#Ukraine warns #Russia has 'almost completed' build-up of forces near border. According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's latest intelligence assessment, Russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region
edition.cnn.com/2022/01/18/eur…
edition.cnn.com/2022/01/18/eur…
Ukrainian military says "additional tactical groups of 'Iskander' operational-tactical missiles" have been transferred to the border, bringing the total number of Iskanders near #Ukraine to 36.
BBC says Downing Streets is about to send 100 troops from #UK to #Ukraine to train soldiers with recently sent NLAW's
"#Russia lacks many tools to influence #Kyiv other than military force. Thus, #Moscow likely believes a significant military escalation now would be less costly today than in the future if #Ukraine continues to strengthen its military capabilities."
fpri.org/article/2022/0…
fpri.org/article/2022/0…
Chelyabinsk, #Russia
Kaluga, #Russia: Train with at least 8 Iskander missiles
Train with multiple BM-27 Uragan in Tatarstan
Irkutsk region, #Russia
Russian ZS-88 "PsyOps vehicle with loudspeaker set"
https://twitter.com/tom_bullock_/status/1483647510279335938?s=20
Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security warns about possible Russian provocations in #Donetsk today
facebook.com/10914601461872…
facebook.com/10914601461872…
Erdogan invited Putin and Zelensky to Turkey to discuss differences
ria.ru/20220119/ukrai…
ria.ru/20220119/ukrai…
Blinken, in #Ukraine, calls on Putin to choose 'peaceful path' - AFP
Found another Russian TikTok from 9 days a go of girl saying goodbye to her boyfriend in uniform and baggage going to #Belarus. In the comments others say their bf/man also left for Belarus from Khabarovsk, Bryansk and Buryatia.
Scuffles between police and supporters of ex President Poroshenko at court in #Kyiv
Lithuania's defence minister says Russian troops arriving in #Belarus are a direct threat to #Lithuania
"Arms supplies to #Kyiv and military maneuvers by Western countries lead to the fact that the situation in #Ukraine is very, very tense" - Peskov
Charged atmosphere in front of court in #Kyiv. Additional security forces arrived.
#Belarus, yesterday
Chelyabinsk region, #Russia
More Iskander missiles? 
During the talks with #Russia, Washington declared the inadmissibility of the demand for non-expansion of #NATO - Ryabkov
t.me/tass_agency/10…
t.me/tass_agency/10…
Poroshenko arrived at the court in #Kyiv
Court decided not to arrest ex President Poroshenko
At a checkpoint near Novoazovsk, a member of the armed formations denied the #OSCE Mission passage into the settlement yesterday, citing “orders from superiors”
osce.org/files/2022-01-…
osce.org/files/2022-01-…
Supporters of ex President Poroshenko marching to the Presidents office in #Kyiv
Blinken says he won't present a written response on #Russia's security proposals to Lavrov on Friday
Blinken says Ukrainians should prepare for "difficult days"
Russian Communist party Duma deputies submitted a proposal to #Putin to recognize #Russia’s occupied territories of #DPR and #LPR as sovereign & independent states & for Russia to provide security assistance against external threats & genocide
Source for tweet above:
kommersant.ru/doc/5172792?s=…
kommersant.ru/doc/5172792?s=…
If i remember correctly, this is not the first time this party submitted such a proposal so i wouldn't take it too serious.
https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1483828127633747969?s=20
Text says "From Kalinkavichy to the border"..Kalinkavichy is in #Belarus so i wonder which border they mean?
https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1483840559554965514?s=20
Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna Negotiations: "There arrives a moment of truth when the West either accepts our proposals or other ways will be found to safeguard #Russia’s security,..We are running out of time. The countdown begins." - RIA
"The #DPR has information about sabotage actions being prepared by the Ukrainian Army at the contact line in Donbass" - People’s Militia deputy head Eduard Basurin
tass.com/world/1390533
tass.com/world/1390533
Belarusian and Russian equipment was spotted in Mozyr today moving along the R31 highway towards the village of Penki which is about 40 km from the border with #Ukraine
Retschyza, #Belarus
The #Kremlin has not seen the draft appeal to Putin on the recognition of the #DPR and #LPR - Peskov
Krasnoyarsk, #Russia
Klintsy, #Russia
Kaluga region, #Russia
"In connection with the danger of terrorist attacks at dangerous and socially important objects of the #DPR, their security has been strengthened" - Head of the DPR Pushilin
But he added: "I hope for US sanity and pragmatism". So it more sounds like a hope or even a "mild threat" for me.
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1483881147092566017?s=20
Best to read the whole thread 👇
https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1483836264591863809?s=20
Article on tweet above. Too much info for a tweet or tweets:
svoboda.org/a/na-ukrainu-e…
svoboda.org/a/na-ukrainu-e…
Biden warns of "disaster for #Russia" if they invade #Ukraine. Says Putin has never seen sanctions like the ones he promised if Russia further advances into Ukraine.
Biden just said "My guess is he [Putin] will move in, he has to do something"
Biden says he won't cave to Putin's demand that #Ukraine never join #NATO, but Biden notes that the likelihood that Ukraine is going to join NATO in the near term is not very likely
Further clarification of Biden statement
https://twitter.com/emilyhorne46/status/1483934454238351362?s=20
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