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Russian tanks reached Kyiv according to the initial plan. To be precise, its remnants 🫠

Now Kyivites can come to Mykhaylivska square in the center of city to see burnt out tanks and other equipment found in the Kyiv region after the invaders left it.

#StopRussianAggression 

Photo credit: Oleg Bogachuk

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Đứng đầu những đại công ty đó hẳn có những đầu óc chắc hơn hẳn tụi cuồng Nga bất cần thân thể   nên họ phân biệt ở đâu mới thật sự có "phát xít" phải không?

Một thí dụ là Elon Musk, không hề bị ai bắt buộc, nhưng ngay từ đầu đã ủng hộ Ukraine bằng những phương tiện của ông ta. Không lẽ cái khả năng phân biệt, phán đóan của của Elon lại không bằng những ku bò đỏ trong và ngoài nước   .

Bình thường với sức của họ không lôi kéo được, vì Ukraine có nền kinh tế kém. Nay nhờ chiến tranh, ai cũng ủng hộ, lại cũng có phần quảng cáo, tôi mà là chủ đại công ty, tôi cũng tranh mà giúp Ukraine, sau khi tái thiết nước này cũng có phần lợi lộc chứ không chơi. hihihi

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Mới nhìn mất hồn luôn á, tưởng ông đạo dừa ở Việt Nam hiện về giúp Ukraine . Tự vì ổng đi bán muối lâu rồi.

PS: Nói cho vui chứ nhìn các con cua rang muối trưng bày ở đây chợt nhớ gần hồ con rùa ở Duy Tân, có cả cái khu "trưng bày tội ác Mỹ-Ngụy". Khiếp quá. Mong rằng sau này họ dời đi chỗ nào, đừng để lung tung như vầy vô văn hóa như Việt Nam. Hiện tại đắc ý thời chiến thì như vậy tạm được, nhưng phải nhanh chóng dẹp đi. Loại trưng bày này là một loại xách lược tuyên truyền của CS. Mình thì mong Ukraine trở thành một quốc gia tự do mãi mãi chứ không có "tư duy" hẹp hòi của cái nòi CS.

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Mới nhìn mất hồn luôn á, tưởng ông đạo dừa ở Việt Nam hiện về giúp Ukraine . Tự vì ổng đi bán muối lâu rồi.

PS: Nói cho vui chứ nhìn các con cua rang muối trưng bày ở đây chợt nhớ gần hồ con rùa ở Duy Tân, có cả cái khu "trưng bày tội ác Mỹ-Ngụy". Khiếp quá. Mong rằng sau này họ dời đi chỗ nào, đừng để lung tung như vầy vô văn hóa như Việt Nam. Hiện tại đắc ý thời chiến thì như vậy tạm được, nhưng phải nhanh chóng dẹp đi. Loại trưng bày này là một loại xách lược tuyên truyền của CS. Mình thì mong Ukraine trở thành một quốc gia tự do mãi mãi chứ không có "tư duy" hẹp hòi của cái nòi CS.

Dạ muội nghĩ đang lúc đánh nhau nên mọi người muốn lên tinh thần thôi.  Chơi vui tí rồi họ sẽ clean up sạch sẽ hết à.  

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Đọc bài này thấy tức cười. Đầu têu là bà bộ trưởng tài chính Canada chứ ai. Bây giờ bà ấy có "khách hàng" rồi. hihihi
Anh tân bộ trưởng tài chính Đức thì dè dặt hơn, đề nghị có đối xử thế nào với Oligarchs cũng phải nên thượng tôn pháp luật.

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Billions for Ukraine?: Oligarchs want to buy their way out of sanctions

According to Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Russian oligarchs want to buy their way out of sanctions.


According to Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Russian oligarchs want to buy their way out of sanctions. The idea: With the billions raised in this way, the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine should be co-financed. The G7 states at least want to discuss the idea.

Rebuilding parts of Ukraine devastated by the Russian invasion will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, regardless of the war's outcome. As the "Handelsblatt" writes, the G7 states are said to be considering using billions of Russian oligarchs for this purpose. Accordingly, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland reported to her ministerial colleagues at the recent meeting of G7 finance ministers about a proposal made by several very wealthy Russians: The sanctioned oligarchs could then leave significant parts of their billion-dollar assets to the West, which would then be used to rebuild the Ukrainians destroyed by the Russian attack infrastructure should be used. In return, they wanted to disappear from all sanctions lists.

As the "Handelsblatt" writes, citing several participants in the G7 finance ministers' meeting at Bonn's Petersberg last week, Freeman only put forward the oligarchs' ideas informally, but "one could think about it." This is exactly what should now happen in the circle of the G7. In the course of the war, Russian oligarchs ended up on numerous sanctions lists of Western countries and institutions, assets were confiscated, freedom of travel was restricted and business connections to the West were made significantly more difficult or severed.
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnkyj explained in a speech to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday, his country will need five billion dollars (4.7 billion euros) a month, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal already had the costs in April at the spring conference estimated at 600 billion dollars by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington. By early May, the EU states had confiscated private Russian assets totaling around $30 billion since the beginning of the war.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in Davos that "if possible, Russian assets that we have frozen" should also be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine. The Brussels authorities will present a corresponding legislative proposal that would make this possible on Wednesday. This should be made possible by a proposal to the EU states to include the circumvention of sanctions in the list of EU crimes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently called for laws to be passed to confiscate Russian state assets and make them available to Ukraine for the country's reconstruction. A "deal" with the oligarchs would be a kind of shortcut to get their money for reconstruction, but you have to "weigh all the risks, legal and moral," according to the Handelsblatt newspaper from one of the capitals. The "Handelsblatt" quotes the FDP European politician Moritz Körner: "The idea is charming, even if it initially seems like a modern sale of indulgences." The oligarchs, most of whom live in the West, could play their part in rebuilding Ukraine. "However, it would have to be a significant and painful part of their assets so that a large sum can be raised and Ukraine can really be helped," Körner demands.
The road to expropriation of Russian oligarchs without compensation is legally long and complicated. "We have to respect the rule of law, even if we're dealing with Russian oligarchs," said Finance Minister Christian Lindner recently. Germany is open to a debate about using confiscated Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine. But you have to distinguish between state funds - such as the central bank - and private funds. "In our constitution there are guarantees for private assets," said the FDP politician. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had already expressed legal concerns.

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Úi thương kg nè.  

Chương trình hỗ trợ cho Ukraine của Cộng đồng người Việt (From Vietnamese with Love) còn lên cả báo Tin tức quân đội Ukraina :) 

Hy vọng sau cuộc chiến, người Ukraine sẽ nghĩ tới người Việt một cách ấm áp hơn.

https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/05/06/vol...i4BMdY6fPQ

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Thêm một "nữ anh hào", bà Mette Frederiksen sẽ gửi Hải Thương (dịch vật    ) tới Ukraine

Loại hỏa tiễn chống chiến hạm Harpoon này của Đan Mạch đặt trên đất liền và ngoài khả năng tấn công tầu thuyền trên biển lại còn có thể tiêu diệt những mục tiêu trên bộ. Có lẽ là loại thích hợp nhất với quân đội Ukraine lúc này.  

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Denmark Sending Ukraine Anti-Ship Harpoon Missiles To Take on Russian Ships in Black Sea 



The Danish Armed Forces are sending long-range anti-ship missiles to Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters on Monday. The range of Denmark’s coastal defense Harpoons could put Russian ships at risk in the Northern Black Sea, a naval analyst told USNI News.

“I’m especially grateful to Denmark, which announced today that it will provide a Harpoon launcher and missiles to help Ukraine defend its coast,” Austin said in prepared remarks at the Pentagon following a meeting with an international coalition and Ukraine defense officials.

While Austin did not specify the type of Harpoon, the Danish military’s coastal anti-ship missile batteries field RGM-84L-4 Harpoon Block IIs that are capable of not only hitting ships at sea, but also targets in port and on land with an upgrade from the Boeing Advanced Harpoon Weapon Control System.

“This expands Harpoon’s capability to attack coastal, in harbor and land targets such as shore defense sites, [surace to air missile] sites, exposed aircraft, port/industrial facilities and ships in port,” reads a 1999 press release from Boeing on the sale of the system to the Danish Naval Material Command.
Depending on where Ukrainian forces base the coastal battery, the missiles could extend the range Ukrainian Navy could target the Russian Navy’s Black Sea ships, open-source naval analyst and retired Navy Capt. Chris Carlson told USNI News on Monday.


Ukrainian forces have been requesting Harpoons as they seek to break the blockade of Odesa’s port and the ongoing harassment from sea-based missiles, USNI News understands.

“This blockade has cut off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, halting Ukrainian grain exports, choking the country’s main export industry and driving global food prices to record highs,” wrote Tayfun Ozberk for Naval News on Sunday.
“If Ukraine would be able to establish an [anti-access area denial] in this area with land-based anti-ship missiles and conduct successful engagements against Russian naval forces entering the A2/ AD zone, the Russian blockade would likely end and transportation corridors would be opened.”

The missiles could also threaten the logistics hub for the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, making it more difficult for Russia to rearm after missile strikes on land targets in Ukraine.

After early successes in the Black Sea at the start of the war with Ukraine, the effect of the Russian Navy has largely been blunted now. Russian amphibious forces have been unable to land troops near Odesa. Early in the war, thousands of Russian forces landed near Mariupol.

Naval activity off the coast of Odesa has decreased since Ukraine in April fired two Neptune anti-ship missiles – a domestically produced Harpoon copy – and sank Russia’s Black Sea flagship RTS Moskva (121).

Austin’s announcement follows a Reuters report last week that the White House has been working for weeks to get Ukraine not only Harpoons but also the Norwegian-made Naval Strike Missile.



Đọc thêm -> ở đây 

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 Chà chính phủ Biden muốn tham chiến hả?  Nga pháo kích làm sao bảo vệ nếu không có .... phòng không? 

Dạ theo tin từ Toà Bạch Ốc thì uncle Joe cho đội lính đặc nhiệm sang để phòng thủ cho lãnh sự quán Hoa Kỳ ở Ukraine thôi ngũ ca.  

Lính đặc nhiệm Mỹ quốc thì phần lớn ai cũng biết danh tánh rồi.  

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Tin ngắn:

Hungary declares state of emergency due to war in Ukraine.

Pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a video message that the war posed a threat to Hungary's security, the financial sector and energy supplies.

The state of emergency will take effect at midnight and will give Budapest “room to maneuver and the ability to react immediately.”
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Canada to send artillery ammunition to Ukraine.

In total, the country purchased 20,000 artillery shells from the U.S., spending about $75 million for NATO-standard ammunition, Defense Minister Anita Anand said on May 24.
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EU suspends import duties on Ukrainian products for one year. 

The move by the Council of the European Union aims at supporting Ukraine’s economy and mitigating the effect of Russia’s war.

EU approves 500 million euro tranche of military aid for Ukraine.

Previously the European Union had approved another 1.5 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine, bringing the total to 2 billion euros.
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Blinken, Kuleba discuss unblocking Ukraine’s exports.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also said that more weapons, including heavy ones, are headed to Ukraine after a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on May 24.
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Lithuania ready to treat wounded Ukrainian service members. 

Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said on May 24 that “in the coming weeks, Lithuania will accept Ukrainian soldiers for rehabilitation,” according to a statement published on the ministry’s website.


Anusauskas also said Lithuania will continue to provide training and military equipment to Ukraine.

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Kuleba: 580 international companies still operating in Russia. 


Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that, while 1,439 companies have left Russia, it is “business as usual” for those that have remained.
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List được Yale cập nhật

https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/almost-1...ome-remain

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NY Times bị "chỉnh", and it's not the first time.  
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Editorial: The Kyiv Independent’s response to the New York Times editorial board

The New York Times editorial, “The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready,” published on May 19, immediately caused an uproar in Ukraine. 

A veiled manifesto of appeasement from a newspaper known for its stellar coverage of Russia’s horrific invasion has disappointed many. 

In the editorial, the New York Times editorial board argues that it’s too dangerous to assume that Ukraine can win the war. It says “Russia is too strong,” that Ukraine should make a “painful compromise” and give up some territories to Russia. The U.S. must understand the futility and stop “taunting” Russia, the editorial says. Meaning: Ukraine will lose anyway, stop helping it so it’s over faster.

In short, the editorial attempts to pass off appeasement and betrayal of the free world’s values as pragmatic reasoning. 

Dark times have always shed light on those willing to compromise their values to preserve their daily comforts. Neither a French president, a German intellectual, nor an award-winning American newspaper are exempt from being wrong.

As a newsroom witnessing the war from inside Ukraine, we want to set the record straight. 

Ukraine winning the war with Russia isn’t “unrealistic” or even “likely.” If we want the world to be anything like what we know it to be, then Ukraine winning is the only option. 

And Western financial and military support for Ukraine is the only way to establish “long-term peace and security on the European continent” that the New York Times editorial board is rooting for.

Ukraine’s belief in its victory isn’t based on overconfidence. It’s based on necessity.

Any concession to Russia now will lead to another war sooner or later, while Ukrainians stuck in any region occupied by Russia will be tortured, raped, or killed. The New York Times is running story after story about the living hell through which Russia puts Ukrainian civilians in occupied territories. Meanwhile, its editorial board is suggesting that Ukraine should cede territories to Russia, where more atrocities will undoubtedly happen.

Appeasement isn’t the voice of reason. It’s fear and short-sightedness that will only make things worse, something we’ve all seen too many times in the past. 

Allowing Russia to annex Crimea emboldened Russia to try to swallow the Donbas. When it invaded in 2014, carving up a sovereign state and killing civilians, the other world leaders’ tepid response made Russia’s bloody dictator feel empowered to do more. 

It’s obvious that he’s been planning the full-scale invasion of Ukraine ever since. It’s often been said by world leaders and analysts that one of Vladimir Putin’s main miscalculations was assuming that the West would let him take Ukraine easily. It didn’t. 

Now the New York Times is calling for the West to do what Putin expected and give up. 

Make no mistake: If you appease a dictator, whose troops regularly indulge in war crimes, it will lead to a catastrophic geopolitical shift. 

A Russian military victory would lead to land grabs and brutal conquest becoming the new norm. Allowing a power-hungry fascist dictatorship to succeed will encourage other dictatorships to try. 

Telling the U.S. and NATO to ask Ukraine to sacrifice itself for the delusional hope of “long-term peace and security on the European continent” is the same as urging them to cede Taiwan to China. It’s the same as averting eyes from the rape, torture, and what appears to be a planned-out genocide committed by the Russians in Ukraine and by the Chinese in Xinjiang.

It’s a deal that shouldn’t be taken.

Nor are we forced to take it. The assumption that Russia, despite its colossal battlefield losses, is still a superpower with a potent military is a lie groomed by Russian propaganda over the past 15 years. 

It’s a lie many in the West still believe, in spite of Russia’s modest-at-best progress in Ukraine and its losses of tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of vehicles. 

Russia has already lost over 40% of the territories it invaded since February. And yet, some continue to think that the Russian military is unbeatable.

The reality is that Russian corruption, theft, mismanagement, and lack of transparency led to the country’s military being poorly trained and equipped. Highly-motivated soldiers could have offset these problems. But Russia has no viable justification for the war it could feed its demoralized soldiers, who are often used as cannon fodder. 

The Russian military is weak, its command structure is abysmal and it can very well lose the war to the smaller but much more motivated Ukrainian forces willing to defend their homes, families, and country until the last breath. 

Meanwhile, following the New York Times’ advice will lead to more war, more destruction and a heavier burden on American people in the long run.

But perhaps one of the most striking features of the editorial is the complete lack of understanding of Ukraine and Ukrainians. 

Ironically, the New York Times makes the same mistake that the Russians did when they attacked Ukraine in February. The Russians assumed that Ukrainians would welcome them or surrender. The New York Times editorial board should know better than to make similar assumptions about Ukrainians now. 

If anything, the Gray Lady should learn from its mistakes, like when it ran a story about how modern and lethal the Russian military is, a month before the invasion would prove otherwise.

Because here’s the thing. Ukrainian society will never agree to any concessions. Those who don’t understand this simple fact don’t understand Ukraine at all, and perhaps shouldn’t share their uneducated speculations in one of the world’s leading media publications. 

Even President Volodymyr Zelensky, however popular he is now, wouldn’t be able to persuade Ukrainians to concede. According to a recent poll by the Kyiv International Sociology Institute, 82% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine should not give up territory for peace under any circumstances. 

After seeing the atrocities committed by Russian troops in Borodyanka, Bucha and Mariupol, the Ukrainian people see very clearly that this is a war for survival against a fascist regime that denies Ukrainians the right to exist. Concessions would be a swift death sentence for thousands of Ukrainians. This fact apparently escapes the New York Times editorial board.

The newspaper doesn’t have to go far to find some clarity.

As professor Timothy Snyder pointed out in his spectacular guest essay, published on the same day as the controversial editorial, “so long as Nazi Germany seemed strong, Europeans and others were tempted. It was only on the battlefields of World War II that fascism was defeated.”

Ukraine will win, sooner or later, because no fascist state has ever truly prevailed over a free country. 

The democratic world can make this victory come sooner and be less costly for the people of Ukraine and for the world. It can do so by stepping up military support for Ukraine and pressure on Russia. 

Ukraine is fighting this war on behalf of the free world – to make sure it remains free. The free world must at least try to match the Ukrainians’ bravery. 

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion/edit...ial-board/

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Trong khi lão Henry Kissenger, một trong những kẻ đã góp phần bức tử VNCH kêu Ukraine đầu hàng và cúng đất cho bọn xâm lược Nga thì...

Poll: 82% of Ukrainians believe Ukraine shouldn't give up territory for peace.

According to a recent poll by the Kyiv International Sociology Insitute, only 10% of Ukrainians say that Ukraine can give up some of its territories to achieve peace and preserve its independence.

Mình ghét lão này nên kg copy bài vào, ai muốn đọc thì bấm vào link vậy.  Sorry!  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...sanctions/

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Thủ Tướng Anh gửi thư cho trẻ em Ukraine.  Đáng yêu quá.  
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To all the children of Ukraine: You are not alone. We stand with you.

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Chớ tin Putin, bà Thủ Tướng Estonia đã từng cảnh báo phương tây chiêu trò của Nga.

At the Munich Security Conference 2022, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas explained the negotiation tactics of the Soviet Union in light of Russia's present-day demands to the West.

https://twitter.com/MunSecConf/status/15...lYKbFpm_1A

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Tin ngắn:

Hungary declares state of emergency due to war in Ukraine.

Pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a video message that the war posed a threat to Hungary's security, the financial sector and energy supplies.

The state of emergency will take effect at midnight and will give Budapest “room to maneuver and the ability to react immediately.”
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 Gã "autocrat" này lại vòi tiền EU đấy. 
 
Đại khái là nếu muốn Hung Gia Lợi ký tên vào việc cấm vận Nga, thì EU phải chi một khoảng lớn vài mươi tỉ để Hung Gia Lợi qua cơn bĩ cực. Nhưng theo định nghĩa về "autocrat" của The Atlantic thì Hung Gia Lợi có qua cơn bĩ cực hay không hơi khó nói, nhưng Viktor Orban chắc mẻm "tới hồi thái ... lan" vinh thân phì gia.