Vesto 

When Russia invades a sovereign Ukraine it is a Special Operation. 

When Ukraine fights back,  it becomes a terrorist attack. 

Warped reasoning @Putin 

Since when did the Naval Base at Sevastopol become neutral?

Anglebert Tinashe Chilimanzi

ok my error there but you can't dispute the agreement was violated.

Anonymous

Those two countare at war, Ukraine is not to blame for the recent attacks. Ukraine got a chance to attack and the victims claims a foul play. 

do you know about the agreement to ship ukrainian grain peacefully?it was ukraine which was clamoring for such a deal and they went on & violated it.they deserve everything coming their way.

dzokera ku xool your reasoning is shallow..kupinda kwakaita Russia mu ukraine in the first place i terrorrisn shoma here iyoyo

@ ZEC you are the one who needs to enroll for european history classes.do you know the agreement between nato and russia...that Nato would not expand eastward... DID THEY KEEP IT?nato is the terrorist but you watch a lot of propaganda on CNN and BBC...and u think you are woke?

Dununu

@bhidzo, ko iwe propaganda yako unoiwanepiko?

did you read the article?they had an agreement concerning the movement of grain but ukraine violated it by attacking vessels and a neutral port so it is correct to term it a terrorist attack.propaganda is not becoming for a person of your intellectual stature.

mubhabhatidzi 

SlowActingPoison

Poo-tin akadamburirwa his military infrustructure and operations he was running secretly ipapo akarwadziwa. Counter-intelligence. 

At least in this case Vlad the Mad has admitted that his naval base at Sevastopol was bombed out to smithereens by drones. Kuhlabiwa nechombo chisina munhu! ma1. Zvakafanana nekurwa nechipoko

MHisBlessed

Problem with war is propaganda. You never know who's lying and who's  telling the truth.  All you can know  for sure about a war is that imnocent  men ,  women , and children will die .

Raymond Gunda

This man is now looking for a way out of this war albeit a dignified one but is failing He tried to use the threat of a nuclear attack it failed A few weeks ago he bombed Ukraine cities indiscriminately with dones from Iran in apparent response to the bombing of a Crimea bridge by Ukraine He will not win this war He should have won it in the first 2 weeks 

Shallow.Read Professor Arthur Mutambara's article on the russia/ukraine conflict.

Zimbabwe’s former Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was inevitable. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday 24 February 2022 with explosions heard soon after in the capital and other parts of the country. Pindula News presents Mutambara’s statement on the invasion:
The Invasion of Ukraine was Inevitable:
Understanding Russian Concerns and the Folly of Western Diplomacy
By Arthur G.O Mutambara
Developing the future of knowledge involves understanding the ‘relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone’.
This endeavour demands a questioning and contrarian mindset that challenges conventional wisdom. It requires a festival of ideas that cherishes the diversity of views, becoming a crucible for new knowledge and thought leadership.
What we have witnessed in the public discourse building up to the events in Ukraine does not augur well for creating intelligent and nuanced understanding of global affairs. The single, unsophisticated and wholly unbalanced narrative we have been receiving from Western leaders and the leading global news outlets such CNN, BBC and Sky News is not conducive to resolving global challenges. To the contrary, such brazen and self-serving intellectual ineptitude inflames conflicts.
We need to create and embrace new knowledge and innovative frameworks that prevent wars and human strife globally.
The future of diplomacy must be reimagined and reinvented.
For a start, the whole mainstream discourse on Ukraine is ahistorical. It is decontextualised. Ukraine was part of the USSR, the superpower at the centre of the Warsaw Pact – an Eastern military alliance established in opposition to NATO, a Western military alliance. This was the configuration that constituted the military arithmetic of the Cold War.
Between 1989 and 1992, the Warsaw Pact collapsed, and the USSR disintegrated with the Soviet republics becoming independent nations such as Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Estonia and Belarus. Russia remained a superpower, having inherited the bulk of the Soviet military and industrial strength, particularly a potent nuclear ****nal.
In 1999, former Warsaw Pact members Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined NATO, with vicious Russian opposition to the move. Another NATO expansion came with the accession of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Russia, a global superpower, felt encircled by its former NATO adversaries. Clearly, given the history of the Cold War, Russia’s security concerns are understandable.
A particularly mischievous ambition of the Western alliance was to control the Black Sea fleet, thus completely undermining Russia. Putin stopped that adventure by annexing Crimea. It is instructive to note that the ill-conceived expansion of NATO into areas of previous Soviet influence was done in bad faith and in disgraceful violation of an understanding struck between NATO and the Russian Federation at the end of the Cold War; that NATO will welcome the independence of the former Soviet states and satellite states but not expand the military alliance into these territories.
In the context of the recent history of the Cold War, Russian demands that Ukraine must remain independent but should not join NATO are not entirely unreasonable. Ukraine has a nearly 2000km border with Russia, and its joining of NATO leads to the total encirclement of Russia by its current and historical opponents.
The posturing by NATO members that Ukraine is free to join since it is a sovereign nation is at best naïve if not an outright manifestation of primitive ignorance.
Sovereignty is not absolute. In October 1962, when the USSR placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the United States, the Americans recoiled with anger leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuba was a sovereign country with the right to have whatever weapons they wanted on their territory.
Why was this sovereignty not respected?
There was a threat to US national security, and hence that part of Cuban sovereignty was not respected.
This is common sense.
In the end, Nikita Khrushchev backed down, and the Russian missiles were removed from Cuba.
If today France was to exercise its sovereign right, pull out of the EU and NATO, and join a military alliance with Russia or China, will the USA and NATO fold their arms and respect France’s sovereignty? Will Western Europe accept a member of a hostile military alliance right at the centre of Europe?
Why not?
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
It does not make geo-political-strategic and military sense, nor foster global peace and security to have Ukraine as a member of NATO. Such a scenario presents a patently obvious threat to Russian national security.
In fact, by invading Ukraine now, Putin is being preemptive. When Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, Russia will be totally encircled and thus vulnerable. More importantly, any attack on Ukraine then will invoke a swift NATO military response by operation of the NATO agreement. Hence Putin’s demand that Ukraine must never be a member of NATO is reasonable. Both NATO and the people of Ukraine must have accepted this position.
This analysis should be clear to all peace-loving people.
So, what should be done? What could have been done?
While asserting their sovereignty and remaining an independent nation, the people of Ukraine and their leaders must commit to NOT joining NATO. Realpolitik demands this. They will not be the first to follow this pragmatic posture.
Finland is an example of what Ukraine should do. Finland is fiercely unapologetic about its independence and works closely with Western countries. However, it is not a member of NATO and strategically avoids any confrontation or disagreeable conduct with the Russians.
The distinguished and revered former US Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, eloquently supports this view: ‘Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe. [However] Ukraine should not join NATO … Ukraine should be free to create any government compatible with the expressed will of its people.’
It is also essential to note that Ukraine can never be just another foreign independent country to Russia, given the historical relationship between the two nations. It has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories are inextricably linked with large pockets of Russian speaking folks in Ukraine in the year 2022.
This objective reality must inform Western intellectuals, pundits and leaders.
Now, what of Western diplomacy with respect to the crisis unfolding in Ukraine?
The stance of NATO and Western leaders has been that: ‘If Russia invades Ukraine, there will be no military response from us. We will impose ‘crippling’ sanctions against Russia.’ What a miserably pathetic position! In fact, it is encouragement or an invitation for an invasion!
For a start, what is the basis of the assumption that the sanctions will be crippling? The Russian economy is relatively robust and largely independent of the West, with the foundation of that independence in the Cold War, after which Russia inherited a vast military-industrial complex that is still ostensibly intact.
The so-called sanctions are to be imposed by only the United States and a few of its Western allies. Really?
There has been no effort to lobby for the involvement of the rest of the world, such as China (the world’s second-biggest economy), the rest of Asia, the rest of Europe, Latina America and Africa. How can a country – Russia – still able to trade with all these economies (in fact 80% of the world) be crippled by sanctions from a paltry number of Western countries?
This is so presumptuous and pretentious on the part of the United and its allies.
It would be comical if it were not a war situation.
Surely, these measly NATO threats have not been thought through. How does one stop a leader, and his country, bent on invading a country by threatening to impose ineffectual sanctions? Are those measures not a small price to pay for the big prize?
This failure of diplomacy is not helped by global media outlets which do not question these foolish foreign policy pronouncements but act as echo chambers of the unintelligent posturing by Western leaders. In their analysis of the unfolding crisis, the key media outlets do not engage experts or scholars with different viewpoints.
They just churn out the same unsophisticated narrative where one cannot distinguish the anchor/journalist from the subject expert.
There is total irrational jingoism in the main media outlets.
The journalists are emotionally attached to the positions of their national governments.
Shameful, indeed.
We need informed and innovative diplomacy enabled by vibrant, ethical, critical and professional journalism and scholarship.
Yes, the crisis in Ukraine could have been avoided if a different understanding of global affairs was at play and world leaders had a better understanding of history and geo-strategic considerations.
Journalists and scholars have a duty and an obligation to enrich the discourse around global challenges and not become cheerleaders of absurdities.
We do not want war. We should do all we can to avoid war.
Unfortunately, given the failure by Western leaders to understand and resolve Russia’s concerns and the pitiful folly of their empty and ineffectual threats, the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was inevitable.
We must create a new body of knowledge that will determine the future of diplomacy – foreign policy positions that prevent or effectively manage conflict and not enable wars.
More: Pindula News


@anonymous,  verbose diatribe from AGO. Ndoomaonero ake, but he doesn't have monopoly to wisdom. I neither have the time, energy nor desire to counter his thesis without attempting my own dissertation. 

I disagree with him on the basis of sovereignty.  Each country has the inalienable right to choose its friends and allies without necessarily looking at what's good for its neighbour.

simple ? how would America respond if Russia or China put a nuclear military base in Mexico? ndapedza newe.

WILLIAM SONBOY CHINEMBIRI 

Russia has been defeated at the battlefront. It should not use food to fight its war. 

It is being defeated in the areas it once occupied. Russia invaded Ukraine because it refused to be used as a buffer zone between Russia and the  European Union and NATO. Instead Ukraine had indicated that it favoured NATO in future. 

Russia was not  happy about it and it decided to invade Ukraine, starting with Cremea in 2014. Friendship is not forced upon someone. It develops naturally. 

[ KO VAYE VAIMBOITA SUPPORT RUSSIA VARIPI ZVAIRI KUSVASVANGWA NE UKAINE ? ].

  CITIZENS LOOK FORWARD SEEING ADVOCATE NELSON CHAMISA HOISTED ON STATE PRESIDENCY ].

[CHAMISA CHETE CHETE].

Yours faithfully
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Tang.  Ku

What a positive comment from Wilie Sonboy keep it up

James ndaba

@ chinembiri Bush lawyer kkkkkk ndozvinoita hondo .. I like yo comments 

gud opinion especially frm a zimbabwean    who dnt lyk western countries

Allan

If russia was angry with NATO why not attack NATO direct thn to kill ukraines 

Confidence

Russia will never surrender ,Russia is there to make a statement against the USA .People may talk but one day you wil know how dangerous is USA.

Jigga

Poo tin should have allowed grain to african countries,We not at war with him .starveve only starved euros he's fighting with.

<div><span>Russia’s Foreign Ministry Saturday issued a statement alleging that Ukraine, with the help of British specialists, had attacked the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s ships and infrastructure at the naval base in Sevastopol. In a statement seen by Pindula News, the ministry said Moscow could not guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships participating in the Black Sea Grain Initiative and will suspend its implementation from today for an indefinite period. We present the statement below:</span></div>
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<h1><span><em>Foreign Ministry statement on the Black Sea Grain Initiative for the export of Ukrainian grain</em></span></h1>
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<div><span><em>On October 29, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, under the cover of the humanitarian corridor set up for the implementation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products, launched massive air and sea strikes using drones against the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s ships and infrastructure at the naval base in Sevastopol.</em></span></div>
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<p><span><em>As a result of the actions (which cannot be qualified as anything other than a terrorist attack) by the Ukrainian armed forces, led by the British specialists, directed, in particular, against Russian ships ensuring the functioning of the humanitarian corridor, the Russian side can no longer guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships participating in the Black Sea Grain Initiative and will suspend its implementation from today for an indefinite period. The corresponding instructions have been issued to Russian representatives in the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, which is in charge of the transportation of Ukrainian food products. </em></span></p>
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<p><span>Ukraine and Britain deny the allegations.</span></p>
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Russia's Statement On The Black Sea Grain Initiative For The Export Of Ukrainian Grain

Foreign Ministry statement on the Black Sea Grain Initiative for the export of Ukrainian grain

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