Today is the 14th day of the Mariupol defense from the Russian invasion. From 1 March, the city is fully encircled. - @Polk_Azov
The Russian troops are ruthlessly destroying both the city of Mariupol and its inhabitants with artillery and airstrikes. There is no electricity, water, gas, or communications due to the shelling. - @Polk_Azov
The invaders don't let humanitarian convoys into the city, civilians can't get out of the city. Mariupol's on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. People collect rainwater for drinking, prepare food on fire outdoors, bury the dead neighbors just in the yards. - @Polk_Azov
Those having nobody to bury them lie on Mariupol streets until the utility workers take them away and bury them in mass graves. Multiple houses were destroyed, people are hiding in bomb shelters and religious buildings, but the enemy is also shelling these buildings. - @Polk_Azov
"If the Ukrainian troops don't relieve the siege of the city in the near future, then a famine will begin in Mariupol, and the genocide of Ukrainians devised by Russians will be completed." - @Polk_Azov
🧵1/12 BREAKING: Both Georgian Dream and opposition claim victory in today's parliamentary elections, as most exit polls show opposition lead.
The vote could end 12 years of rule by a party critics call "Russian Dream" 🇬🇪 a recap of how Georgia got here: euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/11/fro…
2/12 2003: Georgia's pro-Western path began with Rose Revolution. President Mikheil Saakashvili led sweeping reforms, oriented country toward EU and NATO despite Russia's 2008 invasion and occupation of 20% of Georgia
3/12 2012: Enter Bidzina Ivanishvili - Russian-made billionaire who promised both EU integration AND better Russia ties. His Georgian Dream defeated Saakashvili's party in Georgia's first peaceful power transfer.
Fear not, @yulia_navalnaya, we're here to explain how to decolonize your country which subjugated different peoples and eradicated their identity to create "the same background and cultural context".
Let's start with our interview with Leyla Latypova in the second tweet👇🏻
Here @LatypovaLeyla explains how your country oppresses her peoples
And here, we made a short explainer how your country killed and deported people from Crimea, which is by the way not a "Butterbrot", is it?
#Otd 80 years ago, Soviets deported entire Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia
The hushed-up Soviet crime is one that Russia continues spinning in its ongoing occupation of Crimea & one Ukraine insists is genocide. Here are 10 things you should know euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/18/ten…
1/Crimean Tatars are the indigenous people of Crimea, with a history on the peninsula spanning over 1,000 years.
Before Russian annexation in 1783, their population in the Crimean Khanate exceeded 5 million. By 1917, it had dropped to around 200,000 - result of Russian policies
2/ The Soviet NKVD deported around 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in just 3 days from May 18-20, 1944.
Families had only 30 minutes to gather belongings before being crammed into cattle wagons. 8,000 died during the arduous journey.
North Korea, acting as China's proxy, aids Russia against Ukraine to undermine US influence in Europe. "In exchange, Russia provides North Korea with technologies, evident from their missile developments and recent tests, which are obviously linked to Russia," says Samus. (2/4)
Iran, aligned with China and Russia, challenges US Mideast dominance. Samus believes Russia aids Iran's missile and nuclear programs, saying, "Progressing Iran's capabilities from the 1950s to modern levels is difficult and costly without external support." (3/4)
Despite being subsonic and carrying a smaller warhead than the "hypersonic" Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal," the Kh-69, first of all, was able to penetrate Ukraine's weakened air defense.
Second, it can be launched from small tactical-class aircraft such as the Su-34 👇
While hitherto, the takeoff of long-range strategic bombers such as the pictured Tu-95MS was a telltale sign of large-scale, long-range missile attacks with Kinzhal or Kh-101 missiles, the Kh-69 can be launched from the more numerous, smaller jets from closer to the frontline 👇