(2022-02-26). "The US has been at war the entirety of our lives"—Students in the US denounce warmongering against Russia. wsws.org A high school student said: "It's pretty horrifying. The Cold War was called the Cold War because we didn't actually physically fight Russia. Now we're back to the threat of nuclear war; it seems almost unprecedented, the way that we're aggravating Russia."
(2022-02-26). Russia, Ukraine in 'Consultations' on Venue and Time for Negotiations. news.antiwar.com Ukraine and Russia Earlier in the day,
(2022-02-26). Ukraine may discuss neutral status, security guarantees with Russia – Zelensky's office. tass.com "It will be, first of all, a detailed conversation about peace and ceasefire," Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian leader's chief of staff said…
(2022-02-26). Russian Forces Have Destroyed 821 Ukrainian Military Targets, MoD Says. sputniknews.com On February 24, Russia announced a special military operation in order to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) from the Ukrainian forces. As part of the operation, the Russian military will also "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine.
(2022-02-26). Russian Envoy to UN Says Nationalists in Ukraine Using Civilians as Human Shields. sputniknews.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said nationalists in Ukraine are using civilians as human shields.
(2022-02-26). White House Asks Congress for $6.4 Billion for Ukraine Crisis. news.antiwar.com On Friday, the White House asked Congress for $6.4 billion for military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and to help US allies in Europe to bolster their security in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine. | "In a recent conversation wit…
(2022-02-26). Kiev must contain nationalists if it wants dialogue – LPR leader. tass.com Ukrainian presidential press secretary Sergey Nikoforov said earlier that President Vladimir Zelensky has accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal and is ready to negotiate peace and a ceasefire…
(2022-02-26). Russian troops welcomed with flags in Ukraine's Melitopol. tass.com The Russian Defense Ministry reassured that Russian troops are not targeting Ukrainian cities, but are limited to surgically striking and incapacitating Ukrainian military infrastructure…
(2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: No War in Ukraine! International Emergency Online Rally. indybay.org Online via Zoom…
(2022-02-26). NATO mobilizes troops as UK MPs, US congressmen call for air war against Russia. wsws.org Three days into the war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict is showing dangerous signs of spiraling into a much wider war.
(2022-02-26). Berlin antiwar rally exposes Washington's lies. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto February 25, 2022 Despite gale warnings, the Berlin Peace Coordination drew a thousand people to a Feb. 18 antiwar rally on the Platz des 18. Mà§rz at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, under the slogans "Stop the media warmongering and NATO aggression policy" and "Disarmament and peace with Russia." Among the participants were members of the Left Party, the German Communist Party and the Friends of Nature. Left Party representative in Bundestag, Sevim Dagdelen, at Feb. 18 antiwar rally. Friko (Peace Coordination) Left Party member of the Bundestag, Sevim Dagdelen, to the cheers of the crowd…
(2022-02-26). Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Exposes CNN Hypocrisy during Press Conference. orinocotribune.com Russian authorities have to constantly counter media manipulation when it comes to the current crisis in Ukraine and the Donbas. On Friday, February 25, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov exposed the hypocrisy of Western media in response to a CNN journalist during a video press conference. | During the conference, Minister Lavrov responded to a question by a CNN journalist and demonstrated the hypocrisy with which Western journalists have handled the Ukraine crisis and their supposed concern for the people of Ukraine and the Donbas. In the last eight years, as over 14,000 people in the Donbas died fr…
(2022-02-26). Venezuela Criticizes NATO Attitude towards Ukraine Situation (Communiqué). orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 25, 2022 (
(2022-02-26). NATO's Encirclement of Russia Threatens Peace, Warns Venezuela. telesurenglish.net We reject NATO's determination to persecute, encircle, encircle and threaten the tranquillity and peace of the entire region," the minister said. | NATO, he stressed, has sought a conflict with Moscow with a dynamic "similar to the Cold War-era." | DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION | Far from providing solutions for peace, Plasencia said, NATO has become a "warlike forum". | RELATED: | Given this, the Venezuelan minister stressed that h…
(2022-02-26). Ukraine border: German troops to join NATO battle group in Slovakia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ReutersFebruary 25, 2022 Germany to send company of troops to Slovakia to join new NATO battlegroup Germany will send a company of troops to Slovakia that will build part of a new NATO battlegroup to be established there, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Friday. "We are working on quickly sending a company to …
(2022-02-26). Video: U.S. attack helicopters arrive in Latvia. NATO Response Force activated. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com
(2022-02-26). NATO Countries Have Supplied Weapons to Ukraine (Report). orinocotribune.com As the Russian military operation in Ukraine has neutralized most of the Ukrainian defense system, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, lamented that they have been left "on their own" despite the support of some nations. He now sees no guarantee of Ukraine finally joining NATO. | The Ukrainian president's speech seems directed at the position taken by the United States and the European Union, since neither of the two has expressed any disposition to a military confrontation with Russia. Both the EU and the US, as well as the UK, have only limited their scope of action to the application of "tough sancti…
(2022-02-26). NATO, Hungary prepare for engagement with Russian forces on Ukrainian border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily News HungaryFebruary 25, 2022 Servicemen in East Hungary undertaking humanitarian, military tasks Hungarian servicemen deployed in the east of the country are carrying out both humanitarian and military tasks, Defence Minister Tibor Benk≈ë said on Friday…. The minister said Hungary and NATO had plans in place in the event that the fighting would spread …
(2022-02-26). US-NATO war threats against Russia heighten geopolitical crisis in South Asia. wsws.org The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on India—which Washington has successfully harnessed to its campaign targeting China—to line up full-square behind the war drive against Moscow.
(2022-02-26). France agrees to withdraw troops from Mali. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel February 25, 2022 President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that French troops will be pulling out of their bases in Gossi, Menaka and Gao, which are all in eastern Mali, near the three-border area with Niger and Burkina Faso. Local communities sent support and trucks to help move people and their belongings out of the beleaguered Tessit region. He made this announcement before a summit between the European Union and the African Union, Feb. 17 in Brussels. "We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities, whose strategy and hidden aims we do not share," Macron said, referring t…
(2022-02-26). Whenever There's Militants, There's Turkey. journal-neo.org 
Turkey has recently been receiving a considerable amount of attention in the publications of various media outlets. However, much of the reporting revolves around the attitude of Ankara and the Turkish president himself towards various armed conflicts, where Turkey still plays a major role. One example of this is the Turkish leader's offer to mediate …
(2022-02-26). Canada imposes "severe" sanctions on Russia, puts 3,400 troops on stand-by for deployment to Europe. wsws.org From within Canada's political establishment, including the ostensibly "left" NDP, the only criticism of the Trudeau government's belligerence and war preparations against Russia is that the measures do not go far enough.
(2022-02-26). Peace Policy Instead of Escalation. indybay.org We call on the peace movement and all people interested in peace in Europe to participate in public actions, information booths, vigils, demonstrations and initiatives for these demands. | to stop the march into the abyss.
(2022-02-26). Russian Space Agency Suspends Cooperation With Europe on Launches in Kourou Spaceport. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian space agency Roscosmos is suspending cooperation with Europe on launches from the Kourou cosmodrome and is recalling its employees from French Guiana in response to sanctions imposed by the European Union, the head of the agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Saturday.
(2022-02-26). Defend the independence of Ukraine! Moscow out now! themilitant.com 
Russian President Vladimir Putin Feb. 21 declared that the Moscow-backed "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk set up in Ukraine in 2014 were independent countries and ordered Russian troops to go in as "peacekeepers." The Kremlin's invasion is backed by the largest military mobilization on the European continent since World War II. | "The Socialist Workers Party demands Moscow pull its tanks and troops out of Ukraine and respect the sovereignty of Ukraine," Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party leader and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey, told the press the next day. "Sin…
(2022-02-26). Herd immunity in Northern Ireland: "My family has been torn apart" wsws.org "The moneymen in government don't care how many families suffer, as long as profits keep rolling and the economy is booming."
(2022-02-26). Declaración del PSL sobre la intervención militar de Rusia en Ucrania. liberationnews.org 
La operación militar rusa en Ucrania pone de manifiesto que el mundo ha llegado a una peligrosa bifurcación.
(2022-02-26). REC Approves 12 Applications For Product Placement in Pavilions Abroad. sputniknews.com The meeting of the Expert Commission of the Russian Export Centre (part of VEB.RF) for the selection of applications from organisations for exhibiting agricultural products in pavilions abroad was held on 25 February, where applications from 12 companies were approved.
(2022-02-26). Russia Blames Ukraine for Missile That Hit Building in Kiev. telesurenglish.net While media and social media reports attributed the attack to the Russian military, after assessing the damage to the infrastructure, it was found that it was hit by a Ukrainian projectile, when Ukraine was trying to repel a night attack. | Apartment building damaged after being hit by a missile, Kiev, Ukraine. Feb. 26, 2022.
(2022-02-26). The campaign against Russian conductor Valery Gergiev: Middle-class hysteria in the service of war. wsws.org The announcement by New York City's Carnegie Hall that Gergiev would no longer be conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on Friday is the product of war fever whipped up by the US government with the help of the pliant capitalist press.
(2022-02-26). Russia vetoes UN Security Council resolution that condemns its operation in Ukraine. tass.com The draft resolution was supported by 11 countries while China, India and the UAE abstained…
(2022-02-26). Australia announces Ukraine military aid and condemns China. wsws.org The political establishment is doing everything it can to assist the Biden administration in exploiting Moscow's reactionary military operation to escalate the underlying US-led offensive against Russia and China.
(2022-02-26). Russophobia in US Nears Cold War Levels, With 80% Seeing Moscow as Enemy – Poll. sputniknews.com In 2017, the White House and Pentagon outlined a new US global strategy, shifting away from the War on Terror and toward what they called "great power competition" with Russia and China. The documents accused Moscow and Beijing of trying to rewrite the US-centered post-Cold War international order.
(2022-02-26). German workers speak out on war in Ukraine: "The only war we need is the war against the Coronavirus!" wsws.org "Russians and Ukrainians have a common history. The vast majority of people certainly do not want a war, which at most will benefit the gas and oil magnates in West and East, the billionaires, arms dealers and oligarchs."
(2022-02-26). LIVE: Russia To Reciprocate Sanctions Imposed by West. telesurenglish.net 18: 30 EST Update: | Russia To Reciprocate Sanctions Imposed by West | The Russian Federation announced that they plan to reciprocate and evaluate bilateral relations with those countries imposing measures on them. | 17: 30 EST Update: | West to Disconnect Russian Banks From S.W.I.F.T. System | Western Leaders of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada held discussions to issue the of Russia from S.W.I.F.T. interbank system. The decison to disconnect was agreed upon later this Saturday. | The German government announced that all Russian banks already subjected to Western sanctions will be excluded from S…
(2022-02-26). Hundreds of Anti-War Protesters Have Been Arrested Across Russia. truthout.org 
Hundreds of anti-war protesters were detained in Russia on Friday following over 1,800 The independent monitoring group OVD-Info…
(2022-02-26). Ukraine and Russia May Discuss Ceasefire and Neutral Status. telesurenglish.net Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, has stated that Ukraine may discuss with Russia a ceasefire and a neutral status, along with a package of security guarantees, local media reported on Saturday. | RELATED: | "It will be, foremost, a detailed conversation about peace and a ceasefire. A neutral status with a clear package of security guarantees is an option that will probably also be on the table," the…
(2022-02-26). Beijing Calls Russia's Security Concerns Legitimate. telesurenglish.net China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, who abstained during the vote on the draft resolution condemning Russia's military operation in Ukraine, called Russia's security concerns legitimate. | The United Nations Security Council votes on a draft resolution on Ukraine at the UN headquarters in New York, on Feb. 25, 2022.
(2022-02-26). Press Release on Ukraine Hostilities by Roots Action. indybay.org The following statement was released by RootsAction.org at 1 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, February 24:…
(2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: United Fronts, The Working Class & The War In Ukraine- How To Defend Working People. indybay.org To join the panel: | us02web.zoom.us/j/81903904446?pwd=bG5XR0JjU2V4YnpvemFBVThMRjVRUT09…