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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore projection from Pooty Poot
Putin says Ukraine's future in doubt as cease-fires collapseLVIV, Ukraine (AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy and likened the West's sanctions on Russia to declaring war, while a promised cease-fire in the besieged port city of Mariupol collapsed amid scenes of terror.
With the Kremlins rhetoric growing fiercer and a reprieve from fighting dissolving, Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities and the number of Ukrainians forced from their country grew to 1.4 million. By Saturday night Russian forces had intensified their shelling of Mariupol, while dropping powerful bombs on residential areas of Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.
Bereft mothers mourned slain children, wounded soldiers were fitted with tourniquets and doctors worked by the light of their cellphones as bleakness and desperation pervaded. Putin continued to pin the blame for all of it squarely on the Ukrainian leadership and slammed their resistance to the invasion.
If they continue to do what they are doing, they are calling into question the future of Ukrainian statehood, he said. And if this happens, it will be entirely on their conscience.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reports-russia-observe-ceasefire-2-070133818.html
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2022
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mitch96
(13,870 posts)1. "sanctions on Russia to "declaring war".. So the sanctions are getting his attention...good.
Now be a good boy and STOP what your doing and get your hall pass...
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Irish_Dem
(46,445 posts)2. Putin will keep killing them until they surrender.
And turn over their government to him.
And give up their democracy.
bucolic_frolic
(43,032 posts)3. The constant additions and alterations of the coalition against him
are keeping him off balance, he is reaching for morality that will never be there, issuing empty warnings, trying to maintain some sense of dominance and control. He has no path to escape what he's unleashed. Not clear how this ends.