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Dublin Port.

Truckers Hugh Flynn  (above left) and Kevin Finneran (right) awaiting departure from South Terminal Road, Dublin Port. ‘Aid From Ireland’ has organised the largest aid convoy to ever leave Ireland, destined for Ukraine. 25 trucks are leaving this afternoon with 500 tonnes of aid.

Huge aid convoy set to leave Ireland for Ukraine (RTE)

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The national accommodation pledge portal to register potential accommodation for Ukrainian refugees is open.

Ireland announced it is set to take in more than 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing conflict. It has joined the EU scheme that allows people to settle without a visa for three years.

Pledges (Red Cross)

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Leaders in Dublin were widely lauded for the move, but a UK Government chief tried to justify their stricter measures by suggesting the Irish government could be endangering Britain.

A Whitehall source told the Telegraph: “Ireland has basically opened the door to everyone in Ukraine, which creates a problem due to the Common Travel Area.

“We’ve seen before with migrants from Albania that they have come through Dublin, into Belfast and across to the mainland to Liverpool. That’s created a drug cartel route.”

They added: “It’s the Home Office that will get the blame if in three or five years’ time [if] there are problems with those who come. That’s why the security checks have to be done carefully now.”

Anyone?

Ukraine crisis: UK Government ‘berates’ Ireland over refugee scheme (The National)

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Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6.

Gardai at the scene during the removal of a lorry which crashed through the gates to the grounds of the Russian Embassy.

Via Irish Times:

The driver of the truck, Co Leitrim businessman Desmond Wisley, was arrested for criminal damage following the incident on Orwell Road in south Dublin. There were no injuries.

“I just done this to create a safe corridor for the Russian ambassador to leave Ireland,” he said. “I want the ambassador and his colleagues to leave this country, leave this free country. It’s about time we stood up.”

“I’ve done my bit, lads. It’s about time the rest of Ireland done their bit,” he said as he was led away by gardaí.

Mr Wisley is part of a family-run ecclesiastical supplies business, supplying products to churches including wine, bread, altar cloths, banners, candles and vestments.

In an initial statement, a Russian embassy spokeswoman said: “The incident took place in the presence of Garda officers, who stood idle.

“The embassy is in contact with the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, demanding that the Irish authorities take comprehensive measures to ensure the safety of its staff and their family members.”

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Yesterday: It’s Just been Revoked

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Destinations for Ukrainians fleeing the conflict as of March 6, via the United Nations High Commission For Refugees (UNHCR).

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Taoiseach Micheal Martin

…via RTÉ News:

The Taoiseach has said about 1,800 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland so far – 486 of whom arrived yesterday.

Speaking to Newstalk, Micheál Martin said about two thirds of arrivals have connections with families in Ireland, but that number is decreasing.

He described the scenes at the Ukraine border as “horrific” and said the numbers queuing to cross the border represents the worst displacement of people since World War II.

“So this is a major humanitarian crisis on the continent of Europe, and the response to that will have to be outside of the norm,” he said.

“It can’t be business as usual in terms of how one responds to that and Government will be giving this consideration tomorrow morning at its Cabinet meeting.”

1,800 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland, says Taoiseach (RTE)

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Belarus.

Via BBC

As a third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine begins, the Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak urges Russia to halt attacks on civilians.

In a tweet, he says: “In a few minutes, we will start talking to representatives of a country that seriously believes large-scale violence against civilians is an argument. Prove that this is not the case.”

Ukrainian negotiator urges halt to attack on civilians (BBC)

The Athgarvan Grain Mill, Blackrath, County Kildare

This morning.

Further to a call by Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, for farmers to grow more grain due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine…

…via Irish Examiner:

the Irish Farmers’ Association said in a statement that there has “been no discussion with farmers” regarding reports that they may be required to grow crops in 2022.

“We are in very challenging times and farmers will certainly play our part in any national or European effort,” said IFA President Tim Cullinan.

“However, it is far from certain that asking all farmers to plant crops is the best use of the resources that are likely to be available to us.”

To the pitchforks!

Farmers asked to grow grain due to potential shortages from war in Ukraine (Irish Examiner)

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Russia is accusing the US. of using Ukraine to carry out illegal biological weapons research on deadly diseases, including the ‘Black Death’.

Via Russian state-owned news agency Tass:

Evidence of a US-financed military biological program developed in Ukraine has been revealed during Russia’s special operation in that country, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

“In the course of the special military operation, evidence of the Kiev regime’s hasty measures to conceal any traces of the military biological program finance by the US Department of Defense in Ukraine has been revealed,” he said.

According to the spokesman, information was received from employees of Ukrainian biolaboratories that especially hazardous pathogens: plague, anthrax, cholera, tularemia and other lethal diseases infecting agents had been urgently destroyed on February 24.

According to Konashenkov, following the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian health ministry issued an instruction to all biolaboratories to urgently destroy hazardous pathogens they had.

“Obviously, after the launch of the special military operations, Pentagon became afraid that secret biological experiments in Ukraine will be exposed. We will share the results of the analysis of the documents we have received in the near future. Some of them, in particular the Ukrainian health ministry’s instruction to destroy pathogens and certificates of completion from the Kharkov and Poltava biolaboratories we are publishing right now,” he said.

Evidence of US-financed biological program in Ukraine revealed by Russian defense ministry (Tass)

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…This is the latest in a frenzy of scare stories receiving major coverage in Russian media to justify the increasingly bloody war in Ukraine, where at least 364 Ukrainians have died and at least 759 have been injured, according to the United Nations.

Russia has been laying the groundwork for such claims for quite some time, according to Foreign Policy magazine. In January, a Russian-language Telegram account warned that a ‘full-fledged network of biological laboratories has been deployed’ with ‘American grants’ to study deadly viruses that were already making people sick in Kazakhstan.

In May 2020, the Russian newspaper Izvestia made similar claims. And a close advisor to Putin accused the US last year of developing ‘more and more biological laboratories … mainly by the Russian and Chinese borders.’

The biological weapons research is the latest ‘false flag’ orchestrated by Russia since it announced a ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine on February 24 to ‘demilitarize’ and ‘de-Nazify’ its neighbor, whose president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. is Jewish.

The Kremlin has separately claimed that Ukraine was building plutonium dirty bombs at Chernobyl – now under Russian military control.

Russia’s latest ‘false flag’: Moscow accuses US of helping Ukraine with illegal bio-weapons research on Black Death, anthrax and rabbit fever (MailOnline)

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Via FT:

Today’s summit will involve a discussion of all potential options and implications of the conflict, a senior Nato official told the FT. But alliance officials have consistently stressed in recent days that a no-fly zone or other intervention that would risk direct clashes with Russia is not an option because of the risk of sparking a wider conflict

Nato chief stresses ‘importance’ of ending Ukraine war (FT)

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Orwell Road, Dublin 6.

More as we get it.

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Dilbar, a 512-foot yacht that weighs 15,917 tons, is the largest motor yacht in the world by gross tonnage

This morning.,

Via Business Insider:

The fate of Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s mega-yacht is unclear. Forbes initially reported that the yacht was seized on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources, but later issued a correction last night saying it was not seized.

“Three sources had told Forbes it had been seized, but a representative for Usmanov cited the statement from the ministry in Hamburg to confirm that it had not,” according to Forbes’ update. “In its statement, the ministry elaborated that the German federal customs agency is the ‘responsible enforcement authority’ and would have to issue an export waiver for the yacht to leave, and that ‘no yacht leaves port that is not allowed to do so.'”

The fate of billionaire Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s $600 million mega-yacht is unclear (Business Insider)

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