THE DAILY MAIL WITH THREE INFORMATIVE ARTICLES ABOUT RUSSIA AND THEIR INVASION OF UKRAINE

 Now RUSSIANS start to flee their homeland: Citizens pack trains to Finland, fearful that Putin will shut the borders, leaving them unable to escape fall-out from Western sanctions

• St Petersburg train station was packed with Russian passengers desperate to travel to Helsinki on Thursday 
• 'We decided with our families to go back as soon as possible, because it's unclear what the situation will be in a week,' Muscovite Polina Poliakova said 
• Travelling 'is hard now because everything is getting cancelled,' added Beata Iukhtanova, her friend who studies with her in Paris, where the pair were headed 
• The Allegro express train linking St Petersburg to the Finnish capital is currently the only open rail route between Russia and the EU 
• 'The trains coming from St Petersburg to Helsinki are now full for the next few days,' said Topi Simola, senior vice president of Finnish railway operator VR said.
•  FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10577061/Now-RUSSIANS-start-flee-homeland-Citizens-pack-trains-Finland.html
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• Chechnya's leader tells Putin to 'shut your eyes to everything' and let military commanders unleash a blitzkrieg of savagery in Ukraine and 'finish it all in a day or two'

  • Ramzan Kadyrov urged Putin to unleash a heavy bombardment of Ukraine
  • He acknowledged Russia is suffering heavy losses in the plea to the leader
  • The major-general's plea highlights the domestic concern about the invasion
  • FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10576905/Chechnyas-leader-tells-Putin-shut-eyes-finish-day-two.html
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  • Vladimir Putin's useful numbskulls: ANDREW PIERCE examines the shameful record of militant union chiefs behind London's crippling Tube strike

  • This week, London has once again been crippled by Tube strikes: industrial action slammed as irresponsible by business leaders and naturally hated by the capital’s residents.

    The walkouts – more are threatened – have seen 200 Underground stations close, caused chaos during rush hours, cost the city up to £100million and savaged businesses that were only just struggling back on to their feet after two years of on- off lockdowns.

    But the timing is terrible for another reason, of course: Vladimir Putin’s deranged invasion of Ukraine and its destabilisation of our world.

    And on that score, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) might have chosen its moment to wage class war rather more carefully, given the rather troubling fondness that several of its senior members have expressed for Russia in the past.

    The RMT has contained pro-Russian elements for years: at its annual meeting in 2014, soon after Putin first began his attempts to annexe eastern regions of Ukraine, the union passed a motion denouncing Western support for the ‘far-Right regime in Kiev’. Putin must have been delighted.

    It also supported what it called the ‘antifascist resistance in Ukraine’ – but was silent when it came to criticising Russia directly. Individual RMT members, however, go much further.

  • FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10575449/ANDREW-PIERCE-examines-shameful-record-militant-union-chiefs-Londons-Tube-strike.html