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odinsblog · 16 days

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Russia first occupied the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol in early March 2022. And Russian Secret Services, after persecuting pro-Ukrainian activists, former government officials and human rights defenders, have since targeted the churches and their pastors and congregants.

All across Russian-occupied Ukraine, soldiers are shutting down places of worship that don't fit the world Vladimir Putin wants to build.

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#politics #ukraine #russia #russian invasion of ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #melitopol #war crimes #odesa #religious persecution #persecution

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archaeologicalnews · 2 years

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Russian forces reportedly stole priceless Scythian treasures from Ukrainian museum

Russian soldiers have reportedly stolen gold Scythian artifacts dating back about 2,300 years from the Melitopol Museum of Local History in Ukraine. Additionally, there are reports that a museum staff member is currently being held by the Russian military.

The Scythians, culturally related groups of nomadic pastoralists and formidable warriors, thrived across Eurasia between roughly 800 B.C. and A.D. 300 and crafted many beautiful artifacts out of gold.

Melitopol, located in southeastern Ukraine, has been occupied by the Russian military since March 1, according to news reports. Since the Russians started their invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, they have captured large swaths of territory in the eastern and southern parts of the country. However, their attempts to take the capital city of Kyiv have failed. Read more.

#archaeology #artifacts #archeology #scythian #ukraine #russian #melitopol

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tomorrowusa · 7 months

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^^^ Those images don't show Putin's seatmate – Elon Musk.

Ukraine is in this for the long run, and we should be too. Ukraine's existence is at stake – and so is the future of liberal democracy around the world.

Putin is part of a loose worldwide movement of far right authoritarians that includes Donald Trump. It is contradictory to profess to be anti-Trump while not supporting Ukraine.

Isolationists and appeasers in the 1930s claimed to be for peace. But they did more than anybody else in the democratic world to grease the skids for World War II – the worst war in human history.

Putin is akin to the Nazis. We won't know the full extent of Russian war crimes and genocide against Ukrainians until after he is defeated. But there is little doubt that he uses the same playbook as Hitler.

'Shut his mouth, or you’ll all be shot' How Russian occupation forces transformed the Ukrainian city of Melitopol into 'Europe’s largest prison'

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taiwantalk · 10 months

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If this is true, which I doubt that the general staff would embellish, then Ukraine’s counteroffensive is moving in the ways that I had imagined. Ukraine may have already breached the russian southern defensive front and might be on the verge of trapping large Russian forces. The Russians cannot retreat fast enough. Russians will likely end up bombarding the locations of their own forces as last resort.

Watch russian artilleries sacrifice their own cannon fodders. Russians won’t even have time to reposition their artilleries or mortar units.

#ukraine #taiwantalk #russia #melitopol #Mariupol #berdiansk #counteroffensive #bombardment #defensive frontline #retreat

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shattered-pieces · 1 month

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In occupied Melitopol, the resistance forces destroyed the Russian occupiers and their equipment — the exact losses are specified. Two explosions rang out in the city yesterday. Almost 20 Russian occupiers, two KamAZ tilt trucks and a UAZ Patriot were in the epicenter.

https://t.me/United24media/20013

#ukraine #melitopol #resistance #occupied areas

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anastasiamaru · 1 year

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Temporarily occupied Melitopol

russians burnout at work🤗

#melitopol #stressful work #ukraine #war in ukraine #russians soldiers burnout at work #war zone #temporarily occupied territory of ukraine #укртумбочка #ukrainians on tumblr #war 2022 #stand with ukraine #fire #ukrainian tumblr #pray for ukrainians #pray for ukrainian armed forces #melitopol is ukraine #pray for ukraine #war #русня шо з єблом

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ukrainenews · 1 year

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Daily Wrap Up March 28-29, 2023

Under the cut:

Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind front lines on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, has described the situation at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine as “very dangerous” and very unstable. The nuclear facility has lost its external power supply six times since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, forcing emergency diesel generators to kick in to cool its reactors.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov suggested that Ukrainian offensive action involving Western tanks may begin in April or May in an interview with Estonian television.

The German federal government has agreed to allocate an additional 12 billion euros (over $13 billion) worth of military support to Ukraine over the next nine to 10 years, it announced Wednesday in a statement.

The US has not seen any indications that Russia is getting closer to using tactical nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, White House spokesperson John Kirby has said. It comes after Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that Moscow has made a deal to station tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. The Russian president said he was acting after negotiations with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, who he said had “long raised the question” of a nuclear deployment on his country’s territory.

Map from The Guardian

Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind front lines on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.

Unverified images on the internet showed explosions lighting up the night sky with streaks of contrails in Melitopol, base of the Russian-controlled administration in Zaporizhzhia, one of five Ukrainian provinces Russia claims to have annexed.

Ukraine's exiled mayor of the city confirmed there were explosions there. Russia's state TASS news agency, citing Moscow-installed officials, said a railway depot was damaged and power knocked out to the city and nearby villages.

Melitopol, which had a pre-war population of around 150,000, is a railway logistics hub for Russian forces in southern Ukraine and part of the land bridge linking Russia to the occupied Crimea peninsula.

There was no public information about the weapons Ukraine might have used for the strike. The city is at the far edge of the range of Ukraine's HIMARS rockets and within reach of newer weapons it is said to be deploying, including air-launched JDAM bombs and ground-launched GLSDB munitions promised by the United States. Russia said it shot down a GLSDB on Tuesday, the first time it has reported doing so.

The strike could hamper Moscow's rear logistics at a time when Kyiv has suggested it could soon mount a counterattack against Russian invasion forces who have scored no big victories in a months-long offensive despite the war's bloodiest fighting.

Melitopol is south of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, visited on Wednesday by U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi, who repeated calls for a safe zone there, saying the situation had not improved and fighting nearby had worsened.

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The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, has described the situation at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine as “very dangerous” and very unstable.

The nuclear facility has lost its external power supply six times since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, forcing emergency diesel generators to kick in to cool its reactors.

Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the water level in a nearby reservoir controlled by Russian forces was another potential danger. Water supplied by the reservoir is used to cool the reactors.

He told Reuters:

If the reservoir level goes down beyond a certain level, then you don’t have water to cool down the reactors, and we have seen especially in January that the levels of the water were going down significantly. They recovered somehow in the past few weeks.

He added that there had been increasing military activity in the region without giving details.

Grossi, who yesterday met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Dnipro hydroelectric power station, northeast of the Zaporizhzhia plant, said his attempt to broker a deal to protect the plant was still alive, and that he was adjusting the proposals to seek a breakthrough.

He was speaking a day before he is expected to travel to the nuclear plant, the largest in Europe.

Grossi has been pushing for a safety zone to be created at the plant to prevent a possible nuclear disaster as Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling the site of the power station. Kyiv does not want a deal that will in effect recognise or allow a Russian military presence at the plant.

Grossi added:

I am confident that it might be possible to establish some form of protection, perhaps not emphasising so much the idea of a zone, but on the protection itself: what people should do, or shouldn’t do to protect (the plant) instead of having a territorial concept.

-via The Guardian

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Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov suggested that Ukrainian offensive action involving Western tanks may begin in April or May in an interview with Estonian television.

Reznikov said that German Leopard tanks, which have begun arriving in Ukraine, will be part of “the counteroffensive campaign under the decision of our General Staff. … They are planning that in different directions.”

“And it will depend on the time, the best time,” Reznikov said, speaking in English. “It will depend on weather conditions. During the springtime, we have wet land. And you know, you can use only tracked vehicles without wheels for example.” “I think that we will see [the tanks] during these two months. I mean April and May,” Reznikov said.

Last week, Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s land forces, said on his Telegram channel that the Russians are "losing significant forces [in Bakhmut] and are running out of energy."

“Very soon, we will take advantage of this opportunity, as we did in the past near Kyiv, Kharkiv, Balakliya and Kupyansk,” he said.

-via CNN

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The German federal government has agreed to allocate an additional 12 billion euros (over $13 billion) worth of military support to Ukraine over the next nine to 10 years, it announced Wednesday in a statement.

"Germany has been supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia for more than a year with money, equipment and material and will continue to do so. This must also be reflected in the budget. On the one hand, for the procurement of armaments for Ukraine, and on the other hand, for the replacement of weapons and material handed over to Ukraine from Bundeswehr stocks," the government noted. Around $4.3 billion will go to the German military to replace the military aid Berlin has given to Kyiv since the invasion, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius added.

-via CNN

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The US has not seen any indications that Russia is getting closer to using tactical nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, White House spokesperson John Kirby has said.

It comes after Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that Moscow has made a deal to station tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. The Russian president said he was acting after negotiations with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, who he said had “long raised the question” of a nuclear deployment on his country’s territory.

Speaking to reporters today, Kirby said:

We’re watching this as best we can. We haven’t seen any movement by Mr Putin to act on what he pledged he would do.

The Belarusian foreign ministry today confirmed it will host Russian tactical nuclear weapons, saying the decision was a response to years of western pressure.

-via The Guardian

#Daily Update #Ukraine #Russia #War in Ukraine #Bakhmut #Germany #nuclear weapons #zaporizhzhya nuclear plant #UN #melitopol

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the-nomadicone · 2 years

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Melitopol // Ukraine

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classyclips · 1 year

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#ukraine #melitopol #eye witness report #russian occupation

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blueiskewl · 1 year

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The Ukrainian M142 HIMARS

Himars rockets targeted and hit a Wagner PMC barrack's hotel complex in Melitopol. Over 100+ Russian terrorists were eliminated.

#2022 russian invasion of ukraine #2022 russia-ukraine news #ukraine #russia #himars #The Ukrainian M142 HIMARS #rockets #missile #melitopol #war #world at war #weapons #battle #fighting #explosion #russian terrorism #russian terrorists

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gregor-samsung · 2 years

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“ Pareva proprio un maestro di scuola che non fosse soddisfatto dei suoi scolari. Disse che era rimasto deluso, che gli dispiaceva di averne dovuti bocciar tanti, che sarebbe stato più contento se avesse potuto promuoverli tutti. In ogni modo, disse, quelli che non sono riusciti a superar l’esame non dovevano avvilirsi: sarebbero stati trattati bene, non avrebbero avuto da lagnarsi, purché lavorassero, e mostrassero maggior impegno nel lavoro di quel che non avessero mostrato sui banchi di scuola. Mentre parlava, il gruppo dei promossi guardava i compagni sfortunati con aria di compatimento, e i più giovani si davano l’un l’altro gomitate nei fianchi, ridacchiando fra loro. Poi, quando il Sonderführer ebbe finito di parlare, il colonnello sì volse al Feldwebel e disse: «Alles in Ordnung. Weg! » e si avviò verso gli uffici del Comando, senza voltarsi indietro, seguito dagli ufficiali che si volgevano indietro ogni tanto, parlando fra loro a voce bassa. «Voi resterete qui fino a domani, e domani partirete per il campo di lavoro» disse il Feldwebel al gruppo di sinistra. Poi si volse al gruppo di destra, quello dei promossi, e con voce dura ordinò che si mettessero in riga. Non appena i prigionieri si furon disposti l’uno accanto all’altro, a contatto di gomito (avevano la faccia contenta, ridevano guardando i compagni con l’aria di burlarsi di loro), li ricontò rapidamente, disse «trentuno», e fece con la mano un cenno alla squadra di SS che aspettava in fondo al cortile. Poi ordinò: «dietro front, avanti marsch!». I prigionieri fecero dietro front, si mossero battendo forte i piedi nel fango, e quando si trovarono con la faccia contro il muro di cinta del cortile, «halt!» ordinò il Feldwebel, e voltosi alle SS che s’erano poste dietro ai prigionieri e già avevano alzato i fucili mitragliatori, si schiarì la gola, sputò per terra, e gridò: «Feuer!». Al crepitio della scarica il colonnello, che era ormai giunto a pochi passi dalla porta del Comando, si fermò, si volse di scatto, anche gli ufficiali si fermarono, e si voltarono indietro. Il colonnello si passò la mano sul viso, come per asciugarsi il sudore, e seguito dai suoi ufficiali entrò nel Comando. «Ach so!» disse il Sonderführer di Melitopol passandomi vicino. «Bisogna ripulir la Russia di tutta questa marmaglia letterata. I contadini e gli operai che sanno leggere e scrivere troppo bene, sono pericolosi. Tutti comunisti». «Natürlich» risposi. «Ma in Germania tutti, operai e contadini, sanno leggere e scrivere benissimo». «Il popolo tedesco è un popolo di alta Kultur». «Naturalmente,» risposi «un popolo di alta Kultur». «Nicht wahr?» disse ridendo il Sonderführer, e s’avviò verso gli uffici del Comando. E io rimasi solo in mezzo al cortile, davanti ai prigionieri che non sapevano leggere bene, e tremavo tutto. “

Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt, Introduzione di Mario Isnenghi, Mondadori ( Collana Oscar n° 1102 ), 1978; pp. 226-227.

[ 1ª ed. originale nel 1944 presso l’editore Casella di Napoli ]

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tomorrowusa · 8 months

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Members of the puppet government which Russia set up in the occupied city of Tokmak are apparently leaving as the Ukrainian military advanced to within 20 km of town.

That’s according to the information of locals reported by Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol, which is the next occupied Ukrainian city in the area. “The occupiers are being smoked out of Tokmak. Almost daily explosions and the liberation of settlements in the Melitopol direction transform Tokmak, which is still occupied, to a completely front-line city,” Fedorov said. While the initial distance from the Russian-occupied city of Tokmak to the frontline was about 31 km, it is now less than 20 km as the Ukrainian army advanced, taking Robotyne and areas around it. The Ukrainian army has reached the second line of Russian defense in the area.

A few days ago Ukraine liberated the village of Robotyne. Ukraine's goal is to reach the Sea of Azov and thereby cut the Russian-occupied territories in two.

As was reported, following the liberation of Robotyne, Ukrainian troops are continuing their offensive in Melitopol direction in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, bypassing minefields and advancing towards the second line of defense of the Russian Army.

In other news, Ukrainian drones damaged four large Russian Il-76 transport planes in the city of Pskov near the border with Estonia.

Drone strike damages four Il-76 aircraft deep in Russian territory

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valencehyd · 2 years

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Directed by russian aggression:

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taiwantalk · 11 months

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It’s unfortunate & unavoidable that journalists are sensationalizing counteroffensive progress. Don’t let that hype you up and down.

The news you want to pay attention to is capturing of large size of russian forces like in the thousands. For example, if thousands of russian infantry or artillery are captured near Melitopol. Ukraine does not need to have full control of entire Melitopol but if large number of Russian infantry are being captured in Melitopol, it can only mean, remaining Russian forces in kherson oblast are besieged and can only escape thru crimea. And when russian forces run out of water, food, ammos, places to shelter, it’s a matter of time for them to surrender.

#ukraine #russia #Melitopol #Crimea #counteroffensive #taiwantalk

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masha-umnitsa · 2 years

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The WWII memorial in Melitopol, Ukraine

#Melitopol #ukraine #memorial #ww2

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anastasiamaru · 2 years

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War In Ukraine

64yo invalid Mykhailo Ivashko lived quietly in Pohrebets, Chernihiv Obl.

Captured on 22 Mar on his way to neighboring village.russian officer offered vodka & told him to choose someone to be executed in his stead. Mykhailo refused & was immediately shot.

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A 13-year-old girl was found murdered in the temporarily occupied Melitopol. A terrible find was discovered by local residents in the park. A dog dug the child's hand out of the ground

This 13 y.o child was raped and beaten before her death by russian "soldiers"

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