https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/vindman-ukraine-fighter-jet-hang-up-pretty-absurd-134925893990
Vindman: Ukraine fighter jet hang-up 'pretty absurd'
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, formerly a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, makes the argument that providing fighter jets to Ukraine is necessary to prevent humanitarian catastrophe at the hands of Russia's brutality, and expresses concern that coordination of the aid is happening awkwardly and in public.
>DOUGH
https://mobile.twitter.com/stuartlfletcher/status/1501519658272313353
The sister city of Kyiv is: Wuhan
https://ukranews.com/en/news/684948-one-of-hospitals-ready-to-accept-ukrainians-evacuated-from-wuhan-kyiv-regional-state-administration
One Of Hospitals Ready To Accept Ukrainians Evacuated From Wuhan – Kyiv Regional State Administration
The Kyiv Regional State Administration has told the Health Ministry that a hospital in Myronivka (Kyiv region) was ready to accept the Ukrainian citizens evacuated from Wuhan (the People's Republic of China).
This follows from a reply of the Kyiv regional state administration to respective request of the Ukrainian News Agency.
According to the report, the accommodation of the evacuated people might take place at a non-commercial enterprise of the Kyiv City Council entitled Regional Medical Rehabilitation Hospital located at 1 Pirozhenka street in the town of Myronivka.
The hospital is equipped with 75 beds.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Prime Minister Oleksii Honcharuk said that the plane to evacuate the Ukrainians from Wuhan would arrive in Wuhan at 22 p.m. (local time), February 20.
https://en.cfts.org.ua/news/first_container_train_from_wuhan_arrives_in_kyiv
First Container Train From Wuhan Arrives In Kyiv
This is the second direct container train from China to Ukraine.
13 July 2020
The second direct container train from China arrived at the Kyiv-Liski train station early on July 6. It is the first container train to arrive in Kyiv from Wuhan.
According to the CFTS correspondent at the ceremonial welcoming of the train, the train delivered 43 forty-foot containers from China. The containers contained magnesium sulfate, all kinds of equipment, aluminum frames, disposable syringes, and light industry products.
The train traveled a distance of 9,500 kilometers. It covered the distance in in 20 days, having left Wuhan on June 16.
"The estimated time to overcome this distance is about 15 days. This is the indicator that will make overland transportation of Chinese goods to Ukraine competitive compared with other logistics solutions. We plan to operate trains from China weekly and subsequently increase their frequency," said Ivan Yurik, the board chairman of the Ukrainian Railways joint-stock company (Ukrzaliznytsia).
“Previously, only transit goods were transported through Ukraine on trains from China to Western Europe and back. We are now considering a number of new container train routes,” he added.
Asked why a welcome ceremony was organized for the second direct container train from China, unlike the first train, Ukrzaliznytsia told the CFTS correspondent that the welcome ceremony was a Chinese initiative intended to symbolically demonstrate the victory over coronavirus in Wuhan.
As reported earlier, Ukrzaliznytsia’s Liski branch received the first direct container train from China on June 8. The train, which departed from Yantian, reached the border crossing between China and Mongolia (the Erlian and Zamyn-Uud train stations) in five days. It then traveled through the territory of Mongolia to the Suhe Bator – Naushki border crossing and then on transit through the territory of the Russian Federation to Ukraine’s Zernovo border crossing before arriving at the Liski train station in Kyiv.
It was also announced that another container train would depart from Nanchang for Kyiv on June 26.
According to Ukrzaliznytsia, 36 container trains currently run regularly on the territory of Ukraine. Container trains transported 109,440 TEU through Ukraine in the first five months of 2020, which is almost double the number in 2019 and constitutes 59% of the total volume of containers transported through Ukraine.
In total, 185 545 TEU were transported by rail through Ukraine in the first five months of 2020 (a 1.8% increase compared with the corresponding period of 2019).
>Marvel
>https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1501310103529541636
U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says Washington is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research facilities from falling into Russian hands. She just confirmed every conspiracy theory about the existence of those labs.