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Live Updates: Biden Vows Putin Will Pay for Ukraine Invasion
“Putin chose this war, and now he and his country will bear the consequences,” President Biden said, announcing new sanctions in his first public remarks since Russia’s assault began.
2:07Russian Forces Invade UkraineExplosions and clashes were reported throughout the country as Russia moved in by land and air.CreditCredit...Ukrainian State Emergency Service, via Reuters
Alan Yuhas
What happened on Day 1 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Before dawn broke in Ukraine on Thursday, Russian forces began to invade the nation through northern forests, eastern plains and along the southern coast, igniting battles around the country that left dozens dead and drew new sanctions that President Biden said would buckle Russia’s economy.
By sunset, special forces and airborne troops were closing in on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians fled imperiled cities, and thousands of Russians protested the decision to go to war. President Vladimir V. Putin remained defiant as Ukrainians, Russians and observers around the world took stock of the day’s toll. Here are some of the day’s major events.
After a battle in the highly radioactive grounds of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Russian forces seized the power plant where a nuclear reactor melted down in 1986. The condition of the concrete-encased reactor was unknown.
President Biden said new sanctions would target Russia’s elites, top banks and technology exports. He said that the U.S. military would not fight in Ukraine, but that troops would be deployed to NATO’s eastern flank.
At least 40 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, officials said, adding that Ukraine had destroyed two Russian helicopters and seven aircraft. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had destroyed more than 70 military targets, including 11 airfields, a helicopter and four drones.
Thousands of Russians protested the invasion, and hundreds were detained, according to a group that tallies arrests. Mr. Putin, speaking to businessmen on a day when the Russian stock market lost one-third of its value, defended his attack on Ukraine as a “necessary measure.”Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 6:00 p.m. ET14 minutes ago14 minutes ago
Henry Fountain
The Chernobyl plant was reported captured by Russia. What is there?
Engineers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor Unit 4 in July 2021.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Russian troops pushing through the exclusion zone around the former Chernobyl nuclear plant north of Kyiv captured the plant itself, according to Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office.
The power plant, scene of the worst nuclear accident in history, could hardly be considered a valuable asset. In the years following the 1986 explosion and fire that destroyed the plant’s Unit 4 reactor, the remaining three reactors were all shut down. The plant hasn’t produced electricity in more than two decades, and much of the equipment has been removed.
What remains, however, is a lot of nuclear waste, and the plant’s capture is raising concerns about nuclear safety. More than 20,000 highly radioactive fuel assemblies that were removed from the undamaged reactors were slowly being transferred from a facility where they have been stored under water to a long-term dry-storage site that opened in late 2020. There are several other storage facilities at the site as well, for less dangerous and shorter-lived waste.
The danger with fighting around any of these facilities is that if they are damaged by a shell or other explosive, radioactive material could escape.
But the biggest concern would be fighting that affected the lethal remains of Unit 4 itself. Radioactive particles from an estimated five tons of the reactor’s fuel were carried into the air during the 1986 explosion and fire, spreading contamination around Europe. But about 200 tons of fuel remain at the bottom of the destroyed reactor, and it is relatively unprotected.
Following the accident, a concrete shelter, known as the sarcophagus, was hastily built to contain the radiation from that fuel. But over time the sarcophagus deteriorated, becoming unstable, and the aging fuel began to crumble.
Fearing that the sarcophagus might collapse and spew radioactive dust into the air — potentially repeating the widespread contamination of 1986 — more than two dozen nations financed the construction of an arch-shaped steel building that was moved into place over the sarcophagus in 2016. A license to begin dismantling the sarcophagus and safely disposing of the fuel and other radioactive material was granted by Ukraine authorities last year. The process is expected to take decades.
Since the arch was only built for peacetime, any fighting that breached it or, worse, caused the sarcophagus within to collapse, could potentially lead to the kind of disaster the arch was built to prevent.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 5:59 p.m. ET14 minutes ago14 minutes ago
Julian E. Barnes
Congressional intelligence leaders say the Russian army appears ready to invade Kyiv.
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The Dnieper River embankment in the Podil neighborhood of Kyiv on Thursday.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Senior lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees said on Thursday that the Russian army’s movements into Ukraine appeared to pose a direct threat to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
“My sense is that they may be going into Kyiv imminently,” said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, cautioned that the United States did not have perfect visibility into the region. But he said that it did appear that a full nationwide invasion was underway, one that is not just destroying military targets but also causing civilian deaths.
“They are encircling Kyiv and they may follow through with plans to topple the government,” Mr. Schiff said. “That would be consistent with the intelligence we had before the invasion.”
Mr. Warner said it was too soon to draw any firm conclusions about the Russian operation, but Moscow appeared to be seeing a stronger opposition from Ukrainians than Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, had expected.
“I think the Russians expectation of how quickly they would be militarily successful was both overly ambitious from day one and underestimating the will of the Ukrainian people,” Mr. Warner said.
Both of the committee leaders said that the United States should continue to share intelligence with the Ukrainian government.
Mr. Schiff predicted that, over the long term, Mr. Putin was going to discover his operation was a failure, driving Ukraine closer to the West and bringing NATO assets closer to Russia.
While Russian officials have said they have no intention of occupying Ukraine, Mr. Schiff said he believed that Ukraine would further bolster its relationship with Europe if Russian troops pulled out.
“What Putin is going to find, is what others have so often found,” Mr. Schiff said, “and that is it’s easy to get in, it’s very difficult to get out.”Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 5:30 p.m. ET44 minutes ago44 minutes ago
Lara Jakes
The U.S. expelled a Russian diplomat but says it was not about the Ukraine invasion.
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The Russian Embassy in Washington. American officials said a Russian diplomat had been expelled because his accreditation had lapsed.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The United States has expelled a high-ranking Russian envoy based at the Russian Embassy in Washington, in what a senior State Department official said was the latest volley in a longstanding diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
The State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive situation, said the expulsion was not the result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early Thursday, which has sharply worsened the already tense relations between Washington and Moscow.
Instead, the official said, the Russian diplomat, the embassy’s minister-counselor, was ordered to leave on Wednesday because he had remained in the United States past his three-year accreditation. The embassy’s website identified him as Sergey Vasilyevich Trepelkov.
Mr. Trepelkov appeared to have been serving as the Russian Embassy’s second-ranked official after the deputy ambassador left Washington in January.
American officials said the deputy ambassador had departed after his credentials also expired. The Russian government disputed that, however, saying that the United States had forced out the deputy ambassador before his replacement could arrive.
Feb. 24, 2022, 5:00 p.m. ET1 hour ago1 hour ago
Ashley Wong
‘The world needs to hear us’: Ukrainians march through New York City in protest.
Protesters Rally Against Russian Invasion of UkraineDemonstrators took to the streets in major cities, from New York City to Berlin, to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and express solidarity with the Ukrainian people.CreditCredit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
Under gray skies and a light shower of hail, hundreds of Ukrainians and other New Yorkers marched through Manhattan on Thursday afternoon to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine and condemn President Vladimir V. Putin.
With flags wrapped around their shoulders and holding signs with slogans like “Putin is a killer” and “Stand with Ukraine” in both Ukrainian and English, protesters gathered in Times Square before marching to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, a diplomatic consulate on the Upper East Side, where the crowd swelled to several hundred.
As they marched, they unfurled an enormous banner in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
Tania Priatka, 49, and her friend Bozhena Hubyak, 42, drove in from their homes in Connecticut to join the chorus of protests. Both said they had many family members in Ukraine who they were worried about.
Watching in horror as the news unfolded last night, they said, they felt powerless.
“We need to at least be out here making some noise because the world needs to hear us,” Ms. Priatka said. “I know we have a lot of problems in our own country. But this is going to be a problem that affects the whole world if we don’t do something about it now.”
Ms. Hubyak, who was born in western Ukraine and whose family still lives there, said she had been able to stay in contact with her sister-in-law, who was awakened before sunrise by the sound of planes overhead.
With a daughter and mother to care for, Ms. Hubyak said, her sister-in-law has no plans to leave.
It has broken her heart, she said, to see Russians and Ukrainians who are still teenagers take part in a war they may not return from.
“Hopefully the Russian people, the Russian moms, will see that we’re really a peaceful nation,” Ms. Hubyak said. “We saw some babies, 17-year-old boys fighting on their sides. They’re all still babies.”
Several protesters were emotional, tears gathering in their eyes as they described the fear and panic of watching Ukraine face Russian bombing and gunfire.
Some also warned, as Ms. Priatka did, that a war that currently feels distant to many Americans may soon become a more urgent problem at home.
Oleksandr Shulzhenko, 51, from Westchester County, teared up as he described how his 81-year-old mother in Ukraine had refused to leave her home. His mother told him that she would stay to take care of wounded soldiers, if need be.
But he’s afraid that an all-out war in Ukraine will inevitably spread to other parts of Europe, he said. And he believes that other parts of the world, like the United States, should prepare to get involved as well.
“It could be too late for Ukraine. It’s already late, honestly, in my opinion, but we still have to do something,” he said.
“There is no such thing as a small local war in Europe,” he added.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:54 p.m. ET1 hour ago1 hour ago
Andrew E. Kramer
‘I abandoned everything and left’: Ukrainians flee ahead of the Russian advance.
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Ukrainians line up for gas on the road from Severodonetsk to Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — By the time she had packed her important documents, some clothes and a spare tire, and said goodbye to her dog, Maryna Danyliuk could tell the fighting was in the streets of her hometown.
She and her husband sped along side streets to pick up a friend, then headed for the highway. And she caught a glimpse of what appeared to be the aftermath of a pitched street battle: two destroyed Russian armored vehicles.
“I didn’t think they would come,” she said of the Russians. “I didn’t believe it until the last moment.”
By early afternoon, Ms. Danyliuk’s gray Volkswagen Golf and its three occupants were out on the highway, joining tens of thousands of other cars heading west. Traffic snarled the roads, sometimes bringing movement to a crawl in the midst of bucolic farm fields. Ukrainian Army convoys, many carrying pontoon bridges, clogged roads. Ambulances sped both ways.
At one point, a convoy of gigantic grain harvesters rumbled along, as farmers — or maybe their creditors — rushed to move the valuable vehicles ahead of the Russian advance. In towns along the route, block-long lines of people stood waiting for A.T.M.’s or to get into grocery stores.
Gas was almost unobtainable; cars lined up for hundreds of yards at every station. As the sun set over the flat farmland, Ruslan Kalashnik, 24, stood beside his car at a gas station on the highway around sunset, his face pinched with worry.
“We are evacuating,” he said, “like everybody here.”
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Ukrainians wait for trains at the main train station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
He awoke on Thursday to two thunderous explosions near his apartment in Kramatorsk, the city that serves as the seat of government in the portion of the Donetsk region controlled, for now, by Ukraine. He heard jets overhead.
What set him, his sister and his mother in motion, however, was a furtive, illegal cellphone call from his father, a soldier in the Ukrainian Army at the front, who met the onslaught first in an intensive shelling. He made clear that the invasion was on.
“He said, ‘Get out now.’ And that’s all the time he had to speak,” Mr. Kalashnik said. “We haven’t heard from him since.”
Just over the few hours out on the road, he said, he was dizzied by the fast-moving military action that seemed to be reshaping his country, minute by minute.
“Just while we drove, so much has changed,” he said.
Along the way, he said, he called his grandmother living near the Russian border to the south of Kharkiv, an eastern Ukrainian city that was partially surrounded Thursday. Russian soldiers had already arrived, he said she had told him, and added, “There is a tank in my garden.”
Ms. Danyliuk, a 65-year-old retiree, and her husband, Bogdan, lived in Shchastya, a town along the line dividing government territory from a separatist enclave in eastern Ukraine, where she was an active volunteer in a theater group for children. She also awoke Thursday to a bombardment.
“We packed in a panic,” she said in a telephone interview from the road. “I was afraid to turn on the light. I decided to take a shower, while I had a chance. We packed documents. But I didn’t bring the family photographs. They were in a big box. There wouldn’t be room for them.”
She said she later regretted that decision. In the end, she took another spare tire.
“I should have left yesterday,” she said. “Today, I abandoned everything and left.”
She was planning to stay with her son in Kyiv, though he lives in a one-room apartment, but she also understood Kyiv was not safe, either. Before they left, she and her husband scattered some feed on the ground for their chickens, and then let the birds out to roam — perhaps, into the street fighting.
And at the last moment, in one small tragedy on a day with many of them, Ms. Danyliuk knelt and hugged her dog, Muvi, a mutt she had enjoyed walking in the pine forests around their home.
“I hugged Muvi and I cried,” she said. The dog would be on its own now.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:30 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
Farnaz Fassihi and Nick Cumming-Bruce
U.N. Security Council to vote on resolution condemning Russia, U.S. official says.
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The United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday.Credit...John Minchillo/Associated Press
The United Nations Security Council planned to vote on Friday on a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and calling for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of its troops, according to a senior U.S. administration official.
The resolution, written and led by the United States, would impose legally binding obligations on Russia under Chapter VII of the U.N. charter, which provides a framework for the council to act when world security is threatened in order to “maintain or restore international peace and security.”
The text of the resolution was circulated among the 15-member council on Thursday.
The resolution would condemn, “in the strongest terms possible, Russia’s aggression, invasion and violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty,” according to the U.S. official. “It reaffirms the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine. And it requires the Russian Federation immediately, completely, and unconditionally to withdraw its forces.”
A European diplomat at the U.N. said the resolution would also declare that “Russia cannot keep invading its neighbors.”
The resolution may be largely symbolic, given that Russia, a permanent member of the council with veto power, was expected to veto it. But the United States and its allies have said the U.N. and the council have a responsibility to act, and that a Russian veto would only demonstrate the country’s isolation.
“We view the council as the critical venue in which Russia must be forced to explain itself,” the senior U.S. official said in a phone call with reporters. “We won’t stand by and do nothing.”
To fully demonstrate Russia’s isolation, the United States and its allies would need the support of a majority of the council’s members. The resolution has wide support, diplomats have said, but it was not clear whether China would support or oppose the measure. China could also veto the resolution, or abstain.
The U.N. General Assembly was also expected to vote on a resolution condemning Russia’s aggression next week, the U.S. official said. The General Assembly resolutions carry political weight, but are not legally binding.
The U.N. measures are part of a coordinated and wider approach by the United States, the European Union and their allies to punish President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for ordering the invasion of Ukraine, diplomats said.
These measures include collective and individual sanctions by countries targeting Russian institutions, enterprises and people involved in the military operation against Ukraine.
Diplomats acknowledged that economic sanctions may take time to squeeze Russia’s economy, and might not stop the continuing barrage of attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns. They said they hoped that Mr. Putin would recalculate once he realized that Russia was being shunned, politically and economically.
Ukraine on Thursday also called for an urgent debate on Russia’s invasion in the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in a bid to escalate the diplomatic costs of Mr. Putin’s assault. Based in Geneva, the council is regarded as the world’s most important human rights body. While it has no criminal enforcement or sanctioning powers, the council can undertake investigations that help shape the global image of countries.
The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, said Russia’s invasion violated international law and put countless civilian lives at risk. It “must be immediately halted,” she said.
Her statement came as United Nations relief agencies reported early signs of the humanitarian impact of Russia’s invasion. The United Nations refugee agency said several thousand people had crossed Ukraine’s borders into neighboring countries. It believed about 100,000 people had left their homes and may be displaced within the country.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
Anton TroianovskiReporting from Moscow
President Emmanuel Macron of France called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin says. The two had “a serious and frank exchange” about Ukraine, and Mr. Putin “gave an exhaustive explanation of the reasons and circumstances” surrounding the invasion, according to a Kremlin statement. It was Putin’s fourth exchange of the day with a foreign leader: He also met with the prime minister of Pakistan in Moscow and spoke by phone with the leaders of Iran and India.
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Credit...Pool photo by Ludovic Marin
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
Christiaan Triebert and Dmitriy Khavin
Videos show evidence of Ukraine’s defense against Russian attack.
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CreditCredit...Djavanshir Akhmed, via Facebook
As Russia continues its assault, videos give some insight into how the Ukrainian military is mounting a defense.
Destroyed and captured Russian military vehicles were filmed at the entrance to Kharkiv, a large city in the east of Ukraine. The videos show a dead Russian soldier among burning armored fighting vehicles and a T-80 tank with a blown-off turret.
At least two Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters were downed near Kyiv. In one video, filmed about 12 miles south of the capital, a pilot is seen parachuting into the Dnieper River, from which smoke is rising.
Despite these occasional blows, social media videos and analysts suggest the Russian military has lost fewer than 20 military vehicles so far.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:46 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
John Ismay
The approximately 7,000 additional U.S. soldiers who will deploy to Germany in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine will come from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Ga., the Pentagon said on Thursday. The soldiers will not come from the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., as a senior Defense Department had said earlier.
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:42 p.m. ET3 hours ago3 hours ago
Melissa Eddy
Some, but not all, former European leaders quit Russian boards.
adimir V. Putin, left, and Gerhard Schröder, right. Mr. Schröder, a former German chancellor, wrote on Thursday about “many mistakes — on both sides.”Credit...Sputnik Photo Agency/Reuters
A former Austrian chancellor and ex-prime ministers of Italy and Finland were among the officials who quit their positions on the boards of leading Russian companies on Thursday in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But Germany’s former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, was not among them.
Mr. Schröder, a friend of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, is a familiar face on the boards of some prominent companies, including Rosneft, the Russian oil giant. He is chairman of the shareholders committee of Nord Stream 2, the company that owns the new Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline that Berlin said this week it would stop.
He has also been invited to sit on the board of Gazprom, the Russian gas behemoth that is the parent company of Nord Stream 2.
Mr. Schröder, 77, who was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, on Thursday called for an end to the war, writing in a post on his LinkedIn account.
But in contrast to the chorus of harsh rebukes of Russia’s attack from European leaders, Mr. Schröder stressed the “missed opportunities between the West and Russia,” as well as the “many mistakes — on both sides.”
He said that “Russia’s security interests do not justify the use of military means,” but cautioned European leaders against taking actions that “cut the remaining political, economic and civil society ties that exist between Europe and Russia.”
Others tied to Russian boardrooms felt compelled to step down after the invasion. Matteo Renzi, a former prime minister of Italy, resigned from board of Delimobil, a Russian car-sharing service, his party said. Finland’s former prime minister, Esko Aho, told local media he had withdrawn from the board of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.
A former Austrian chancellor, Christian Kern, who led the Austrian railway company ÖBB, resigned from the board of Russia’s state-owned railway company, RZD, saying he did not want to be a part of the war.
“Since last night, RZD is part of the logistics of war,” he told the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard. “I deeply regret this.”
But another ex-chancellor of Austria, Wolfgang Schüssel, appeared unmoved by the attack, saying he saw no reason to quit his position on the board of the Lukoil, a Russian multinational company. And Karin Kneissl, the country’s former foreign minister whose wedding party Mr. Putin crashed in 2018, also still sits on the board of Rosneft.
But as images of Ukrainians fleeing the capital Kyiv ran all day on German screens Thursday, calls for Mr. Schröder to sever his ties with Russia intensified.
“This blatant purchase of a German ex-head of government by Putin can hardly be surpassed in terms of ignominy,” Christian Bangel wrote in an editorial in the German weekly, Die Zeit. “It damages not only Schröder himself, but also the office of chancellor.”Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:31 p.m. ET3 hours ago3 hours ago
Christopher F. SchuetzeReporting from Berlin
About 2,500 people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with handmade signs and Ukrainian flags on Thursday night to protest against the Russian invasion. For the second time this week, the city had illuminated the landmark in blue and yellow to express solidarity with Ukraine.
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Credit...Paul Zinken/DPA, via Associated Press
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:26 p.m. ET3 hours ago3 hours ago
Miriam Jordan
Refugee resettlement leaders urge Biden to welcome Ukrainians to the U.S.
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People outside of the Russian Embassy in Washington on Thursday showed their support for the people of Ukraine.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York Times
As international humanitarian groups warned that the Russian invasion could trigger a major exodus from Ukraine, some refugee resettlement leaders in the United States called on the Biden administration to prepare to welcome people fleeing for their lives.
“It will be our moral imperative to welcome Ukrainian refugees, as we have been doing for decades,” said David Duea, president of the Northwestern affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. The agency has resettled thousands of Ukrainians in Oregon and Washington.
He added, “I do feel a sense that this is coming.”
But there was concern that the U.S. refugee program, already under pressure to absorb more than 70,000 evacuees from Afghanistan who arrived last year, would be unable to handle another large volume of evacuees.
The nine nonprofit groups tasked by the State Department with resettling refugees in U.S. communities have been trying to integrate thousands of Afghan families released from military bases in recent weeks. The organizations were drained of funding and forced to downsize significantly after former President Donald J. Trump reduced refugee admissions during his term in office.
“Right now, our resettlement capacity, which was decimated under the Trump administration, is strained to the limits,” said Bill Frelick, director of the refugee and migrant rights division of Human Rights Watch.
He suggested that resettling Ukrainians in the United States, a laborious process that involves screening and interviews, should not be a first option. Rather, he said, the focus should be on helping countries that neighbor Ukraine swiftly prepare to assist refugees in need of immediate protection and shelter.
“Establishing camps, if needed in places like Poland, would be a much higher imperative than planning for refugee resettlement at this emergency stage,” he said.Show more
Valerie Hopkins and Alex Marshall
Ukraine’s museums scramble to protect their collections.
n exhibition in 2021 at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, one of many large museums in Kyiv.Credit...Yuliia Ovsiannikova /Ukrinform, via Getty Images
KYIV, Ukraine — At 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, Ihor Poshyvailo, the director of the Museum of Freedom here, was woken by the sound of explosions.
He rushed outside to the street and saw airplanes flying overhead, he said. An hour later, he was in a meeting with officials from Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture trying to work out how the country’s museums could protect their collections.
“We had plans for what to do prewar,” Poshyvailo said, “but now it is a war, it’s totally different.”
By the time they considered evacuating the museum’s most prized objects from Kyiv, the roads were already clogged with Ukrainians fleeing west, and they realized it would not be possible, Poshyvailo said.
Although talk of conflict in Ukraine has been building for weeks, some of the country’s museums were badly prepared when shelling and rocket attacks began and Russian troops entered the country Thursday morning. Even if museums and other cultural sites are unlikely to be direct targets of Russian aggression, administrators worry about the security of their collections if fighting escalates and enters urban areas. Some were concerned that Russian nationalists could attack institutions that put forward Ukrainian historical and cultural narratives.
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2020
中共解放軍"學生"領導，早已在英、美、澳等大學畢業....
"中國軍方藉助美國大學開展秘密研究
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2019
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海偉明早回美國，照張像留念
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「華爾街日報」中文版
Facebook通過流行手機應用收集敏感個人信息
數百萬智能手機用戶向手機應用透露他們最私密的秘密，包括他們什麼時候想減肥或上周末看的房子價格。還有一些應用掌握用戶的體重、血壓、生理期或懷孕狀態。但大部分用戶都不知道，在很多情況下這些數據又被分享給了Facebook。
2017
老郭，
今天小郭來訪，帶來您送的Whiskey，非常謝謝。此刻正在享用。
您說此物最相思--nostalgia for 1970s U. K.
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來報告旅台經驗。
她吃得飽飽的，連說，沒問題！
然後趕往內湖大賣場，大採購去也！
想您老兄！
On Literature by Umberto Eco《艾可談文學》《埃科談文學》/ Q. and A.
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Kuohsun Shih
2016年2月25日 ·
#那不受干擾魔幻似的小號尖銳的樂音。
我應該讓我忠實的讀者（我可能會說總共二十四位，這樣我就不至於和偉大的曼佐尼的二十五位讀者打對台了，其實我是懷著謙遜的心情想勝過他的）自行去分辨，這兩個插曲如何在四十年之後的《傅科擺》中重新被利用上。
此外，在這時期我也寫了一些“年輕宇宙的古老故事”，主角是地球以及其他的星球，時間是銀河系剛剛誕生的時候，星球彼此之間受到愛慾和嫉妒的牽扯： 在一個故事裡面，金星和太陽相愛，費勁要脫離自己的軌道以便自我毀滅在她愛人那熾熱發光的大體積內。那是我小小的、不自覺的宇宙奇趣故事。
我在十六歲的時候對詩開始感興趣。我大量閱讀艱澀難懂的詩作，不過我自己的品位比較偏向卡爾達雷利以及《拉隆達》雜誌那些作者的古典主義風格。我已經不知道自己是對於詩的需要（以及同時發現肖邦的音樂）才引發我那柏拉圖式的、說不出口的初戀，或者情況正好相反。但不管在什麼情況下，那種混合都是招致苦痛的，甚至是最溫柔和最自戀的懷舊愁緒都無法令我在不感到完全徹底羞愧的情況下，去回味當時的努力。不過，從我那次的經驗一定浮現出一種嚴厲的自我批評態度： 在幾年之中，這種堅決不動搖的態度已促使我認清一個事實： 我寫的詩和青春痘具有相同的、功能上的起源以及外貌。因此我決定（而這決心持續三十年之久）放棄所謂的創造性寫作，而僅讓自己局限在哲學的反思以及隨筆的寫作上面。
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2015
唐．德里羅(Don DeLillo)《小天使艾絲梅拉達》(The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories)，梁永安譯，台北：寶瓶文化，2015
「漢清兄乙未新春誌興
永安」
先讀1983寫的：《第三次世界大戰的人味時刻》（Human Moments in World War III）。原因是數月前我們討論過幾句英文的意思，還請教美國的WWS......
我過去絕少讓思緒漫遊於外太空，不過去年得知同學苦邦兄退休後寫、奏音樂，主題都是太空的感情，才跟隨其音樂飄遊於太陽系。
今早讀"音樂的韻動，是千言萬語無法形容的"：
"We must never forget that music is movement,
always going somewhere, shifting and changing,
and flowing, from one note to another;
and that movement can tell us more about the way we feel
than a million words can."
-Leonard Bernstein, "What Does Music Mean?" (1958)
我讀這短篇，處處有莫名的衝擊與感動，或許是作者的想像力、譯者梁先生、苦邦同學之音樂，東海大學內鬥爭Employee of the Month：東海大學"湯校長"......之功。
2014
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郵局的員工訓練:
(英文)香港某銀行給忠孝東路3段某號， 送到新生南路3段某號。
《文訊 》2月號/2014 第340期
古稀感言◎吳宏一 "......但台灣當局的昏庸無能，領導無方，卻也不能辭其咎。......."頁202；
遇到幾個字◎黃文範 :"馬英九不此之圖。"......字幕上立馬打出"馬英九不恥之徒......." 頁207；
很少的機會6點起床:可以"CNN的烏克蘭未完成的革命"；
NHK報導韓國總統就任一年的飽受禮遇；
6點半的溫州街還有種種的鳥虫鳴叫；教堂內的拉伸運動；
外頭的朝日.......
幾番淚眼:"02/24播出 航空城大徵收-悲傷家園
一個航空城計畫，政府勾勒一個大夢，影響七個村落，迫遷8000名居民，開發6000多公頃土地，在期待開發與反對徵收的拉扯間，許多居民都疑惑著，到底政府強徵民地，最後利益會是給了誰？"
漫談酒與管理 1998
漫談酒與管理
(這篇草稿是1998年寫的。我前年說，或許應該完成它，用此文紀念我的父親。又，2012年與陳寬仁老師談金門和馬祖的高梁酒之經營，他說這要談起來，話可長了。當年上養生村為他祝壽，拿一小瓶日本威士忌請他嚐。今年春節，我的侄兒買瓶 Park…之威士忌，就將我們打發了。)
辛：你曉得，我們的雷根總統當選連任，他是全世界最有權力的人。
馬：是嗎？他能不能把水變成酒？
辛：不能。
馬：那麼他有什麼用？
（在雷根總統當選連任的明星大會串的慶祝會上，司儀法蘭克．辛納屈與「沉緬於酒色」的歌手迪恩．馬丁的相聲式對話。）取材自 高克毅《鼠咀集》台北：聯經出版社，1991，第171頁 。
，1998
1998年元月13／14日為公賣局朋友講述「第四代管理」，對象是釀啤酒及化驗專家。我想融合戴明淵博知識系統應用於釀售酒類的組織。
1997年12月29日的紀念戴明研究年會，吳總經理剛從日本回來，送我的”酒”，”竟是”日本製的Whisky。包裝設計極美，令人愛不釋眼（捨不得喝，送了長輩……）
我記得當年曾向一些公賣局的同事演講，說日本人多迷Whisky，竟然不惜從蘇格蘭將當地的水運回日本，來研發和自製Whisky的故事。為什麼如此大費周章呢？因為，當時他們發現，所有的製酒的重要因素和條件，他們都能複製並控制。可是，這樣製造出來的產品，味道上仍差一截。幾經搜索影響品質的要因，最後找出的差異是：日本和蘇格蘭的水質就是不同。
近百年前，日本Suntory公司的創始人，就發現Whisky的味覺魅力與市場發展的潛力，不過日本Whisky的品質，可要等到投入開發工作 20年之後，才穩定下來﹔等到第二次世界大戰之後，日本國內的威士忌市場才漸漸成長。由這段簡史，可見創業之不易。(現在宜蘭也有一家台灣著名的威士忌品牌，它的掘起，當然有其美麗的故事，但其歷史太短，暫時不討論。)......
作者 Mary Low (Author)
TREE 為一章
Using Science and Celtic Wisdom to Save Trees (and Souls)
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist and author, has created a forest with tree species handpicked for their ability to withstand a warming planet.
Dr. Beresford-Kroeger’s goal is to combat the climate crisis by fighting for what’s left of the great forests (she says the vast boreal wilderness that stretches across the Northern Hemisphere is as vital as the Amazon) and rebuilding what’s already come down. Trees store carbon dioxide and oxygenate the air, making them “the best and only thing we have right now to fight climate change and do it fast,” she said.
讀約翰萬次郎Nakahama Manjirō 傳奇一生-陳新炎、比較 日本史探訪 18 海を渡った日本人 (角川文庫) 安岡章次郎寫的 ジョン万次郎
https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/909778646385095
日本史探訪 18 海を渡った日本人 (角川文庫) 安岡章次郎
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頭一天：137烏克蘭人死；動員；保衛戰鬥開始。包圍基輔困難多；俄羅斯直升機等落地...... 莫斯科抗議開戰潮
“It is quite normal to refuse to believe that you are about to be engulfed by a cataclysm.” Tim Judah reports from Ukraine“拒絕相信你即將被一場大災難吞沒，這很正常。” Tim Judah 烏克蘭報導
The New York Times
President Vladimir Putin, warning against interference, said that Russia is a “powerful nuclear state.”
Putin remained defiant as Ukrainians, Russians and observers around the world took stock of the day’s toll.
俄羅斯警方在俄國至少51座城市發生的反戰示威中逮捕超過1700人。
在俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭第一天，在俄國被逮捕的反戰人士是被俄軍打死的烏克蘭人的十倍！
俄羅斯人民好樣的，站起來，推翻普丁暴政！
Analysis: Beyond Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin made clear his true target is America’s “empire of lies.”
Live Updates: Biden Vows Putin Will Pay for Ukraine Invasion
“Putin chose this war, and now he and his country will bear the consequences,” President Biden said, announcing new sanctions in his first public remarks since Russia’s assault began.
2:07Russian Forces Invade UkraineExplosions and clashes were reported throughout the country as Russia moved in by land and air.CreditCredit...Ukrainian State Emergency Service, via Reuters
Alan Yuhas
What happened on Day 1 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Before dawn broke in Ukraine on Thursday, Russian forces began to invade the nation through northern forests, eastern plains and along the southern coast, igniting battles around the country that left dozens dead and drew new sanctions that President Biden said would buckle Russia’s economy.
By sunset, special forces and airborne troops were closing in on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians fled imperiled cities, and thousands of Russians protested the decision to go to war. President Vladimir V. Putin remained defiant as Ukrainians, Russians and observers around the world took stock of the day’s toll. Here are some of the day’s major events.
After a battle in the highly radioactive grounds of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Russian forces seized the power plant where a nuclear reactor melted down in 1986. The condition of the concrete-encased reactor was unknown.
President Biden said new sanctions would target Russia’s elites, top banks and technology exports. He said that the U.S. military would not fight in Ukraine, but that troops would be deployed to NATO’s eastern flank.
At least 40 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, officials said, adding that Ukraine had destroyed two Russian helicopters and seven aircraft. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had destroyed more than 70 military targets, including 11 airfields, a helicopter and four drones.
Thousands of Russians protested the invasion, and hundreds were detained, according to a group that tallies arrests. Mr. Putin, speaking to businessmen on a day when the Russian stock market lost one-third of its value, defended his attack on Ukraine as a “necessary measure.”Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 6:00 p.m. ET14 minutes ago14 minutes ago
Henry Fountain
The Chernobyl plant was reported captured by Russia. What is there?
Engineers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor Unit 4 in July 2021.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Russian troops pushing through the exclusion zone around the former Chernobyl nuclear plant north of Kyiv captured the plant itself, according to Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office.
The power plant, scene of the worst nuclear accident in history, could hardly be considered a valuable asset. In the years following the 1986 explosion and fire that destroyed the plant’s Unit 4 reactor, the remaining three reactors were all shut down. The plant hasn’t produced electricity in more than two decades, and much of the equipment has been removed.
What remains, however, is a lot of nuclear waste, and the plant’s capture is raising concerns about nuclear safety. More than 20,000 highly radioactive fuel assemblies that were removed from the undamaged reactors were slowly being transferred from a facility where they have been stored under water to a long-term dry-storage site that opened in late 2020. There are several other storage facilities at the site as well, for less dangerous and shorter-lived waste.
The danger with fighting around any of these facilities is that if they are damaged by a shell or other explosive, radioactive material could escape.
But the biggest concern would be fighting that affected the lethal remains of Unit 4 itself. Radioactive particles from an estimated five tons of the reactor’s fuel were carried into the air during the 1986 explosion and fire, spreading contamination around Europe. But about 200 tons of fuel remain at the bottom of the destroyed reactor, and it is relatively unprotected.
Following the accident, a concrete shelter, known as the sarcophagus, was hastily built to contain the radiation from that fuel. But over time the sarcophagus deteriorated, becoming unstable, and the aging fuel began to crumble.
Fearing that the sarcophagus might collapse and spew radioactive dust into the air — potentially repeating the widespread contamination of 1986 — more than two dozen nations financed the construction of an arch-shaped steel building that was moved into place over the sarcophagus in 2016. A license to begin dismantling the sarcophagus and safely disposing of the fuel and other radioactive material was granted by Ukraine authorities last year. The process is expected to take decades.
Since the arch was only built for peacetime, any fighting that breached it or, worse, caused the sarcophagus within to collapse, could potentially lead to the kind of disaster the arch was built to prevent.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 5:59 p.m. ET14 minutes ago14 minutes ago
Julian E. Barnes
Congressional intelligence leaders say the Russian army appears ready to invade Kyiv.
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The Dnieper River embankment in the Podil neighborhood of Kyiv on Thursday.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesSenior lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees said on Thursday that the Russian army’s movements into Ukraine appeared to pose a direct threat to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
“My sense is that they may be going into Kyiv imminently,” said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, cautioned that the United States did not have perfect visibility into the region. But he said that it did appear that a full nationwide invasion was underway, one that is not just destroying military targets but also causing civilian deaths.
“They are encircling Kyiv and they may follow through with plans to topple the government,” Mr. Schiff said. “That would be consistent with the intelligence we had before the invasion.”
Mr. Warner said it was too soon to draw any firm conclusions about the Russian operation, but Moscow appeared to be seeing a stronger opposition from Ukrainians than Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, had expected.
“I think the Russians expectation of how quickly they would be militarily successful was both overly ambitious from day one and underestimating the will of the Ukrainian people,” Mr. Warner said.
Both of the committee leaders said that the United States should continue to share intelligence with the Ukrainian government.
Mr. Schiff predicted that, over the long term, Mr. Putin was going to discover his operation was a failure, driving Ukraine closer to the West and bringing NATO assets closer to Russia.
While Russian officials have said they have no intention of occupying Ukraine, Mr. Schiff said he believed that Ukraine would further bolster its relationship with Europe if Russian troops pulled out.
“What Putin is going to find, is what others have so often found,” Mr. Schiff said, “and that is it’s easy to get in, it’s very difficult to get out.”Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 5:30 p.m. ET44 minutes ago44 minutes ago
Lara Jakes
The U.S. expelled a Russian diplomat but says it was not about the Ukraine invasion.
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The Russian Embassy in Washington. American officials said a Russian diplomat had been expelled because his accreditation had lapsed.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The United States has expelled a high-ranking Russian envoy based at the Russian Embassy in Washington, in what a senior State Department official said was the latest volley in a longstanding diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
The State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive situation, said the expulsion was not the result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early Thursday, which has sharply worsened the already tense relations between Washington and Moscow.
Instead, the official said, the Russian diplomat, the embassy’s minister-counselor, was ordered to leave on Wednesday because he had remained in the United States past his three-year accreditation. The embassy’s website identified him as Sergey Vasilyevich Trepelkov.
Mr. Trepelkov appeared to have been serving as the Russian Embassy’s second-ranked official after the deputy ambassador left Washington in January.
American officials said the deputy ambassador had departed after his credentials also expired. The Russian government disputed that, however, saying that the United States had forced out the deputy ambassador before his replacement could arrive.
Feb. 24, 2022, 5:00 p.m. ET1 hour ago1 hour ago
Ashley Wong
‘The world needs to hear us’: Ukrainians march through New York City in protest.
Protesters Rally Against Russian Invasion of UkraineDemonstrators took to the streets in major cities, from New York City to Berlin, to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and express solidarity with the Ukrainian people.CreditCredit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
Under gray skies and a light shower of hail, hundreds of Ukrainians and other New Yorkers marched through Manhattan on Thursday afternoon to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine and condemn President Vladimir V. Putin.
With flags wrapped around their shoulders and holding signs with slogans like “Putin is a killer” and “Stand with Ukraine” in both Ukrainian and English, protesters gathered in Times Square before marching to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, a diplomatic consulate on the Upper East Side, where the crowd swelled to several hundred.
As they marched, they unfurled an enormous banner in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
Tania Priatka, 49, and her friend Bozhena Hubyak, 42, drove in from their homes in Connecticut to join the chorus of protests. Both said they had many family members in Ukraine who they were worried about.
Watching in horror as the news unfolded last night, they said, they felt powerless.
“We need to at least be out here making some noise because the world needs to hear us,” Ms. Priatka said. “I know we have a lot of problems in our own country. But this is going to be a problem that affects the whole world if we don’t do something about it now.”
Ms. Hubyak, who was born in western Ukraine and whose family still lives there, said she had been able to stay in contact with her sister-in-law, who was awakened before sunrise by the sound of planes overhead.
With a daughter and mother to care for, Ms. Hubyak said, her sister-in-law has no plans to leave.
It has broken her heart, she said, to see Russians and Ukrainians who are still teenagers take part in a war they may not return from.
“Hopefully the Russian people, the Russian moms, will see that we’re really a peaceful nation,” Ms. Hubyak said. “We saw some babies, 17-year-old boys fighting on their sides. They’re all still babies.”
Several protesters were emotional, tears gathering in their eyes as they described the fear and panic of watching Ukraine face Russian bombing and gunfire.
Some also warned, as Ms. Priatka did, that a war that currently feels distant to many Americans may soon become a more urgent problem at home.
Oleksandr Shulzhenko, 51, from Westchester County, teared up as he described how his 81-year-old mother in Ukraine had refused to leave her home. His mother told him that she would stay to take care of wounded soldiers, if need be.
But he’s afraid that an all-out war in Ukraine will inevitably spread to other parts of Europe, he said. And he believes that other parts of the world, like the United States, should prepare to get involved as well.
“It could be too late for Ukraine. It’s already late, honestly, in my opinion, but we still have to do something,” he said.
“There is no such thing as a small local war in Europe,” he added.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:54 p.m. ET1 hour ago1 hour ago
Andrew E. Kramer
‘I abandoned everything and left’: Ukrainians flee ahead of the Russian advance.
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Ukrainians line up for gas on the road from Severodonetsk to Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — By the time she had packed her important documents, some clothes and a spare tire, and said goodbye to her dog, Maryna Danyliuk could tell the fighting was in the streets of her hometown.
She and her husband sped along side streets to pick up a friend, then headed for the highway. And she caught a glimpse of what appeared to be the aftermath of a pitched street battle: two destroyed Russian armored vehicles.
“I didn’t think they would come,” she said of the Russians. “I didn’t believe it until the last moment.”
By early afternoon, Ms. Danyliuk’s gray Volkswagen Golf and its three occupants were out on the highway, joining tens of thousands of other cars heading west. Traffic snarled the roads, sometimes bringing movement to a crawl in the midst of bucolic farm fields. Ukrainian Army convoys, many carrying pontoon bridges, clogged roads. Ambulances sped both ways.
At one point, a convoy of gigantic grain harvesters rumbled along, as farmers — or maybe their creditors — rushed to move the valuable vehicles ahead of the Russian advance. In towns along the route, block-long lines of people stood waiting for A.T.M.’s or to get into grocery stores.
Gas was almost unobtainable; cars lined up for hundreds of yards at every station. As the sun set over the flat farmland, Ruslan Kalashnik, 24, stood beside his car at a gas station on the highway around sunset, his face pinched with worry.
“We are evacuating,” he said, “like everybody here.”
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Ukrainians wait for trains at the main train station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
He awoke on Thursday to two thunderous explosions near his apartment in Kramatorsk, the city that serves as the seat of government in the portion of the Donetsk region controlled, for now, by Ukraine. He heard jets overhead.
What set him, his sister and his mother in motion, however, was a furtive, illegal cellphone call from his father, a soldier in the Ukrainian Army at the front, who met the onslaught first in an intensive shelling. He made clear that the invasion was on.
“He said, ‘Get out now.’ And that’s all the time he had to speak,” Mr. Kalashnik said. “We haven’t heard from him since.”
Just over the few hours out on the road, he said, he was dizzied by the fast-moving military action that seemed to be reshaping his country, minute by minute.
“Just while we drove, so much has changed,” he said.
Along the way, he said, he called his grandmother living near the Russian border to the south of Kharkiv, an eastern Ukrainian city that was partially surrounded Thursday. Russian soldiers had already arrived, he said she had told him, and added, “There is a tank in my garden.”
Ms. Danyliuk, a 65-year-old retiree, and her husband, Bogdan, lived in Shchastya, a town along the line dividing government territory from a separatist enclave in eastern Ukraine, where she was an active volunteer in a theater group for children. She also awoke Thursday to a bombardment.
“We packed in a panic,” she said in a telephone interview from the road. “I was afraid to turn on the light. I decided to take a shower, while I had a chance. We packed documents. But I didn’t bring the family photographs. They were in a big box. There wouldn’t be room for them.”
She said she later regretted that decision. In the end, she took another spare tire.
“I should have left yesterday,” she said. “Today, I abandoned everything and left.”
She was planning to stay with her son in Kyiv, though he lives in a one-room apartment, but she also understood Kyiv was not safe, either. Before they left, she and her husband scattered some feed on the ground for their chickens, and then let the birds out to roam — perhaps, into the street fighting.
And at the last moment, in one small tragedy on a day with many of them, Ms. Danyliuk knelt and hugged her dog, Muvi, a mutt she had enjoyed walking in the pine forests around their home.
“I hugged Muvi and I cried,” she said. The dog would be on its own now.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:30 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
Farnaz Fassihi and Nick Cumming-Bruce
U.N. Security Council to vote on resolution condemning Russia, U.S. official says.
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The United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday.Credit...John Minchillo/Associated PressThe United Nations Security Council planned to vote on Friday on a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and calling for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of its troops, according to a senior U.S. administration official.
The resolution, written and led by the United States, would impose legally binding obligations on Russia under Chapter VII of the U.N. charter, which provides a framework for the council to act when world security is threatened in order to “maintain or restore international peace and security.”
The text of the resolution was circulated among the 15-member council on Thursday.
The resolution would condemn, “in the strongest terms possible, Russia’s aggression, invasion and violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty,” according to the U.S. official. “It reaffirms the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine. And it requires the Russian Federation immediately, completely, and unconditionally to withdraw its forces.”
A European diplomat at the U.N. said the resolution would also declare that “Russia cannot keep invading its neighbors.”
The resolution may be largely symbolic, given that Russia, a permanent member of the council with veto power, was expected to veto it. But the United States and its allies have said the U.N. and the council have a responsibility to act, and that a Russian veto would only demonstrate the country’s isolation.
“We view the council as the critical venue in which Russia must be forced to explain itself,” the senior U.S. official said in a phone call with reporters. “We won’t stand by and do nothing.”
To fully demonstrate Russia’s isolation, the United States and its allies would need the support of a majority of the council’s members. The resolution has wide support, diplomats have said, but it was not clear whether China would support or oppose the measure. China could also veto the resolution, or abstain.
The U.N. General Assembly was also expected to vote on a resolution condemning Russia’s aggression next week, the U.S. official said. The General Assembly resolutions carry political weight, but are not legally binding.
The U.N. measures are part of a coordinated and wider approach by the United States, the European Union and their allies to punish President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for ordering the invasion of Ukraine, diplomats said.
These measures include collective and individual sanctions by countries targeting Russian institutions, enterprises and people involved in the military operation against Ukraine.
Diplomats acknowledged that economic sanctions may take time to squeeze Russia’s economy, and might not stop the continuing barrage of attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns. They said they hoped that Mr. Putin would recalculate once he realized that Russia was being shunned, politically and economically.
Ukraine on Thursday also called for an urgent debate on Russia’s invasion in the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in a bid to escalate the diplomatic costs of Mr. Putin’s assault. Based in Geneva, the council is regarded as the world’s most important human rights body. While it has no criminal enforcement or sanctioning powers, the council can undertake investigations that help shape the global image of countries.
The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, said Russia’s invasion violated international law and put countless civilian lives at risk. It “must be immediately halted,” she said.
Her statement came as United Nations relief agencies reported early signs of the humanitarian impact of Russia’s invasion. The United Nations refugee agency said several thousand people had crossed Ukraine’s borders into neighboring countries. It believed about 100,000 people had left their homes and may be displaced within the country.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
Anton TroianovskiReporting from Moscow
President Emmanuel Macron of France called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin says. The two had “a serious and frank exchange” about Ukraine, and Mr. Putin “gave an exhaustive explanation of the reasons and circumstances” surrounding the invasion, according to a Kremlin statement. It was Putin’s fourth exchange of the day with a foreign leader: He also met with the prime minister of Pakistan in Moscow and spoke by phone with the leaders of Iran and India.
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Credit...Pool photo by Ludovic Marin
Feb. 24, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
Christiaan Triebert and Dmitriy Khavin
Videos show evidence of Ukraine’s defense against Russian attack.
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CreditCredit...Djavanshir Akhmed, via Facebook
As Russia continues its assault, videos give some insight into how the Ukrainian military is mounting a defense.
Destroyed and captured Russian military vehicles were filmed at the entrance to Kharkiv, a large city in the east of Ukraine. The videos show a dead Russian soldier among burning armored fighting vehicles and a T-80 tank with a blown-off turret.
At least two Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters were downed near Kyiv. In one video, filmed about 12 miles south of the capital, a pilot is seen parachuting into the Dnieper River, from which smoke is rising.
Despite these occasional blows, social media videos and analysts suggest the Russian military has lost fewer than 20 military vehicles so far.Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:46 p.m. ET2 hours ago2 hours ago
John Ismay
The approximately 7,000 additional U.S. soldiers who will deploy to Germany in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine will come from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Ga., the Pentagon said on Thursday. The soldiers will not come from the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., as a senior Defense Department had said earlier.
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:42 p.m. ET3 hours ago3 hours ago
Melissa Eddy
Some, but not all, former European leaders quit Russian boards.
adimir V. Putin, left, and Gerhard Schröder, right. Mr. Schröder, a former German chancellor, wrote on Thursday about “many mistakes — on both sides.”Credit...Sputnik Photo Agency/Reuters
A former Austrian chancellor and ex-prime ministers of Italy and Finland were among the officials who quit their positions on the boards of leading Russian companies on Thursday in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But Germany’s former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, was not among them.
Mr. Schröder, a friend of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, is a familiar face on the boards of some prominent companies, including Rosneft, the Russian oil giant. He is chairman of the shareholders committee of Nord Stream 2, the company that owns the new Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline that Berlin said this week it would stop.
He has also been invited to sit on the board of Gazprom, the Russian gas behemoth that is the parent company of Nord Stream 2.
Mr. Schröder, 77, who was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, on Thursday called for an end to the war, writing in a post on his LinkedIn account.
But in contrast to the chorus of harsh rebukes of Russia’s attack from European leaders, Mr. Schröder stressed the “missed opportunities between the West and Russia,” as well as the “many mistakes — on both sides.”
He said that “Russia’s security interests do not justify the use of military means,” but cautioned European leaders against taking actions that “cut the remaining political, economic and civil society ties that exist between Europe and Russia.”
Others tied to Russian boardrooms felt compelled to step down after the invasion. Matteo Renzi, a former prime minister of Italy, resigned from board of Delimobil, a Russian car-sharing service, his party said. Finland’s former prime minister, Esko Aho, told local media he had withdrawn from the board of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.
A former Austrian chancellor, Christian Kern, who led the Austrian railway company ÖBB, resigned from the board of Russia’s state-owned railway company, RZD, saying he did not want to be a part of the war.
“Since last night, RZD is part of the logistics of war,” he told the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard. “I deeply regret this.”
But another ex-chancellor of Austria, Wolfgang Schüssel, appeared unmoved by the attack, saying he saw no reason to quit his position on the board of the Lukoil, a Russian multinational company. And Karin Kneissl, the country’s former foreign minister whose wedding party Mr. Putin crashed in 2018, also still sits on the board of Rosneft.
But as images of Ukrainians fleeing the capital Kyiv ran all day on German screens Thursday, calls for Mr. Schröder to sever his ties with Russia intensified.
“This blatant purchase of a German ex-head of government by Putin can hardly be surpassed in terms of ignominy,” Christian Bangel wrote in an editorial in the German weekly, Die Zeit. “It damages not only Schröder himself, but also the office of chancellor.”Show more
Feb. 24, 2022, 3:31 p.m. ET3 hours ago3 hours ago
Christopher F. SchuetzeReporting from Berlin
About 2,500 people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with handmade signs and Ukrainian flags on Thursday night to protest against the Russian invasion. For the second time this week, the city had illuminated the landmark in blue and yellow to express solidarity with Ukraine.
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Credit...Paul Zinken/DPA, via Associated PressFeb. 24, 2022, 3:26 p.m. ET3 hours ago3 hours ago
Miriam Jordan
Refugee resettlement leaders urge Biden to welcome Ukrainians to the U.S.
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People outside of the Russian Embassy in Washington on Thursday showed their support for the people of Ukraine.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New York TimesAs international humanitarian groups warned that the Russian invasion could trigger a major exodus from Ukraine, some refugee resettlement leaders in the United States called on the Biden administration to prepare to welcome people fleeing for their lives.
“It will be our moral imperative to welcome Ukrainian refugees, as we have been doing for decades,” said David Duea, president of the Northwestern affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. The agency has resettled thousands of Ukrainians in Oregon and Washington.
He added, “I do feel a sense that this is coming.”
But there was concern that the U.S. refugee program, already under pressure to absorb more than 70,000 evacuees from Afghanistan who arrived last year, would be unable to handle another large volume of evacuees.
The nine nonprofit groups tasked by the State Department with resettling refugees in U.S. communities have been trying to integrate thousands of Afghan families released from military bases in recent weeks. The organizations were drained of funding and forced to downsize significantly after former President Donald J. Trump reduced refugee admissions during his term in office.
“Right now, our resettlement capacity, which was decimated under the Trump administration, is strained to the limits,” said Bill Frelick, director of the refugee and migrant rights division of Human Rights Watch.
He suggested that resettling Ukrainians in the United States, a laborious process that involves screening and interviews, should not be a first option. Rather, he said, the focus should be on helping countries that neighbor Ukraine swiftly prepare to assist refugees in need of immediate protection and shelter.
“Establishing camps, if needed in places like Poland, would be a much higher imperative than planning for refugee resettlement at this emergency stage,” he said.Show more
Valerie Hopkins and Alex Marshall
Ukraine’s museums scramble to protect their collections.
n exhibition in 2021 at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, one of many large museums in Kyiv.Credit...Yuliia Ovsiannikova /Ukrinform, via Getty Images
KYIV, Ukraine — At 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, Ihor Poshyvailo, the director of the Museum of Freedom here, was woken by the sound of explosions.
He rushed outside to the street and saw airplanes flying overhead, he said. An hour later, he was in a meeting with officials from Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture trying to work out how the country’s museums could protect their collections.
“We had plans for what to do prewar,” Poshyvailo said, “but now it is a war, it’s totally different.”
By the time they considered evacuating the museum’s most prized objects from Kyiv, the roads were already clogged with Ukrainians fleeing west, and they realized it would not be possible, Poshyvailo said.
Although talk of conflict in Ukraine has been building for weeks, some of the country’s museums were badly prepared when shelling and rocket attacks began and Russian troops entered the country Thursday morning. Even if museums and other cultural sites are unlikely to be direct targets of Russian aggression, administrators worry about the security of their collections if fighting escalates and enters urban areas. Some were concerned that Russian nationalists could attack institutions that put forward Ukrainian historical and cultural narratives.
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2020
中共解放軍"學生"領導，早已在英、美、澳等大學畢業....
"中國軍方藉助美國大學開展秘密研究
一名申請與美國科學家一起做研究的中國研究人員被控在申請美國簽證時掩蓋自己是軍方一名中尉的事實。透過對她的起訴書可以看出，美國大學對於前沿領域研究中的國際合作所持的開放態度如何使得他們容易遭受潛在利用。"
2019
午飯前與海偉錄一片：追憶中一中與東海大學的一些事
海偉明早回美國，照張像留念
大肚山竹林寺遊 約1973
「華爾街日報」中文版
Facebook通過流行手機應用收集敏感個人信息
數百萬智能手機用戶向手機應用透露他們最私密的秘密，包括他們什麼時候想減肥或上周末看的房子價格。還有一些應用掌握用戶的體重、血壓、生理期或懷孕狀態。但大部分用戶都不知道，在很多情況下這些數據又被分享給了Facebook。
2017
老郭，
今天小郭來訪，帶來您送的Whiskey，非常謝謝。此刻正在享用。
您說此物最相思--nostalgia for 1970s U. K.
我跟小郭說，當年台灣人都只懂Jonny Walker：我買一瓶帶到Essex，喝不完，就轉送給同樓的matured student Tom，他高興得要命，現在，我可以體會他當時的雀躍！
我跟小郭說，日子特快，轉眼她以大三，更忙得不亦樂乎。我跟她約好她大四畢業回香港前，要到「漢清講堂」YouTube (hc itaiwan forum)
https://goo.gl/Y5CSVy
來報告旅台經驗。
她吃得飽飽的，連說，沒問題！
然後趕往內湖大賣場，大採購去也！
想您老兄！
On Literature by Umberto Eco《艾可談文學》《埃科談文學》/ Q. and A.
http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/....../on-literature-by......
譯註３將Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse（KBE was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Wikipedia） 說成美國作家，錯誤。英國的。
Kuohsun Shih
2016年2月25日 ·
#那不受干擾魔幻似的小號尖銳的樂音。
我應該讓我忠實的讀者（我可能會說總共二十四位，這樣我就不至於和偉大的曼佐尼的二十五位讀者打對台了，其實我是懷著謙遜的心情想勝過他的）自行去分辨，這兩個插曲如何在四十年之後的《傅科擺》中重新被利用上。
此外，在這時期我也寫了一些“年輕宇宙的古老故事”，主角是地球以及其他的星球，時間是銀河系剛剛誕生的時候，星球彼此之間受到愛慾和嫉妒的牽扯： 在一個故事裡面，金星和太陽相愛，費勁要脫離自己的軌道以便自我毀滅在她愛人那熾熱發光的大體積內。那是我小小的、不自覺的宇宙奇趣故事。
我在十六歲的時候對詩開始感興趣。我大量閱讀艱澀難懂的詩作，不過我自己的品位比較偏向卡爾達雷利以及《拉隆達》雜誌那些作者的古典主義風格。我已經不知道自己是對於詩的需要（以及同時發現肖邦的音樂）才引發我那柏拉圖式的、說不出口的初戀，或者情況正好相反。但不管在什麼情況下，那種混合都是招致苦痛的，甚至是最溫柔和最自戀的懷舊愁緒都無法令我在不感到完全徹底羞愧的情況下，去回味當時的努力。不過，從我那次的經驗一定浮現出一種嚴厲的自我批評態度： 在幾年之中，這種堅決不動搖的態度已促使我認清一個事實： 我寫的詩和青春痘具有相同的、功能上的起源以及外貌。因此我決定（而這決心持續三十年之久）放棄所謂的創造性寫作，而僅讓自己局限在哲學的反思以及隨筆的寫作上面。
……....
2015
唐．德里羅(Don DeLillo)《小天使艾絲梅拉達》(The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories)，梁永安譯，台北：寶瓶文化，2015
「漢清兄乙未新春誌興
永安」
先讀1983寫的：《第三次世界大戰的人味時刻》（Human Moments in World War III）。原因是數月前我們討論過幾句英文的意思，還請教美國的WWS......
我過去絕少讓思緒漫遊於外太空，不過去年得知同學苦邦兄退休後寫、奏音樂，主題都是太空的感情，才跟隨其音樂飄遊於太陽系。
今早讀"音樂的韻動，是千言萬語無法形容的"：
"We must never forget that music is movement,
always going somewhere, shifting and changing,
and flowing, from one note to another;
and that movement can tell us more about the way we feel
than a million words can."
-Leonard Bernstein, "What Does Music Mean?" (1958)
我讀這短篇，處處有莫名的衝擊與感動，或許是作者的想像力、譯者梁先生、苦邦同學之音樂，東海大學內鬥爭Employee of the Month：東海大學"湯校長"......之功。
2014
您知道嗎？
2 百萬
加入 AdSense 計劃的發佈商數目已突破 2 百萬。
$90 億
2013 年，我們撥付給 AdSense 發佈商夥伴的收益超過 $90 億美元。.
郵局的員工訓練:
(英文)香港某銀行給忠孝東路3段某號， 送到新生南路3段某號。
《文訊 》2月號/2014 第340期
古稀感言◎吳宏一 "......但台灣當局的昏庸無能，領導無方，卻也不能辭其咎。......."頁202；
遇到幾個字◎黃文範 :"馬英九不此之圖。"......字幕上立馬打出"馬英九不恥之徒......." 頁207；
很少的機會6點起床:可以"CNN的烏克蘭未完成的革命"；
NHK報導韓國總統就任一年的飽受禮遇；
6點半的溫州街還有種種的鳥虫鳴叫；教堂內的拉伸運動；
外頭的朝日.......
幾番淚眼:"02/24播出 航空城大徵收-悲傷家園
一個航空城計畫，政府勾勒一個大夢，影響七個村落，迫遷8000名居民，開發6000多公頃土地，在期待開發與反對徵收的拉扯間，許多居民都疑惑著，到底政府強徵民地，最後利益會是給了誰？"
漫談酒與管理 1998
漫談酒與管理
(這篇草稿是1998年寫的。我前年說，或許應該完成它，用此文紀念我的父親。又，2012年與陳寬仁老師談金門和馬祖的高梁酒之經營，他說這要談起來，話可長了。當年上養生村為他祝壽，拿一小瓶日本威士忌請他嚐。今年春節，我的侄兒買瓶 Park…之威士忌，就將我們打發了。)
辛：你曉得，我們的雷根總統當選連任，他是全世界最有權力的人。
馬：是嗎？他能不能把水變成酒？
辛：不能。
馬：那麼他有什麼用？
（在雷根總統當選連任的明星大會串的慶祝會上，司儀法蘭克．辛納屈與「沉緬於酒色」的歌手迪恩．馬丁的相聲式對話。）取材自 高克毅《鼠咀集》台北：聯經出版社，1991，第171頁 。
，1998
1998年元月13／14日為公賣局朋友講述「第四代管理」，對象是釀啤酒及化驗專家。我想融合戴明淵博知識系統應用於釀售酒類的組織。
1997年12月29日的紀念戴明研究年會，吳總經理剛從日本回來，送我的”酒”，”竟是”日本製的Whisky。包裝設計極美，令人愛不釋眼（捨不得喝，送了長輩……）
我記得當年曾向一些公賣局的同事演講，說日本人多迷Whisky，竟然不惜從蘇格蘭將當地的水運回日本，來研發和自製Whisky的故事。為什麼如此大費周章呢？因為，當時他們發現，所有的製酒的重要因素和條件，他們都能複製並控制。可是，這樣製造出來的產品，味道上仍差一截。幾經搜索影響品質的要因，最後找出的差異是：日本和蘇格蘭的水質就是不同。
近百年前，日本Suntory公司的創始人，就發現Whisky的味覺魅力與市場發展的潛力，不過日本Whisky的品質，可要等到投入開發工作 20年之後，才穩定下來﹔等到第二次世界大戰之後，日本國內的威士忌市場才漸漸成長。由這段簡史，可見創業之不易。(現在宜蘭也有一家台灣著名的威士忌品牌，它的掘起，當然有其美麗的故事，但其歷史太短，暫時不討論。)......
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