ALERT: @navalny poisoning update. Poison was NEW! Follow this thread for details.
@zeitonline 1st reported late last week, and we've been looking into this, and there's something to it , that Navalny was poisoned with a NEW VARIANT of the chemical weapon Novichok. Now this variant, according to their sources, and our sources confirm the same thing,
is said to be more vicious than all offshoots of the Novichok family. And German intelligence told DZ this could have only come from Russian intelligence. This variant, we've learned, acts more slowly than the known versions.
All of them, according to intelligence agencies from several countries, originated in Russian intelligence laboratories. This means Russia is still producing it, still using and it's still evolving.
Here's what we've heard today. French President Macron pointedly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin about it, and according to @France24_en, he effectively said “mind your own business.” Not, no we weren't involved, but this is not your affair. @4freerussia_org is pushing...
a global petition demanding an investigation. 10s of thousands have signed up. And it looks like it will happen. Just not sure exactly when...
UPDATE: More Details..."As part of this attack we believe that Russia would produce a propaganda video. This video likely will depict graphic scenes of a staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment...
We believe that the military equipment used in this fabricated attack will be made to look like it is Ukrainian or from allied nations. Russia has made it abundantly clear that it is dissatisfied with Ukraine’s usage of Bayraktar drones;
therefore, it is possible that Bayraktar drones could be included in this video as a means to implicate NATO in the attack. The video will be released to underscore a threat to Russia's security and to underpin military operations.
ALERT: As we've been reporting for several weeks, Russia has allegedly been planning a "false flag" operation against Ukraine. Now the US govenrment says it's got the details. 🧵
"We have information that one of the options the Russian government is planning is to stage a fabricated attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces against Russian sovereign territory, or against Russian-speaking people, to justify military action against Ukraine...
We believe that Russia has already recruited those who will be involved in the fabricated attack and that Russian intelligence is intimately involved in this effort."
BREAKING: Russian intelligence has been observed engaging in R&D into use of both sonar and directed energy disturbance operations at a GRU facility in St. Petersburg, Russia. But based on the locations of known cases…
Cuba, China, Russia, Germany, Georgia, Poland, Austria, US, Kyrgyzstan, Colombia, Taiwan, Australia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam sources in multiple countries now think that the technology behind the attacks may have been shared and is now being deployed by multiple actors/countries.
IMPORTANT DETAIL: A victim tells me, “newly injured victims desperate for help, are approaching victims from the Cuba/China group because they are getting so little assistance from State.”
ALERT: We’ve learned today that since two suspected cases of Havana Syndrome occurred in Vietnam on August 24th, Five NEW cases have allegedly taken place. We asked the State Department about them and a spokesperson responded this way:
“In coordination with our partners across the U.S. Government, we are vigorously investigating reports of possible unexplained health incidents wherever they are reported.
Due to privacy concerns and for security reasons, we will not discuss specifics, but…
we take each report we receive extremely seriously and are working to ensure that affected employees get the care and support they need.”
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There are multiple investigations going on into what weapon is being used and who might be responsible.
Statement on the National Guard Response in the District of Columbia from the Secretary of the Army.
"During a rapidly evolving situation Wednesday Jan. 6, the Department of Defense fielded multiple calls from elected officials requesting and
offering assistance to the unprecedented breach of the U.S. Capitol Building. The Army and the D.C. National Guard were coordinating with the federal Capitol Police and the local D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to assist with an immediate response.
Witness to history: The Capitol was breached on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, by hundreds of rioters who vandalized offices, fought with police, posed for pictures and trashed the greatest of all symbols of American democracy. Details & analysis thread here.
“When this started to unfold, we were as reporters inside the Capitol focused pretty squarely on what was happening on the House and Senate floor. But then you could actually start to hear things going on outside of the Capitol.
We're working inside these very tightly confined areas for broadcasting, but you can tell there's definitely some problems going on.
So I immediately looked out the front window on the west side of the capitol and course you could just see a sea of humanity making its way.