Friday, October 21, 2022

The Ukraine military needs to provide an opportunity for refugees to leave to safety.

Russia has no right to be anywhere near Kherson or any other Ukrainian border including Crimea. The so called annexation is a phoney ploy to create a reason for Russia to continue to carry out it's genocide. There is no annexation including Crimea. Crimea was taken because by the Russian military after Yanukovych abandoned Ukraine. The Ukraine military was completely disarmed at the time and unable to defend it's borders. It is different now.

Russia is using this fake annexation for Putin's politics. He has to justify the enormous number of dead Russians in his genocide.

October 21, 2022
By Christine Fernando

Four people were killed and 13 others injured (click here) by a Ukrainian strike Thursday on a river crossing in southern Ukraine that was annexed by Russia last month, Russian authorities said.

The strike took place on a bridge over the Dnieper River in Kherson and claimed at least four civilians' lives, including journalists from the Russian TV channel Tamvria, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Moscow-installed regional administration in Kherson.

Ukrainian officials confirmed the attack on the bridge but denied Russia's claims that civilians were killed, saying the strike took place after a 10 p.m. curfew to avoid civilian casualties.

"We do not attack civilians and settlements," said Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern operational command.

The strike comes as Russian and Ukrainian troops appeared to be preparing for major battle over the industrial port city of Kherson. Ukraine has targeted resupply routes along the Dnieper River while Russia has sent as many as 2,000 draftees to the region. Kherson is the largest Ukrainian city that Russia holds and was the first it captured during the invasion....

Netanyahu on Ukraine and the principle of democracy as a standard governance to live by. It is democracy that respects life and freedom, including freedom of religion.