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Apr 28 • 65 tweets • 43 min read
Thread: 28 April 2022: Day 64 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Britain is getting the messaging right on this: an acknowledgement of the reality that there is a task in front of us, but a refusal to even hint at recognising #Russia's annexation of Crimea or any other part of #Ukraine
#Russia managing to forge a nation in #Ukraine, revitalise a West that had seemed in terminal decline, and eliminate its own levers soft/economic influence in a war meant to do exactly the opposite is quite something to watch
The #Ukrainian desire to sign up for the army is intense
Trevor Reed, the former #US Marine freed by #Russia yesterday after nearly three years as a hostage, was exchanged for Konstantin Yaroshenko, the Kremlin's kingpin for global cocaine trafficking who was close to #Cuba/#Venezuela, thus FARC and #Iran
#Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov sailed his $325-million, 350-foot yacht across the Pacific for 18 days to avoid #US/#EU sanctions, heading for Australia, and they caught him anyway in Fiji luxurylaunches.com/transport/us-g…
#Russia's Ministry of Defence shares a video of dead #Ukrainians, claiming they are "nationalists" (Nazis), and shows the same body from multiple angles to imply that there is more than one body. A gruesome propaganda stunt. t.me/mod_russia/147…
#US really getting going now: half the Howitzers assigned for #Ukraine are already there
The parents of #Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Oleksandr and Rymma, avoid public attention and rather wish their son would do the same. Oleksandr is a devoted member of the Jewish community, and worked to help prevent any ban on kosher slaughter. timesofisrael.com/zelenskys-pare…
One of many minorities in Russia, the Udmurt, related to the Finns and thus the language to Magyars (Hungarians) and Turks.
The Bundestag has approved, by a large majority, #Germany providing #Ukraine with heavy weapons
Seems #Russia might try to buttress its Donbas offensive by attacking the Ukrainian supply lines through Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia, and Dnipro. The danger is it overstretches Russia's already thin forces and allows a counter-attack by #Ukraine.
#Russia expected to expand its use of deportation and torture against #Ukraine's civilians as the Donbas offensive intensifies
A source close to the #Russian Presidential Administration says the Kremlin's puppet polities in Donetsk and Luhansk will be annexed on 14 or 15 May, and on the same day a referendum will be held in Kherson to turn it into a "People's Republic". meduza.io/feature/2022/0…
Two men killed in #Chechnya for refusing to join #Russia's army for the war on #Ukraine
Thread on Valery Gergiev, the conductor who acts as one of Putin's "informal" foreign spokesmen
The opposition in #Bulgaria is moving to a pro-#Ukraine position and using it to attack the current ruling party
Thread on conditions in #Kherson, which seems very likely to soon be made into a "People's Republic" by #Russia
#Denmark continuing its supplies to #Ukraine
#Canada lawmakers vote unanimously to label #Russia's acts in #Ukraine as 'genocide' reuters.com/world/canada-l…
#Ukraine's "IT Army" is doing sterling work against #Russia and setting up conditions for volunteers to join in
#pt
Overnight there has been another fire in #Russia, this one in Moscow, on Kustanaiskaya Street, it seems that it was a medical facility that is under construction. Seven cars were destroyed. Cause unknown.
Hardly reassuring that Vladimir Solovyov's show is channelling the anti-Albigensian messaging: "Kill them all: God will know his own."
#Moldova seems to be moving to secure its defences as #Russia clearly has the state in its sights
Missed this yesterday: #Russia has deployed #dolphins off Sevastopol
Moldova To Provide Aid To Ukraine, Joins West In Sanctioning Russia republicworld.com/world-news/rus…
#Ukraine says it has options in #Moldova, too, which has sent #Russia into a tizzy, though Kiev says it will not act in Moldova because unlike Russia it respects the territory of other states.
Still no hope from Igor Girkin: "Overall, the enemy is defending competently, fiercely, [and] it controls the situation ... In the best case scenario, the enemy will be slowly 'pushed out' of Donbas with large losses (for both sides, of course)."
Latest map of the situation in #Ukraine, put out by #Britain's Defence Ministry
"#Britain will send hundreds of anti-ship Brimstone missiles to #Ukraine to bolster naval defences after the sinking of the #Russian warship Moskva. ... [T]he supersonic missiles would arrive in the 'next few weeks'." thetimes.co.uk/article/f62e86…
An Orthodox pilgrim heading to Mariupol
Head of #Russia's foreign intelligence (#SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, says the #US and #Poland are planning to invade western #Ukraine to re-annex the area to Poland. Apparently "it will take place without a #NATO mandate", and be a "coalition of the willing". iz.ru/1327611/2022-0…
#NATO is prepared for the long-haul to support #Ukraine in its war to defend itself from #Russia
White House proposes using assets seized from Russian oligarchs to compensate Ukraine - @AFP
#US looking to escalate its support to #Ukraine
Mikhail Khodorenok, a retired colonel with the Russian General Staff, was able to see how this was going to go in early February
A truly national war
Potentially another attack by #Ukraine inside #Russia, in Belgorod. Becoming routine.
#Russia playing an extremely dangerous game in #Moldova
Footage shows #Russia's army surrounded by the bodies of #Ukrainians they killed in Bucha
Seems the #EU really might have had enough of #Hungary's games
#Putin apparently played the #Kosovo Card once too often and there has been a backlash in #Serbia
#Russia bragging about its deportations of #Ukrainians, now more than a million people, a fifth of them children
Standard stuff from #Syria for #Russia to attack the hospitals. Very unclear how long #Ukraine can hold on in Mariupol
Can see what's gone wrong for #Russia if that's the quality of intelligence that's being fed up to the boss
Ramzan Kadyrov doing ... as he does
Seventh #Russia-#Ukraine prisoner swap today
Undoubtedly, Zelensky's worst failing was not believing in time that a Russian invasion was coming at all. After that, he has been nearly faultless, but he is also playing catch-up from the initial mistake.
#Russia is attacking #Ukraine's capital while the #UN secretary-general is there
Zelensky is just so good at the job of being a wartime leader. It is these things that construct the national narrative and keep morale going in the direst situation
#Ukraine has 8,000 cases of #Russian war crimes under investigation, the tip of the iceberg, obviously
#Bulgaria's leader is also in #Ukraine's capital at the moment, along with the #UN secretary general, when #Russia launched a missile at the city a short time ago
#Moldova seems to be moving towards a war footing as #Russia plays games in #Transnistria, the launch point if Moscow decides to widen the #Ukraine war
Same as launching the war with a pre-taped statement while the UN Security Council was in session
#Moldova's neighbours preparing for trouble.
Breakdown of the #US aid given to #Ukraine since #Russia's invasion began. Since Kiev's defence budget was $6 billion before this, not exactly the outcome the Russians were after.
#US aid package requested today is $11 billion directly to #Ukraine - $6bn to buy weapons for the Ukrainians and $5bn to be sent out of US stocks - plus $5bn to shore-up #NATO's eastern frontier.
The #US House of Representatives has voted through Biden's requests for aid to #Ukraine
#Russian forces celebrating the killing of a #Ukrainian Jewish soldier as part of their "denazification operation"
Pentagon says #Russia is moving slowly in the Donbas because of "Ukrainian resistance ... [and] still-continued logistics problems". Russia is making some moves east of Izyum and some troops are being redeployed from Mariupol northwest towards Zaporizhzhia
#Britain is to send 8,000 troops to Eastern Europe to join with #NATO and the Joint Expeditionary Force alliance, which includes Sweden and Finland, in one of the largest exercises since the end of the Cold War. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…
#Israel has joined #Bulgaria (and #Russia) in calling for citizens to leave #Transnistria in Moldova as the Russians begin stirring up trouble as part of a potential plan to widen the Ukraine war.
Pentagon doesn't see #Russia staging an amphibious attack on #Odessa anytime soon. The Russian Navy is mostly there for supply to ground troops in the south, and for missile strikes on #Ukraine's cities.
#Britain's government has risen very considerably in my estimations of late with its messaging and actions over #Ukraine, and now moving on to #China, understanding that the CCP menace, especially to #Taiwan, is not distinct from the #Russia threat

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