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Mar 9 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wow. It’s gotten so bad that Russia’s Defense Ministry has actually acknowledged that some conscripts have been sent into battle in Ukraine. Putin has explicitly promised this wouldn’t happen. t.me/zvezdanews/718…
Two days ago: Putin said that conscripts and reservists will not participate in the military operation in Ukraine tass.ru/politika/13997…
Here’s the MoD’s admission.
He says “almost all” of these soldiers have been recalled back to Russia, though conscripts in one logistics subunit were ambushed and taken hostage. Rescue efforts are underway, he says.
And Putin’s spokesman has already promised to punish the bad apples in uniform who allowed this to happen. t.me/bbbreaking/118…

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Putin just greenlit Russia’s nationalization campaign. Foreign companies that leave could (will?) find their properties seized and placed under “external management.”
Russia’s Economic Development Ministry has already drafted a bill that would entrust management of these seized assets to the VEB.RF state development corporation and to Russia’s Deposit Insurance Agency.
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Russian Defense Ministry today: Welcome to Project UP-4, a top secret biolab network scattered in Kyiv, Odesa, and Kharkiv. Initially tasked with extra-weaponizing H5N1 using birds known to migrate through Russia. Also there’s P-781, same idea but BATS. t.me/rian_ru/152577
The Kharkiv biolab was also exploring how to infect Russians with diseases using fleas and ticks!Using illegal Japanese military research from the 1940s!!
America and its allies were seeking bioweapons “capable of selectively affecting various ethnic groups”!!!!!!!
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You see this magazine cover making the rounds a lot right now because it demonstrates how the U.S. media can get behind a good ole bombing campaign. Sept. 1995. Leaving aside the rest of this deeply flawed comparison, what was the follow-up reporting from Time? Skip to Nov. 1995. Image
Ends w/ this humdinger: “Ideally, the US would exert a stable, reliable force throughout the world that is something like gravity. If NATO breaks up over Bosnia, & the US keeps retreating from leadership, int’l relations could be a little like Earth with the gravity turned off.” Image
And then, a few months later in May 1996, this was the cover. Cover story ends: “If, in the short run, only a fool would be optimistic about Russia’s course, the eventual outcome seems favorable.” Image
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And there it is. Russia’s Defense Ministry has accused Ukraine of using U.S. money to create and develop biolabs that experimented with … coronavirus samples from bats. Moscow is now suggesting that Ukraine weaponized fucking COVID. t.me/rian_ru/152442
Oh yeah, the Russian military says it has “documents” to prove it.
Not to brag, but:
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Mar 10
Pro-Kremlin bloggers, including TV pundit Vladimir Solovyov (audience: 590k), reposted “hacked CCTV footage” from outside Alexandra Kaluzhskikh’s home & highlighted two frames where she’s smiling — to “disprove” that she was tortured by police. (There’s audio of the torture.)
Needless to say, the idea that “hackers” grabbed this footage is bullshit. The cops themselves almost certainly looked up the feeds around her home, cherrypicked some individual frames, and sent them to friendly Telegram channels.
Incidentally, the channels sharing this “hacked” information (including Solovyov’s channel), also mock Kaluzhskikh’s appearance. Because covering up torture and abusing CCTV aren’t enough on their own when you can also do some misogyny.
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Dual national charged with acting as unregistered Russian agent in U.S. -prosecutors reuters.com/world/us/dual-…
Here’s the DoJ’s press release. “Elena Branson Allegedly Willfully Evaded FARA Registration for Nearly a Decade, Working to Advance the Interests of the Russian Government While Receiving Tasking and Funding from High-Level Russian Officials” justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/d…
“Branson is alleged to have corresponded with Putin himself” ooh lala!
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