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This afternoon.

Kiev, Ukraine.

Ukrainian state telly gets hit as the Russian military said it would strike ‘strategically important targets’ used by Ukraine’s military and intelligence, including ‘comms installations’.

Earlier: Let Us In

Meanwhile…

Ah now.

Ukrainian refugees arrive in Poland this week

Riddle of Reality

Did you know the internet use to be a fun place for watching animal videos?
Instead of watching humanity’s real time demise.
I sit and I scroll through Facebook.
No longer laughing at family anecdotes.
Rather I’m watching this game of chess play out between our world leaders.
The bayonet sings,
As little toy soldiers stain the ground.
History awakened in a denied collective crime.
It started with a virus but it’s ignorance that clogs our veins.
Photographs on my timeline that capture a horror no worse than Stephen King.
Peace menaced by a tyrant.
I can not comprehend this.
Make sense of the senseless.
Reality is a riddle.
The muppets in power continue  this masquerade of sagacity.
I question their sanity.
Everyday this delirium grows.

Aoife Cunningham

Previously: Aoife on Broadsheet

Reuters

This afternoon.

Earlier…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (centre) with Ukraine’s EU membership application

Last night/this morning.

“Our goal is to be with all Europeans and, most importantly, to be equal. I’m sure that’s fair. I am sure we deserve it.

“Europeans are witnessing how our soldiers are fighting not only for our country, but for all of Europe, for peace, for peace for all, for all the countries of the European Union.

“Ukrainians have shown to the world who we are, while Russia has showed what it has turned into…. Every crime, every shelling by the occupier only unites us more,”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy seeking a fast track entry for Ukraine into the European Union., Bloc officials quickly played down the likelihood of any such move for a number of reasons, including the fact that no such fast-track procedure exists.

Zelenskiy Calls For Ukraine’s Immediate EU Membership But Bloc Cool On Idea (RFE)

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Getty

This morning.

Dublin Castle. Dublin 2.

Fine Gael Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris and Fine Gael Minister for Justice Helen McEntee arrive for a cabinet meeting. Both are front-runners to replace Leo Varadkar among Fine Gael members in a poll conducted by the Irish Examiner.

The future’s bright.

Coveney’s FG leadership hopes fade — McEntee or Harris to replace Varadkar (Irish Examiner)

This afternoon.

Dublin Castle, Dublin

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien (above) and John O’Connor, Chair of The Housing Commission, after this morning’s meeting of the Housing Commission, which was launched in January and tasked with ‘bringing forward proposals for a referendum on housing’.

Advising the commission ‘with expertise in this area’ are Frank Clarke, Former Chief Justice, Professor Gerry Whyte, Professor of Law Trinity College Dublin, Professor Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law University of New South Wales and Madeleine MacKenzie, Parliamentary Counsel in the Scottish Government’s Parliamentary Counsel Office.

None of whom is a landlord.

We assume.

Fight!

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage welcomes establishment of Working Group on Referendum on Housing (Gov.ie)

Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews