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Jun 11 8 tweets 6 min read
Thread: 11 June 2022: Day 108 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update:

- #Russia is struggling to advance into the south of Severodonetsk city, despite concentrating artillery and air power on it

- Russia has resorted to unguided missiles because it is running short of precision weapons. #Ukraine's air defences holding.
#Russia is firing up to 50,000 artillery rounds per day and doing better at combined arms warfare. #Ukraine is running very low on ammunition for its Soviet-era weapons systems and Western weapons supplies are too slow and meagre to cover the gap. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
#Ukraine is only able to hit back with 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds per day, and the HIMARS have not even arrived yet; once they do, it will be weeks, with the necessary training, before they are active on the battle field.
#pt: "Manpower is less of a problem for the Ukrainians than the shortages of ammunition and equipment ... But Ukraine doesn't have the equipment, including protective gear and guns as well as artillery systems, to field all those willing to volunteer."
A military base is on fire in the Klintsy district of the Bryansk region, inside #Russia, close to the border with #Ukraine.
#Ukraine's ambassador furious at #Germany increasing its purchases of #Russian imports in the last four months.

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Jun 10
Thread: 10 June 2022: Day 107 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update:

- #Russia is again in control of "most" of Severodonetsk city in the Luhansk Oblast, but has failed to encircle the wider area

- Russia is failing to impose order or provide even basic services in occupied zones of #Ukraine, signs of a cholera outbreak
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Jun 10
Review of Antony Beevor's new book about the Russian Civil War, says he leaves ideology out as a factor in explaining the cruelty of the war. It's the myth that will never die though to say the the "Whites' ideology" was "ferociously ... antisemitic". newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
There were nominal "White" units, especially in Ukraine, who carried out terrible pogroms in 1919. They did so in defiance of the "White" high command, which repeatedly condemned such behaviour and ordered the protection of Jews.
The problem for the "Whites" on this, as on so much else, was that it was not a unified army in a conventional sense, but a loose movement bound by anti-Bolshevism.
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Was certain before checking that this person was American. Putting aside NATO being a Euro-American organisation and the existence of Turkey, this interpretation can only come from someone whose only frame of reference is American racial history and politics.
An outbreak of honesty from the Kremlin about how it views states that have ever been colonies
#Russia has literally one line: "Russia says West risks 'direct military clash' over cyber attacks" reuters.com/world/europe/r…
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Jun 9
Thread: 9 June 2022: Day 106 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Poland's President bluntly criticising #Germany ("doesn't give a damn about what's happening in Ukraine. They want ... cheap gas and oil") and #France. Rejects #Russia's nuclear blackmail as a good excuse for this behaviour.
At every single stage we have had this:
> "We can't supply x because training takes months"
> "We are now supplying x, and training that could have been completed by now is instead just beginning"
Read 33 tweets
Jun 8
British freelance journalist Dom Phillips, a frequent contributor to @guardian, and his Indigenous traveling companion, Bruno Pereira, have gone missing in the far north-west of #Brazil, near the tri-border zone with Peru and Colombia, known to be lawless washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
#pt: "Western Amazonas state is a lawless region pervaded by violent criminals intent on destroying the forest and extracting resources from it. ... Phillips ... was researching a book project on conservation efforts in the forest. His work took him to Atalaia do Norte, ... "
"... the gateway to the Javari Valley, a massive forest considered the world’s largest repository of uncontacted peoples."
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Jun 8
Thread: 8 June 2022: Day 105 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Russia's Chief Rabbi has fled the country because the government tried to force him to support the eradication of #Ukraine. The Russian "denazification operation" has devastated Jewish communities in Ukraine and is now de-Jewing Russia, too.
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