Ukraine turned on Monday to the International Court of Justice at The Hague — the UN's highest court — saying that "Russia must be stopped, and the court has a role in stopping it." Russia boycotted the hearing. https://t.co/HbMFetadVx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 7, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian Pres. Zelenskyy to @DavidMuir on new conditions from Kremlin: Putin needs to "start the dialogue, instead of living in informational bubble without oxygen…He is in this bubble." https://t.co/EPUvsRMUrD pic.twitter.com/XddUVMBTt2
— ABC News (@ABC) March 7, 2022
Peskov just essentially confirmed this, less the PM part of course (screen via @bazabazon ) pic.twitter.com/v9tO3HvVIb
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 7, 2022
🇷🇺Russia cannot sustain its current air losses for any more than a fortnight after at least nine aircraft were shot down in just 24 hours, analysts have said https://t.co/mTkanpZXOB
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 7, 2022
Personal account of horror in Volnavakha & Mariupol — days sheltering from hellish bombardment in freezing basements
— Emma Graham-Harrison (@_EmmaGH) March 7, 2022
“If we had imagined for even a second what was coming, we would have risked trying to escape the very first moment the shelling started"https://t.co/dUFbGl8VZ3
Shame on them https://t.co/blfbjrhn2B
— GerryC76 (@GerryC76) March 7, 2022
Businesses in Ukraine will be exempt from paying taxes for employees who are drafted into the military or serve in the nation’s territorial defense forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced as part of an effort to boost the country’s reeling economy.https://t.co/62Bp6dySe5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 7, 2022
Activists put blue and yellow balloons in the hand of a Lenin statue towering over the small square where the rally took place, and the crowd shouted slogans such as “No to war” and “Putin is a dickhead” while waving Ukrainian flagshttps://t.co/uaugT2AC4Z
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) March 7, 2022
I am now free to tell you that yesterday 4631 Russians were arrested yesterday in 64 cities for opposing Putin’s war. Russian charity OVD calculates 13,028 Russians have now been arrested. pic.twitter.com/Vd4fmPkB75
— alex thomson (@alextomo) March 7, 2022
From @Breakingviews: Russia spent three decades integrating itself into the global economy. The repercussions of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are winding the clock back in a matter of weeks, writes @peter_tl https://t.co/Nj6oexeo2J pic.twitter.com/Xqu3X6ARM9
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 7, 2022
"Russia is now as totalitarian as China — but without the functioning economy, foreign travel and consumer goods that help to keep the Chinese middle class in line"https://t.co/hyGWYFRdyE
— Aidan Regan (@Aidan_Regan) March 7, 2022
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GOP suffers identity crisis over Russia
“President Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine,” which was “desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” said Fiona Hill. https://t.co/eMGurJUs8N
— Jennifer "A man is not a plan" Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) March 7, 2022
When someone says "but Trump was tough on Russia!", here's me yelling at them for you https://t.co/2XR20qHhYR
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 7, 2022
And before I pushed back on the "Trump was tough on Russia" stuff, I explained the difference in the GOP between the crackpots and the opportunists.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 7, 2022
Not that the difference matters to Putin, since both of them help him. https://t.co/oZ4Ta5blB3
A lot of my ledes are maybe mediocre. But I did enjoy this one. “NEW ORLEANS — Former president Donald Trump mused Saturday to the GOP’s top donors that the United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag and “bomb the s–t out of Russia.” https://t.co/v29e4qRan2
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 7, 2022
— Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych (@Nick_Carmody) March 7, 2022
when you hear Republican politicians snipe at Biden on the crisis, remember:
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 7, 2022
the Republican president who left office last year used his term to strengthen Russia's hand and weaken Ukraine's
his party protected him as he did it
he still leads the party https://t.co/HchKLTqfQe
As @mikepompeo runs his mouth bashing President Biden’s widely-praised handling of the Ukraine crisis, do not let people forget POMPEO WAS ON THE CALL when Trump tried to extort Ukrainian President Zelensky. And he didn’t admit it for months.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 6, 2022
TODAY: Fiona Hill recounts the Trump administration’s steps when it came to supporting Ukraine.
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 6, 2022
Hill: “President Trump, at a pretty critical period, withheld military assistance to Ukraine … basically to get Volodymyr Zelenskyy to do him a personal favor.” pic.twitter.com/Zqc0OfEPmk
A point that gets missed b/c we get caught in the details— tfg leveraged something other than weapons, he was bartering with the prestige of the United States. More than anything the newly elected reform president, @ZelenskyyUa, wanted a WH photo op as a signal of a new Ukraine. https://t.co/bBTIUVN31L
— Joanna Lamb Looby 🇺🇸🌎🇺🇦 (@joannalamblooby) March 7, 2022
Remember when you said “I think there are two people Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump”? #GOPtheRussianPartyofTraitors#GOPTraitorsToDemocracy https://t.co/gA8nbIvmL6
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) March 7, 2022
Bitch, please… https://t.co/XO4xi10Kkq
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) March 7, 2022
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Johnson flailing as situation he can’t control spirals
1min 16 seconds: spot the Dupers Delight smirk as he works his lie out: pic.twitter.com/qVXqJdLkuH
— ThisName (@Willdo4now) March 7, 2022
Boris Johnson denies overruling spooks when he got peerage for Russian-born pal https://t.co/nydSLWYXBc
— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) March 7, 2022
Boris Johnson pushed ahead with the nomination of his friend Evgeny Lebedev, the Moscow-born son of an ex-KGB agent and media mogul, after intelligence officials raised concerns https://t.co/csoUqUbZea
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) March 7, 2022
Cleverly also neatly sidestepping the crux of the issue here. As a Lord, Lebedev Jr. has access to HUGE caches of sensitive documents and information from across ALL government departments. His voting record is entirely irrelevant.
— Richard (@ProbablyADick) March 7, 2022
🔴NEW: Boris Johnson has warned that the use of Russian oil and gas cannot be cut off overnight, as he pledged to unveil a new energy strategy in the coming days.
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 7, 2022
Follow the latest updates on our politics liveblog here👇https://t.co/fenToLM2Yg pic.twitter.com/QZvilVZ4iT
Lord Barker, or better known as Oleg Deripaska’s concierge, resigned from Deripaska’s company today. His previous work got Deripaska’s company off US sanctions list for which he was paid millions. Wonder if he plans to donate that to Ukrainian relief https://t.co/vcDnYMx7Y5
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) March 7, 2022
UK rejects opening borders to Ukraine refugees https://t.co/0l2JpcaIgH pic.twitter.com/3J8hK3whVw
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 7, 2022
Wow… this is…. quite something. 🤯
— Anna Turley 🌹🐝💙🇺🇦 (@annaturley) March 7, 2022
This organisation which advocated a hard Brexit now wants to exploit a humanitarian crisis and access the Ukrainian workforce to ease the labour shortage it created… https://t.co/GkCp8rMf67
and…
It's a little known fact that Gardaí are all trained to stop trucks with their bare hands like the Hulk or something. https://t.co/MJmU6HEZdR
— Elaine Crory (@ElaineCrory) March 7, 2022
The last two sentences… pic.twitter.com/nIo5hprb9s
— Peter Parker. (@NordieIreland) March 7, 2022
The Overnight Note 