"V" and "Z" monuments gone up in Maloyaroslavets, in European #Russia 
Footage of a #Ukraine drone strike on #Russia's forces in Luhansk
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1520042517382766592
#Syrian doctors, having seen their own country devastated by #Russia, have been streaming to #Ukraine to help those under attack by the Russians thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/…
#Ukraine's favourability views of foreign leaders:
- #Poland's Duda: 87%,
- #Britain's Boris Johnson: 86%
- #US President Biden and #Turkey's Erdoğan: 76%
- #Lithuania's Nausėda and #France's Macron: 75%
- #EU's Von der Leyen: 66%
- #Germany's Scholz: 30%
ratinggroup.ua/en/research/uk…
- #Poland's Duda: 87%,
- #Britain's Boris Johnson: 86%
- #US President Biden and #Turkey's Erdoğan: 76%
- #Lithuania's Nausėda and #France's Macron: 75%
- #EU's Von der Leyen: 66%
- #Germany's Scholz: 30%
ratinggroup.ua/en/research/uk…
Well that is interesting
https://twitter.com/ChekistMonitor/status/1520055312266407938
#China's state television has a map of #Russia after its collapse and who the territories will be apportioned to
https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1520061360939360256
Sounds like #Russia is planning a Roman Triumph through #Mariupol
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1520095192338120707
Another 900 #Ukrainians killed by #Russian forces have been found in a mass grave near Kiev, says President Zelensky in an interview with Polish media. Zelensky says some corpses were destroyed in mobile crematoria and 500,000 have been deported to Russia pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…
Every reason for scepticism about the numbers #Ukraine gives for #Russia's casualties, of course, but just as a sheer matter of fact the numbers Kiev have given so far have, when independent evidence becomes available, tended to look about right
https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1520001110441922560
#pt: e.g., about a week ago, a leaked document from the #Russian government said the Russian army had suffered 20,000 casualties (confirmed killed and "missing"), so if #Ukraine says that total is now at 23,000, it is not wildly implausible
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1517374395634888709
Quite something to read back this by Andrey Sushentsov, the president of the Valdai Club (Putin's Davos), from Feb. 26, two days after #Russia's invasion began. Starts baldly with, "Ukraine will receive a new government and will be demilitarised, for sure" valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/r…
"Ukraine will become the third member of the union between Russia and Belarus ... The business-like, routine character of the largest military crisis in Europe since [Kosovo] shows that international relations are returning to their historical norm" ...
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1520135164814405632
Very interesting on the way #Germany's political elite operates, and why these methods have begun to fail as the reality of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine - and the international attention on Berlin - hits. newstatesman.com/world/europe/2…
Report: At least two members of the "Unite pour la Paix en Centrafrique" (UPC) rebel movement in the #Central_African_Republic were killed on 25 April by #Russia's Wagner Group in Liota. humanglemedia.com/russian-mercen…
The Kadyrov section of the latest letter sent by an FSB officer to Vladimir Osechkin rings true: the Chechens are mostly doing media work in #Ukraine, so will survive the Donbas mess largely intact, and the Kadyrovtsy have had to deal with trouble at home.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1519063807774978048
"They have one propaganda [story], we have another. I believe in what they say here", says one #Russian man. "Everyone understands [the atrocities and the hatred of #Ukrainians] on some level, but they don't know it. And they refuse to find out". meduza.io/feature/2022/0…
A lot in this about how #Russians are thinking and talking about the war. One theme that really comes through is a sense that #Ukraine has "betrayed" Russia and become a hostile menace; any negative interaction with a Ukrainian is taken as systematic.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1520146092683317248
#pt: "'I am a Christian, so I fully support the [special] operation,' a [#Russian] woman who was married to a #Ukrainian told us. 'The Antichrist must come, as you know. The Antichrist will come in Germany, in Europe, every Christian knows this'."
#pt: "I unfollowed you on Facebook … Of course, I am not for the war … But … I completely disagree with your point of view. … I don't want to be persuaded. I am for an authoritarian state, with a Tsar (царь). I do not welcome freedom of speech … and everything you support."
#pt: A Russian in the Urals says: "Stalin kept all these fascists, enemies of the people, in camps. And Khrushchev released all the Banderites and Chechens, Gorbachev ruined the state, Yeltsin armed Ukraine and gave away Crimea. So Putin has to sort it all out."
Using 1,700 confirmed cases, @mediazzzona looked at the profile of the #Russians who have died in #Putin's war on #Ukraine. Overwhelmingly they come from poorer areas, notably Dagestan and Buryatia, and virtually nobody from Moscow and Petersburg. zona.media/article/2022/0…
The dead also tend to be younger (19 and 20 in many cases) and very likely conscripts, despite the Putin government's messaging on this issue.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1520155562809380865
Every little helps
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1520155580026994689
Latest @levada_ru polling:
- 59% of #Russians are following the war, 26% very closely
- 74% support the war [down from 81% in March], 19% oppose
- 68% think it's going well
- 73% believe Russia will prevail
- 7% blame Russia for the deaths, 57% blame NATO
levada.ru/2022/04/28/kon…
- 59% of #Russians are following the war, 26% very closely
- 74% support the war [down from 81% in March], 19% oppose
- 68% think it's going well
- 73% believe Russia will prevail
- 7% blame Russia for the deaths, 57% blame NATO
levada.ru/2022/04/28/kon…
A horrible echo of Bolshevik tactics in the Civil War, when "Whites" or civilians suspected of anti-Communist beliefs, and certainly priests, would be tied to a post or fence, doused in water, and left overnight to freeze to death.
https://twitter.com/sarahrainsford/status/1519931183932612609
Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of #Russia's Security Council, the most hawkish and nationalist of the siloviki around #Putin, gave a rare public interview laying out where his faction want this to go: escalation in #Ukraine, forever war with the #US/West. themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/29/rus…
Perhaps not the absolute apex of border defence from #Russia
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1519941855420588032
"The #US has started to train #Ukrainian troops on howitzer artillery systems and radars at US military installations in Germany, the Pentagon's top spokesperson said [on 29 April]. ... The Florida National Guard will provide 'the bulk of the training'." thehill.com/policy/defense…
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