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Latest @DefenceHQ update: "#Ukraine's counter-offensive in Kherson is gathering momentum", with a bridgehead established south of the Inhulets River. Ukraine has used HIMARS to damage the bridges in and out of Kherson, leading Russia's 49th Army to look "highly vulnerable". 
#Chechens in Ukraine: "They have their own little war in there" @vera_mironov tells @TheSoufanCenter webinar on #Ukraine-#foreignfighters
Says Chechen contingent fighting for #Russia includes prisoners, drug addicts, others who say they take orders only from Ramzan Kadyrov
Says Chechen contingent fighting for #Russia includes prisoners, drug addicts, others who say they take orders only from Ramzan Kadyrov
MORE: Chechen units taking orders from Kadyrov "kind of settling their previous scores" but also being kept far from #Ukraine held territory so they don't defect, per @vera_mironov
There's also a group of #Chechens fighting for #Ukraine, she says
There's also a group of #Chechens fighting for #Ukraine, she says
.@dbyman tells @TheSoufanCenter he's "worried there is an intersection" between white supremacist movement & foreign fighters in #Ukraine even if the numbers right now appear to be small
Just in: 1/1 The Kremlin, through Ambassador Gryzlov, insists that Minsk join the "military operation", ie the war against #Ukraine. #Lukashenko said he was waiting for the referendum to end and was ready to join within 72 h #RussiaUkraineWar #StandWithUkriane #russianinvasion
2/1 Another operation under a false flag will be used as an excuse, ie staging that "Ukraine attacked Belarus."
Putin is going to the bottom like a ballast and is dragging all his accomplices, he wants to cover up in the blood of this aggression all those around him.
Putin is going to the bottom like a ballast and is dragging all his accomplices, he wants to cover up in the blood of this aggression all those around him.
3/1 Dictator #Lukashenko is afraid and procrastinates.
But in fact, when #Russian troops used #Belarusian territory as a springboard for invasion, #Belarus was drawn into the war.
But in fact, when #Russian troops used #Belarusian territory as a springboard for invasion, #Belarus was drawn into the war.
[In the face of tyranny, #Hongkongers stand with the oppressed #Belarusian]
1. Although #police unreasonably fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters last week, tens of thousands of #Belarusian still took to streets and voiced their anger on #policebrutality.
1. Although #police unreasonably fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters last week, tens of thousands of #Belarusian still took to streets and voiced their anger on #policebrutality.
2. From them, we can see the peopleβs courage, robust bonding with each other and their resolute determination for justice and democracy. These are what autocratic regimes cannot crush. These are what dictators fear most.
3. When scrolling through their biggest telegram channel, NEXTA Live, time and again I am impressed by #Belarusiansβ creativity and vibrancy, when people generously provide shelters and donate medical resources.
New Thread:
I'm back in Kyiv from #Minsk, where I was detained for two days and witnessed the kind of police brutality that's being increasingly documented.
In a few words, OMON are absolute animals β with a remarkably inhuman hate of their fellow #Belarusians.
I'm back in Kyiv from #Minsk, where I was detained for two days and witnessed the kind of police brutality that's being increasingly documented.
In a few words, OMON are absolute animals β with a remarkably inhuman hate of their fellow #Belarusians.
Luckily, our experience wasn't as horrifying as the worst that's been described. But what I saw: Brutal, random beatings; psychological abuse; overcrowding (we were nearly 30 in a 10-man cell)
From a journalistic perspective, watching #Lukashenko's machine of terror grind on was fascinating: The police state is extensive, yet also completely primitive. Horrors aside,
detentions are marked by administrative chaos. The system simply can't handle so many detained
detentions are marked by administrative chaos. The system simply can't handle so many detained
In Belarus π§πΎ, Three Women Unite To Fight Strongman Lukashenko
"Three women have teamed up to fight presidential polls in #Belarus, pitting "female solidarity" against strongman #AlexanderLukashenko, who insists the country is not ready...
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"Three women have teamed up to fight presidential polls in #Belarus, pitting "female solidarity" against strongman #AlexanderLukashenko, who insists the country is not ready...
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...for a woman president. π #Lukashenko is standing for a sixth term in August 9 polls in the authoritarian country bordering Russia and the European Union.
The vote's result is in little doubt given his total dominance of previous elections, not recognised as free or fair...
The vote's result is in little doubt given his total dominance of previous elections, not recognised as free or fair...
...by Western observers. Law enforcement forces detained hundreds at opposition protests this week and three prominent opposition figures are in custody."
"But the contest has been shaken up by the decision of one woman, #SvetlanaTikhanovskaya, to stand for president...
"But the contest has been shaken up by the decision of one woman, #SvetlanaTikhanovskaya, to stand for president...
