"Mom, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I am afraid."

Here's a transcript of a Russian soldier's last text messages to his mother that Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN just read out from screenshots at the emergency session of the UN General Assembly

"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and your top advisors as far away as possible."

And his followers will eat this up and believe every word of it

Trump, who discussed pulling the US from NATO takes credit for NATO’s existence in a new statement. Trump, who threatened to withhold weapons funding from Ukraine to get dirt on Biden, takes credit for Ukrainian weapons in same statement.

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1498302199134404609?s=20&t=uKF7wZxFON4VKPfGUAwO2Q

"Go home!" Ukrainians chant at Russian soldiers at the city council building in Berdyansk

One more video from #Berdyansk. Even under occupation the city does not surrender to the enemy.

"Putin is a dickhead! Putin is a dickhead!" Ukrainians in Berdyansk are reportedly chanting slogans against the Russian troops that took the city last night

In historic move because of their neutral stance-Switzerlands joins EU Sanctions against Russia

In a historic move because of their neutral stance in all circumstances, the President of Switzerland says his country will join the EU sanctions against Russia. The entire world is quite literally uniting against Putin and I’m here for it.
https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1498056374554558467?s=20&t=A996BqFyiq8mF67HTrwv6Q
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/sweden-to-send-arms-to-ukraine-in-break-with-tradition/

A Team Of American/British Special Forces Veterans Are Preparing To Join Ukraine's Fight Against Rus

KYIV – A group of 10 special operations forces veterans are staging in Poland and preparing to cross into Ukraine, where they plan to take up President Volodymyr Zelensky on his offer to “join the defense of Ukraine, Europe, and the world,” according to a US Army veteran arranging their passage.

The group, composed of six US citizens, three Brits, and a German, are NATO-trained and experienced in close combat and counterterrorism. They want to be among the first to officially join the new International Legion of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine that Zelensky announced on Sunday, according to text messages reviewed by BuzzFeed News. Two former American infantry officers are also making plans to come to Ukraine to provide “leadership” for the group, the Army veteran recruiter said.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/american-nato-military-veterans-fight-russia-with-ukraine

"Waschmaschine im Schleudergang (washing machine on high spin speed)"

@adamdavidson

A thought for all the Deutsche Bank employees who had to work straight through this weekend, figuring out new avenues to launder oligarchic capital.

(And not just DB, but a lot of big banks, law firms, and accounting firms.)

"Assistance to a foreign state during period of special op will be regarded as treason to motherland

Russia's Prosecutor General threatens citizens: "Assistance to a foreign state during the period of a special operation will be regarded as treason to the Motherland."

State TV host Olga Skabeeva spreads this threat.

Putin's well-oiled war machine includes propagandists.

Condi Rice turns tables on Fox News host: NATO 'unites' under Biden the way Trump never could

"We have to make sure that [Putin] really understands that the cost would be extraordinary to try to cross an Article 5 line," Rice replied. "An attack upon one is an attack upon all. And so the Baltic states are indeed protected under that guarantee by the United States of America."

.............

"So what we're doing in reinforcing NATO forces in the Baltics and in Poland -- NATO's eastern flank, if you will -- this is the way to make sure that he knows the costs would be very high," the former secretary of state remarked.

Rice suggested that Biden has been able to "unite" NATO to push back against Putin's alleged war crimes to a degree that former presidents could not.

"It is certainly against every principle of international law and international order, and that's why throwing the book at them now in terms of economic sanctions and punishments is also a part of it," she said. "And I think the world is there. Certainly, NATO is there. He's managed to unite NATO in ways I didn't think I would ever see again after the end of the Cold War."

https://www.rawstory.com/condoleeza-rice/

'I've got morons on my team': Mitt Romney questions Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'IQ' in brutal CNN rant