They don’t need our help. They mugged Mary Roach for her bananas
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BBC liveblog: Africans fleeing Ukraine report discrimination at borders
Africans trying to escape from Ukraine are complaining of difficulty and discrimination at land borders into the EU.
Ruqqaya, a Nigerian medical student who was studying at university in Kharkiv, walked for 11 hours overnight to arrive at Medyka-Shehyni, at the border with Poland this morning.
At the border she was told by border guards to wait as Ukrainians had to be let through first.
She says she has watched busloads of people, who she described as white, being allowed through the border while only a handful of Africans have been selected from the queue.
Ruqqaya is trying to get to Warsaw to catch a flight she has booked home to Nigeria.
Another group of students say they are stuck on the border with Przemyśl where Ukrainian border guards won’t allow them to pass.
“This is not happening to Ukrainians,” says Timothy Adegbile, a medical student in Lviv.
However, a Polish border force spokesperson says: “Everyone who arrives at the Polish border from Ukraine is being allowed entry regardless of nationality.”
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Some things never change need to change
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Um, isn’t using flamethrowers in that sort of capacity violate several international laws and agreements?
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The security council needs to go. It’s always been an amazingly hypocritical institution. The UN is about international equality… except for those that have declared themselves primi inter pares by seizing the post-war moment.
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Personally I wish the hackers would have went with something lulzy like this
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Renewing our faith in humanity:
Speaking of supply line problems:
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That is wonderful!
Also reminds me that I need to check and see if RT’s YouTube channel is still monetized. As of Thursday it was, with Google running ads against propaganda footage and Russian perspective scenes of the invasion sending revenue to Russia 
ETA: YEP. took them until yesterday though
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Ukrainian morale still seems high
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Thanks for that. We have to be skeptical about such posts, but it has the ring of truth about it. Putting it into text form here:
THREAD From @RihoTerras
Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days.
Russians didn’t have a tactical plan. The war costs about $20 bln/day. There are rockets for 3-4 days at most, they use them sparingly. They lack weapons, the Tula and 2 Rotenberg plants can’t physically fulfil the orders for weapons. Rifles and ammo are the most they can do.
The next Russian weapons can be produced in 3-4 months – if even that. They have no raw materials. What was previously supplied mainly from Slovenia, Finland and Germany is now cut off.
If Ukraine manages to hold the Russians off for 10 days, then the Russians will have to enter negotiations. Because they have no money, weapons, or resources. Nevertheless, they are indifferent about the sanctions.
Alpha Spec Ops have been near Kyiv since the 18th February. The goal was to take Kyiv and instal a puppet regime. They are preparing provocations against innocent civilians – women and children – to sow panic. This is their trump card.
Russia’s whole plan relies on panic – that the civilians and armed forces surrender and Zelensky flees. They expect Kharkiv to surrender first so the other cities would follow suit to avoid bloodshed. The Russians are in shock of the fierce resistance they have encountered.
The Ukrainians must avoid panic! The missile strikes are for intimidation, the Russians fire them at random to “accidentally” hit residential buildings to make the attack look larger than it really is. Ukraine must stay strong and we must provide assistance!
Spread this information so the world would realise how important it is to assist Ukraine right now and without hesitation! It is difficult for Russia, but it is difficult for Ukraine as well if the West does not provide meaningul support!
This is one of the main reasons they have to be cut out of SWIFT. Oil and natural gas are the only things of real value they have to trade with the rest of the world. Freeze them out and “shell shortage” time comes even sooner for Tsar Volodya (he should hold a seance and ask Nicky II how that worked out for him; better yet, go talk to him in person).
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So does an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country, so I don’t think Putin is terribly concerned.
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If the intel you quote is true, the argument for the US sending lots more military hardware is stronger than ever.
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Exactly. A lot less expensive and faster to take out a tank or plane than it is for Russia to build a new one.
Unlike the bankers in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, Western governments (including Germany) are already upping arms supplies.
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