Holocaust survivor, 96, is killed in Ukraine And LIVE UPDATES
Boris Romantschenko survived the concentration camps #Buchenwald, #PeenemĂźnde, #Dora and #BergenBelsen. Now he has been killed by a bullet that hit his house in #Charkiv, #Ukraine. He was 96 years old. We are stunned. pic.twitter.com/ZZIK2OdbAu
— Stift. Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora (@Buchenwald_Dora) March 21, 2022
Natalieâs Commentary: Boris had come so far. Defeated and survived one of the worst atrocities as a Holocaust survivor. I canât imagine his thoughts. Listening for days to the bombing and crashing of buildings, vehicles, and even innocent people as unprotected targets of war. How could the horrific war he survived in Germany during World War II be happening again. Itâs not possibleâŚbut it is. War seems to repeat its political mistakes and decisions on the world stage on innocent people.
More than likely his restful peace had come to reflect on his past, he had left well behind for good. Perhaps, Boris was to tired and weak with ailments that had limited his mobility to join the other 10 million Ukrainians running from Russiaâs war on Ukraine. God bless you Boris, rest in peace with the others targeted in this tragedy. ~ Natalie
Germanyâs Buchenwald concentration camp memorial said Friday that Boris Romanchenko — a Holocaust survivor who was 96 years old — has been killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Ukraine also refused to surrender Mariupol after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an ultimatum to surrender the city by 5 a.m. Monday.
It is not that his spies are necessarily incompetent. Vladimir Putin apparently just thinks they are.Â
Two members of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, who were supposed to have prepped the ground for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are reportedly under house arrest. Colonel-General Sergei Beseda and his deputy apparently dropped the ball. Or are being blamed for an operation that by most accounts is bogged down.
Questions are likely being asked. “Why didn’t Ukrainains welcome Russian soldiers? Where did the money earmarked for that operation go? Was it unwisely spent or stolen by those in charge of it?” There were no crowds greeting the invading force with flowers, as some in Russia had anticipated.
Gen. Jack Keane: Biden and NATO need to come to grips with this
An expert on Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that President Biden is “playing our very strong hand in a very weak way” by squandering the power of the United States to deter Russian aggression.
Rebekah Koffler, who is a former DIA intelligence officer and author of “Putinâs Playbook: Russiaâs Secret Plan to Defeat America,” told Fox News Digital that the Russians understand the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war between Russia and the United States.
“We are on a geopolitical collision course with Russia,” she said. “Our national interests are irreconcilable, the way that both countries define them.”
Natalieâs Commentary: Itâs so apparent to Americans that Americaâs achilles heel is Bidenâs cognitive disabilities and corrupted ways affecting his inability to a strong and effective Commander-in-Chief. Heâs like a child-like President with not care on his mind. Yet he single handedly, devastatingly destroyed Americaâs economy and implemented experimental âvaccinesâ as mandates on every American person. He has no conscience. He only feels with malice entitlement to do the things that protect his son Hunter Biden and hide his pay2play schemes worth $31 million given to the Biden syndicate family from our number one adversarial enemy China and the CCP.
Read Peter Schweizerâs new book âRed Handedâ to find out not only the corruption of illegitimate President Biden but big tech as well are actively complicit and culpable with their respect, money, applications, intelligence sources going to China. This information is riveting and infamous for those who are not concerned about Americanâs lives but take advantage of the taxpayerâs money to afford them the national security and the dreams they had of becoming billionaires all connected to Chinaâs genocidal Communist dictatorship.
We are now fighting our own internal war against their censorship of freedom of speech and the crimes of a former President involved with a billionaire who through his Open Society Foundation has corrupted state Governors, Attorney Generals, Mayors, and Police Department Chiefs to defund the protection of police and firefighters taking away our safety and exposing us to brutal crimes committed mostly by illegal criminal immigrants. Biden not only let them enter our country illegally but flew them to major cities in 90 flights to remain in our country illegally and mobile to do exactly as they please. Most of the over two million who have crossed our open borders are men, old and young, leaving behind criminal records. They are involved child trafficking bringing innocent children pretending to be a single male parent and no mother in sight. You can just imagine where these children are placed for atrocities to happen to them as young as two, three, four-year-olds to seventeen-year-olds.Â
The irony is that Biden is not the legitimate President. He didnât win this Presidency fair and square.
I suppose the pride of those who were complicit and culpable in this massive election fraud will not come forward to tell the truth.
Imagine mainstream media ABC, CBS and NBC admitting this; the truth. Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg invested $450 million towards this massive fraud election, Googleâs YouTube and Twitter deactivated social media accounts like The New York Post who was the first to expose the infamous Hunter Bidenâs laptop with financial records of illegal business dealings, personal emails and pictures of Hunterâs cocaine and sexual addictions exposed.Â
There was too much TV coverage in every state that conducted immediate investigations and most importantly whistleblowers came forward with their testimony in affidavits. They witnessed with their own eyes and were compelled as American citizens to report the truth regarding the massive election fraud. Still to this day they are conducting voting audits in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan and New Mexico to prove the truth of the massive election fraud in the 2020 national election. But truth is a rare virtue and commodity these days when so many and are wrapped up in money, power and control. Â ~ Natalie
It is not that his spies are necessarily incompetent. Vladimir Putin members of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, who were supposed to have prepped the ground for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are reportedly under house arrest. Colonel-General Sergei Beseda and his deputy apparently dropped the ball. Or are being blamed for an operation that by most accounts is bogged down.
Questions are likely being asked. “Why didn’t Ukrainains welcome Russian soldiers? Where did the money earmarked for that operation go? Was it unwisely spent or stolen by those in charge of it?” There were no crowds greeting the invading force with flowers, as some in Russia had anticipated.Â
President Biden attempted to dispel the belief that Ukraine is fighting Russia without sophisticated equipment, arguing they have what they need to effectively fight the invasion.
âThe idea that they donât have enough sophisticated equipment is just simply not accurate,” Biden said during remarks at the Business Roundtable quarterly meeting Monday. “They have every piece of equipment that makes rational sense based on our military and NATOâs military, for them to be able to do what theyâre doing.
“Theyâre wreaking havoc on the on the Russian military, whether itâs their tanks or their helicopters or their aircraft.â
Biden’s comments come as many have continued for the U.S. to allow for the transfer of MiG fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine, a move the administration has not backed down from arguing is too risky to be perceived as escalatory by the Russians.
Natalieâs Commentary: After all the federal crimes Biden has committed, especially his debacle in Afghanistan, is he really sophisticated, intelligent and qualified to make such a worthless and apathetic comment in the middle of this explosive war that could lead to more death and destruction expanding into NATO countries. Heâs a malice fool with bold ignorance and narcissistic incompetence. ~ Natalie
Project Dynamo, a group of U.S. veterans and civilians who have helped Americans and allies escape Afghanistan and Ukraine, rescued retired Sgt. 1st Class Robert “Bob” Platt, Platt’s wife, and the couple’s cats from a town northeast of Kyiv on Saturday night.Â
Platt lived in a town that put him “squarely behind enemy lines with, no kidding, Russians in his backyard and tanks parked on his street,” Project Dynamo co-founder Bryan Stern told Fox News Digital.Â
Operatives on the ground planned to evacuate Platt and his family on Thursday, but the team came under Russian artillery fire when they were just five miles away from Platt and had to turn back.
“Bob had told me, he says, ‘Look, Brian, it’s too hot here. You need to go. Just leave. We’ll be in Russian-occupied Ukraine,'” Stern said of his conversations with Platt last week. “And I said, âThis is the deal. We don’t leave our people behind, not happening. You have two very simple jobs: Stay positive and stay alive. Leave the rest to me.â”
Ukrainian on the countryâs morale: âI see determination in their eyesâ
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that the U.S. has seen “clear evidence” that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
“We see clear evidence that the Russians are committing war crimes,” Kirby said during Monday’s press briefing, adding that the U.S. is helping with the collection of evidence to document that crimes.
Kirby declined to speak to what the repercussions or what the U.S. response would be to the war crimes.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Monday that Russia is still struggling to meet their objectives on the ground in Ukraine and have stepped up their bombardment of Ukrainian cities.
“Weâre on day 26, the Russians clearly have not achieved many or almost all of the objectives they were setting out to achieve,” Kirby said. “When you look at what they have managed to do in 26 days, itâs not that impressive.”
Kirby said Ukrainians are fighting bravely to keep hold of cities, pointing to the besieged city of Mariupol and noting that it still has not fallen into Russian hands.
âThey have failed to achieve a lot of their objectives,” Kirby said. “Because they are stalled⌠they are stepping up their long range fires⌠they are lobbing an awful lot of hardware into these cities to force their surrender.”
Kirby noted that the increased bombardment is resulting in more civilian casualties and damage to key infrastructure such as schools and hospitals, arguing the shelling has been “largely indiscriminate.”
He also lauded how the Ukrainian military has maximized its resources to prevent Russian forces from gaining air superiority, saying that the Pentagon assesses that Russia still does not have control of the sky after 26 days.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Monday that Russia has continued an effort to recruit foreign fighters, particularly from the Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
While that effort remains ongoing, Kirby cautioned that they have not seen any movement or influx of groups of foreign fighters into Ukraine.
President Biden warned that the Russians could be planning cyberattacks against the U.S., arguing that the moment calls for improvements to the country’s cybersecurity.
“This is a critical moment to accelerate our work to improve domestic cybersecurity and bolster our national resilience,” Biden said in a statement Monday. “I have previously warned about the potential that Russia could conduct malicious cyber activity against the United States, including as a response to the unprecedented economic costs weâve imposed on Russia alongside our allies and partners. Itâs part of Russiaâs playbook. Today, my Administration is reiterating those warnings based on evolving intelligence that the Russian Government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks.
“My Administration will continue to use every tool to deter, disrupt, and if My Administration will continue to use every tool to deter, disrupt, and if necessary, respond to cyberattacks against critical infrastructure.”
Biden also called on the private sector to help increase its ability to fight off cyber threats from Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has combined all Ukrainian television stations into one platform to combat “misinformation by the aggressor state, distortion of information, as well as justifying or denying” information about Russianâs ongoing invasion.Â
The Ukraine government announced that “for the sake of national security and defense of Ukraine” it would “implement a single information policy,” National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said in a translated statement.Â
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
A senior Israeli official has confirmed to Fox News a report that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who has become a mediator in the war in Ukraine — accepted an invite to travel to Kyiv.
The report said Bennett would only head to the Ukrainian capital if talks are taken seriously and that his presence has been requested by the Ukrainian government numerous times over the past ten days.
Bennett’s office reportedly has instructed Israeli security services to draft plans for him to visit Kyiv on short notice.
Fox News’ Yonat Friling contributed to this report.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown during a meeting in Moscow on Monday. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putinâs campaign in Ukraine is “stalled,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Sunday, categorizing Moscowâs strategy as feeding their own troops into “a wood chipper.”
“Their maneuver forces on the ground are essentially stalled,” Austin said Sunday during an appearance on CBSâ “Face The Nation.” “It’s had the effect of him moving his forces into a wood chipper. You know, the Ukrainians have continued to attrit his forces, and they’ve been very effective, using the equipment that we provided them, you know, and armor weapons and aircraft weapons.”Â
Austin, who recently returned from a trip to Bulgaria and Slovakia, said Putin has not been able to achieve his goals as rapidly as he anticipated, so heâs resorted to targeting cities, towns and civilians more heavily.Â
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A man walks in his apartment ruined after the Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
As Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine stretched into its 26th day, new photos show the devastation and death wrought by the conflict.
Heavy bombardment of Mariupol continued as Ukraine rejected an offer to surrender the strategic port city to Russia in exchange for their soldiers safe passage out.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Monday the bombing of an art school in Mariupol where 400 civilians were taking shelter. “They are under the rubble, and we don’t know how many of them have survived,” he said.
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The Chernobyl nuclear facilities in Ukraine. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
Ukraineâs nuclear regulatory agency said Monday that the radiation monitors around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have stopped working.
In a statement Monday, the agency also said there are no longer firefighters available in the region to protect forests tainted by decades of radioactivity as the weather warms. The plant was seized by Russia’s military on Feb. 24.
The combination of risks could mean a âsignificant deteriorationâ of the ability to control the spread of radiation not just in Ukraine but beyond the countryâs borders in weeks and months to come, according to Mondayâs statement.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
