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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
@PaulaChertok
Feb 19, 2022 • 9 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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🚨Don't miss this important part of the story: #Russia has drafted "kill lists" of exiled dissidents in #Ukraine, many in Kyiv. It's yet another indication Kremlin rhetoric about NATO is just that. So appeasing Putin regarding NATO won't even mollify him. foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/18/rus…
#Russia Planning Post-Invasion Arrest & Assassination Campaign in #Ukraine - targeting prominent Ukrainian political opponents, anti-corruption activists, and Belarusian & Russian dissidents living in exile in Ukraine.
foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/18/rus…
Biden administration was "startled" by how formalized #Russia's kill lists are — targeting Russian & #Belarus #dissidents in exile in #Ukraine, #journalists and anti-#corruption activists, and vulnerable populations such as religious and ethnic #minorities and LGBTQI+ persons.
Blinken speech alluded to intel that #Russia would target political opponents with arrest or assassination: "Conventional attacks are not all that Russia plans to inflict upon the people of #Ukraine. We have information that Russia intends to target specific groups or Ukrainians"
UK report noted: "Russian security services had extensive penetration of Ukrainian local government structures and had begun mapping out networks of individuals who could be relied upon to run local governments in the event of a Russian invasion."

FSB began kill lists in Dec.
#Russia's FSB & Airborne Forces' wargaming scenarios "mapped which locals would be supportive and began working on lists of targets who would not. The intent was to establish the command-and-control links…and to locate and ELIMINATE Ukrainian leaders who would rally resistance."
btw #Russia making kill lists to "eliminate Ukrainian leaders who would rally resistance" is pretty much the Stalin genocide playbook to subdue #Ukraine. And makes Putin claiming "genocide" BY Ukraine even more perversely cruel.
These kill lists show Putin's invasion intentions wouldn't even stop at war crimes & genocide against Ukrainians. He'd eliminate #Ukraine as a refuge for dissidents from #Russia & #Belarus. He's likely livid that Russians can live well & free in a democracy & still speak Russian!
That Putin's thugs have kill lists with Russian dissidents & journalists on them should also serve to debunk once and for all Putin's favorite pretext for his aggression: that he's protecting Russian speakers & ethnic Russians. His brutal repression *targets* ethnic Russians!

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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
Apr 21, 2023
😳“the first leak came less than 48 hours into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine… Some of the intelligence posted appeared to foretell battlefield development.”

Airman Teixeira Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/…
“Airman Teixeira also claimed that he was actively combing classified computer networks for material on the Ukraine war.…

At one point he offered to share information privately with members of the group living outside the United States. ‘DM me and I can tell you what I have’”😨 Image
Teixeira leaked info to the larger group from Feb 2022-March 2023.

He insanely saw leaking war info as a news event >> “I was very happy and willing and enthusiastic to have covered this event for the past year and share with all of you something that not many people get to see” Image
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Apr 14, 2023
#Russia’s clandestine spetsnaz forces have been gutted by the war in #Ukraine, will take Moscow years to rebuild them, according to classified U.S. assessments among the documents leaked on Discord washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#Russia’s senior commanders were eager to seize momentum (expecting to assassinate Zelensky & a 3-day 🇺🇦war), so deployed spetsnaz commandos alongside infantry, resulting in massive dead/wounded—90+% attrition rate. One unit has only 125 personnel active left—out of 900 deployed. ImageImage
"rapid depletion of Russia’s commando units…shifted the war’s dynamic from the outset, severely limiting Moscow’s ability to employ clandestine tactics… the staggering casualties…will render [spetsnaz] less effective, not only in Ukraine but [elsewhere] Russian forces operate"
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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
Feb 26, 2023
"Putin's stolen an enormous amt of money from the Russian ppl. He's worried abt people turning on him. So he started a war to stay in power. Ukraine is definitely not his last stop"

Putin's a thief protecting his thiefdom. Aggression keeps him in power. That's why it won't stop.
Why is Russia so obsessed w/ #Bakhmut? Its salt deposits are huge & pure.

Donbas? The world's largest reserves of titanium, iron ore, lithium, massive coal deposits—worth TRILLION$.

Russia's thieving kleptocrats commit genocide to steal Ukraine's territory & natural resources.
Sources: businessinsider.com/wagner-group-c… washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/…
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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
Feb 26, 2023
"The Ukrainians have given us a chance to turn this century around, a chance for freedom & security that we could not have achieved by our own efforts… All we have to do is help them win."

15 Reasons the World NEEDS Victory in Ukraine, by @TimothyDSnyder
snyder.substack.com/p/why-the-worl…
@TimothyDSnyder "defeating an ongoing genocidal project—would be more than enough reason to want Ukrainian victory. But every single one of other 14 is hugely significant. Each presents the kind of opportunity…generations of policy planners…almost never get…we have not yet…seized the moment"
@TimothyDSnyder Why the world needs Ukrainian victory - by Timothy Snyder snyder.substack.com/p/why-the-worl…
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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
Feb 21, 2023
HRW investigated one of Russia's worst war crimes in a year of war crimes, at the #Kramatorsk🇺🇦 train station, a known evacuation hub. 500+ people waiting with families, pets & belongings to flee Donbas were hit by a missile packed w/ 50 small bombs. 58 killed, many more wounded.
10,000s of civilians were evacuated via the #Kramatorsk🇺🇦 train station in the days prior to Russia's April 8 deadly missile attack. People across Donbas came by buses organized for evacuees & by private car to board trains at Kramatorsk hub to relative safety in western Ukraine.
Everyone knew #Kramatorsk🇺🇦 was a main evacuation point from Donbas. Local officials posted public information w/ daily train schedules, encouraging civilians to evacuate as the threat posed by Russian forces grew. 8,200 evacuated on April 7, the day before Russia's strike.
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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 Profile picture
Feb 17, 2023
Foxnews is the propaganda arm of the Republican Party—w/o which it might be a normal democratic party accountable to the public. But Fox cynically chose to prop up GOP toxic lies & frauds, more worried about “brand damage” than the brain damage they cause the country & democracy.
KEY Point: Fox figures who gave the most intense embrace to Trump allies peddling lies KNEW they were peddling lies.

More than unethical & hypocritical, Fox was key to mainstreaming the lies that caused the damage. W/o Fox, coup & insurrection would be fringe ideas not reality.
Fox isn't news. It's the propaganda arm of a terrorist political party—knowingly & deliberately pushing GOP lies, even purging journalists & fact-checkers to dupe viewers more easily.

With a suitably Orwellian justification: Fox is "respecting our audience"…by lying to them.🤨
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