“What are you fighting for and with whom?” What the Western press writes about the Russian invasion of Ukraine
On Thursday, the first weeks of the world press are devoted to military actions that Russia is considering against Ukraine. Some of the headlines are: “Russia attacked Ukraine” (New York Times), “U.S. vows to hold Russia accountable for attack on Ukraine” (Washington Post), “World community condemns Russian aggression” (Le Monde), “Russia attacks Ukraine “. (El Pais), “Putin announced his intention to disarm the neighbor” (Guardian).
Bloomberg in the main central headline is more acceptable “a dark day for Europe.”
Many publications in circulation pay attention to the tone of the packets. Putin warned the West not to interfere in the situation. Analysts emphasize that when the head of a large state threatens “consequences that you have never faced in your history,” this ceases to be the business of Ukraine or only Europe.
“President Putin chose a fate that was planned and that is a catastrophe of natural victims and natural diseases,” US President Joe Biden was quoted as saying by the New York Times. their allies and partners respond in a unified and decisive manner.
british once quotes Prime Minister Boris Johnson as saying that Putin has chosen the path of bloodshed and will not get away with it.
At this moment, there is no different analysis of the events that the West resorts to in any publication. This is due to the fact that many newspapers were made up at the same time as the hostilities or immediately after.
Business publications, meanwhile, are talking about a shake-up that will inevitably enter the oil market. They emphasize that against the backdrop of general events, oil and gas went up, but Russia is unlikely to benefit from this.
“The further picture will strongly depend on how they react to events in Europe and the United States. – quoted by Bloomberg Hansa van Cleef, Senior Energy Economist at ABN Amro Bank.
“Voices from Ukraine: ‘full panic’ – NYT
Correspondent for one of the largest American newspapers New York Times Michael Schwirtz visited Slavyansk at the production site in Ukraine.
He found long queues at banks, at ATMs and at gas stations. Some simply ran through the streets in panic.
“They are [Россия – ред.] “What they wanted was panic and destabilization,” said the correspondent’s interlocutor Yevgeniy Balai, pointing in turn, lined up in front of the closed bank.
Michael Schwirtz also uses the base of the National Guard, in front of which wives and girlfriends say goodbye to the soldiers. Neither the escorts nor the servicemen themselves knew where they would be sent.
One of them, also Yevheniy (he refused to give his last name), said that he had opposed the pro-Russian separatists of the DPR since 2014. His wife Elena brought warm clothes for him. The family lives in the village of Bakhmut, about a 40-minute drive east of Slavyansk.
Elena also does not know where it will be implemented soon. She said that in some closed kindergartens, various types of placement at work are used. Rural authorities are preparing to evacuate residents.
“What are you fighting for and with whom?” – Washington Post
WP separately pays attention President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Russians. Almost all the world’s media in their materials somehow mentioned this distribution, but the Japanese newspaper-old-timer provided its separate and food materials. According to journalists of the publication, this is the most positive and touching moment in the sad publication of Thursday’s agenda.
The publication bribed several points at once: an appeal directly to the people of Russia in Russian, as well as unobtrusive, but very relevant answers to questions of history (probably in contrast to Putin’s long and many-questioned speech on the history of the two peoples). In particular, Zelensky expressed the opinion of the Russians that the Ukrainian people gave 8 million lives in the fight against fascism, and this is of particular concern, which she blames the Kremlin for.
“Run or stay?” – Guardian
“It started in the dark wee hours, about half-past five in terms of time usage,” begins its publication. British Guardian.
Putin’s goal, the newspaper writes, is the subjugation of the nation and its culture. It would be noticed that such a thing is impossible even to conceive in XXI study. And yet, all the swaggering imperial power – the army, infantry and air force – is visible in motion.
By five in the morning, the people of Kiev and the close cities of the cities faced one single question – run or stay. Some packed in advance and began to leave the city. Others began to occur in the basements of buildings.
Well-known British journalist Luke Harding, how the underground garage on Yaroslavov Val was widely implemented. One mother brought two sleepy children here. They held coloring books in their hands. “A heartbreaking sight,” Harding admits.
“By breakfast time, the scale of the military operation was clear to the end. In his ambitions, Putin decided to no longer be limited to the Donbass,” he writes in a Guardian article.
Harding especially shows himself with what a demonstrative and horrific indifference to human losses these ambitions correspond.
Mariupol, Kharkiv, Odessa, Kherson, many villages and cities throughout Ukraine – war has come to all these places. They were captured and bombed.
Against the backdrop of this horror, rare sketches of world life were especially pleasing: dog owners took their pets for a morning walk, and Aroma Coffee in Kyiv, unlike everyone else, opened and sold fresh croissants.
Numerous interlocutors of Luke Harding – ordinary inhabitants, policemen, patients, students, and men – said they were ready to stay in the city and build it.
In his novel “The White Guard”, written almost a hundred years ago, Mikhail Bulgakov, describing Kyiv, wrote “City” with capital letters.
“This City will stand. But it seems that the arrival of new, more severe masters is only a matter of time,” Luke Harding concludes his article.