#february
The #February #full #moon will occur on #Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 a.m. EST, 4:30 a.m. PST, or 12:30 GMT. In the Americas, the moon will appear almost full on both Friday and Saturday evenings.
The indigenous Anishnaabe (Ojibwe and Chippewa) people of the Great Lakes region call the Feb. full moon Namebini-giizis "Sucker Fish Moon" or Mikwa-giizis, the "Bear Moon". For them, it signifies a time to discover how to see beyond reality and to communicate through energy rather than sound. The Algonquin call it Wapicuummilcum, the "Ice in River is Gone" moon. The Cree of North America call it Kisipisim, the "the Great Moon", a time when the animals remain hidden away and traps are empty. For Europeans, it is known as the Snow Moon or Hunger Moon.
Because this full moon will occur only 26.5 hours before the moon's apogee, its greatest distance from Earth this month, it will look about 7% smaller than average (red circle) — making it the opposite of a supermoon and the smallest full moon of 2024.
The Buildup To War In Ukraine - Friday, February 18, 2022
The #Buildup To #War In #Ukraine - #Friday , #February #18 #2022 #Russia #Donbas
"On February 18 2022, a Friday, Russia voiced alarm over the sharp increase in shelling in Donbas:
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced alarm on Friday over a sharp increase in shelling in eastern Ukraine and accused the #OSCE special monitoring mission of glossing over what he said were Ukrainian violations of the peace process.
Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists have been fighting in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine since #2014 in a conflict that Kyiv says has claimed some 15,000 lives.
Washington and its allies have raised fears that the upsurge in violence in the Donbass could form part of a Russian pretext to invade Ukraine. Tensions are already high over a Russian military buildup to the north, east and south of Ukraine."
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