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May 10 • 27 tweets • 15 min read
Thread: 10 May 2022: Day 76 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Grim that #Russia's messaging has such a hold over the émigrés, who do not have to make the horrible calculations those inside the country do about personal safety when deciding how far they will or won't deviate from the state narrative.
#US on the electronic warfare capacities it has supplied to #Ukraine
Interesting. #Russia managed to move some troops out of #Mariupol after it trapped the last #Ukrainian defenders in Azovstal, but since last week there has been no more movement and 2,000 troops are still pinned down there
#Russia making very little headway with the eastern #Ukraine offensive, the Pentagon says
What a story >> "Russian civilians form 'underground railroad' to help Ukrainians transported to Russia escape to the West" inews.co.uk/news/russian-c…
Just one instance of the utterly barbarous behaviour of #Russia's army during its occupation of the areas around #Ukraine's capital
Un-personing back in vogue
Yuriy Bereza, a Ukrainian MP and now commander of the Dnipro Battalion, laments, as we all do, the loss of John McCain
#Ukraine finds #Britain to be a reliable ally when the chips are really down
#Russian military helicopter down
#Germany's Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, made a surprise visit to #Ukraine, and journeyed to the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where the #Russians carried out some of the most infamous atrocities of the war (so far) during their brief occupation. english.alarabiya.net/News/world/202…
Map of the territorial changes over the last week in #Ukraine
Let's see: #Germany could begin military supplies to #Ukraine within three weeks, though there remain issues of will
#Lithuania's Parliament has voted to recognise #Russia's actions in #Ukraine as "genocide" - intended to destroy, in whole or in part, the Ukrainian population. The Lithuanians also said Moscow is using "terrorism" as part of its military campaign. ukrinform.net/rubric-polytic…
Further losses for #Russia
Amazing
Good move and good messaging from #NATO
Russian veterans of the Second World War not buying Putin's argument that his assault on Ukraine is a replay of that anti-Nazi operation
Curious
Glad #US intelligence isn't being lured into any comforting belief that #Russia has given up its maximalist war aims in #Ukraine
#France's President Macron digging in on the mistakes with #Russia and expanding them to #China
Pentagon assessment of the current Russian force levels in Ukraine
Let's wait for confirmation, but this is quite plausible: #Ukraine's push against #Russia has been gathering steam around Kharkiv for about two weeks
#pt:
#Germany has returned its diplomatic presence to #Ukraine's capital
Not exactly surprising, but interesting nonetheless

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May 13
One of the defensive responses to #Germany's policy on #Ukraine has been: "Look at how many refugees we have taken". God bless those who shelter refugees. The problem with this as a policy metric, though, is that it doesn't register success, but very nearly the opposite.
Should say: in conversation with someone from #Britain, this is usually a not-so-subtle counter-attack on our policy in this area, and there is a point. But it doesn't alter the fact: taking refugees from #Ukraine is not a measure of how this is going.
Taking in refugees is something that has to be done when a country has been devastated - or during the process of that happening. Most people who flee would like to go home; many #Syrians certainly would, and the fact so many cannot is a measure of our failure since 2011.
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May 13
Thread: 13 May 2022: Day 79 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
The BBC doing in #Russia the kind of journalism its "impartiality" doctrine often keeps it from doing at home
- Russian airstrikes in the south, inc Mariupol, but hesitant beyond that in bad weather
- Ukrainian airstrikes on Russian-held zones
- Russian force around Izyum showing signs of strain
- Ukraine pushing back in Mykolaiv
- Some explosions north of Kherson
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May 12
Protais Mpiranya, the most-wanted war criminal in Africa, leader of #Rwanda's presidential guard during the genocide, has been found, buried in Zimbabwe under a false name. He has been there since 2006 courtesy of a tuberculosis-induced heart attack. ft.com/content/1cbe90…
Protais Mpiranya fled into Cameroon and then the Congo, where he fought against Kagame's Rwanda after it invaded in 1996 to uproot the genocidaire encampments like Goma, and fought under Mugabe's sponsorship during the African World War (1998-2003).
With Mpiranya's death confirmed, there are now five of #Rwanda's genocidaires who are wanted by the UN Tribunal, though their prosecutions would take place in Rwanda itself:

1) Fulgence Kayishema, a Judicial Police Inspector from Kibuye
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May 12
Thread: 12 May 2022: Day 78 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz knows from experience of living in a country ravaged by #Russia that #Ukraine will have to deal with scattered unexploded munitions for a long time, and his message on stopping the evasion of the sanctions is good, too.
#Finland's President and Prime Minister sign a joint statement: "Finland must apply for #NATO membership without delay"
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May 11
Thread: 11 May 2022: Day 77 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Croatia alarmed by #Hungary's irredentist noises. Have been similar problems with #Ukraine.
The equivalent of the whole population of Estonia has been deported from Ukraine to Russia.
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May 4
Thread: 4 May 2022: Day 70 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#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
#Russia even seems to have alienated "brotherly" #Serbia
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