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Kherson mayor indicates the city has fallen
From CNN's Nick Paton Walsh and Tim Lister

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kherson Ihor Kolykhaiev has said that the Ukrainian military is no longer in the city and that its inhabitants must now carry out the instructions of armed people who came to the citys administration indicating that the city has now fallen under Russian control.

The announcement on his Facebook page follows several days of pressure on Kherson by Russian forces who had surrounded the city.

Kherson is a strategically important city on an inlet from the Black Sea with a population of nearly 300,000. On Wednesday in Kyiv, the mayor had disputed Russian claims of control saying Ukrainian forces were still fighting in parts of the city. The new posting said Ukrainian forces had left.

The mayor also told the New York Times in an interview that a group of about 10 armed Russian officers, including the commander of forces attacking the city, entered the city hall building Wednesday. He said he was informed by the Russian officers that they were planning to set up a new administration similar to those in two Russian-backed separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine, according to the NY Times interview.

What this means: If Kherson is now under Russian control, it would be a significant moment in the conflict, as it would mark the first major city seized by Russian forces.

Late Wednesday, Hennady Lahuta, the head of Kherson regional administration, issued a message saying: I ask everyone who is not at home now, or who is planning to go outside, not to do so. The occupiers are in all areas of the city and are very dangerous.

Without saying explicitly that the Russians controlled the city, mayor Kolykhaiev said on Wednesday night that there were armed visitors in the city executive committee today.

"The team and I are peaceful people, we had no weapons, there was no aggression from our side."

I didn't make any promises to them. I just have nothing to promise. I'm only interested in the normal life of our city! I just asked not to shoot people.

In his Facebook message, he went on to say, We do not have Armed Forces in the city, only civilians and people who want to LIVE here!

Kolykhaiev said that there were now new rules in the city, which included a curfew and restrictions on transport in and out of the city.

He said that another rule was that Pedestrians walk one by one, maximum two. Dont provoke the military.

He finished: Let it be for now. The flag above us is Ukrainian. And in order to keep it the same, these requirements will have to be met. I can't offer anything else.

I'm cancelling Netflix and crave. Crave doubled the price of me. Not worth it.

Ferarri619 posted...

Ukraine put up an official music video of their favorite drone:

https://youtu.be/kGVZHLOV60E

Nice

Fukenog posted...

Still not as expensive as Popeyes or Mary Browns, at least around here. Not that our KFC is worth going to anymore.

Agreed. When compared to KFC, I'll happily pay Mary Browns for edible fried chicken rather than grease filled sacks of disgusting nastiness with extra salt.

wpot posted...

War in 2022...interesting.

No kidding

They are getting repetitive.
Look another dark broody movie. Yay...

Now if they went full Adam West style, I'd be interested. At this point it would be unique and interesting.

And only China would remain

BlackScythe0 posted...

It would be stranger if they didn't.

And we can be certain Russia is surrounded by American nuclear subs

There is pretty long lines of people trying to get into Ukraine to fight. We've seen some of them in Poland.

It's not unlike Americans signing up with British and French militaries during WW1.

papercup posted...

Russia threatened to nationalize any foreign assets in their borders. Not really a good business move to deal with a country that's going to steal your stuff.

Any news on Russia's economy after all these sanctions, protests, and companies pulling out?

All I can find is stuff from 3 days ago.

It's funny watching the trickle of companies with Russian dealings suddenly decide to cut ties with Russia.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I'm concerned that in the event of a Russian withdrawal, all sanctions will be immediately dropped.

Make no mistake, if this fails Russia will just do it again in a few years (in Ukraine or elsewhere). Sanctions should continue until there's a complete regime change.

I think they should continue indefinitely. Until the entity known as Russia is no more. It's name forever a stain on history.

I'm quite impressed how well Ukraine is doing.

We may actually be seeing a situation where Russia has doomed itself. It's expending a lot of military on an unimportant target, demoralized it's entire military, polarized it's civilians to a renewed hatred of the government.
If the world doesn't just suddenly forgive Russia when Putin dies and the invasion is abruptly called off, I think all of Russia might just disappear.

papercup posted...

I'm thinking what if I sneaked into Russia, disguised myself, and started a bunch of rumors of the banks being out of money, creating a run on the banks? >_____>

too late...

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Someone actually mentioning Article 5.

I have been wondering, does it have wordings on what to do in case the Aggressor is also a member of NATO?

Probably never happen

It's interesting how they think. Putin sees all governments as one person. Like Kings of old.
When in reality the president in a democracy is replaceable. Killing them doesn't kill the government.

So let them keep wasting time and resources to kill one man. Ukrainians will fight no matter what.

HornedLion posted...

One thing folks in this thread are saying, and Im surprised to see that its true, is that Ukraine is holding its own. Even recapturing a base they lost in Northern Kyiv. Theyre looking like borscht loving Spartans.

Lets see how long this will last.

They are defending their homes and lives from invaders that have guns on the backs of their heads pushing them forward.

KodyKeir posted...

Define "win" in that scenario.

If Russia suffers 10 to 1 losses when they have the better equipped and better trained military, the Russian Generals will take Putin behind the woodshed and put two in his head.

Putin is untouchable. He'll kill his generals instead for failing.
But as long as they take Kyiv, the loss of life doesn't matter. They can always get more soldiers. It's the loss of equipment that is the problem. And they seem to be using their older equipment. Probably saving the new stuff for Nato.
Otherwise, why haven't they deployed the microwave emitter just as an example? Wipe out the defense force in one shot and leave infrastructure intact.

EvilMegas posted...

They'll win but be severely weakened in the process. It won't even be worth it.

Life has no meaning in Russia though. They don't care. It's president Zap Putin Brannigan sending waves of his men to die until the enemy runs out of ammo.

EvilMegas posted...

If that report is anywhere near true Russia is going to be a laughing stock after this.

Even 10 to 1 losses Russia can still win.

Also now that they are approaching down town they will have armed civilians shooting from high rises. They are going to lose a lot of soldiers.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/3/AAXuwuAAC9-f.jpg
Just so this has faces. These are the people dying.

Hejiru posted...

"Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Damn, that's going to be a memorable quote from this war.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

To bad they aren't alive

papercup posted...

So Russia still has not met their day 1 goals, and suffered heavy casualties. Looks like they're deploying more troops, including thousands of Chechnyan soldiers. =/ They're going to take Ukraine, but hopefully it's way harder for them than they expected. And hopefully the people make holding it a living hell.

Well they are arming engine l everyone and sending them home. So i expect indiscriminate gunfire in the streets when Russian armor rolls in.
Russia is going to have terrifying casualty numbers I think. Think the Vegas shooter, but 80,000 shooters instead of one.

So glad to see so many other men enjoy wearing women's underwear

I am pretty sure China is about to destroy Taiwan.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/1/7/AAXuwuAAC92R.jpg
Openly berating China's best friend and ally? That will not stand.

Newgrounds isn't gone.

Do enough people even watch the show to care?

Cesar Romero is the only joker anyways. The rest are wannabes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vanAld5oNCo

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/1/AAXuwuAAC92B.jpg
Yaryna Arieva and her partner, Sviatoslav Fursin, rushed to tie the knot with the sound of air raid sirens ringing in their ears.
"That was very scary," Arieva told CNN Thursday. "It's the happiest moment of your life, and you go out, and you hear that."
The couple had planned to get married on May 6 and celebrate at a restaurant with a "very, very cute terrace" overlooking the Dnieper River, said 21-year-old Arieva "Just us and the river and beautiful lights."
They don't know what the future will bring but they're determined to stay and fight. After their wedding, the couple prepared to go to the local Territorial Defense Center to join efforts to help defend the country.

A brand new couple, with all the men being drafted today, I imagine they want the chance to live and die together instead.

We should start a list of games where players get to kill Russians. Just to work some anger off

papercup posted...

https://thehill.com/policy/international/595728-ukrainian-ambassador-says-russian-platoon-surrendered-to-ukrainian

An entire platoon had no intention of fighting Ukraine and surrendered/defected. Hopefully more follow but we'll see.

Saying they didn't even know who they were fighting. Wow.
Hopefully more do the same. I hope these guys aren't punished for doing the right thing.

Maybe we can fund Ukraine to the point where they strike back and conquer Russia

papercup posted...

The obvious thing to do would be to kick them off SWIFT. I doubt it will actually happen though. =/

No one willing to make sacrifices

Canada just announced its sanctions. It's not much really.
Uk blocking airspace to all Russian owned planes

They've taken Chernobyl.
I'm guessing we'll learn more about how many died tonight

Blightzkrieg posted...

They can both violently suppress dissent while also having a large portion of the population be brainwashed nationalists. Both cases can be true.

I don't think Russia can be dealt with in a way that allows its population to prosper economically. Protecting the people of Ukraine and other eastern European nations should take priority.

Basically need them to fall apart on their own like East Germany. Cut them off from everything.

But we are too chicken to do that. It might raise gas prices and hurt people's precious SUVs. Sacrifice for the good of the world isn't a thing anymore as covid already proved.

Germany is in bed with Russia. They don't even want harsh sanctions because they need Russian oil and gas to survive.

Apparently Chernobyl is under attack.
I guess Russia wants to poison the area again.

GRTooCool posted...

We all know Activision is foaming at the mouth in terms of finally being able to gather new ideas for the next COD game.

I think we can pretty safely have another 50 years of media showing the Russians evil warmongers. Since it's basically true.

But we can't actually hold the Russian people themselves accountable. Their own government has already promised to arrest (which means kill quietly) anyone that protests the war.

Putin threatens "those who may be tempted to intervene" in Russia's military action
From CNN's Darya Tarasova and Nathan Hodge in Moscow
After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he had ordered military action in Ukraine early Thursday, he threatened "those who may be tempted to intervene" on Ukraine's behalf.

"Now a few important, very important words for those who may be tempted to intervene in ongoing events from the outside," Putin said. "Whoever tries to interfere with us, and even more so to create threats to our country, to our people, should know that Russia's response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never experienced in your history. We are ready for any development of events. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard."

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Except no, because inherent in the definition of the term is that it requires use of the Internet. So literally every single thing you just said is wrong.

Stop trying to be pedantic, you're not very good at it.

Internet is just an interconnected network of people and computers.

So it counts.

Or, BBS predates internet, therefore it doesn't count. Make your choice.

It won't go nuclear.
No need. Russia will be done this invasion by tomorrow afternoon.

Then it's a rebellion. Russia will have to hold the territory for decades.

Judgmenl posted...

Ukraine delegate is speaking right now.

And Russia openly declared war in that meeting.

I guess Ukraine is trying to have them tossed from the UN.

Jesus, they are yelling at each other.

Judgmenl posted...

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1496689463761817600

Then this will be over by morning at this rate.

Explosions heard in Ukraine's Kramatorsk and near Kyiv
From CNNs Tim Lister and Ingrid Formanek in Kyiv
CNN teams in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv are hearing explosions come from the east, in the direction of the international airport.
Reports on social media indicate several explosions in the Boryspil area to the east of the capital, where the international airport is located.
Two people in the Ukrainian city Kramatorskalsotold CNN they have heard at least two massive explosions in the early hours of Thursday.

I kind of hoped Ukraine would put up more of a fight. But I guess this is all that can be done.
I am so sorry everyone in the Ukraine. If you can get to Canada, we welcome you.

Biden condemns Russia's "unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine"
In a statement early Thursday morning, US President Joe Biden condemned Russia's actions, shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced military action in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Biden's statement:

The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces. President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the United States and its Allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable.

Biden added that he is monitoring the situation from the White House, and will meet with the other G7 leaders in the morning. He will announce "further consequences" imposed on Russia by the US and its allies tomorrow, he said.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-23-22/index.html

China still supporting their Russian friends. I imagine sending them money too.

Judgmenl posted...

Yes I've been listening to that.
It also looks like Kyiv has had explosions or something.

Well they could artillery that far even with ww2 artillery

Oh the is a UN emergency meeting on YouTube.

And they are totally clueless. Talking like nothing is happening yet.

Seems like it missed the news cycle. So I'm not finding anything about this

Judgmenl posted...

Looks like Putin just declared war.

Where did you hear that?