#Poland has become the first guarantor state to announce publicly it will not be party to a peace agreement with #Russia that involves the surrender of parts of #Ukraine's territory
https://twitter.com/V_Omelyan/status/1520815832649113602
Nikita Gorban, 31, a lab assistant at a hospital in Kiev, was kidnapped by #Russia's troops, taken 300 miles east to Kursk, where he was repeatedly tortured and beaten, until he was freed in a prisoner exchange. He is now recovering in Zaporizhzhia. bbc.com/russian/featur…
The #Russians tightened a wrench around his knuckles until it tore the skin, had his shoes filled with water and was made to lie down in a field overnight in the cold, "interrogated" 2-3 times a day, and made to sign forms saying he'd been treated well.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1521021193943498752
The @TheStudyofWar write-up of #Russia's apparent intentions to have this offensive in the Donbas move through southern #Ukraine to #Transistria
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1520898234767396864
In Ulan-Ude on 26 April, a bus driver handed over pensioner Natalia Filonova to the police after she demanded that the driver "remove this fascist sign", referring to a "Z" placard. Filonova has been taken to hospital after she became illin custody. currenttime.tv/a/buryatiya-os…
#Hungary Would Veto #EU Sanctions on Russian Energy, Says Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Senior #Ukraine official says the #Russians are recruiting unskilled volunteers to pad out the army for a lightning rush in Donbas
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1520909866717564933
Interesting straw in the wind. The Russian Civil War has been cropping up a bit more in public discourse from Russian academic and media figures.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1520872875615526915
The #Czech President says in public what many are thinking
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1521035090779938816
#Ukraine has taken out a #Russian ship with a Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1521030972598370306
#Russia's ambassador in #Israel has been called in after Lavrov's Hitler-was-Jewish thing on Italian television yesterday
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1521010584254398464
#Israel's rotating Prime Minister protests #Russia's Foreign Minister claiming Hitler was Jewish
https://twitter.com/yairlapid/status/1521024411129765888
Another explosion in the #Russian-occupied area of Kherson
https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1521051426557988864
Truly, nothing ever changes with the Sovietized rulers in Moscow: now we have requests for fraternal intervention from #Transnistria
https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1520762986410958850
#Russia has looted 198 items from the Museum of Local Lore in #Melitopol, including priceless gold helmets from the era of the Scythians, 2,500 years ago. The pieces will be "relocated" to Crimea to strengthen the idea of Ukraine as part of Russia. nytimes.com/2022/04/30/wor…
#Ukraine's President Zelensky praises #Turkey for its assistance, while criticising it for ongoing economic and other relations with #Russia
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1520988963640647681
#Finland playing her part in the Alliance admirably
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1521054386981584897
#Russia has struck the railway bridge in Zakota, in the Odessa area, and seems finally to have disabled it.
https://twitter.com/abunin/status/1521070910433812481
Apparently Russia does not think Trump was as hawkish against them as all that
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1520853260059516930
On 1 May, a lady stood in Manezhnaya Square in Moscow with a sign that simply said, "PEACE". She was arrested and will be charged under #Russia's law against discrediting the armed forces. 
In Saint Petersburg, on May Day, a man stood with a poster containing the slogan, "Peace, Labour, May" - as approved an official slogan as exists in #Russia - and he lasted just six minutes before the police arrested him, presumably soon to charge him with "discrediting" the army
As well as a potential Roman Triumph-style parading of captives at the 9 May "Victory Day" celebrations, #Russia seems to be planning a massive show trial modelled on Nuremberg Tribunal for the captives, accusing them of Nazism and war crimes
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1521094761662271490
#pt: The GulaguNet sources suggest there is some resistance in CSTO and even within the Russian bureaucracy itself to the idea of this "tribunal", whether personal moral qualms or the risk of being added to the sanctions list if they participate.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1521098991320109057
#pt: The original Nuremberg Tribunal was utterly polluted by the Soviet participation: it was obscene to have Stalin's operatives sentencing men for crimes less grievous than their own in many cases and Katyn demolished any claims to be doing justice.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1442977255886446595
Just a truly incredible thing to have said as the Foreign Minister of a purported major country like #Russia. It is actually worse with the full context shown, as here
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1521074296625549314
#Ukraine continuing to make progress around Kharkiv
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1521182363384152065
Israel and Jewish groups have made strong public statements of protest about #Russia's Foreign Minister saying Hitler was Jewish and this was unsurprising since "wise Jewish people say that the most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews"
https://twitter.com/DavidHarrisAJC/status/1521072924358230017
#Britain extending a new aid package to #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1521274671123021829
#Ukraine's President Zelensky lobbying for the #EU to impose the oil sanctions on #Russia that seem to be working their way through
https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1521235035596242945
#Russia reportedly operating four "filtration" (concentration) camps down in #Mariupol, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians already deported to Russia - not all from Mariupol, of course - and satellite pictures showing the mass graves outside the city
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1521311552292458497
The #CIA taking steps to make it easier for #Russians to reach out to them
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1521308561560805376
This just is not working for the #Russians. See below in the thread, too, they're actually losing ground - in a manner approaching strategic significance - around Kharkiv.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521331833367015424
As expected, with the last of the #Ukrainian resistance contained in Azovstal, the #Russians have resorted to airstrikes; they cannot afford to expend the manpower storming the zone. It has allowed the redeployment of those forces (not to much effect, yet)
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521332820949438464
If anything like what Danilov said is correct, that #Hungary was directly informed ahead of time about #Russia's invasion and promised, explicitly or tacitly, pieces of #Ukraine's territory, it would have to change how the Alliance deals with Budapest
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1521216886167515137
Pentagon not seeing any preparation for serious #Russian moves against #Moldova. The US could be wrong, but they were correct, down to the details, over the lay-up and timing of the #Ukraine invasion, so they have earned some benefit of the doubt
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521339661850869761
Pretty extraordinary from Igor Girkin. It's demented in the sense that his ideological assumptions are not ours, but it's reality-based within that paradigm about Russian official corruption, even about Putin, and the fact this is all or nothing for Moscow
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1521206815215730694
Somehow this thread got screwed up: this is the end of it
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1521344018776526849
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