As Russia advances and Ukraine fights back fiercely, this war is termed the largest conventional military attack after World War II.
Satellite images show a Russian military convoy north of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that stretches for about 40 miles (64 km) and Russia at present would clearly outnumber Ukraine with its forces.
The satellite image shows the southern end of convoy armor carried artillery trucks, east of Antonov airport, Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, depicting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is on a full-scale attack.
A U.S. private company stated, according to a Reuters report. Maxar Technologies also said additional ground forces deployments and ground attack helicopter units were seen in southern Belarus, less than 20 miles (32 km) north of the Ukraine border.
Meanwhile, the United States stated on Monday that it was expelling 12 members of Russia’s UN mission from America for being “intelligence operatives,” provoking angry reactions from Moscow, which denounced what it called a “hostile move.” A spokeswoman for the US mission to the UN said those ordered to leave had “abused their privileges of residency in the United States by engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security.”
“We are taking this action in accordance with the UN Headquarters Agreement. This action has been in development for several months,” said the spokeswoman, Olivia Dalton. Richard Mills, the US’s deputy ambassador to the UN, told a Security Council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine that the dozen had engaged in non-diplomatic activities.
“Those diplomats that have been asked to leave the United States were engaged in activities that were not in accordance with their responsibilities and obligations as diplomats,” he said, without elaborating further.
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to Washington reacted on Facebook, “This is a hostile move against our country,” adding that Moscow was “deeply disappointed” and “totally rejected” the US claims.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia — who has not been targeted for himself for expulsion — informed reporters of the decision first in a highly unusual way. While giving a press conference ahead of the UN meeting, Nebenzia asked reporters for a minute to answer a telephone message. He then revealed that he had just learned of the expulsion order issued by the United States.
A Russian diplomatic source later told AFP that the expulsion decision did not target either the ambassador or his two senior deputies, Dmitry Polyanskiy and Anna Evstigneeva. “It’s bad news,” said Nebenzia, adding that the staff in question were to leave the country by March 7.
The Russian mission to the UN has around 100 staff, according to a Russian diplomatic source. The announcement of the expulsion came on the last day of Russia’s rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, which changes every month. Russia is to cede the presidential seat to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.
The Russian diplomatic mission planned a reception later Monday to mark the end of its presidency, which has been marked, unprecedentedly, by its launch of a war against a neighboring country. “It is not clear that there will be many guests,” one ambassador told AFP on condition of anonymity about this event which, unusually, no journalists were invited to attend.
Story of the Donbas Genocide
Vladimir Putin President of Russia’s claim of Ukrainians committing genocide against Russians in Donbas goes back to the conflict in the Donbas region eight years ago, where more than 13,000 people have been killed, including over 3,000 civilians. Many more have been injured, with 1.5 million people displaced.
Independent reports confirm that pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatist forces have committed human rights violations, ranging from arbitrary detention to torture.
Putin has repeated several times that Ukrainians were committing genocide on Donbas since 2015. Russian ambassadors have circulated a document at the U.N. claiming Ukraine is “exterminating the civilian population” in Donbas. Russian representatives have also spoken of mass killings of people in eastern Ukraine who speak Russian.
On Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova voiced belief that NATO’s and the Western public’s silence on the situation in Donbas had resulted in a humanitarian and political disaster in Europe.
“NATO’s experiments and the deafening silence of the Western public – these are the reasons behind the humanitarian and political disaster in Europe. An end was to be put to this since the West refused to conduct any negotiations whatsoever and welcomed aggressive statements and direct threats of Kyiv puppets towards Russia,” the diplomat wrote on her Telegram channel.
Russia did not start a war; it is ending it, according to Zakharova. “Throughout these years, the Russian side has exhorted the international community to oppose the ongoing annihilation of the Donbas population. These are millions of people who were losing loved ones every day and were living in basements to escape the shelling,” she added.
What is the truth, did NATO’s ignoring of the humanitarian crisis lead to the Ukrainian Russian War, the biggest war since World War II, or is it Russia’s need to annex Ukraine for its warm sea-trade port? The world is divided on these two opinions half identifying Russia as the big tyrant, the other half wanting to see NATO, the big bully fall as they see it as responsible for the loss of millions of lives with their indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians of certain nations over decades.
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