💥Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine. CNN identified 11 Smerch rocket strikes on residential #Kharkiv🇺🇦 launched by rocket artillery brigade led by Col.Gen Alexander ZHURAVLYOV in Belgorod🇷🇺—war crimes under int'l law.
CNN traced 11 Smerch rocket attacks on #Kharkiv on Feb. 27-28 to #Russia's 79th Rocket Artillery Brigade. Based in Belgorod, the brigade reports to Western Military District led by Zhuravlyov—the only officer with the authority to order Smerch launches in his district. #WarCrimes
After Zhuravlyov took command in eastern Aleppo in 2016, Russia's military rapidly ramped up its attacks on rebel-held territory using brutal tactics & munitions that defined Russia's intervention in Syria & now Ukraine: besiege, starve, bombard, grind into submission.
Zhuravlyov oversaw a dramatic increase in documented cluster munition attacks in Aleppo. According to the Violations Documentation Center, cluster munitions were used 137 times between Sep 10-Oct. 10, 2016—a 791%❗️ increase in cluster bombings in 1 month over the previous 8.
Russian cluster bombs embedded ball bearings in Aleppo children's muscle tissue. #Kharkiv🇺🇦 witnesses describe similar death & destruction from Smerch rockets & shrapnel in the residential city. Streets covered w/ wounded people, burning cars, broken glass. #WarCrimes #Zhuravlyov
"The wounds are the same"—Doctor who treated victims of cluster bomb attacks in both Syria & Ukraine, where Zhuravlyov commanded Russia's forces. People arrived at the Kharkiv hospital pockmarked with shrapnel, skin & muscle damage, amputations, open fractures and head trauma.
"Zhuravlyov should have been sanctioned for his actions in Syria"—leading human rights lawyer says. "It is a shame that there was not a stronger response to alleged war crimes at that stage, because that may have affected Putin's Ukrainian strategic calculations from the outset."
Another Russian general who served alongside ZHURAVLYOV in Syria—and is now his deputy—Lt General Aleksei ZAVIZION—was indicted by Ukraine for alleged war crimes in Donbas in 2017. Amazingly, neither Zhuravlyov nor Zavizion have been sanctioned by the international community.
Here's the link to @CNN's report tracing war crimes in #Kharkiv🇺🇦 to #Russia's 79th Rocket Artillery Brigade under command of Col. Gen. Alexander Zhuravlyov, to whom Putin awarded Russia's highest military honors for similar #WarCrimes in #Aleppo, Syria. cnn.com/2022/05/12/wor….
@CNN Zhuravlyov is very high up in Russian army—deputy to Gerasimov. A war crimes indictment would be a big deal, @christogrozev says.

Grozev noted Putin may be terrorizing civilians as revenge, as victory is impossible.

💯 Putin's been punishing Ukraine since he got dumped in 2013.
Watch @nimaelbagir’s powerful report on atrocities in #Kharkiv🇺🇦 that forensic investigators link directly to Russian Col-General Alexander Zhuravlyov, architect of the brutal Siege of Aleppo. Such reports may help end his years of impunity for war crimes.

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May 1
🤨Lavrov: We don't demand Zelensky surrender, just release civilians & end resistance. Our aim isn't regime change—that's US specialty. We only want ppl in eastern Ukraine not to be threatened by Kyiv's military & its Nazis. And we don't want Ukraine to threaten Russian security.
Oh, there's more >> Lavrov Compares Ukraine's Zelensky to Hitler, Who Also 'Had Jewish Blood'

For a regime founded and sustained by insane propaganda, Putin's Russia is so bad at it.

haaretz.com/world-news/eur…
I don't know who needs to hear this but Russia has zero right to demand anything from Ukraine, an independent country w/ a democratically elected govt.

Also, I look forward to hearing Lavrov's despicable anti-Semitic "Jews are the real Nazis" propaganda at his war crimes trial.
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Apr 28
💥Pres. Biden Requests $33 Billion in Aid For #Ukraine🇺🇦
🔹$20.4B in #military assistance
🔹$8.5B in #economic help
🔹$3B in #humanitarian assistance
🔹$500M in domestic #food production assistance
@NATO allies will do their share to help Ukraine defend against aggressor #Russia ImageImage
⚡️Biden: "As long as the assaults and atrocities continue, we're going to continue" helping #Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression.

Biden says $33B supplemental funding will use Defense Production Act to expand US production & preserve materials disrupted by Putin's war. Image
Biden: Russia can't blackmail or intimidate their way out of sanctions. We will not allow them to use their oil & gas to avoid consequences of their aggression. We're working with other nations to help support our European allies w/ gas blackmail of their energy needs. Image
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Apr 27
🚨‼️#Bucha🇺🇦 mayor confirms Russians had kill lists to hunt down & kill politicians, activists & Donbas war veterans. "I saw these lists… they knew in advance who they were after & their addresses," Mayor Fedoruk said, adding Russians knew that officials lived in #Kyiv suburbs.
THREAD re #Russia's "Kill Lists" in #Ukraine, first reported by @ak_mack @RobbieGramer & @JackDetsch on eve of Feb. invasion. Confirmed by @nytimes, @washingtonpost & now by #Bucha mayor. This is kleptocrat Putin using war to kill his critics—journalists, activists & politicians.
@ak_mack @RobbieGramer @JackDetsch @nytimes @washingtonpost Russia's kill lists are of a piece w/ Putin's mafia state terrorism that began w/ apt bombings, continued w/ pretexts for war in xUSSR, dotted in between w/ assassinations & hit squads. That's why Bellingcat's Grozev called @navalny poisoning a "prequel" to Ukraine invasion.
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Apr 22
❗️Incredible report from @edlavaCNN. Russian soldiers rounded up villagers at gunpoint into a school basement. 350 ppl forced to live in such horrific conditions, 12 elderly died. Russians held them there for a month—as human shields—knowing Ukrainians wouldn't attack the school.
Sofia took @CNN into the school basement where she was held hostage for a month by Russian soldiers with 350 other Ukrainian villagers. Conditions were so cramped, air so stifling, breathing was hard. She said the Russians told her point blank that they were taken there to die.
Olena says Russian soldiers threw grenades into her windows & defecated on her floor. She was locked in the school basement too. She pleaded w/ the Russians to let her 1-year-old infant out of the stifling basement for fresh air. They refused, saying "Let her die, we don't care."
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Apr 14
Trump just can’t condemn Putin. Even now, as the murderer is awash in Ukrainian blood. Fox gave Trump another opportunity y’day to say Putin is evil. But Trump went off on NATO & the EU instead. His allegiance to Putin never changes. If his GOP gets back in power, we’re doomed.
Great piece by @jonathanchait. But I'd go further: Given Trump's continued allegiance to Putin, and the Republican Party's allegiance to Trump, there's no question that Ukraine and the rest of the free world would be in grave danger with the GOP in power.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@jonathanchait Read this too >> How Trump & Putin Have Been Allies Against Ukraine, wherein @jonathanchait outlines how Trump has long supported—regularly & consistently— delegitimizing the now besieged country. And with the support of a controlling faction of the GOP. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Apr 12
Putin’s Orwellian lies are as absurd as they are evil. And he tells them with the conviction of a sociopath. Every time he opens his mouth to keep his propaganda lies spinning, he’s just spinning his own grave, providing evidence of his intent to commit & cover up genocide.
Putin tells so many lies, they contradict each other. He claims Bucha was fake w/ staged dead bodies "like in Syria to frame Russia." Then he says, nobody care about 100s of dead bodies left for months in Syria & Afghanistan. Pick a lie, Vova. Fake dead bodies or real dead?
Contrast Putin's sociopathic conviction with Lukashenka's breathy lack of it. The Belarus dictator claims he has license plate numbers of the Englishmen who staged Bucha fake. These fascist clown saw Boris Johnson in Kyiv & have now woven the UK into their pathetic propaganda.🙄
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