, a senior Turkish official told Middle East Eye on Saturday.
"President Erdogan didn't promise to close the straits," the official, who is directly familiar with the call, said. "Turkey hasn't made a decision to close the straits to Russian ships yet."
The statement contradicted an earlier tweet by Zelensky, which was posted following his telephone conversation with Erdogan.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
News you won't read. On Thursday, Putin reportedly offered peace if Ukraine embraced neutrality and rejected Nato's arms. Ukraine's president Zelensky was elected in 2019 largely by ethnic Russians on a platform to make peace with Russia.
@Krystal4252
Replying to @johnpilger
People just don't know enough history there, only what's in MSM. Russia doesn't want war, they are tired of wars as we all are. But Russia has been pushed into a corner. They've a right to defend their interest and have offered negotiations for years, but west preferred conflict.
Replying to @dan_turismo and @johnpilger
A hostile military alliance is establishing military bases (with the option of nuclear missiles later) in a country next door to you. Do you wait to see what they do next or do you interrupt their plans before they are fully settled in?
Mark Sleboda
@MarkSleboda1
Russia, despite an overwhelming military advantage, is intentionally fighting with one hand tied behind their back in this intervention & limiting use of its most powerful weapons systems. Because the Russian military is not only trying to minimize civilian casualties, but minimize casualties among the Ukrainian military as well. Russia's opponent here is not the Ukrainian people or military per se, but the US-backed Putsch regime that seized power in 2014 and the Banderites that make up its vanguard and brownshirts.
Hence the Russian military's repeated pauses and entreaties to Ukrainian conscripts to lay down their arms, don't die for this US-backed Putsch regime that has ruined the country, and you will be treated with respect and sent home.
Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania
We used to talk about the 24 hour news cycle before social media, now it’s minute by minute. People have lost perspective, Russia may have miscalculated in the end, but it’s made rapid gains so far.
Dmitri Alperovitch
@DAlperovitch
· 10h
One thing to keep in perspective: Yes, the Russians are having a lot of problems but it’s day 3 of the war
On day 3 of the war in 2003, Jessica Lynch and her convoy had been captured by Iraqi forces and there was a lot of media commentary then of how the US was losing the fight
2:17 PM · Feb 26, 2022
We are currently at the Ukraine -Poland border.
Their Police and Army refused to let Africans cross they only allow Ukrainian.
Some have slept here for 2 days under this scorching cold weather, while many have gone back to Lviv.
The official visuals of Ukrainians blocking Africans from getting on trains. #AfricansinUkraine
drstrangelove » Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:56 pm wrote:^ His explanation of the Russian strategy is the best I've heard, well, the only sensible one I've heard.
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