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Mar 1 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
More and more information is emerging on the poor food supply and living conditions of the Russian soldiers.

This video shows an army ration captured by Ukrainian soldiers with a 2015 expiration date.
The food situation probably explains documented cases of Russian soldiers looting Ukrainian food stores in occupied towns.

Incidentally, investigations have shown that army catering has been handled for years by "Putin's chef" Evgeny Prigozhin, and apparently the situation has improved little since the oligarch lost those contracts a few years ago.
The living conditions of Russian soldiers are no better: prisoner testimonies and media reports suggest that prior to the invasion the troops at the border were living in trenches, sleeping in their vehicles or even in the streets.
When our source from one of the units saw photos of soldiers living in cramped conditions at to the border, they said "They got lucky; at least they slept under a roof".

Another source provided a photograph of a makeshift tent used by one of the prisoners
As Russian convoys move further and further from their bases, the supply situation could get even worse, in part due to Ukrainian raids on Russian convoys, like this one in Borodyanka to the northwest of Kyiv

We will be monitoring this closely

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Feb 28
More and more evidence is emerging that the Russian forces rely on civilian radios and mobile phones for their communications. Our source in one invading unit confirms this.

This photograph is said to show a civilian radio captured by Ukrainians.
The Mykolaiv regional administration even reported that the Russians resort to signal flares to coordinate their advances, but we have been unable to independently confirm this.

Some Russian troops do carry military radios, like an airborne troops convoy destroyed NW of Kyiv.
The reliance on civilian means of communication means even you can eavesdrop on Russian communications.


No doubt, Ukrainian and Western intel services are also doing this, which is how they might know the Russians are frustrated and demoralized
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Feb 27
This morning, the Russian forces attempted incursions into Kharkiv and Irpin SW of Kyiv using lighter vehicles like Tigr and Typhoon-K armored cars and BMD light armored vehicles

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In a curious "exchange", BMDs in Irpin fired at an Afghanistan veteran memorial in Irpin, probably mistaking a BRDM atop of it for an enemy vehicle

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Later, footage emerged showing destroyed and abandoned vehicles and bodies of apparent Russian soldiers

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Feb 26
The Russia-Ukraine war so far has had both heroic and horrific episodes.

This is perhaps the strangest of them: the story of how a Russian riot police convoy went to conquer Kyiv on its own.
The story is based on videos posted by Ukrainian officials and social media users, as well as testimonies of the policemen themselves.
t.me/armyofukraine/…
t.me/voynareal/9359 (warning: graphic!)
t.me/MoscowTimes_ru…
myrotvorets.news/smert-okupanta…
On February 3, 80 riot policemen from Novokuznetsk in western Siberia set off to the regional capital of Kemerovo.

This was the day when Russian riot police and National Guard troops were on the move all over the country.

They arrived to Smolensk and crossed into Belarus.
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Feb 26
We have collected evidence of another Russian unit sustaining losses in Ukraine. This is the 96th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army, currently fighting on Kharkiv and also like Chernihiv axes.
Videos posted by Ukrainians show Rys and Typhoon-K armored cars with "96" on the doors, which might designate unit number.

Another video shows a PoW who claims to be from unit 52634 — which is the unit code for the 96th Brigade.

A photo shows captured papers with the same code.
According to our source as well as open source evidence, the 96th Recon Brigade is not the only 1st Guards Tank Army unit sustaining losses in Ukraine.

Others include the 423rd Guards Motorized Regiment, whose soldiers were one of the first POWs showcased by Ukrainian forces
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Feb 25
The footage being shared from Ukraine is starting to look more and more like Syria.

A video shared by citizens of Kharkiv with @bbcrussian shows a part of an unguided MLRS rocket that fell through several floors of an apartment block.
A dashcam video, filmed 100 m from a children's hospital in Kharkiv (we confirmed the geolocation) shows what we believe is the impact of a cluster munition.

As no aircraft can be heard in the video, it was probably launched by a MLRS.
Earlier, @Michael1Sheldon geolocated a part of an MLRS cluster rocket in Bucha northwest of Kyiv, the site of heavy fighting earlier today.
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Feb 25
For a second day in a row, Ukrainian civilians have been falling victim to Russia's invasion.

This graphic photograph shows bodies in front of a pre-school facility "Sonechko" in Okhtyrka, Sumy region (we have confirmed the geolocation).
The bombed civilian facility is 600m away from the base of Ukraine's 91st Operational Support Regiment.

Another video shows that an alley running between the regiment's base and Sonechko pre-school facility also was hit.
Okhtyrka's mayor Pavlo Kuzmenko reports that Sonechko ("Little Sun") was shelled with Uragan MLRS, which have a dispersal up to 1 km at a high distance.

Also today, Kharkiv was the target of heavy Smerch MLRS for a second day in a row.
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