❗️CNN: The state of our union is sickened & horrified. Gruesome new images out of Ukraine as Russian troops leave Kyiv areas & reveal horrors shocking to the world. Bodies of at least 20 men—shot execution style—left lying amid rubble on streets of Bucha. 300 buried in mass grave
NATO Chief @jensstoltenberg: It is a brutality against civilians we haven't seen in Europe for decades. It's horrific & absolutely unacceptable to target & kill civilians.… I strongly welcome the investigation by International Criminal Court.
@jensstoltenberg ❗️@fpleitgenCNN reports on mass grave behind church in #Bucha, to @FareedZakaria: Locals say 100-300 civilians killed during Russia's occupation were buried there as bodies mounted. Bodies in black plastic bags. Awful scene. "Tells the tale not only of Bucha but the entire area."
@jensstoltenberg@fpleitgenCNN@FareedZakaria ❗️@fpleitgenCNN reports seeing ~12 bodies in mass grave in #Bucha. Reports similar destruction in areas where Russians were. In #Borodyanka he saw a dead body w/ hands tied behind back & severe bruises on it, appears to have been tortured & executed. Shell casing found near body.
@jensstoltenberg@fpleitgenCNN@FareedZakaria More photos from #Bucha: Distraught residents realize their loved ones are among those in mass graves, killed by Russian forces. Liuba says the Russians have been abusing Ukraine since the 1930s. "Why do they hate us? Why do they want to destroy us? But we will be. We will be OK"
I'm not the only one calling this genocide. Historians, survivors, observers and today Ukraine's Pres. Zelensky also called it #genocide.
@jensstoltenberg@fpleitgenCNN@FareedZakaria 🚨Zelensky: This is genocide—the elimination of a whole nation & a people. We are the citizens of Ukraine. We have 100+ nationalities. This is about the destruction of all these nationalities. We don't want to be subdued to Russia. That's why we're being destroyed & exterminated.
😳“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’”😨
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”
#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.
"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"
"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.
"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."
@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"
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.
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.🤨