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Key points from @RUSI_org report regarding Russian invasion of Ukraine, period Feb - Jul 2022.
1/x. Russia planned to invade Ukraine over a 10-day period and thereafter occupy the country to enable annexation by August 2022.
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3/x The plan was to murder #Ukraine executive branch (president Zelenskyi and the government) and imprison the parliament. Pro-#Russia parliamentarians would form a "Movement for #Peace".
4/x #Nuclear power plants were planned to function as secure bases, depots and command centres, to control #energy in #Ukraine and to threaten #Europe countries with pollution.
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🇷🇺🇩🇰 La Russie et ses #Spetsnaz ont-ils saboté les gazoducs #NordStream 1 et 2 ? Des drones sous-marins autonomes (AUV) ont-ils été utilisés ?

Quelques éléments de réponses sur cet incident qui est considéré par beaucoup comme un "acte de #sabotage".

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Selon certains experts comme @CovertShores, un commando spécial de #Spetsnaz appartenant à une obscure unité appelée #GUGI pourrait être à l'origine de l'attaque contre les gazoducs #NordStream.
Selon lui, il n'est "pas exclu" que Moscou soit à l'origine de ces fuites et ce sous le nez de l'OTAN.

@CovertShores indique que l'obscure unité navale russe GUGI, qui dépendrait directement de #Poutine, pourrait avoir utilisé des navires espions pour mener à bien cette attaque.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Pendant des mois, l'administration #Biden a observé avec inquiétude #Poutine masser des dizaines de milliers de soldats le long de la frontière ukrainienne.

Le @washingtonpost livre un récit passionnant des mois qui ont précédé l'attaque.

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Oct. 2021, les responsables du renseignement, de l'armée et de la diplomatie US se rendent à la Maison-Blanche pour une réunion urgente, munis de renseignements hautement confidentiels, compilés à partir d'images satellites, de communications interceptées et de sources humaines.
Sur des chevalets, le Gen. Milley montre, à l'aide de cartes, les positions des troupes 🇷🇺 et le territoire ukrainien qu'elles ont l'intention de conquérir. Il s'agit d'un "plan d'une audace stupéfiante" qui pourrait constituer une menace directe pour le flanc oriental de l'OTAN.
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#RussiaUkraine
152mm Giatsint-B Howitzers in #Lugansk
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Chechen Special Ministry of the Interior Regiment soldiers in #Popasnaya, Donbas region, a city where a battle is currently ongoing ImageImageImageImage
#RussiaUkraine #Mi8
Reportedly remains of one (of the two) UKR Mi-8 helicopters that took part in the attack on a village in #Bryansk Region (Russia) on April 14, was shot down by a S-400 SAM system on it's way back
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For what it’s worth, *IF* #Assad’s regime begins sending troops to #Ukraine, they’ll be no more than cannon fodder in a battle & environment that’s completely alien to them - it’ll be like “sending Martians to fight on the Moon,” as I told @WSJ:

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When, on the rare occasion, #Assad needed capable urban warfare fighters, he turned to #Hezbollah — NOT his own military.

#Syria’s military was good at brutal, sustained sieges, indiscriminate bombardment, horrific [sectarian] violence, mass torture & organised crime. That’s it.
Within months of #Russia’s military intervention in #Syria in Sept 2015, #Putin furiously reacted to the poor performance of #Assad’s forces — they simply couldn’t take advantage of Russian backing.

To solve that, #Russia had to send in SOF ground troops & work with #Hezbollah.
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Yesterday, a Telegram channel associated with the #WagnerGroup posted a call for recruits:

"The Wagner Philharmonic has decided to take part in the Great World Concert and is holding auditions to select for its touring musical troupe."

A 🧵 on #Wagner & what the post reveals.
1. Some background: Russian #VDV Airborne #Spetsnaz commander Dmitry Utkin adopted the callsign "Wagner" in the first Russian incursion in #Donbas in 2014, a triple entendre indicating his position as "conductor" of off-book scouts and saboteurs now known as the #WagnerGroup.
2. Much has been made of Wagner's affiliation with neo-Nazi movements in #Russia. But the cultural weave of Russian mercenaries is more nuanced.

"Wagner" also refers to the German composer's valorization during the #ThirdReich by Adolf Hitler & Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
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#BREAKING: Unbelievable! Footage shows #Ukraine & #Russia Army soldiers fighting each other in #Obolon district of #Kiev/#Kyiv. This is why driver of that 9K35 Strela-10 mobile short-range surface-to-air missile system got distracted & collided with a civilian car!
People saved driver of the car who was ran over by the Sterla-10 mobile air defense system. He was transfeeerred to hospital of the #Obolon.
#BREAKING: The soldiers who were killed by #Ukrainian Army in #Obolon & also driver of that Sterla-10 SAM system were from #Spetsnaz (#Russian Army Special Forces) dressed as Ukrainian Army soldiers. It wasn't a friendly fire. I have seen uncensored version of this footage.
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Today marks the second day of the Ukraine War.
"Moments ago in Kyiv. Sirens and empty streets. Never in 12 years have I seen it so bare and eerie." -- via twitter.com/ChristopherJM/
"#Kyiv residents are preparing to fight back against the occupiers." -- via twitter.com/nexta_tv/
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1. Volgens Russische media is een artilleriegranaat vanuit #Oekraïne op Russisch grondgebied neergekomen in de regio #Rostov op 1 kilometer van de grens en op 300 meter van een bewoond gebouw in het dorp Mityakinskaya.
2. De Volksrepublieken #Donetsk & #Luhansk gaan over tot algemene mobilisatie van alle strijdbare mannen.
Een Oekraïense soldaat is gesneuveld door artillerievuur van de pro-Russische milities.
3. Volgens de Donetsk Volksrepubliek gaat #Oekraïne de komende dagen volgens dit plan de #Donbass binnenvallen en zullen er etnische zuiveringen plaatsvinden. 31.000 burgers zouden volgens @sputnik_fr al geëvacueerd zijn uit #Lugansk en #Donetsk naar #Rusland. Image
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