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RUSSIA IS NOW REPORTING IT HAS TAKEN OVER KIEV’S AIRPORT.. CUTTING OFF UKRAINE’S CAPITAL CITY FROM THE WEST.. VARIOUS OUTLETS REPORTING INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS SAY KIEV COULD FALL FRIDAY.
TAKE SOT- ANTONY BLINKEN
022422 Bliken Nightly News Tagboard
(2:22-2:27)
2/24/22
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UKRAINE MOLOTOV COCKTAIL POST
UKRAINE’S DEFENSE MINISTRY TOOK TO FACEBOOK FRIDAY MORNING.. TELLING PEOPLE IN THE CAPITAL CITY TO STAY INSIDE AND MAKE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS.
Ukraine FM Tweet WWII
ITS FOREIGN MINISTER— TWEETING THE “Last time our capital experienced anything like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany.” https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1497058048430460934?s=20&t=I8ZLs6NCCq-VZgey4iqDWg
AP8734309077.mp4 (1:16-1:19)
THE DEATH TOLL.. ALREADY WELL OVER A HUNDRED UKRAINIANS.
NAT POP- 022522 ZELENSKYY ADDRESS
Kiev area shelling AP59058883
AND UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT SAYS DESPITE FIGHTING JUST MILES AWAY…
022522 Zelenskyy Source- Ukrainian Presidential Office
HE’S STAYING PUT..AXIOS REPORTING HE TOLD EU LEADERS
[fs quote] https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1497214423756197889
“THIS might be the last time you see me alive” DURING A VIDEO CALL THURSDAY NIGHT
AP8734309077.mp4 (2:07-2:15)
AS ARE MEN UNDER 60…AN OFFICIAL DECREE FROM UKRAINE BANNING THEM FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY.
Ukraine video Source Ukraine Interior Ministry
PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY IS ALSO ASKING DOCTORS AND NURSES TO REMAIN
NAT POP- 022522 ZELENSKYY ADDRESS (just a different spot)
AP6508261198.mp4
BUT ALREADY THERE ARE REPORTS ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND UKRAINIANS HAVE EVACUATED..
AP3666890100.mp4
.LEADING TO A HOURS LONG WAITS AT VARIOUS BORDER CROSSINGS.
AP3666890100.mp4 (about around 1:35)
HUMANITARIAN GROUPS ARE NOW WORKING ON A RESPONSE… INCLUDING THE U-S
WHITE HOUSE – 022122GettyImages-1371970795
WHERE THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THEY ARE OPEN TO ACCEPTING REFUGEES… IF THEY WANT TO COME HERE.
US Troops Land in the Baltics Source NATO
AND NOW…7 THOUSAND U-S TROOPS ON THEIR WAY TO GERMANY..
US Troops Land in the Baltics Source NATO (:37ish)
PUTTING THE NUMBER OF TROOPS SENT TO EUROPE THIS MONTH AT ABOUT 12 THOUSAND.
Nato Response Force Source: NATO or US Troops Land in the Baltics Source NATO (:56ish)
ALL OF THEM LIKELY TO HELP WITH THE NATO RESPONSE GROUP WHEN THAT IS ACTIVATED.
02522 Nato Meeting (1:47 shows Biden dialed in, or 1:51 has a close up of him)
BOTH PRESIDENT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS MET WITH NATO FRIDAY MORNING.
TAKE SOT- Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
022522 Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General Source: NATO
2/25/22
(:29-:43/ :55-1:05)
Russia has shattered peace on the European continent. What we have warned against for months has come to pass, despite all our efforts to find a diplomatic solution./We condemn Russia’s aggressions in the strongest possible terms. And call on Russia to immediately cease its military action.
US Troops Land in the Baltics Source NATO (1:48ish)
BIDEN HAS PROMISED NO U-S TROOPS WILL GO INTO UKRAINE.
Russian embassy dc tagboard
Here in d-c.. Protests in front of the russian embassy are already underway…
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Straight from dc i’m aa