However impossible it seems, #Russian rhetoric concerning the escalation in #Ukraine is losing touch with reality even more. 🇷🇺Security Council Secretary says 🇺🇦 may “attack 🇷🇺” by starting military operations against #Crimea and prepare terrorist acts in 🇷🇺 and other countries⤵️
😡But what have the #Russian forces really been doing in the past few days while blaming #Ukraine for the escalation? Not contributing to peace, for sure:
📌moving the 15 Russian ships of the naval forces into the waters of the Black Sea under the guise of military drills;
📌blocking the movement of people across the demarcation line in the #Donetsk region;
📌remote mining of the territory within the humanitarian road corridor next to Mayorske checkpoint with a UAV on April 13, which put the lives of civilians at threat;
📌remote mining of the civilian sector of Zaitsevo (near Mayorske checkpoint) on April 12 with POM-2 antipersonnel mines prohibited by the Ottawa Convention under the guise of the Ukrainian military;
📌drawing another 250 #Russian soldiers and more than 2,000 tons of fuel to the occupied territories, as well as increasing control over the storage of military property, according to #Ukrainian intelligence.
🤝Support of Ukraine from the international community continues unabated. Leaders of Ukraine’s partner countries have continuously been calling on Russia to deescalate the situation, here is just the latest example: unian.info/politics/milit…
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❗️#Russia continues its military build-up in #Crimea and the east of #Ukraine, here’s an update of its latest steps on escalation (thread):
🟥detention of a #Ukrainian diplomat by the #Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Saint-Petersburg;
🟥the 15 ships of the Caspian flotilla have been fully transferred to the Black Sea under the guise of military drills;
🟥relocation of Su-25SMZ attack aircraft from the Stavropol region to the airfields of the occupied #Crimea;
🟥transferring the Motorized infantry units of the 58th All-Arms Army of the Southern Military District of Russia to the Opuk firing range in the occupied Crimea;
Thread:🧑💻In continuation of our rubric about top hybrid influences in Ukraine this week:
📍Kremlin agents are promoting the idea that sanctioned TV-channels, affiliated with pro-Russian politician and oligarch V.Medvedchuk, are an "attack on freedom of speech"
📍Moreover, when the embassy of the United States expressed their support of this decision in the official statement, Medvedchuk's party "Opposition Platform - For Life" renewed dissemination of their most prevalent narrative of "external control in Ukraine"
📍Additionally, the aforementioned party posted without any evidence that they are the most supported political power in the country, which allowed them to pretend that the government is silencing Ukrainians, who allegedly overwhelmingly support reunion with Russia
Thread: 🤔We have prepared the most mouth watering article for you about... culinary deceptions: bit.ly/3mulRPk
😳Or rather, top 8 dishes culturally appropriated by Russia, because food can be instrument of hybrid warfare as well.
👏Ukrainian borsh was recently valiantly reclaimed through a campaign led by Ievgen Klopotenko, but we need to raise awareness about it and the rest of the dishes on our list.
😉Enjoy the article, but be warned - you should have a breakfast before reading.
Thread:🇷🇺😈A horrifying end to the story of #Ukrainian medical team, which was not only attacked despite all laws and standards, but also whose bodies were mutilated by #Russian hybrid forces against the norms of basic human decency.
😮Previously we have reported on the case, where #Russian militants violated the terms of a brokered evacuation mission.
😱They shot and wounded #Ukrainian medics, who were trying to remove the body of a deceased soldier from the battlefield.
😢#Ukrainian side tried to broker a new deal, again with the help of @OSCE_SMM, to get back the wounded medic from the retrieval team, but #Russian side showed deliberate reluctance in agreeing to the deal and thus the medic bled out right there on the field.