Another case where the levers of influence over #Turkey that supposedly explain why #Russia has such influence over Ankara highlight the questions of why the #US cannot use these same levers and why the Turks do not worry about them
https://twitter.com/Istanbultelaviv/status/1519135362282577920
#Ukraine's ability to strike inside #Russia, in towns like Belgorod, is now becoming routine
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519148785972264963
#Russia blames #Britain for the strikes by #Ukraine within Russia. The British have occupied this primary place in Russian messaging for some time, and it likely genuinely reflects the beliefs of the leadership
https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1518955393422135304
The #US has totally reversed itself inside a month on training #Ukraine's forces with American weapons systems
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1519167468622647298
Vice President of #Russia's Gazprombank Igor Volobuev has fled his country and joined #Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces after another Vice President, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide, which Volobuev believes was staged zona.media/news/2022/04/2…
This is very well put. The idea #Russia distinguishes between heavy weapons and jets is very silly - and it is even sillier for us to pretend to care
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1519221481787379712
#Britain's latest public intelligence estimate:
- #Ukraine controls "the majority of its airspace"
- #Russia continues bombing the south and east but has "very limited air access" to the west and north
- Russian attacks on Mariupol are largely unguided
- #Ukraine controls "the majority of its airspace"
- #Russia continues bombing the south and east but has "very limited air access" to the west and north
- Russian attacks on Mariupol are largely unguided
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1519177727038967808
#Finnish involvement against the #Russians is so seldom good news for Moscow
https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/1519110705806336000
#Russia continues trying to push through Kherson into the Mykolaiv Oblast, but #Ukraine is resisting and if anything the tide is going the Ukrainian way, albeit slowly and at a grinding price
https://twitter.com/TCG_CrisisRisks/status/1519151649721229312
#Britain's government has its priorities in order
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1519213085663367168
Further signs #Transnistria is being drawn into #Russia's war on #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1519225391902248961
Unfortunate in the short-term for #Moldova to be dragged into this, but #Russia has made the decision to use its #Transistria base as part of the #Ukraine war. Kyiv has little choice to response, and the end result could help stabilise Moldova itself.
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1519220394279976961
#pt: While it seems clear that a #Russian effort against #Odessa as part of this Donbas offensive - as a way to link up south #Ukraine with #Transnistria - will go badly, this has not stopped Moscow so far, and the Kremlin clearly wants all of this
https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1519262232030453761
Late last year, Denis Kulikovskyi ("Palych"), one of the cruellest wardens of one of the worst GULAG camps in the Donbas, was captured by Ukraine's authorities
https://twitter.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1519044184711352320
All roughly what you'd expect from Nikolai Patrushev, framed at every level by #Russia's elite believing this is a war with the West, not #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti/status/1519222930273619968
Unfortunate in #Bosnia
https://twitter.com/tinso_ww/status/1519233538117324800
#Russian advances around Izyum
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1519182617798746115
The Orthodox element to #Russia's war on #Ukraine has been important from the outset, and as Moscow seeks to mobilise numbers for the Donbas offensive, after the army was battered around Kiev, this is coming more to the fore
https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1519182908677894144
#Russia had better scope for framing the #Mariupol battle before it razed the place and massacred thousands of its people, who now rot in mass graves outside the city. Difficult to convince people after this that it is Azov's fault.
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1519267531122528256
Thread on an interesting case of someone in #Ukraine, a supporter of #Russia right up to the invasion happening, who has now switched entirely. Russia has helped weld together a nation in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1519263725139730433
#Ukraine explains the explosions in #Russia
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1519290213926899713
#Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has invited #Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (over the telephone) to take part in the G20 summit in Jakarta in November.
Trevor Reed, the former #US Marine taken hostage in #Russia in the summer of 2019, has been released.
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1519290717679534080
The full list of 287 #British MPs sanctioned by #Russia, includes: Dominic Greave, Jeremy Hunt, Andrea Leadsom, Julian Lewis, Esther McVey, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Diane Abbott. order-order.com/2022/04/27/rea…
The Investigative Committee of the Russian (SKR) has opened a criminal case against Rovshan Askerov for the "rehabilitation of Nazism" because of a Facebook post containing "deliberately false information insulting and discrediting the memory" of Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
#Russia began direct flights to #Taliban Afghanistan on 25 April
https://twitter.com/RusEmbassyKabul/status/1518885603936505856
Horrible situation in Mariupol
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1519309276568866817
As well as stirring up trouble in #Moldova, Russia's government is now threatening #Kazakhstan as well.
Moscow suppressed disturbances in Kazakhstan in January, but was unable to deploy full force as it was preparing for #Ukraine.
Moscow suppressed disturbances in Kazakhstan in January, but was unable to deploy full force as it was preparing for #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/expatua/status/1519242631510999041
Putin channelling the "NATO is fighting to the last Ukrainian against Russia" narrative that a lot of Westerners who pretend to care about human life use when arguing that Russia should be allowed to have its conquest unhindered
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1519330078013935617
CCTV footage of the bombing in #Transnistria on 25 April of the Ministry of State Security, the institution created on the model of the KGB.
#Russia is facing a nightmarish situation in #Ukraine, a dastardly coalition of Nazis and armed homosexuals down in Mariupol, and cross-dressing advisers to the President in Kiev.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1519329650941513728
#Russia's spokesmen approaching the climactic moment at which they declare themselves to be poached eggs and demand large pieces of buttered toast to lie down on
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1519373288958476288
Holocaust survivors transferred from #Ukraine to #Israel
https://twitter.com/JudahAriGross/status/1519365577755799552
Only so many ways #Russia can make clear that its war is with #NATO, and #Ukraine happens to be the theatre.
NB: the Russian mobilisation for this next phase includes a heavy emphasis on "spiritual security", with the Orthodox Church as a focal point
NB: the Russian mobilisation for this next phase includes a heavy emphasis on "spiritual security", with the Orthodox Church as a focal point
https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1519366055164063749
"#Britain is considering deploying Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks to #Poland to allow Poland to supply #Ukraine with T-72 tanks." ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-consid…
Boris getting a lot of appreciation in #Ukraine that he does not in #Britain
https://twitter.com/dpatrikarakos/status/1519364898400387073
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