Wednesday, March 2 Top Stories
It is Wednesday, March 2. Here are today’s top stories.
Cities in Ukraine under attack
Today is the seventh day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was another missile strike that hit another government building in Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine. Videos show firefighters putting out blazes and smoke across the city’s skyline. There were 10 people pulled out of the building. The city has continued to be bombed.
In southern Ukraine, Russian troops have surrounded and seized a city called Kherson. Videos show Russian troops and tanks mobilizing on the streets and some Ukrainian civilians waving Ukrainian flags at them in defiance. The Russian military said they have control of the city. A local Ukrainian official said they hoped for a miracle, but the city is surrounded and that Ukrainian soldiers have pulled out to another city. About 300 people may have been killed in Kherson.
There is a report that hundreds of people were killed in another southern city, Mariupol, after hours of shelling. A Ukrainian soldier said he was completely surrounded with no way out and asked us not to forget them if anything happened.
A Ukrainian government organization said over 2,000 civilians have been killed since the Russian invasion last week.
141 countries voted in favor of a U.N. resolution to condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and demand its complete withdrawal. Five countries voted against the resolution: Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, and Syria. 35 countries, including China, India, and South Africa, abstained from voting.
U.S. President Biden said in his State of the Union address last night that Russian President Putin is more isolated than he has ever been. He honored the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., Vadym Prystaiko. Biden warned that the U.S. would inflict more economic punishments against Russia and that Putin has no idea what’s coming.
A member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Oleksandra Ustinova, said in an interview with “Today” that she thinks that the whole of Ukraine was watching Biden, but that many were disappointed. She said people are being bombed and they need protection in the sky (a no-fly zone). She said her question is on what is the “red line” that Putin has to cross in order for NATO and the U.S. to step in.
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A video from a city near Kyiv showed two Russian warplanes flying in the sky and a bomb exploding near an apartment building. Another video showed that the impacted building was severely damaged.
Elon Musk has sent many devices of his Starlink satellite internet system to Ukraine, which will enable users to connect to the internet without the need for local internet infrastructure. Ukraine’s vice prime minister tweeted an image of a truck with Starlink devices with a thank-you message to Musk.
The International Paralympic Committee decided in a vote that they would allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in the Beijing Winter Paralympics set to open this week. They will have to compete as neutrals, under the Paralympic flag, and any medals they win will not be counted in the official medal table. A Paralympic official said the athletes are “not the aggressors,” but there is controversy because Ukrainian athletes said this is a lack of action that sends the wrong message.
There are concerns that Russia may try to invade Moldova, which lies on Ukraine’s southwestern border. The Belarusian President Lukashenko gave a televised speech in front of his military officials in which he showed a map of Russian troop movements. The map had a red arrow, which means an attack, targeted towards the Moldovanian border. Moldova is not a member of NATO, so if Russia was to invade, it would probably look the same as what they are doing in Ukraine, and the U.S. and NATO may continue to not intervene.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov warned that if World War 3 started, it would involve nuclear weapons. A few days ago Russian President Putin said he would put his nuclear forces on alert. Russia has over 6,000 nuclear warheads, while the U.S. has 5,550. Any statements concerning nuclear weapons is very concerning because the technology today would inflict much more destruction compared with the atomic bombs in Japan during World War II.
That is all the top stories for today. Check out our other videos on “The Daily Moth.” See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://www.axios.com/united-nations-ukraine-russia-141-55872481-a143-4423-9d3d-80450f01c754.html
https://twitter.com/EUatUN/status/1499066567824486402/photo/1
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mariupol-shelling-leaves-hundreds-dead-sergiy-orlov-says
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1498935398998978561