Thread by @KyleWOrton

Thread: 3 May 2022: Day 69 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine

Pentagon says #China is avoiding direct military assistance to #Russia's attempt to erase #Ukraine ... for now

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521352689799421952

Truly bizarre for #Russia to have picked this fight with #Israel; so needless. Jerusalem had kept quiet for two months about Moscow's use of the "Nazi" pretext for the attack on #Ukraine and walked a fine line in general over the war, now forced to change

https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1521398363631108096

#Ukraine still refusing to pretend #Germany's policy is okay, and Berlin not taking it very well

https://twitter.com/bopanc/status/1521407146348486662

Again, just extraordinary from #Russia: cultivating #Israel over the last decade was one of Moscow's greatest successes in the region, and even after this latest outrage the Israelis were trying to smooth it over; the Russians wouldn't let them

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521418839266717696

#Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking to #Ukraine's Parliament

https://twitter.com/larisamlbrown/status/1521456825396338689

Yet another fire within #Russia, and a rather suggestive location

https://twitter.com/akoz33/status/1521454384303185920

#Ukraine gaining in confidence as the situation on the ground continues to turn against #Russia, Kiev now adjusting its public posture to reflect the fact

https://twitter.com/lilygrutcher/status/1521443573476036609

Perhaps not concretely important, a good temperature check of where #Russia's relations are with its #Baltic neighbours

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1521363298624671744

#Ukraine Presidential Adviser Oleksiy Arestovych notes the current #Russian messaging about "Jewish Nazis" is descended from the #KGB's active measures in the latter part of the Cold War, which was used to justify aggressive foreign actions domestically

https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1521276495909756928

#pt: "The old guard [in the USSR] fought far more tenaciously to avoid lifting the restrictions on Jews than any other group": that the Soviet Union collapsed soon after their lifting convinced the KGB this was "the triumph of Zionist subversion". kyleworton.medium.com/zionism-is-mak…

The right message from #Britain's Prime Minister to #Ukraine, and quite likely true, too, if we continue working at it.

https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1521458962213879810

The Roman Church has been worse than useless in this crisis. The Pope has heretofore refused to straightforwardly name #Russia as that aggressor in #Ukraine, merely mentioning the suffering, and now he has detected a perpetrator he thinks it might be #NATO

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1521447894200594432

Sergey Glazyev, one of #Russia's ministers in the Eurasian Economic Commission, 22 April: Zelensky "fulfils the will of the Rothschilds ... to destroy the male population of #Ukraine" and "Ukrainian lads drugged by American-Nazi propaganda" are resisting the "liberation mission"

An absolutely demented hill for #Russia to die on, not just in itself but in the diplomatic effect it is having of damaging relations with #Israel, a state that can do the Putin government real harm if it throws its full weight behind #Ukraine

https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1521429767282733058

#Mariupol's mayor says 40,000 inhabitants of the city have been deported to #Russia, which is about 10% of the #Ukrainians who have been sent to these camps

https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1521501959756337153

#Russia eschewing communications with the #US, a fairly strong indicator Moscow is not "looking for a way out" or whatever the current Realist hopium is. The Kremlin intends to settle this with force.

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521343862387580928

Maybe #Russia's government is just Too Online, and has absorbed the habit of calling any and all foes "Nazis"

https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1521504914987495424

Whatever #France ever thought it was doing in keeping this channel open to #Putin passed the point of diminishing returns a looooong time ago. It's now getting beyond parody.

https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1521489860963577860

Always seemed likely #Austria could be brought on board, following Germany, but it looks like #Slovakia and, most notably, #Hungary, are going to drop their objections over the #EU oil embargo on #Russia, having been asking for exemptions only a day ago

https://twitter.com/lilygrutcher/status/1521440438938386432

Current state of play

https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1521513709889552385

Ah, we're doing this again. The same pattern of false-flags, blatantly unconvincing and utterly fabricated, is beginning in #Moldova now, just as #Russia did in the lead-up to the invasion of #Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1521472577872572416

#US artillery making itself felt in #Ukraine

https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1521511830644043776

The issue of state sponsorship of terrorism aside, the point stands: there can not now be any doubt about what is happening to #Ukrainian civilians in the areas occupied by #Russia

https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1521416239465340929

The torment of #Ukrainian civilians in the #Russian-occupied zones should be at least a factor in decisions like how quickly we supply Kiev with the weapons to liberate these areas, and how willing we are to declare "peace" with any of these zones still under Russian control.

Zelensky statement last night said #Russia's Foreign Minister's saying Hitler was Jewish shows Moscow has forgotten the lessons of WW2, reminds of the strike on Babi Yar, the killing of Ukrainian Holocaust survivors, the rapes and massacres and deportations to use as free labour.

Zelensky asks if #Israel can maintain its relations with #Russia in a business-as-usual way

https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1521532214449745920

#Russia trying to claw back the ground it has been losing in #Bulgaria

https://twitter.com/ruslantrad/status/1521523626264215552

Satellite pictures from Azovstal, the final holdout in Mariupol

https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1521532537234882560

#Russia randomly raining missiles on cities across #Ukraine

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/1521546044814860289

#Britain intel:

- "Failures both in strategic planning and operational execution have left it unable to translate numerical strength into decisive advantage."

- "Russia's military is now significantly weaker ... as a result of its invasion of Ukraine."

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1521365925626359808

#Iran is trying to help #Russia evade the sanctions

https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1521442864215044096

#China continues to support #Russia in its assault on #Ukraine, down to the messaging

https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1521564767202291714

Highly, highly dubious of this - particularly that we would hear about it in advance - but one can hope.

https://twitter.com/Ohra_aho/status/1521464911515332608

#Israel has finally felt enough political pressure to pitch in with military help to #Ukraine, but is avoiding it as far as possible in order not to disrupt relations with #Russia, which are being maintained because ... well, we don't know that yet.

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521645440650805253

#Ukraine continuing to press on around Kharkiv

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1521556446747541510

#Russia trying to integrate the areas of #Ukraine it has occupied, politically and economically. The refugees from this project are arriving in Zaporizhzhia, including in recent days those civilians allowed out of Mariupol.

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1520724003652055040

Perhaps #Putin's great achievement: to have unified #Ukraine

https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1521530176030625792