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Ukraine updates: Fatal Russian strikes in Donetsk, Kharkiv
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has slammed "vile and inhumane" Russian strikes that killed and wounded civilians overnight. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called the Russians "barbarians." DW has more.

 

What you need to know
  • EU leaders condemn the latest Russian strikes, which killed at least 14 Ukrainian civilians in Donetsk and Kharkiv
  • Ukrainian drone attack damages tank at Russian refinery
  • British Prime Minister Starmer welcomes potential Australian support for coalition
  • Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says "intense" work is still ongoing with United States
  • US Secretary of State Rubio says President Trump wants to see an end to the war as "soon as possible."

Here are the major developments concerning Russia's war in Ukraine on Saturday, March 8:

 

'Russia wants to test West,' says German intelligence chief

    'Russia wants to test West,' says German intelligence chief

 

The head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND) believes that Russia is seeking to "test the unity of the West" in order to determine whether NATO countries really would trigger Article 5 – which stipulates that an attack against one of the trans-Atlantic alliance's members will be considered an attack on all.

"We very much hope that's not the case and that we don't end up in a situation where it's put to the test," BND chief Bruno Kahl told DW on Saturday. "But we have to assume that Russia wants to test the unity of the West."

According to Kahl, the precise timing of any potential Russian "testing" of Article 5 depends on the course of its ongoing invasion of Ukraine which, three years on, is still consuming massive amounts of Russian military supplies and manpower.

"An early end to the war in Ukraine will enable the Russians to focus their energy where they really want it – against Europe," he said. "It could be that a concrete danger for Europe emerges sooner than we think."

Kahl said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to push NATO back and extend his own influence westwards – "ideally without any Americans in Europe." But he said he hoped that the United Stateswouldn't fall for that and expressed confidence that American and European intelligence services would continue to work together.

"We're as reliant on the help of our friends across the Atlantic as they are on us," he claimed.

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

RUSSIA IS NO FOOL. PUTIN IS NO FOOL. THE EUROPEANS ARE FOOLISH NONSENSE CLOWNS... THEY KEEP TALKING ABOUT RUSSIA "INVADING EUROPE".... WHY WOULD RUSSIA DO THIS LOSING ADVENTURE OF TRYING TO CAPTURE IDIOTS?...  SINCE 2000, PUTIN HAD TO WORK HARD TO REBUILD RUSSIA... THE WEST HAS POKED RUSSIA WITH NATO, REFUSED DIPLOMACY, BOMBED DONETSK AND THE DONBASS (KILLING 17,000 CIVILIANS TO DATE), FLAUNTED THE MINSK AGREEMENTS — FOR RUSSIA, GOING TO WAR AGAINST NATO WOULD BE LIKE A SUICIDE MISSION, EVEN IF RUSSIA WON (RUSSIA CAN DESTROY NATO). 

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS ALL OF THIS. THE SAD PART IS THAT THE EUROPEAN LEADERS ARE HELL BENT ON IGNORING THE OBVIOUS, TO SUIT THEIR MEGALOMANIA OF HOLDING ON TO THEIR LITTLE PSYCHOPATHIC FIEFDOMS.... THEY DO THIS ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (EVEN UNDER THE DEVIOUS "PEACE PLANS" OF DONALD TRUMP)....

 

counting chickens....

 

Kiev invokes God in threat against Crimean Bridge
Moscow has responded with a proverb and another religious reference

 

Ukraine is planning a third strike on Russia’s Crimean Bridge, Ukrainian Navy Chief Aleksey Neizhpapa told The Guardian in an interview published on Saturday.

The bridge, which was completed in 2020, serves as a vital link between the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea and mainland Russia. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Kiev has repeatedly attempted to damage or destroy it, justifying its actions by claiming that the structure has strategic military value for Moscow. While Ukraine has launched several attacks, the bridge has sustained damage only twice, with both incidents resulting in civilian casualties.

Neizhpapa insisted that the previous strikes were successful, causing damage to the bridge’s road and rail structures and limiting Russia’s ability to transport heavy military equipment. The vice admiral expressed confidence that a third attack will render the bridge inoperable, invoking the Slavic saying, ‘God loves a trinity’, meaning: ‘third time’s the charm’.

“The Russians understand we are actively discussing a third operation,” he claimed.

Moscow was quick to respond, countering Neizhpapa’s religious reference with one of its own.

“With this attitude toward religion, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will soon acquire his relics,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Leonid Ivlev, a Russian State Duma MP representing Crimea, dismissed the threat with a Russian proverb: “The hen hasn’t laid eggs yet, but she’s already clucking” – which is similar in meaning to ‘all bark and no bite’. He also warned Kiev against celebrating prematurely.

“I do not advise this aggressive hen from the banks of the Dnieper River to try to divide the skin until the bear is dead,” he said, meaning: ‘don’t count your chickens before they hatch’.

Another Crimean lawmaker, Yury Nesterenko, described the Navy chief’s remarks as the “mortal agony”of the Kiev regime.

“It’s yet another attempt to distract Ukrainian citizens from their country’s mounting problems and the dire situation of its armed forces at the front,” he told RIA Novosti. He also claimed that threats like this are often made ahead of Crimea’s tourist season in an attempt to instill fear.

READ MORE: Ukraine’s demands to dismantle Crimean Bridge ‘absurd’ – Moscow

Ukraine continues to claim sovereignty over Crimea despite the fact that the region overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in a referendum in 2014 following a US-backed coup in Kiev. Since then, Ukrainian officials have repeatedly called for the bridge to be destroyed. In 2016, Kiev initiated proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, arguing that Russia built the bridge illegally. Moscow has dismissed the claims as “absurd,” insisting that it had full legal authority to build the bridge to resolve economic and humanitarian issues caused by Ukraine’s blockade of the peninsula.

https://www.rt.com/russia/613925-kiev-crimean-bridge-threat/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.