Well worth a listen - a discussion on Russia's wealth, who has it and where it is... https://fb.watch/bCZDW8Bu4q/
I think I'm beginning to understand some of Russia's concerns. What on earth do the yanks think they're doing in Ukraine?
please log in to view this image Russian butterfly mines are dropped from aircraft, typically helicopters, dispersing as they flutter to the ground. And they're particularly interesting to children, because they resemble plastic toys. They're "toe poppers" intended to maim--blowing off a leg or an arm--instead of killing, because a wounded colleague slows people down more than a dead one. It is horrific and unconscionable that the Russians dropped butterfly mines to block civilian evacuation of Mariupol after they declared a cease-fire to permit evacuation. Which they did. It's the deliberate maiming of children. Words fail me.
An Irish truck driver appeared in court in Dublin after deliberately ramming the gates of the Russian embassy as a form of protest. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pol... Desmond Wisley (49,allowing it to take place. The Russians weren't too happy with the temporary security measure put in place by the Garda, particularly the colouring - I can't think why... please log in to view this image
I'm sure Truss is blaming some poor underpaid staff member for this, her latest gaffe. I wonder if the singer responded in song?
British embassy in Brussels doesn’t issue visas to Ukrainians - That’s done by a private company at Brussels station . Someone’s making money out of their misery . Sounds like another Serco type operation.
It is actually TLSContact (U.K.) Ltd. 3 directors. One French. One Italian and One British. And in 2020 they appeared to make a large loss of £2.5 M
It is terrible what is going on there. But, you know there is more than media reports usually suggest. This is one of them.
please log in to view this image If the Spectator sees it like this, the Tories really have lost the plot.
NEW: Visa centre in Lille will be a 'pop-up'. It will NOT offer appointments or walk-in access for those seeking to come to the UK. The most vulnerable cases in Calais will be taken there for biometrics but Home Office will not publicise location and capacity will be small
The refugee flood is hitting Berlin in full force. Those who cross over into Poland and Slovakia are being given train tickets to any destination of their choice in the EU. Anyone with any geographical knowledge knows that the first point west of Poland means Berlin, and there are already a couple of thousand arriving at the central railway station every day. My wife's son, who lives there, has given over their adjoining flat to a woman and her 3 children. People are doing this all over the city. Unfortunately if you are a refugee from Yemen, or Somalia or Cameroun or Syria or any other war torn area you have a whole load of formalities to fill in, and then your case will be judged on an individual basis - with the possibility of refusal. But from the Ukraine all you need is to prove your nationality - those who survive drowning in the Med. have disappeared into distant memory, and we really do have refugees first and second class. Those countries like Poland, Hungary and Slovakia can now show how open handed they can be with white refugees - having turned their backs on those with darker skins and hair
Spot on cologne. Similar help and assistance being given in France from often very small communities. From what I read people in the UK want to be a part of this effort, but the government doesn't seem to have got the message. Memories are very short, and with news being dominated by Ukraine currently, other areas of conflict or even poor countries not affording covid vaccine is pushed aside. Good to see the EU meeting tonight in Paris and acting as one, but it will be worth watching what some of the nationalistic governments do when this current crisis ends, as it must do.
This was Tanya, aged 6. She didn't live to see 7. This is what the face of war really looks like. please log in to view this image
That image affected me more than any other so far in this war My nieces have girls in that age range so I can feel how her family, if any are left alive must feel now The sooner one of Putins close aides says to themselves enough is enough and takes him out the better Do not bother with rights and wrongs or past history Putin MUST go now one way or another, or not only Ukraine but the whole of civilisation could be a pile of ashes in the very near future
