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Feb 18 6 tweets 2 min read
Pro-separatist Telegram channel claims Ukrainians have blown up a gas pipeline near Luhansk.
Looks like a bigger deal than the car bomb earlier today. Ukrainian intelligence warned earlier that separatists had placed explosive devices around the area for false flag purposes. This playbook is boring and exposed to death in the wider world. Locally still going full-on.
!! they’re claiming this is the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline - one of the largest in the world.

Breathless language: “It thundered across the whole city! The earth shook! The sky lit up in a bright flash! Now pillars of flame rise to the sky!”
A second Luhansk explosion now, within the past hour.

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She's written a heartrending and brutally honest Facebook post about her life.

In this thread, a translation of most of it.👇
"Hello. What’s it like when your partner’s in jail?

How can I say it."
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And what this says about the EU's commitment to democracy. (1/11)
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