/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 11, Part 4 (Thread #116)

https://www.reddit.com/live/18hnzysb1elcs

created by WorldNewsMods on 06/03/2022 at 21:40 UTC

2188 upvotes, 263 top-level comments (showing 25)

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Comment by WorldNewsMods at 07/03/2022 at 02:18 UTC

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New post can be found here

Comment by groovygyal at 06/03/2022 at 22:40 UTC

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Leonardo DiCaprio has donated 10 million USD to Ukraine.

His maternal grandmother was a native of Odessa, Ukraine!

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1500489315759144962?s=21

Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 22:02 UTC

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New: Denmark will hold a referendum in June on joining the EU’s defense policy, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

https://twitter.com/remilitari/status/1500592169874341893?t=_ltY_sXYRbdPg4AXKEHU-Q&s=19

Comment by YoreMTG at 06/03/2022 at 22:49 UTC

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News out of Russia also show priests being arrested and thrown in jail for reading religious psalms saying you should never take up arms against your brother

Comment by SaberFlux at 07/03/2022 at 00:37 UTC*

475 upvotes, 7 direct replies

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/t7hr55/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/hzi90rc/

Day 11 of my updates from Kharkiv, my previous post can be found at the link above.

The fighting today was especially intense. Aircrafts were flying around almost the whole day. All kinds of weapons were heard, there might have been a breach as we heard guns being fired, as well as tanks and airstrikes.

Starting from 11 pm extremely loud sounds of explosions were heard throughout the whole city, our building was shaking almost non-stop, it almost felt like windows were about to break from the shockwaves, thankfully they withstood them.

There’s still some distant sound of explosions and it has been 3 hours already since it started, now it’s mostly quiet, today was definitely the scariest day yet. As always we won’t know what actually happened until tomorrow, hopefully they won’t start again tonight so we can finally rest.

Next update: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/t92wld/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/hzruq6a/

Comment by smt1 at 06/03/2022 at 22:41 UTC

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Russian troops fired at and robbed Swiss journalist Guillaume Briquet. While working in the Mykolaiv region, his car with PRESS marking was shot, he was dragged from it.

Russian invaders took away the passport, 3000 euros, personal belongings, a helmet, the material filmed on the camera, and the laptop. He is currently safe in a Ukrainian hospital.

https://twitter.com/hromadske/status/1500586028100423684?s=21[1][2]

1: https://twitter.com/hromadske/status/1500586028100423684?s=21

2: https://twitter.com/hromadske/status/1500586028100423684?s=21

Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 21:43 UTC

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Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 22:31 UTC

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Comment by yamers at 06/03/2022 at 22:15 UTC

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How in the hell does Russia have the nerve to warn other countries that Ukraine is not allowed to use their airfield, when Russia literally is launching an attack through a foreign country and using their airfields, what a joke.

Comment by imSeanEvansNowWeFeet at 06/03/2022 at 21:45 UTC*

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Adobe is exiting Russia they confirmed internally. Setting up grants for journalists and Ukrainian Aid with $1m committed and a quarter million raised by employees

Edit: all services and agreements will end.

Also any and all access with Russian State enterprises will be ended immediately to avoid propaganda being produced

Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 22:31 UTC

333 upvotes, 2 direct replies

PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the top 4 accounting firms in the world, exits Russia affecting 3700 partners and staff in the country. It's arguably the most significant example so far of a global multinational exiting Russia. https://twitter.com/MarkKleinmanSky/status/1500567129703256070

Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 22:21 UTC

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Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 21:42 UTC

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Blyatzkrieg 2022: How to waste perfectly good men and machinery for the vain delusions of a dictator.

Comment by rishcast at 06/03/2022 at 22:03 UTC

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https://twitter.com/HromadskeRadio/status/1500493875999383553

Російські військові перевдягнулися у форму співробітників ЧАЕС і отримали гуманітарку — радниця мера Славутича

Translation:

https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1500589787304112133

Russian soldiers at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant changed into the civilian clothes of plant employees to receive humanitarian support

Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 23:57 UTC

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Comment by tasimm at 06/03/2022 at 22:33 UTC

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I wonder if Putin even realizes that every bomb and missile he aims at Ukraine only serves to forge the steely resolve in the people of Ukraine and their allies.

Your time is coming Vladimir, and it’s coming soon.

Comment by KeeperofPaddock9 at 06/03/2022 at 22:49 UTC*

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Russia is hemorrhaging military equipment like armor and trucks at an absurd rate. this is all mostly Soviet vintage sure but that's exactly the point - the Soviet Union could churn it's factories to replace the losses whereas the sick, emaciated Russian Federation can't, not even close.

Basically they are using their huge stockpile of Soviet weaponry and leveraging that as part of their land grab but the longer this goes the more their stockpiles will run out and then those once impressive Russian inventory numbers will erode and make them geopolitically weaker than when they started.

Comment by ASlockOfFeagulls at 07/03/2022 at 00:19 UTC

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**We forecast a 15% contraction in Russia's GDP in 2022, double the contraction that Russia experienced in 2009 after the global financial crisis. Given escalating war in Ukraine, we see risks as tilted to the downside. Russia will never the the same again. With

@elinaribakova**

https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1500469489573498884

15%! That is insane, and more than double the previous predictions of 7%.

Comment by [deleted] at 07/03/2022 at 00:35 UTC

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Comment by groovygyal at 06/03/2022 at 22:25 UTC

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Zelensky has a tradition of laughing at Putin. Before becoming President, Zelensky was the most popular Russian-speaking comedian in Ukraine.

Here’s his old sketch — Zelensky jokes about Putin’s orders to send troops to defend so-called Russian-speaking people

Video in link

https://twitter.com/hromadske/status/1500598268966887428?s=21

Comment by jamescaan1980 at 06/03/2022 at 21:46 UTC

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From the Bloomberg article being quoted:

“President Vladimir Putin said again on Sunday the war will continue until Ukraine accepts his demands and halts resistance, dimming hopes for a negotiated settlement. Putin says Ukraine must “demilitarize” and he has made clear his goal is to remove the current government.

In a call with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Putin also repeated his assertion that the “special military operation” he launched in Ukraine on Feb. 24 is going to plan, according to a Kremlin statement.

A second failed attempt to create safe passage for some 200,000 civilians trapped in the besieged eastern port city of Mariupol only underscored the humanitarian disaster that’s unfolding in Ukraine. The United Nations said on Sunday that more than 1.5 million people have already fled the country since hostilities began.

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Putin in Moscow on Saturday, then flew onto Berlin to see German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Bennett spoke again with Putin on Sunday amid a flurry of phone calls by leaders to Putin and to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the effort to de-escalate a conflict that promises to exact heavy costs for Europe and the global economy, as well as for Ukraine and Russia.

French President Emmanuel Macron also spoke with the Russian leader on Sunday to discuss the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.

While Russia has committed almost all of the ground forces it assembled for the attack on Ukraine, it has been hobbled by poor planning and logistics. Still, it has yet to bring a fraction of its artillery, electronic warfare, drone and combat aircraft capabilities to bear.”

Comment by groovygyal at 06/03/2022 at 22:22 UTC

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The Foreign Office announced the Japanese nationals should cancel trips to Russia and evacuate from the border areas near Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/konotaromp/status/1500597543020863489?s=21

Comment by An_Obscurity_Nodus at 07/03/2022 at 01:52 UTC

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Reminder for the shills I’m still seeing pop up in these threads: Ukraine is a sovereign land. Russia is committing war crimes by invading it. Your propaganda isn’t working because we can see what is happening with our own eyes. Go cry to Daddy Putin and stop wasting everyone’s time.

Comment by [deleted] at 06/03/2022 at 22:11 UTC

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The hacking collective Anonymous today hacked into the Russian streaming services Wink and Ivi (like Netflix) and live TV channels Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast war footage from Ukraine https://twitter.com/YourAnonTV/status/1500557635686486023

Comment by jamescaan1980 at 06/03/2022 at 23:53 UTC

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Excellent thread from Russia’s former foreign minister, well worth the read. Posted just now

It is about how the West must not be cowered by Putin's nuclear threats

https://twitter.com/andreivkozyrev/status/1500610676926005251?s=21