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1/ Today, March 16, #Latvia arranges a procession of #WaffenSS legionnaires and their followers. More than 100 people will take part in the event, which has already become a tradition for Riga.
2/ Former SS men and their sympathizers will march from the Church of St. John to the Freedom Monument, where a flower laying ceremony is planned.
3/ On this occasion, the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, decided once again to recall the role of the Latvian legionnaires "in the struggle for the independence of Latvia."
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This is the start of the daily 🧵for Day 386 of #Russia's war of choice in #Ukraine.

For all Wednesday's news, including US pilots volunteering for Ukraine, assassination plot against an EU figure and an unexplained fire on occupied #Berdyansk, click⬇️

I'll start today with #BakhmutHolds.
No big changes to report. #Wagner troops have advanced right into the centre, but it's constantly changing as the cattle get slaughtered and retreat.

Some #Russia channels claim #Khromove on the west of #Bakhmut is captured but not confirmed.
Speaking of slaughter of Russians, the number of invading soldiers killed in the last 24 hours tops 1,000 again. A large number of #Russia's troops died in an attack at #Nevelske 20km from #Avdiivka

High numbers of tanks + artillery systems too, plus the aircraft I noted y'day.
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This is how it started on 24/02/22.

But it was a day later on 25/02/22, a year ago today, that, thanks to @bbcnickrobinson,
I heard a first signal of hope amid the unfolding horror.

I wondered if, for #Ukraine, it could be different this time ...
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On 25/02/22 as I was pushing my sleeping daughter in her stroller, listening to @BBCr4today, Nick Robinson spoke from the roof of the hotel where he was holed up in #Kyiv.

And, looking over the city, he said something that stopped me in my tracks.
#Ukraine
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@bbcnickrobinson urged listeners to follow his gaze as he looked over this ‘modern, dynamic and vibrant European city’ ...

now, this may not seem like much, but for anyone who has followed #Ukraine for a long time, its significance would have been immediately apparent.

3/
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#Lukashenko Presidential Security Service initiated purges inside the 15 Air Defense Brigade (Fanipol):
- KGB executes the order
- 15th is a part of #Russian AD system
- reason: families involved in opposition movement or active in social media (anti 🇧🇾)
- no one to be spared
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- even the technical & most educated personnel
- next stages: 1. all other AD units, 2. Air Force, 3. Rocket & Artillery Troops.
@BBN_PL @LithuaniaMFA @Latvian_MFA should expect 🇧🇾 (Air Force) defectors.

cc @TheStudyofWar @DefenceHQ @RamsteinAirBase @Matt_VanDyke @NATOJFCBS
And if 🇧🇾 airman in his military aircraft is defecting to #Poland, #Lithuania, or #Latvia would he be attacked by 🇧🇾 Air Defense? What then?

cc @Lithuanian_MoD @Latvian_MFA @MSZ_RP
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Day 342 of the illegal war #Russia is waging on #Ukraine

This is the start of Tuesday's daily thread with all the news that matters around the conflict and wider society.

For a check back on Monday's developments, click and scroll here:

#StopRussia

It continues to be reasonably quiet compared to the worst days of the war, but many people are still dying at the front on both sides.

#Russia continues to make ground, and according to Britain's military intelligence, will continue to do so, but without a major breaktthrough
The Wagner deserter who trekked across snowy wastelands to seek asylum in #Noway, has told CNN those who didn't want to fight were ruthlessly executed in front on new recruits.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/eur…
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#Binance announcing increasingly dire issues w/its fiat on and off ramps.

#CryptoCom's Euro bank accounts were frozen or seized by #BankOfLithuania on 1/21 for money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions violations (screenshot)

Let's dig...

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Recently users of #CryptoCom were surprised to receive an email saying that #SEPA transfers of $EUR were being “migrated to a new provider” and thus Euro-denominated deposits and withdrawals were temporarily suspended.

Yikes.
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#Cryptocom customers couldn't deposit/withdraw for ~100 hours yet #CDC did not send any kind of prior notice to their customers. Many redditors confirm problems began > 24 hours BEFORE #CDC sent out the first (and only) email about the disruption.

Some got 0 emails.

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1/22
#UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar
#Russia #UkraineWar
Dzisiaj kraje:
🇪🇪Estonia
🇱🇻Łotwa
🇱🇹Litwa
🇵🇱Polska
🇨🇿Czechy
🇸🇰Słowacja
🇩🇰Danii
🇳🇱Holandii
🇬🇧Wielkiej Brytanii
podpisali się pod Tallinn Declaration zobowiązując się do dalszego wsparcia sprzętowego dla 🇺🇦Ukrainy.
2/22
#UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar
#Russia #UkraineWar
To zobowiązanie do dostarczania sprzętu niezbędnego do osiągnięcia zwycięstwa Ukrainy w 2023 roku.
Ciężkie brygady i możliwość rażenia głębi przeciwnika.
Rozumiejąc powagę sytuacji, dostarczamy sprzęt z własnych zapasów.
3/22
#UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar
#Russia #UkraineWar
Zobowiązujemy się równie z na jutrzejszym spotkaniu w Ramstein przekonywać partnerów, aby pójść w ich ślady i przyspieszyć ogłoszenie nowych pakietów pomocy.
Poniżej zamieszczę informacje o wsparciu krajów.
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Hello There !
#Denmark officially donates the entirety of its SPH (french beast) Caesar - the armored 8x8 version to #Ukraine !
See! when you want, you can... and France never stop anyone to do what they want with their purchase. Image
2/ what is also very interesting is that if 15 other countries gives at least 20 SPH, then #Ukraine would "match" current firepower of Russia (in terms of this caliber/function) because you got to remember that basically a Caesar (or equivalent) needs about 3-6 shells to do what
3/ Russians can do using 2 systems & 30 shells at least.

so yep... really really good news here..
we just need a ton of ammo right now and much much more high précisions ones.
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Where will those #Leopard come from? We won't get 100 of them, most probably just three groups from Poland, Finland and Germany for now. That's why we need the USA. #Ukraine️ #FreeTheLeopards #tanks
Finnish are realistic about the issue:
"On the other hand, no European country has taken much of a lead on the Leopard issue. Perhaps we will wait and see who will take the first step."
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A huge military equipment and hardware package for #Ukraine from #Sweden
In short:
- #Archer SPH incl Excalibur👍
- #NLAW (Rb 57), CG RR, AT4
- 50 #CV90💪
- Mine clearing eq
- Automatic weapons
- Procurement collab (ex🇺🇦 can use 🇸🇪 DMA/FMV procurement resources and agreements)
New military equipment and hardware package for #Ukraine from #USA
Interesting is that US and Swedish packages include the mine and obstacle clearing equipment.
More military equipment and hardware for #Ukraine from Baltic States.
1- #Lithuania🇱🇹
2xMi-8
"dozens" of Bofors 40mm AA guns and ammunition
2- #Latvia🇱🇻
Stinger MANPADS
2xMi-17
Machine Guns
UAVs.
3- #Estonia🇪🇪
ALL of their FH-70 155mm howitzers
122mm D-30 howitzers
Other materiel
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#RussianNazis have been #RussianNazis since before they funded Nazi Germany with stolen #Holodomor grain.
They were #RussianNazis when they start WWII with Nazi Germany and plan to divide up Europe, that allied evil only end when Hitler betrayed Russia in 1941
They were #RussianNazis when they came to liberate Auschwitz and raped victims there.

“rape of Jewish women survivors of concentration camps, including Stutthof, Ravensbrück and Auschwitz-Birkenau”neweasterneurope.eu/2022/04/21/the…
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🚨Amber Grid, principale operatore di trasporto di #gas naturale in #Lituania, ha dichiarato che un'esplosione ha colpito il gasdotto che collega il Paese alla #Lettonia.
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Le primissime immagini.

#Latvia #Lituania Image
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Agenti di polizia locali: le fiamme hanno raggiunto i 50 metri di altezza. Non sono ancora chiare le ragioni dell'esplosione. Image
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🦠 Šī gada pirmais notekūdeņu Covid-19 apkopojums.

🧶↴

#WBE #COVID19 #Latvia
@SPKCentrs BIOR @BMC_LV @RTU_LV
▸ kvantitatīvajiem grafikiem koncentrācijas ir sākot ar 01.07.22, līdz ar to vairs nav nepieciešamas logaritmiskās skalas (jeb, tika noņemtas nost deltas koncentrācijas);
▸ visās pašvaldībās paraugi tiek ievākti 1x nedēļā, izņemot Rīgu, kur paraugi tiek ievākti 2x nedēļā;
▸ monitoringa programmā papildus līdzšinējām pašvaldībām ir iekļautas #Bauskas, #Talsu, #Madonas un #Saldus pašvaldības;
▸ Par cik paraugu ievākšanas datumi katrai pašvaldībai atšķiras, tad kopsummā lielākā daļa rezultātu ir par paraugiem, kas ievākti starpsvētku periodā.
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Welcome to yet another daily thread as #Ukraine moves one day nearer victory in its bid to liberate its land from #Russia's illegal invasion.

We've reached Day 316. All the news updated here throughout the day, so come back and scroll through later.

DMs open for tip-offs.💙💛
Wednesday ended in lively fashion after a quiet day. If you missed anything, the big news was from #Crimea where explosions/air defence were reported in two separate towns.

If you missed anything, take a look back here:

#StopRussia
Let's start the thread with a chuckle, with this scene from Kazakhstan according to the poster on Telegram.

A middle aged woman telling a couple of guys from #Russia exactly what she thinks!

"Putin is a d*ckhead. #Ukraine will win. All Kazakhstan hates you!"
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#RussianWarReport🇷🇺 - December 9, 2022 🧵👇

#Russia targets #Ukraine infrastructure as explosions hit Russian bases;

Serbian group denies Wagner Group partnership despite announcement;

Pro-Kremlin Telegram promote news of TV Rain losing Latvian license
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…
Russian forces targeted infrastructure in #Kyiv, #Odesa, #Vinnytsia, #Sumy, & #Zaporizhzhia. That same day, Ukrainian forces shot down 60 of 70+ Russian missiles. However, data suggests that Russia is not striking Ukraine w/ the same intensity as at the beginning of the invasion.
Earlier this week, several people were killed in explosions at two Russian military airfields. Russia accused Ukraine of using a drone to strike Russian targets hundreds of kilometers from the border. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
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Having to explain to a Russian professor in Russia (about the Dozhd' skandal) that said professor doesn't have to use phrase 'our army', and that I would never say 'our army' about British or NATO troops. His incredulous response: 'Are you some kind of communist?' 😍😍😍
To be fair to him, we eventually got a a point where he realised he had started repeating a load of Putin tropes. "про армию и наших - это сидит на подсознании."
And then we had a fruitful discussion that reveals how hard it will be to grow true anti-war consensus because of the 'protective', for want of a better word, attitude towards the abstract institution of Russian armed forces.
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🧵Fmr Ambassador to 🇺🇦@JohnEdHerbst to CNN: The #US needs to state clearly that Putin's war in #Ukraine is a direct challenge to our core interests; both US security & prosperity are at stake.

#Russia's war in #Ukraine is only a prelude to further moves into @NATO countries. 1/8
@JohnEdHerbst @NATO If Putin succeeds in #Ukraine, and moves on #Estonia or #Latvia, we'd be obliged to send American soldiers to fight and die to help our @NATO allies stop #Russia. So the cost to US in lives and money would be far greater than even the substantial aid we're sending to Ukraine. 2/8
@JohnEdHerbst @NATO Herbst: The money in weapons and aid we send to #Ukraine is a tiny fraction of what we'd have to pay if Ukraine doesn't stop #Russia there. That's why we should be doing everything possible to make sure Ukraine wins. 3/8
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1) This is the cover of Good Will Hunting. Many people argue Robin William’s portrayal of a therapist in cinematic history [despite strangling and threatening the client in that famous scene]. Still, look at where Robin’s character did his best work: #Outdoors Image
2) This thread is about therapy outdoors as I was recently labelled as an “abuser”. I understand where this comes from my #research about survivors’ experiences in #WildernessTherapy. Good Will Hunting is not about Wilderness Therapy. They aren’t the same thing.
3) In 2020, I co-edited a book with Prof Nevin Harper titled Outdoor Therapies. This book examined #AdventureTherapy, #Nature-Based Therapy, Horticulture, #ForestTherapy, #Surf Therapy, #AnimalAssisted, &, yes, #WildernessTherapy.
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Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! #Russian President Vladimir #Putin, in his own manner, "formalized" the rejection of the peace offer he received. On November 11, we reported...
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that it would be precisely the next massive missile attack on #Ukraine's energy infrastructure that would mean #Putin's rejection of proposals to move to a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine on terms that the #Kremlin considered unacceptable.

2/12
#Putin also rejected an ultimatum that was put forward in parallel with the "peace offer." Now, the most influential Western "partners" will insist on the immediate transfer of #Crimea to #Ukraine with no delays and no compromises.
3/12
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SitRep - 30/10 - "#Vuhledar counterattack"

An overview of the daily events in the war in Ukraine. As it became known yesterday, Russia has launched a counter-offensive around #Vuhledar, south of #Donetsk. We have included this front as a map in the overview.

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We start with the Russian losses as of today. A stunning update.

+950 personnel
+13 tanks
+52 APCs
+16 Artillery systems
Trophies/captured

1x T-62M
1x Ural AMN-590951
1x KAMAZ-63968 "Typhoon-K"
3x soldiers
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Hello and welcome to an early start to the daily thread for Day 246 of #Russia's war.

Once again #Ukraine is under attack this Thursday morning, but in general air defence looks to be performing slightly better each day.

All the news, updated in real time throughout the day⬇️
Last night the wave of attack drones started entering #Ukraine air space and some missiles fired by #Russia too.

#Dnipropetrovsk #Zaporizhzhia and #Odesa all had reports of strikes - you can read all about those & anything else you missed yesterday here:

The reports of a drone hitting in #Kyiv oblast have now been confirmed.

Regional Head Oleksiy Kuleba says "The enemy attacked one of the communities of the region. The fire is being extinguished. There are no injuries."

#StopRussia #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Call an immediate #generalelection #Petition - Country List for 16th October 2022

Current: 852,789 signatures
Previous: 616,389 signatures.
Difference: 236,400 signatures.

sydesjokes.blogspot.com/2022/10/call-i…

#NeverVoteConservative #GeneralElectionNow #WhoVotedForThis #GTTO
1) #UnitedKingdom 842,029 (+232,982)
2) #France 2,298 (+660)
3) #Spain 1,285 (+361)
4) #UnitedStates 840 (+283)
5) #Germany 798 (+279)
6) #Australia 773 (+262)
7) #Netherlands 423 (+133)
8) #Canada 402 (+138)
9) #Ireland 387 (+130)
10) #Switzerland 320 (+110)
11) #NewZealand 306 (+113)
12) #Italy 233 (+79)
13) #Belgium 209 (+64)
14) #Portugal 206 (+71)
15) #Sweden 192 (+70)
16) #Denmark 131 (+47)
17) #Japan 113 (+34)
18) #Greece 106 (+33)
19) #Norway 104 (+33)
20) #IsleofMan 97 (+33)
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NEW: More trouble for members of a #Russia|n procurement network

@TheJusticeDept has indicted Yury Orekhov & 6 others for sending US military tech & millions of barrels of #Venezuela oil to Russia

"The defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States"
MORE: per @TheJusticeDept, Yury Orekhov was arrested in Germany on October 17

A codefendant, Artem Uss, was arrested the same day in #Italy

Extradition proceedings for Orekhov & Uss are expected

3 others arrested by #Latvia on Oct. 18; a 4th arrested in June by #Estonia
Some of the charges involved the #Russia|n network's attempt to export a high-precision computer-controlled grinding machine - aka a “jig grinder" - which can be used in nuclear proliferation/defense programs, per @TheJusticeDept
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🧵 #RUSSIA, OR #PUTIN?
In the West we have an effort of understanding to make

"Obviously, you can’t abstractly accuse an entire nation," says DG of the Estonian Internal Security Service, Arnold Sinisalu. "But a society and a nation constitute a whole.
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The state may brainwash, but the germ of chauvinism still springs from the people itself."

That is precisely how Baltic counterintelligence officers refer to Russia – not ‘it’, but ‘they’. The war in Ukraine is not Putin’s war. The cruelty is not Putin’s. The rapes, murders...
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gouged eyes, hangings, and burned corpses aren’t special tactics employed by Russia’s leader. It is Russia as a whole.

"The majority of Russians are to blame," says Sinisalu.
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