#Belarus is to stage a "combat-readiness check" with its whole army, though assures one and all they mean no harm, despite the state being virtually annexed by #Russia several months ago and being the launchpad for the attack on #Ukraine's capital
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1521711357854425088
#Russia even seems to have alienated "brotherly" #Serbia
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1521621627506728963
#Australia is to sanction 110 #Russian state officials and operatives in #Ukraine - 70-odd of the former, and 30-odd of the latter from the puppet "republics" in the Donbas - for violations of Ukrainian sovereignty. AUS has sanctioned 812 individuals total sbs.com.au/news/article/a…
#Russia is struggling to break through in #Ukraine's east, but is pressing on and "highly likely intends to proceed beyond Izyum to capture the cities of Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk". If the Russians succeed, they'll consolidate north-eastern Donbas.
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1521710786497982467
Guess magic is among the least embarrassing explanations for what has gone wrong for #Russia in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/1521729761604771843
#Germany working on sending radar and surveillance equipment to #Ukraine. The Bundestag has formally voted to send heavy weapons; the test now is whether they ever actually arrive.
https://twitter.com/AlexLuck9/status/1521653122716008448
He tried his best, but there are limits
https://twitter.com/AnnaRajskaya/status/1521737278640508928
Thread. In short: #Russia continues spreading its forces thin in the eastern offensive, concentrating on no one zone, and with their tactical, logistics, and combined arms troubles it isn't going well. But #Ukraine needs continued Western support to hold.
https://twitter.com/WarintheFuture/status/1521584630226616320
Intercepted call shows a #Russian soldier's utter hatred of #Ukrainians and the tortures inflicted, focused on victims' genitals; one man was raped with a pipe and barbed wire. An old man was beaten to death. His mum says she'd have enjoyed this, too.
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1521765716499779584
#Russia's soldiers changing into #Ukrainian uniforms in Zaporizhzhia as the offensive is ongoing
https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1521746569384583169
#Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, will finally be cut off from SWIFT politico.eu/article/sberba…
#Russia has been intervening ever-deeper in the #Palestinian theatre since at least 2017 aspistrategist.org.au/russias-quest-…
https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1521763164362362880
#pt: And obviously Moscow's relationship with the PLO and other Palestinian factions is very long-standing: Soviet support was crucial to their global terrorist campaign during the Cold War kyleworton.medium.com/zionism-is-mak…
An intercept shows a #Russian soldier lamenting that all the specialists like Spetsnaz have left the fighting in #Ukraine to the lower-level soldiers, who have suffered casualties on a scale to dwarf years of fighting in #Chechnya.
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1521763387033726982
The #EU moving towards shoring-up #Moldova, which is needed - urgently.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1521789598694879232
The #EU Commission has proposed sanctions on 58 individuals involved in the Russian invasion, including most importantly the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, who has blessed Putin's attempt to extinguish Ukraine as a holy war. i24news.tv/en/news/ukrain…
What an unbelievably hideous atrocity: a single attack #Russia - on an advertised civilian target, the drama theatre in Mariupol - massacred 600 people.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1521830569763500034
Full transcript of that call where the #Russian soldier tells his (approving) mother about the tortures being inflicted on #Ukrainians, including this particularly grisly example 
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1521824923727056898
The UN and Kiev report dozens of confirmed cases of #Russian soldiers using rape and sexual violence against men and boys in #Ukraine. These cases "only represent the tip of the iceberg", says Pramila Patten, UN official on sexual violence in war. theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
#pt: "Gang-rapes, assaults at gunpoint, and rapes committed [by #Russian soldiers] in front of children are among the grim testimonies [the UN and Kiev] have collected from [#Ukrainian] victims and their families."
#Russia: In Obninsk, pro-regime graffiti of the "old woman with a red banner" appeared, but it did not last even a day: during the night, activists opposed to Putin's war against Ukraine painted over it.
#Ukraine has lost contact with the final defenders at Azovstal in #Mariupol
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1521834582680784899
#Ukraine's President Zelensky says he will not allow this conflict to end with #Russia having a "frozen conflict" in place
https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1521829138163806209
#Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova: #Israel is waging an "information campaign" (i.e. objecting to Lavrov saying Hitler was Jewish) but in reality "Israeli mercenaries" are fighting alongside the neo-Nazi Azov. She saw it on a video. ria.ru/20220504/ukrai…
#pt: The Soviets, specifically the KGB, took worldwide this idea that #Israel is a foundationally Nazi state, even as Moscow supported Nazi-like forces in a relentless war against the Jewish state. This is the milieu the Putin clique emerges from. kyleworton.medium.com/zionism-is-mak…
#Ukraine's pushback around Kharkiv looks like it might open up into inroads against #Russia in Izyum
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1521803274449747968
Surviving victims from numerous countries that suffered under Moscow's imperialism are making their way into the #Ukraine fight, in one way or another, to try to ensure #Russia does not succeed this time
https://twitter.com/homados/status/1521848225002508288
#Russia's Foreign Minister saying Hitler was Jewish and the worst antisemites are Jews, and Moscow tripling down on this, doing immense damage to the important relationship with #Israel, might seem bizarre, but it isn't random. There is a deep background: kyleorton.substack.com/p/why-putins-r…
Hopeless either way in #Brazil
https://twitter.com/business/status/1521872309769973760
Another fire in #Russian-occupied territory, this time in Donetsk, in eastern #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1521837046318321664
There's just no way that isn't funny, is there
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1521898673080262657
Interesting snapshot of #Russia in the eighteen months before the invasion of #Ukraine. To be noted: this vast expense of resources was on an Orthodox Church consecrated to the army, in line with the themes of legitimacy and incitement Putin has drawn on
https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1521961915735580674
#Russia killing aid workers in #Ukraine, as it did in #Syria
https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka/status/1521899857384026114
The area around Kharkiv is going particularly badly for #Russia
https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1521896448245252096
#Sweden says it received #US security assurances if it hands in #NATO application reuters.com/world/europe/s…
"Brazil is the country of the future and always will be"
- Charles De Gaulle.
- Charles De Gaulle.
https://twitter.com/business/status/1521872309769973760
Unclear why the #US keeps applying restraints to itself like this
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1522018505175887872
The #US simply unclear what #Belarus' "exercises" were today, and fair enough, but the Pentagon saying they haven't seen Belarus involved in #Ukraine is weird.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1522024024657727488
Despite the #Russian bombing raids in western #Ukraine near the border with Poland, where a lot of the NATO aid flows in from, the #US sees no evidence that Moscow has been able to cause any kind of disruption
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1522023000110813186
Guess it's what happens when you leave eight years, rather than six months, between taking the Sudetenland and Prague, though a huge amount of the credit goes to #Ukraine, which has been very serious and skilful in how it has used the time since 2014
https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1521870171073351682
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