Russian invasion of Ukraine

Went to a protest near Russian embassy, Russians and Ukrainians were so angry in comparison to Lithuanians! Very chaotic energy. Was also surprised to see some provocateurs coming to oppose the protest. Probably hourly rate from Russian embassy is doubled on weekends?

Went to donate a couple of bags of clothing and shoes - they announced Ukrainian refugees will need 40 tons of clothing.

Amazing emotions, such a feeling of unity. It feels like reliving something like a collapse of soviet union, version 2.

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cycled to central today saw the closure of whitehall ( how convenient ) not much going on at parliament square so went down to the russian embassy on bayswater rd. small but vociferous crowd encouraging the passing cars to honk ( almost continuous honking ) lots of placards and graffiti on the walls, kensington palace gardens was shut to the general public for security reasons

did a, boo wendy testaburger boo, but swapped her name for vladimir p. , fingers crossed for all this stupidity to come to an end soon.

I don't believe the Whitehall gas leak story. Sounds like something from a film plot.

Bigger turnout at trafalgar sq. I think it was last minute

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I'm sure many of you are following Bellingcat, but this is a frightening drive:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497264881183059970

From this article

Berlin:

Prague:

Putin’s attempt at nuclear blackmail shows how desperate his situation is becoming. Russian generals know what to do with a jumped-up secret policeman. Hopefully it’s just a matter of time.

EU officially supplying arms to Ukraine.

Your move Putin? :/

James Cleverly weaseling extra hard on C4 news to avoid answering if we will remove constraints on taking refugees

I'm not sure that the EU is doing anything in that line. Individual countries are, but they remain in control of their defence policy AFAIK.

Problem is it’s just not fruit picking season

They have just announced it
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1497978850952847374

Also EU airspace now closed to all Russian flights including private jets, that will annoy the oligarchs

“ The European Union has announced that it intends to begin shipping arms to Ukraine, the first time in its history it has taken such a step.

Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the move marked a "watershed moment".

She also announced a raft of new sanctions targeting Russia and Belarus, and a ban on Russia using European airspace.
”

BP exiting its position in Rosneft as well

https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1497980539483172872

It needs to be all countries bordering Russia. If the rich can transit via China, half the world is still open (and a good number have places in Singapore, HK or Thailand)

Still not as nice as Nice or Monaco or Amalfi Coast or whatever.
Oligarchs will go to Turkey just like the simple folk, ooooph.

Any of you in Oxfordshire, stay safe, front lines have rapidly moved west

On the front line, with a plane that took off, flew to Poland, turned in a big circle, phoned the base wondering what the fuck it was supposed to do and then flew home again.

Boris can get in the goddamn sea. What a piece of crap.

Wishful thinking, how about we air drop Boris to the Belarus/Ukraine border to oversee the peace talks? Perhaps a couple of days early?

Also, why do we call him Boris?

Every other PM is known by their surname which is usually more stately, but in this case is just appropriate.

Air drop him without a parachute.

Fuck me. Just, what the fuck.
“Our prime minister”.
No, just your’s, Cllr Nosejockey, you tosser.

Is this the West sensing an opportunity to get rid of Putin? If he gets forced to the negotiating table on this how could he then survive?

And what would replace him?

How thick do you have to be to think that post is going to go down well?

To be fair, he also looks like he’s slept rough for 2 hours in a cellar.

That’s just depriving him of the opportunity of getting wrapped around an electricity pylon.