Head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, says "Either this [war in #Ukraine] ends badly for all humanity, or we win. There's no third option." #Russians to celebrate this "brave new world" where their children can't study in the West: "you ought to be rejoicing".
Difficult to feel sorry for Yevgeny Primakov, but heading up a "Russian soft power" organisation is a tough gig right now
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1529372902461784064
Scholz has made this comparison with the Kaiser a few times now, weirdly. Important, though, that #Germany does not have helping #Ukraine win the war as its aim - and they are hardly the only ones in Europe trying to get #Russia off the hook.
https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1529372589382041605
#Russia has now lost 700 tanks in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1529379155028152322
#pt: The Russians falling back on their old tanks. They still kill; they are also destroyed more easily.
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1529423612217802753
Trevor Reed, a #US Marine veteran, was arbitrarily imprisoned in #Russia between July 2019 and April 2021.
https://twitter.com/Reevellp/status/1529198475669393408
#Russia giving clear signals it intends to annex the occupied zones in #Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1529320314483748864
One likes to avoid exaggeration and hysteria, but given the stated war aims of #Russia - not even mentioning its conduct - in #Ukraine, it is quite difficult not to talk about "genocide".
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1529345984324440066
#Ukraine's Defence Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk protesting the @NYTimes editorial calling for concessions that leave parts of his country under #Russian rule by pointing to the op-ed pages, where Russia's government was argued to be "fascist".
https://twitter.com/Andriypzag/status/1529213709016616961
Former Defence Minister and Foreign Minister of #Lithuania, Linas Linkevicius, says #Hungary is acting as a "Trojan Horse" for #Russia within the #EU and #NATO
https://twitter.com/LinkeviciusL/status/1529353946011140096
#Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the process of applying for a Russian passport in two occupied oblasts of #Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. This "passportisation" is an obvious precursor to annexation. interfax.ru/russia/842805
#pt: This thread has held up well on how #Russia would behave in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1470569693610004481
#Russia has removed the upper-age limit on soldiers
https://twitter.com/guyelster/status/1529413064478580736
#Russia's Finance Ministry has announced that it will start making foreign debt payments in rubles after the #US ended the sanctions exemption that permitted Moscow to pay in dollars. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#Lithuania has done more than its fair share for the Alliance in resisting #Russia's attempt to conquer #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Lithuanian_MoD/status/1529371608766468097
Kyrylo Budanov, head of #Ukraine's military intelligence, one of the few Kiev officials who saw #Russia's invasion coming, says putin "has several serious illnesses, one of which is cancer", though "it is not worth hoping that Putin will die tomorrow." pravda.com.ua/articles/2022/…
An interview with "Viking", a #Georgian soldier fighting for #Ukraine, who was at one point captured by the #Russians around Chernihiv and says he was tortured in custody. "Viking" led the escape of several POWs.
#Ukraine Presidential spokesman says Ukrainians are outnumbered by the #Russians 7 to 1 in areas of the Donbas, and the President himself recently said 50-100 soldiers were being killed each day. Seems like a messaging effort to speed up the needed support
https://twitter.com/TSoufiBurridge/status/1529425327277080576
Map of the latest #Russian advances in Luhansk in eastern #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1529446058283175939
Seems #Russia will not be trying to recover Putin's man in #Ukraine, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was captured by the Ukrainians about six weeks ago.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1529400889156444163
The European Council chief Charles Michel says he is confident the #EU will reach an agreement on an oil embargo against #Russian at next week's European summit, despite the continuing opposition from #Hungary. barrons.com/news/eu-chief-…
#Putin has visited wounded #Russian troops at a hospital in Moscow.
This is clearly an effort to copy #Ukraine's President Zelensky, who has done this all throughout the war, and visited hospitals near the frontline, too, not in the safety of the capital
This is clearly an effort to copy #Ukraine's President Zelensky, who has done this all throughout the war, and visited hospitals near the frontline, too, not in the safety of the capital
https://twitter.com/ilya_shepelin/status/1529457605919268865
Zelensky Presidential Adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says the France, Germany, Italy #EU bloc (with Hungary) fears a #Ukraine victory because it would erode their leadership and empower a European bloc - Baltic, Poland, Czech, Romania - backed by #Britain
https://twitter.com/akoz33/status/1529563506437242880
Selçuk Bayraktar, who is married to the daughter of #Turkey's president and owns the company producing the drones that have become famous in #Ukraine, has done a PR shoot over Azerbaijan, where the drones were helpful in the 2020 war with Armenia
https://twitter.com/news_az/status/1529452407360561152
#Putin's warlord-president of #Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, says: "The issue of #Ukraine is closed ... I'm interested in #Poland". Says Warsaw should stop supplying weapons and "beg ... official forgiveness" or the Russian army will come for them 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kadyrov consistently uses the word "don", which @francis_scarr explains is simply a filler word in Chechen.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1529598849462968320
#Ukraine's President Zelensky clearly understands that #China is not a neutral state when it comes to #Russia's invasion of his country: the CCP regarded this as a trial run for #Taiwan, and has provided the Russians various kinds of support.
https://twitter.com/PoitaYurii/status/1529504728794730498
Clip of #Ukraine's President Zelensky speaking at the Davos WEF on 24 May, clearly partly directed at Henry Kissinger who spoke earlier and the French and Germans, who want him to give up parts of his country to rescue #Russia, referencing Munich.
https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1529073200281358336
"#Israel turned down a #US request to allow Berlin to supply #Ukraine with [Spike] anti-tank missiles produced in #Germany with Israeli technology under an Israeli license, two U.S. and Israeli officials said." axios.com/2022/05/25/isr…
A #Russian outlet close to the Orthodox Church suggests that #Britain is on the brink of starvation and cannibalism. "No Malice. Only facts", says the article, as it effectively threatens the British with a repeat of the Holodomor they deny ever happened.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1529571798324498435
In Stuttgart, "#British troops, with help from their #American counterparts, have transformed a sleepy conference room here at Patch Barracks into one of the nerve centers within the #NATO alliance for fielding #Ukraine's weapons requests." foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/24/nat…
#pt: Details of the #US and #Britain fusing their weapons supply efforts to #Ukraine in early April, and the British creation of a Craigslist-like app for Kiev to order weapons. The Anglosphere states have been impressed with the speed and determination of the Ukrainians trained. 
Interviews with Gazprombank's Igor Volobuyev, who defected to #Ukraine in early February, and diplomat Boris Bondarev, who resigned on 23 May, explaining why #Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not caused more of #Russia's elite to break away. theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
Latest from @War_Mapper: the yellow is controlled by #Ukraine, the purple was controlled by #Russia before 24 FEB 2022 and the pink/red has been taken over the last three months.
#pt: One helpful thing to include on a #Ukraine "current map" is the territory that the Ukrainian government has recaptured, which is about the same amount of territory as #Russia currently holds. It's important context for the state of the war.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1526235425634918402
#Germany claiming a #NATO consensus against supplies to #Ukraine that does not exist. Not unlike #Italy's recent proposal for "peace" that left #Russia in occupation of areas of Ukraine. A shambles and a shame.
https://twitter.com/GresselGustav/status/1529033136381763587
This rate of nearly half of #Russia's missiles going astray from their targets was when the Russians still had their precision stockpiles available; those are now very significantly depleted.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1529651388615122944
One hopes it does better than Obama’s "Atrocities Prevention Board", set up without a hint of shame or pretence of seriousness amid the hecatomb in Syria he had not only refused to prevent or even stop after it began, but would enable and perpetuate.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1529588083922030594
"Around 200 decomposing bodies have been found buried in the basement of a #Mariupol high-rise as Ukraine's clean up from the horrors committed [by #Russia] in the port city continue." abc.net.au/news/2022-05-2…
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