#Russia: Sergei Erzhenkov, a journalist, attended a 4 March anti-war rally in Kasimov, where inter alia he filmed activists spray-painting "Putin — go away" on a Lenin statue. The FSB arrested him the next day and he says tortured him. themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/14/rus…
Latest public intelligence estimate from #Britain notes the #Russian redeployments to eastern #Ukraine, and says the operational focus seems to be in that region for now but the ultimate objective of at least vassalising Kiev remains unchanged
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1515566596785426438
Curiouser and curiouser behaviour from the Nazi junta in Ukraine. At times one wonders if Russia is being entirely honest.
https://twitter.com/songsofyoni/status/1515394807698444288
The #Russian military: not a learning organisation
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1515085260219830273
#Russia has blocked the evacuation of civilians in east #Ukraine (again)
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1515617310492536835
"Are we the baddies?"
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1515419442741665792
Seems #Russia is looking to create a "Kherson People's Republic" as part of the messaging preceding the 9 May "Victory Day" celebrations, where #Putin is going to have to try to have something to show for the invasion of #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1515642316622553097
#Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says that #Mariupol has not surrendered and is continuing to resist the #Russian invaders. reuters.com/world/europe/u…
#pt: The atrocities by #Russia around Kiev helped to solidify the determination of the #Ukrainian forces down in #Mariupol to continue fighting, long after it seemed they should have been overrun.
https://twitter.com/shustry/status/1515609442305429512
Another part of #Russia's playbook from #Syria: destruction of bakeries and other places that serve food to besieged populations
https://twitter.com/natemook/status/1515314537943162880
"An important moment in [#Putin's] development appears to have come with Mr. Obama’s last-minute decision in 2013 not to bomb Syria after Bashar al-Assad ... crossed an American 'red line' against using chemical weapons." nytimes.com/2022/03/26/wor…
"'It was decisive, I think,' said Mr. Hollande, the former French president, who had readied warplanes ... 'Decisive for American credibility, and that had consequences. After that, I believe, Mr. Putin considered Mr. Obama weak'."
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1515798027428110338
Rather settles the debate: #Ukraine devastated the #Russian vessel Moskva with a Neptune missile.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1515820381013168135
#Ukraine's President Zelensky told CNN he spoke to #France's President Macron yesterday and "told him I want him to understand that this is ... genocide. I invited him to come ... and see, and I'm sure he will understand." france24.com/en/europe/2022…
In occupied Crimea, #Russia has created "retraining camps" for #Ukrainian teachers forcibly deported from Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia to give them "language courses" so they speak Russian and can be used to teach this to Ukrainian children. hromadske.ua/ru/posts/prinu… 
Interesting piece on the ethnic minorities who have died in high numbers fighting for #Russia's army, particularly from Muslims from Dagestan and Mongols from Buryatia; obviously the Chechens; and some naturalised citizens from former Soviet Central Asia. humintsecurity.com/russia-is-usin…
In a recent telephone call, #Ukraine's President Zelensky asked #US President Biden to designate #Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, a proposal with objective merit that would open new sanctions avenues, but politically the administration is resistant washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#pt: Russia's cultivation of a Far-Right International, including numerous violent groups, would provide the basis for a US designation of Moscow as a state sponsor of terrorism. aijac.org.au/fresh-air/russ…
#Zelensky estimates that 2,500 to 3,000 #Ukrainian troops have been killed and about 10,000 wounded, as compared to, 19,000 to 20,000 #Russian soldiers killed. edition.cnn.com/2022/04/15/pol…
Thread on the Sovietized layer of people, the "former" nomenklatura and siloviki, that make up the current Russian government.
https://twitter.com/MSnegovaya/status/1514599170371252238
Wrote about this in 2018: the people in power around #Putin are the most Sovietized layer of #Russian society, and even as the ideological Communism has waned, the old sense of #America as the main enemy and the conspiratorial pattern of thought remains kyleworton.medium.com/zionism-is-mak…
Macron was better off with the emulation of Zelensky than BHL
https://twitter.com/moutet/status/1515830205675356164
"Anonymous Twitter users are exposing the extreme nationalism and pro-#Russian sentiment circulating online in #China - and Beijing is not happy about it. ... They often come under the hashtag of 'The Great Translation Movement'." edition.cnn.com/2022/04/13/chi…
#Britain's SAS is in #Ukraine, around Kiev, training Ukrainian forces, among other things how to use anti-tank NLAW missiles, for their war against the #Russian invaders. thetimes.co.uk/article/sas-tr…
#Ukraine has "doxed" thousands of #Russian troops who occupied the zone around Kiev where the hideous massacres were committed, and hundreds of Russian intelligence officers, which is something rather new in the history of statecraft and warfare wired.com/story/russia-u…
#pt: Also revealed "more than 360,000 files from Roskomnadzor...; 62,000 emails from an investment firm ...; 900,000 emails from VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster; 230,000 emails from the Russian Ministry of Culture; and 250,000 emails from the Ministry of Education".
#Israel has shifted position markedly enough to anger #Russia
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1515724815826567172
It's potentially just clownshoes, like the rest of the #Russian invasion of #Ukraine, but it potentially has a serious aspect, namely as a statement of intent, the application of Russian laws to areas the Kremlin intends to make domestic territories
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1515839567819124745
Noteworthy: visible #Jews all over #Europe have much to fear at the present time, especially in Western Europe, but a rabbi who has lived in these places finds #Ukraine has been the safest place on the Continent
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1515894372746756097
#Russian troops in Bucha raped men as well as women, according to Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, who have the example of "a male guard of the children's health camp 'Orliatko' in Vorzel ... He didn't make it through the brutal abuse and died after the assault" tsn.ua/en/ato/females…
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