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Apr 5 • 49 tweets • 31 min read
Thread: 5 April 2022: Day 41 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
The Pentagon believes #Russia has temporarily reoriented to focus on conquering eastern #Ukraine first, after its attempt to seize the capital in the west was repelled.
The #US briefing suggests that #Russia's switch to conquering #Ukraine east to west (after its attempt for the reverse failed) still includes #Odessa as an immediate target, which the Russians would have to land at from the sea.
#US to supply #Ukraine with 100+ Switchblade "suicide drones", mostly of the older model that can fly about six miles and loiter over a target for fifteen minutes, but some of the newer model that can travel twenty-four miles and loiter for forty minutes
#pt
The Archpriest of Hostomel, near #Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, found that his friend, the Mayor of the town, Yriy Pzylyko, had been killed by #Russia's troops, but he was unable to retrieve the body because it had been rigged with explosives. thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…
Grim
The Prosecutor General's Office in #Ukraine says at least 165 children have been killed by #Russia's invasion and at least 266 wounded. The figures do not count besieged cities like Mariupol that cannot be accessed - @KyivIndependent
Pentagon's current assessment of #Russian troop movements. Seems those around #Ukraine's capital really have had to pull back to #Belarus.
The #US unclear on what exactly #Russia intends after the reset, now #Ukraine has defeated the first wave assault around Kyiv.
The pull-back of #Russia's forces across the north of #Ukraine seems fairly general, not only from Kyiv but Sumy, two-hundred miles to the east.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in an interview on 29 March: "They are taking incredible losses on the Russian side ... by our estimates, more than 10,000 Russian dead." rferl.org/a/nuland-ukrai…
Signs of a shift in #India's public opinion after the revelation of the scale of #Russia's atrocities in #Ukraine
Report on how #Russian soldiers are sending war loot from #Ukraine back home
In Sumy, 200 miles east of Kyiv in north #Ukraine, the same pattern of atrocities by #Russia's forces is being discovered after they fell back as in the Kyiv suburbs
A man deported from #France to #Chechnya, ruled over by #Putin's warlord-president Ramzan Kadyrov, has been tortured to death in custody
#Israel's Prime Minister avoiding commenting on the atrocities by #Russia's forces in Bucha, the suburb around #Ukraine's capital.
#Poland criticising #France's President in public for these repeated efforts to engage #Russia's ruler, says there is nothing left to talk about; the effort has to go towards the military defeat of the Russian army
Latest #British intelligence estimate: some "low-level fighting" continuing in the areas of north #Ukraine retaken by the state, and the retreating #Russian forces likely need "significant re-equipping and refurbishing" before they can try for Kyiv again
Become a familiar story now: #Ukrainians cannot even get relatives in #Russia to believe what is happening when they tell them directly what they have seen with their own eyes.
The #US providing on the humanitarian side as well as the military for #Ukraine
One of the #Americans abducted by #Russia, Trevor Reed, seems to be suffering medical complications and it's not clear he is getting the treatment he needs.
A military commentator from #China says the Bucha atrocities were staged, caused by the US/NATO and Ukraine, with Russia having no responsibility. Peking has consistently taken the #Russian line over all this, including in the crazier points.
Brazhkivka has fallen to #Russian forces
#Ukraine's chief rabbi visited Bucha in the aftermath of the #Russian occupation.
#Russian schools will begin teaching kids 9-years-old and up on, "Anti-Russian sanctions and their impact on the domestic economy". The lesson will start with the statement by Putin about the "unprecedented external pressure", Kommersant reports.
At the end of the lesson, the kids will take a questionnaire with questions like: "Are the sanctions against Russia fair?" (multiple choice answers: Russia, NATO, all world states) and "Will the sanctions lead to the strengthening of the Russian economy?"
#Ukraine's President Zelensky says #Hungary will have to pick a side
#Venezuela, of course, all-in for #Russia
President of the #EU Parliament
#France on board with energy sanctions in the new #EU round against #Russia
People in Sumy, east of Kyiv in northern #Ukraine, report the same pattern of looting by #Russian soldiers
Second consecutive day: confirms it is an official line and not a one-off crackpot
And in case there was any doubt that destroying #Ukraine as a nation was the official #Russian policy
#Spain stepping up
Asad's regime publicly saying it is willing to send troops to help #Russia's war on #Ukraine
#Russia's Wagner Group is reported to have massacred hundreds of civilians and displaced thousands more in Andaha, the gold mining area of Central African Republic between 14 and 18 March. Victims were from CAR, Sudan, Chad, and Niger.
middleeasteye.net/news/russia-su…
#Ukraine has brought down a #Russian attack helicopter
Context for the reports of atrocities by #Russia's Wagner Group in the Central African Republic (from February)
Ridiculous that none of this was considered ahead of time
Today:

- #Italy is to expel 30 #Russian diplomats

- #Denmark is to expel 15 Russian diplomats

Yesterday:

- #Germany expelled 40 diplomats because of the "incredible cruelty of the Russian leadership", said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
Sounds about right: every other time the present #Russian government has spoken about ceasefires it was the curtain-raiser for a massive escalation
#Sweden, too.
#Ukraine's President Zelensky is addressing the United Nations Security Council about the #Russian invasion of his country.
Ball dropped by #Sweden
An explosion in Belgorod, within the territory of #Russia. The town was the site of a daring airborne raid by #Ukraine a few days ago.
America, Britain, and Australia will cooperate on hypersonic weapons - @AFP
Thread on life in 1990s #Russia: so grim in so many ways - and that turmoil now used as a pillar of legitimacy by the current government. But that era had what this one does not: hope.
#Russia's government boasting of the deportation of more than half-a-million #Ukrainians to camps within Russia

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Thread: 4 April 2022: Day 40 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Not exactly subtle from #Russia, and quite funny to include #Belarus, which has been stripped of even the minimal sovereignty it had before the war on #Ukraine began.
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Thread: 3 April 2022: Day 39 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
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#pt
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Thread: 23 March 2022: Day 28 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Poland is throwing out nearly fifty #Russian spies operating under diplomatic cover at the Embassy
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This has been a depressing aspect of this war. Small, in the grand scheme, sure, but notable and lasting: there are a number of people now who one admired or at least found interesting before this war that have to be written off as terminally unreliable.
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From Putin's July 2021 essay: "I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people—a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occasions and what I firmly believe."
More from Putin's July 2021 essay: "These territories were referred to as 'Malorossia' (Little Russia). The name 'Ukraine' was used more often in the meaning of the Old Russian word 'okraina' (periphery) ... , referring to various border territories ... "
"... And the word 'Ukrainian', judging by archival documents, originally referred to frontier guards who protected the external borders."
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Thread: 22 March 2022: Day 27 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
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