I feel sick. I never imagined the world would hesitate to stop another genocide. We're watching it, seeing the blood & death on the very Bloodlands we said never again about. I'm sick hearing of "Russia's military objectives." Putin has NO RIGHT TO MILITARY OBJECTIVES in UKRAINE!
“Last year, a top-secret memo sent to every C.I.A. station around the world, warned about troubling numbers of informants being captured or killed”
Trump Inquiry Fueled in Part by Concern Over Human Intelligence Sources in Documents Trump Improperly Took
⚡️Extraordinary >> President
@ZelenskyyUa
held a press conference in a subway station in Kyiv🇺🇦 before a sea (a tunnel?) of journalists.
Asked whether he's afraid Russians will kill him, Zelensky says, "I don't have any right to be afraid. Because our people aren't afraid."
@elonmusk
🧐“Khrushchev’s mistake”?? Crimea doesn’t belong to Russia. It did belong to the Russian Empire, which (checks notes) hasn’t been a thing for centuries now. If Mr. Musk would like to learn history instead of propaganda, he can take
@TimothyDSnyder
’s class on Ukraine. It’s free.
Alice: I don't know how you can be Catholic and not support unborn life.
🔥🎯Ana: Because I'm Catholic AND American. And there are many Americans who aren't Catholic or even Christian. And you have no damn right to tell them what they should do with their bodies. Nobody does.
I don't know what's worse: Harvard law grad Pompeo claiming Barr's DOJ would decide legality of Trump delaying the election, or West Point grad Pompeo lying about having "fought" in East Germany.
Steve Bannon is a global criminal. He’s incited 2 insurrections now. I hope
#Brazil
prosecutes and sanctions him. It’s insane that he’s not yet in prison serving his criminal sentence for obstructing the
#Jan6
coup investigation.
Bannon is attempting to instigate a coup in Brazil. Eduardo Bolsonaro puts out a video of Steve Bannon this morning, where Bannon tells them their election was stolen and praises people protesting in the streets: “It’s going to be very interesting to see how that plays out.”
💔❗️Drone video shows Ukrainian father with hands raised being shot by Russian troops. Maksym Iovenko got out of his car and was immediately shot. His wife Ksenia was also shot and killed. Their 6-year-old son was in the car. 😰
#RussianWarCrimesInUkraine
.
@SeanPenn
on meeting Pres. Zelensky: I don't know if he knew that he was born for this. But it was clear I was in the presence of something new to the modern world…his courage & dignity & love. I was endlessly impressed and moved by him and the people of Ukraine, and terrified.
I hope NATO is preparing. Putin's not going to stop killing Ukrainians & not going to stop at Ukraine. Because the threat he wants to obliterate is democracy—not just at Russia's door (hello Baltics) but anywhere. As long as democracy inspires Russians, Putin will try to kill it.
“Ukrainians have plenty of courage, but not enough weapons. NATO has plenty of weapons, but not enough courage.”—
@Kasparov63
nails it, right through the heart.
.
@Kasparov63
: "Ukrainians are not scared of anything now. President
@ZelenskyyUa
and Ukrainians--they have plenty of courage, but they don't have enough weapons. NATO has plenty of weapons, but not enough courage."
🔥
@Acosta
: Trump invoked the 1807 Insurrection Act—an extraordinary use of military force—to clear out peaceful protesters at the White House, so he could walk with aides to St John's Church. He mobilized US military for the first time in 200 years—for a photo op. Extraordinary.
@ForeverEversley
@LaurenWern
Musk left after Drew Harwell asked him how banning journalists who linked to his flights differed from blocking links to the Hunter Biden story. He couldn’t answer & instead repeated that doxxing gets you banned. Which they didn’t do anyway. Musk defamed those journalists.
Lviv🇺🇦 Mayor: Russia today is a Nazi country. Putin can't be trusted. He must leave office. Not just Putin. There are 200,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine, killing & raping. This is what the Nazis did in WW2. Anyone cooperating w/ Russia must realize they are cooperating w/ Nazis.
🇺🇦
#Kyiv
mom to midterm voters: I know high prices are hard. When your son says to you in a bomb shelter, "Mom—why are they shooting us? I don't want to die. I want to live," that's hard. I know you're not very comfortable abt economic issues. Believe me, it's not the worst thing.
How could this be happening in 2022?? How can the entire world let Putin invade Ukraine—an independent country for 30 years?! I understand that NATO isn't obligated to defend Ukraine. But it's not prevented from doing it either. Esp since Putin threatens us all. It won't end here
Many Russians know what’s happening. This 92yo woman says TV has brainwashed Russians to hate the West, support Putin & act like animals in Ukraine. Asked why she’s not brainwashed, she says, “I’ve lived thru 4 wars. I can think critically & analyze.”
CNN: What does Russia gain by bombing hospitals?
CLARK: It's a terror campaign against a civilian population. Intimidates medical personnel. Keeps wounded ppl from going to hospital. Runs out int'l aid orgs who might be in those hospitals. It's pure terror. Absolutely a war crime
Dear
@CNN
: We are grateful for your tremendous reporting on Russia's war on Ukraine. But please stop calling Ukrainian territory "contested." Putin's 2022 invasion has unmasked the myth of home-grown separatism. Donetsk & other areas of E Ukraine are invaded, occupied territory.
Oops! Giuliani: "I know collusion's not a crime, right? It was over with by the time of the election." Really. Rudy just admitted the Trump campaign's conspiracy with Russia EXISTED AND ENDED before the election.
#MAGA
#ThisWeek
#Mueller
#TrumpRussia
Whoa. Is this the Mother Russia of all MotherLodes? Is this why
#MoscowMitch
got so under McConnell's skin?? Along with other prominent Republicans, Mitch has been using a subpoena-resistant (Yandex?) email server in Russia. Does this also mean Putin has major GOP kompromat??
#Mariupol
🇺🇦 Pastor Gennady Mokhnenko: Mariupol was one of the best cities in my country. In the last 8 years, my city remodeled & built so many beautiful places. It's all garbage now. My city looks like a huge cemetery. People's bodies are everywhere. 20-40,000 people are dead.
🚨🚨CNN Spots Russia's Heavy Flamethrower Near Ukraine
Confirming numerous reports of a truly horrific Russian weapon that shoots thermobaric warhead rockets. "They set the air on fire, suck the air out & cause people's lungs to collapse,"
@fpleitgenCNN
tells
@Acosta
@juliettekayyem
You're right to notice that "shooting" is sanitary. We used to say "gunman," now it's "shooter"—literally deleting the "gun" from gun massacres. It's a rhetorical shift likely purposeful by gun lobby propagandists to distance from the reality of the violence inherent in weapons.
🎯Jim
@Acosta
: The "Disinformation Industrial Complex"—Foxnews, conservative platforms—put Trump in power, kept him in power, sustained his grip on GOP. Disinfo media is a toxin that remains a threat to our democracy. It's THE reason Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan 6.
❗️Der Spiegel reporter Christopher Reuter describes occupation of Trostyanets🇺🇦: Russian troops ran out of food rations & started looting. Became very aggressive & paranoid, turned into a murderous horde, abducting & torturing & killing civilians in basement of train station.
🔥
@RepKinzinger
: We've been used to as Americans being blessed to have risk-free choices. We don't have risk-free choices right now.
#NoFlyZone
is scary. But Putin's war crimes are going to force us to intervene sooner or later. This is the cleanest way to save Ukrainians' lives.
🇺🇦🇺🇸1:35 Zelensky wiped away a tear, watching Biden go down the row of Ukrainian officials, shaking each one's hand. The US President in Kyiv—an active war zone. A huge show of support, faith & trust. On a BIG day—
#PresidentsDay
& Feb 20—9 yrs since
#Euromaidan
🕯It's overwhelming
@CNN
@jimsciutto
CNN: Are you saying Russian forces used the ceasefire as a ruse to target more civilians?
Mariupol Mayor: I'm absolutely sure. They got information where the (evacuation) buses are & started hitting the bus depot. Y'day I said we have a humanitarian crisis. Today it's genocide.
❗️
#Mariupol
Deputy Mayor just told
@CNN
@jimsciutto
that
#Russia
used the ceasefire "to kill as many citizens of Mariupol as possible." 2000 prepared to go to 3 evacuation pts, and Russian troops started shelling those areas with "everything they had"—bombs, rockets & artillery.
.
@McFaul
: It is very mysterious why all 3 Russian intel chiefs came to US, esp when one is sanctioned. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to organize that meeting. We don't know the agenda. GRU are the guys that stole the DNC data and had a massive affect on our election.
#maddow
Senator Richard Burr nails it re the gravity of Russia's information warfare/ongoing political interference: "Some feel that we as a society are sitting in a burning room, calmly drinking a cup of coffee, telling ourselves 'this is fine.' That's not fine."
🔥🔥Fanone to
@Acosta
: Donald Trump declared war on the U.S. on January 6. Not figuratively. Literally. He assembled an army of supporters & sent them to the Capitol. The expectation that he would intervene in what he set in motion is wrong. We need to rethink how we look at 1/6.
@Acosta
🔥Fanone: Indifference will destroy the country. Trump has supporters. But the vast majority of Americans are indifferent—to the pain & suffering he caused other Americans. Indifferent to the experience of law enforcement on 1/6. Indifferent to those who don't hold their beliefs.
🔥🙏
@AshaRangappa_
: We need an investigation of the FBI & Secret Service. It's not out of the realm of possibility that ppl at the top were complicit.
Shocking that SS were made aware 10days before 1/6 & didn't act on it. To have that much info & not act is a deliberate failure.
❗️
#Mariupol
Deputy Mayor just told
@CNN
@jimsciutto
that
#Russia
used the ceasefire "to kill as many citizens of Mariupol as possible." 2000 prepared to go to 3 evacuation pts, and Russian troops started shelling those areas with "everything they had"—bombs, rockets & artillery.
@elonmusk
@MarioNawfal
Elon Musk might've been a hero. Instead we're left to wonder how many lives were shattered & lost b/c he presumptuously interfered & stopped Ukraine from bruising the Russian fleet that terrorizes, kills & maims innocents w/cruise missiles meant for destroying aircraft carriers.
Is he kidding?
@speakerjohnson
says he Stands with Ukraine BUT demands “clarity and detail” on how Ukraine plans to win. This is ridiculous. There’s plenty oversight. Do MAGA Republicans want secret war plans too? Wouldn’t Putin just love that.
Did DeJoy pull a Trump & simply lie that he halted USPS changes?? Mail sorting equipment is STILL being dismantled & destroyed in Michigan.
I’m old enough to remember Trump sending armed federal forces to Portland claiming federal property needed protection from destruction.
#BREAKING
Speaker Pelosi calls for “immediate”
#sanctions
on
#Russia
over bounties on US troops. She says Trump taking the intel so lightly, calling it a hoax, failing to read his daily brief, is “a dereliction of duty” and he’s “unfit” as Commander in Chief.
#AmericaOrTrump
@KatrinaPierson
@IlhanMN
.
@KatrinaPierson
is peddling disinformation to attack an American congresswoman. This is a 4-yr-old video from Russia’s war on Ukraine, NOT Gaza rockets into Israel.
@DustinGiebel
told you it was fake hours ago. Who sent this to you anyway? Or do you have a direct line to Moscow?
@CNN
@jimsciutto
CNN: How many people have been killed in
#Mariupol
?
Mayor: We don't know. We cannot collect all the bodies on the street. People are tired & afraid. We face a genocide & war crimes. Putin is killing more people every second in Mariupol. I don't know if my own family is alive.
@elonmusk
@neontaster
Why would you say that?? Are you so obtuse that you can’t even recognize authentic people? “Elon Musk” once evoked vision & progress. But you’re as narrow-minded & mean as the criminals & creeps you seem so happy to coddle. Have some respect.
@AVindman
is a genuine hero.
Great
@NatashaBertrand
reporting about how GOP broke historic House Intel Cmte for Trump. Nunes' own staff shocked by his antics; Trump & Nunes "talking all the time"; Nunes helped staff WH; AND Stone never gave Cmte that email about his dinner w/ Assange.
Why is Russia so obsessed w/
#Bakhmut
? Its salt deposits are huge & pure.
Donbas? The world's largest reserves of titanium, iron ore, lithium, massive coal deposits—worth TRILLION$.
Russia's thieving kleptocrats commit genocide to steal Ukraine's territory & natural resources.
🔥
@FrankFigliuzzi1
: Don’t be surprised if FBI counter-intelligence div is looking at that (Deripaska) aluminum factory deal in Kentucky. Why does McConnell for years just not want to hear the truth abt Russia? It just begs the Q: Is there a flow of money? Is there a compromise??
The depravity is something. Pence aide sent
#Eastman
an email during the riot telling him they were under siege, and Eastman responded by blaming Pence and *mocking* the attack, putting "siege" in quotes.
“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary…"
@elonmusk
@MarioNawfal
"all the way to Sevastopol"—as if that's crazy aggressive. Maybe Musk doesn't know: Ukraine Navy HQ was there for decades before Russia's aggression breaking laws, treaties, & its own contract by invading & annexing Crimea. Crime of the century before its bigger crime in 2022.
🔥
@sarahkendzior
: Purged agencies, packed courts, govt above the law, kleptocracy, embrace of using military against citizens. Dems, FBI, Mueller—no one is checking Trump's autocratic abuses of power—which will go on w/ incredible consequences until ppl do
🔥
@Dkaleniuk
: The world is betraying Ukraine, esp. wealthy Western nations. They told us to build rule of law, build democracy. But when Ukraine is being executed before the eyes of the entire world for building democracy, they say, Sorry, we can't protect you from Russian bombs.
Fun Fact: Moscow's Crocus City Hall is where Trump held the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant. The venue is owned by Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, a go-between for the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians seeking to help Trump win the 2016 election. It's in the Mueller Report.
@shaneharris
@samueloakford
Maybe military bases can now finally turn off
@Foxnews
, brainwashing and radicalizing Americans to betray their own country with toxic racist and fascist propaganda.
🔥"Welcome to the White House Twilight Zone"—
@Acosta
delivers today's best report on Sore Loser-in-Chief's state of denial: Trump clings to an alternate reality where he can still win the election he lost to Biden, as friends talk him into surrendering like "hostage negotiators."
.
@Acosta
: "President Trump is pretending he still has a chance to still win the 2020 election, but that's not true. Just a short while ago in the Rose Garden the president took no questions and appeared to come out in front of the cameras to sooth his damaged ego."
@AdamSerwer
@JoshuaPotash
It’s worse. Trump’s giving license to others—vigilantes, militias, hate groups, angry mobs—to unleash violence against protesters. He is a cowardly arsonist. He lights the match, then encourages proxies to do the burning. In Tulsa. On Juneteenth weekend. He is a monster.
A pleasure to watch Russian TV—for a change! They're finally acknowledging that a genocidal war probably wasn't the best way to win Ukrainian hearts & minds.
Love the blaming of "эти люди" ("those ppl")—as if Putin himself isn't the mastermind of Russia's catastrophe in Ukraine.
Life comes at you fast: pundits on Russian TV realize that their military is failing and their country is in trouble. They are starting to play the blame game. Some of them finally understand that their genocidal denial of the Ukrainian identity isn't working in Russia's favor.
@ZelenskyyUa
The contrast between Zelensky & Putin epitomizes the difference between Ukraine & Russia. Zelensky is young, open, intimate, empathetic, brave, forward-looking, democratic. Putin is old, distant, paranoid, devious, mean, cynical, mendacious, fake, stuck in the past, autocratic.
⚡️Extraordinary >> President
@ZelenskyyUa
held a press conference in a subway station in Kyiv🇺🇦 before a sea (a tunnel?) of journalists.
Asked whether he's afraid Russians will kill him, Zelensky says, "I don't have any right to be afraid. Because our people aren't afraid."
Republicans skewered
@HillaryClinton
for having a server in NEW YORK. And McConnell had one in RUSSIA?? And Ben Carson? Whose campaign Papadopoulos came on board before Trump? I really look forward to some good investigative digging into this potential bombshell from
@VickerySec
🎯
@AshaRangappa_
nails it: For 3 years we've heard that opposition research can't form the basis of investigations. Yet that's exactly what Giuliani & Barr are doing—to investigate Biden.
More evidence of GOP using the rule of law as sword & shield, as in authoritarian regimes.
Biden:
#Navalny
should be released immediately w/o conditions. His rights under the Russian constitution have been violated. He's been targeted for exposing corruption in
#Russia
.
President Biden is delivering his first major foreign policy speech at the State Dept right now.
It's not just Trump. The Kremlin knows every US congressman's weaknesses: McClatchy publishes report of Rand Paul using PAC money for living the high life. Russian Ambassador mentions casually on Russian TV that he dines with Paul. h/t
@lawrence
@CREWcrew
She Predicted the
#Coronavirus
, the devastation, the sloppy & sluggish responses. What she never foresaw—or even imagined—was that the paragon of sloppiness & sluggishness would be the US.
@Laurie_Garrett
calls Trump “the most incompetent foolhardy buffoon”
After 2 genocides & 2 world wars in Ukraine, you'd think we would've learned. Ukraine is an independent country—for 30yrs! Yet Ukrainians are being slaughtered by a vengeful thug whose incompetent army we hope'll peter out soon. Really? Fear & failure will haunt & weaken us more.
No guys. Russia is weak rn & this will strengthen them. A ceasefire now will give a terrorist regime time to regroup.
Your intentions may be good, but if you’re talking about nuclear war, you’ve fallen for Russian propaganda. Putin amped his influence campaign & you waltzed in.
NEW: 30 members of Congress are urging President Biden to pursue direct diplomacy for a negotiated settlement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The letter recognizes the difficulties involved in engaging Russia given its illegal invasion — but make the case that now is the time 🧵
@kimmasters
Well, we do know Giuliani was calling Senators asking them to delay certification. Is that why Mike Lee was trying to distance himself from those calls? Do we know who else was called on Jan 6?
@EliseStefanik
You mean this guy? Trump “leaked” it.
And your statement is ridiculously full of absurd lies & smears. And spare us your sudden “Third World dictatorship” freakout over arresting a presidential candidate when your presidential candidate got elected chanting “lock her up.”
💥HUNTER BIDEN: For 6 yrs MAGA Republicans…impugned my character, invaded my privacy, attacked my wife, children, family & friends. They ridiculed my struggle w/addiction, belittled my recovery…tried to dehumanize me—all to embarrass & damage my father who's devoted his entire…
Hunter Biden: "I'm here today to make sure the House committee's illegitimate investigations of my family do not proceed on distortions, manipulated evidence, & lies. I'm here today to acknowledge I have made mistakes in my life & wasted opportunities...for that I am responsible"
➡️
@Acosta
on Trump's return to public rallies: As long as Donald Trump's on the road spreading lies, stoking hostility & hatred, and suffers no consequences for the dangerous things he says & incites, there's a very strong chance we'll see more political violence in this country.
🔥
@Acosta
: I know it's cold in Moscow, but they could open the windows & see the protests… People leaving flowers, Ukrainian flags, locked arms, chanting. That's quite stunning to see in Russia. Police had to drag them off the street, dragging grandmothers & teenagers.
💥Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine. CNN identified 11 Smerch rocket strikes on residential
#Kharkiv
🇺🇦 launched by rocket artillery brigade led by Col.Gen Alexander ZHURAVLYOV in Belgorod🇷🇺—war crimes under int'l law.
CNN outs Trump’s lie right in the chyron👏🏻
Pres. Trump Tweet On Night of Filings: “Totally Clears the President” —(Keeping Them Honest: It Doesn’t)
@Acosta
: To say the Pres. is in the clear just isn’t dealing in reality, given today’s court filings in Manafort & Cohen matters.
🔥
@Yatsenyuk_AP
: We shouldn't give an inch of Ukrainian territory to Russia. We made "neutrality" the law in 2013. And what happened? Putin annexed Crimea, sent his proxies & military to Donetsk & Luhansk. Those land-grabs were int' crimes. We already paid a price for neutrality.
🔥CONFIRMED:
#Ukraine
’s prosecutor Lutsenko DID investigate Biden’s son at GIULIANI’s request. He found NOTHING—no crimes, no corruption. Dissatisfied, TRUMP wanted Zelensky to REOPEN closed investigations. Endangering Ukraine’s ability to fight off Russia.
Bravo to this mother in Russia, taking down the "Z" symbols of Putin's war in Ukraine that are in her child's kindergarten classroom in Tula. The teacher tells the mom not to insult a symbol of the Russian government. The mom retorts, the symbol insults the kindergarten.
⚡️ In the kindergarten in Tula (Russia) the conflict was held between the teachers and the mother. The reason is - the symbols "Z" pasted on the windows.
Ukrainian tennis star tells
@Acosta
the resistance we see in Ukrainians protecting their country & confronting Russian invaders demonstrates Ukrainians are NOT the same as Russians. "Ukrainians have a completely different mentality—a free people who want to be governed not ruled"
🚨Russian filtration camps are simply torture centers.
"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell & choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth"
"A plastic bag was put on her head…her hands were tied. Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter"
Stories of Ukrainians from
#Mariupol
who survived Russian captivity and spent in Russian filtration camps.
Threats, torture, bullying, "re-education"...
These stories are painful to read.
🔥
@Kasparov63
: Putin breaks every promise. No one should be surprised
#Mariupol
ceasefire violated. Ceasefires for Putin are opportunities to advance further. His goal is to destroy
#Ukraine
, bomb cities & civilians.
@NATO
refusing a no-fly zone is an open invitation to proceed.
🚨Teenager Lucca Swinson posted Teixeira's classified documents on the wider internet. Swinson likes Russia, listens to DNR militia music, posted pic of Wagner executing Ukrainian soldier, tried to buy Wagner patches.
🚨Russia is subverting US children & Republicans are helping.
"The Discord group member who distributed the documents was a California teenager named Lucca Swinson.
"He appears to have nursed an interest in the continuing war in Ukraine and the activities of Russian troops."
@elonmusk
🤦🏻♀️ What a comedian. Or should I say clown. Now Elon Musk is calling the
@nytimes
“Fake News.” What is wrong with these people who want to own the libs but can’t own their own mistakes?
@clarissaward
It's ever so soft. But you can hear an elderly woman say, through her distress, "Spasibo Vam" — "Thank You" — to
@clarissaward
, in this oh so heart-wrenching report from
#Kyiv
,
#Ukraine
, where
#Russia
's assault is devastating & terrorizing people in a completely indefensible war.
Normal is so powerful: "We can save 10s of 1000s of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months. Not Democrat or Republican lives—AMERICAN lives…Mask-wearing isn't to take something away from you. It's to give something back to all of us—A normal life"—Biden
Biden: "The single most effective thing we can do to stop the spread of Covid is wear a mask. The head of the CDC warned this fall & for the foreseeable future, a mask remains the most potent weapon against the virus...do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement"
@elonmusk
Welp. Elon Musk goes full Orwell, claiming absurdly that Democrats are the party of hate & division—days after a right-wing racist massacre. Musk is proof that even smart people get sucked into the right-wing disinformation world. Esp. if you’re a self-centered aggrieved misfit.
"Biden & Obama stopped their testing ... I'm sure you don't want to report it" - Trump absurdly tries to blame Obama for problems w/ testing for Covid-19, which didn't exist until nearly 3 years after he left office. He then falsely suggests the 1918 flu pandemic started in 1917.
Hard to understate how extraordinary this was. Speaker of the House & Senate Leader beg for law enforcement help from the executive branch, Trump's AG. Pelosi called nearby governors of MD & VA, & DC mayor too. All while Trump did nothing, intending violence to keep him in power.
an angry Schumer during a call from a secure location with acting AG Rosen on January 6: "Why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. attorney general, in your law enforcement responsibility."
🚨
#Odesa
🇺🇦 was struck by a cruise missile from a Russian submarine, CNN reports.
Quite a first. Who could’ve ever thought Russia would attack beloved
#Odessa
w/ missiles? It’s so dystopian, it could be fiction by a Odessan novelist, but it will be more shameful Russian history.
🔥One of the through-lines of the Trump presidency is his unwillingness to take on Vladimir Putin. This strange deformity started in the 2016 campaign & it's now lasted thru the transition to Biden—Jim
@Acosta
on Trump's stunning silence on Russia's massive cyberattack on the US.
For a century Russia concealed and denied using mass starvation as a weapon of genocide against Ukrainians. Now they advocate it openly on national TV.
Russian lawmakers Andrey Gurulyov and Konstantin Dolgov advocate freezing, starving the Ukrainian civilian population, forcing them into exile by making their survival otherwise impossible. State TV host Olga Skabeeva disingenuously claims that Russia simply has no other choice.