Twitter based map of Russian troop movements

Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by altdataseller on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:39PM (#30459971)

Do the border controls there have a place for all the refugees to stay, or are you just expected to find a place yourself?

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by raducu on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:44PM (#30460039)

Romanian here. Our government said we could host up to 500.000 refugees.

I doubt we could do that, but I'm sure they have enough spaces right now for all reffugees.

The news is that no ukrainian refugees want to stay in romanian provided places at the moment -- they either have relatives/friends where they'll be staying with or they immediately want to go to wealthier countries in Central/Western Europe.

That could probably change as more ukrainians flee -- those desperate and those that have no friends or means to travel to other parts.

I've seen footage of ukrainian mothers WALKING for two hours to the border with their children, it broke my heart.

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by killjoywashere on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:05PM (#30462115)

I'm reading Eric Schlosser's Command and Control right now (1). Housing becomes quite elastic in the face of bombing. Fred Iklé actually developed a formula based on WW2 Germany for RAND:

Fully compensating increase in housing density = (P1 - F) / (H2) - (P1 / H1)

* P1 = Population of city before destruction

* P2 = Population of city after destruction

* H1 = Housing units before destruction

* H2 = Housing units after destruction

* F = Fatalities

The tipping point seemed to be reached when about 70% of a city's homes were destroyed. That's when people began to leave en masse and seek shelter in the countryside.

(1) https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by blobbers on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:22PM (#30461121)

Glad you're geographically in a position where you can help. You should start a gofundme or something on here so that people can send you money to help the people you encounter.

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by raducu on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:24AM (#30464535)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/s6g5un/want_to_sup...

There are ukrainian charities you can donate to.

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by ozfive on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:03PM (#30462897)

My great grandmother walked from Ukraine to Germany with my grandmother who was a little child when world war II happened. Unfortunately my great grandmother was killed in Germany by the Stasi who said she had jumped from a window. My grandmother knew better because she saw and our whole family knows what really happened now.

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by yakshaving_jgt on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:04PM (#30470869)

I am now sitting in my car at the border at Medyka. I have been here all day. I am helping two Ukrainian women evacuate, and I will bring them to safety deeper into Poland. Traffic is at a standstill on the Ukrainian side, so these two women have had to continue on foot for the last 26km over the border. It is cold, and they are hungry, and they are carrying luggage. I have seen small children walking and dragging suitcases behind them.

It’s a real crisis.

There are humanitarian aid workers here, and mainstream media from around the world. You might see me standing in the background on NBC today; not sure. I don’t see much in the way of housing facilities here at the border, but there are buses constantly shuttling people from the border over to the nearest larger town.

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