Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia's capture of Luhansk Oblast "allow[s] it to claim substantive progress" and for once there was evidence of "reasonably effective coordination" between two Groupings of Forces (Central and Southern). #Ukraine withdrew in "good order". 
#Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has doubts it was a good idea to be stood next to #Putin as he launched his war to eradicate #Ukraine, though Khan isn't sure it is really his fault.
https://twitter.com/dawn_com/status/1544146030941315073
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Representative from Georgia, is concerned about civilian casualties in #Ukraine - but only those apparently caused by the #US.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1543043783536828417
After all the compromises #Israel made at such great political and reputational cost during the #Ukraine war, in the name of preserving freedom of action against #Iran in #Syria, the reality hits anyway: #Russia never did "allow" this
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1544133235650838528
Does not look like it will be a happy winter in #Britain
https://twitter.com/m_bathgate/status/1543971202435276800
On #Russia's systematic looting of #Ukraine's agricultural produce
https://twitter.com/KOvsianyi/status/1544225802098810880
#NATO has launched the ratification process to make #Sweden and #Finland members of the Alliance - @AFP
In Belgorod, a #Russian town near the border with #Ukraine that has seen multiple explosions, Russians are unwilling to accept their country started this war, and the call for peace by the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan John has not exactly been welcomed.
https://twitter.com/BBCWillVernon/status/1544027559129763840
It had better be hoped the #EU doesn't need a "European Army" because it won't get one, and after the performance of #Germany and #France in the last four months none of the frontline states, the Baltics and Poland, would put their trust in it anyway.
https://twitter.com/RikeFranke/status/1544043265950900224
A good cause if you can help
https://twitter.com/aerorozvidka/status/1544080530257461250
Says nothing good about a person who tries to inflame political and sectarian divisions in this way. It is also just false: #Russia kidnapped Brittney Griner as an #American, and would have held this show trial regardless of identity factors.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1544100029538902018
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says #Lithuania will continue enforcing its laws to defend the border against attempts by #Russia/#Belarus to send refugees across, despite a ruling by one of the #EU courts. Legal routes for asylum are available. lrt.lt/en/news-in-eng…
Marina Ovsyannikova, who went on #Russia's Channel One with an anti-war poster in March, has ended her time with #Germany's TV channel Welt (previously N24) and flown back to Moscow, apparently to contest custody of her children. imi.org.ua/en/news/ovsyan…
Ovsyannikova says, "Maybe I'm going to get arrested right at [Moscow] airport." Others will have dark suspicions about what is happening here - indeed, already do. Ukrainians in Germany protested her presence at Welt, and she was cold-shouldered in Kiev.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1544252289598296064
#Russia's energy exports since it began the war on #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/ElinaMorhunova/status/1543810475686875137
#Putin's "denazification" operation in #Ukraine has had a curiously targeted deleterious effect on Jews.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1544236520269398019
#Estonia helping fast-track the #NATO accession for #Sweden and #Finland
https://twitter.com/kajakallas/status/1544266176892731393
#Russia is recruiting soldiers - nominally for the "Wagner" unit - from prison colonies in Saint Petersburg. Recruits will be given amnesty and 200,000 rubles for six months "to combat the Nazis". If they live. Otherwise their family gets 5 million rubles. theins.ru/news/252842
#Britain and #Ukraine continuing to closely coordinate.
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1544274166148472833
The worst possible policy being pushed by #Germany and others - and apparently winning out - echoing what went wrong in #Syria. The only moral course in a war is to end it as swiftly as possible, and as decisively as possible so it does not restart.
https://twitter.com/ulrichspeck/status/1544221860308652032
#Russia (through its "Donetsk People's Republic") has seized two international ships, one flagged from Liberia and one from Panama, in the conquered #Ukrainian city of Mariupol and declared them "state property"
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1544360303139426304
#Ukraine has asked #Turkey to investigate three more #Russia-flagged ships that Kiev says are carrying stolen Ukrainian grain reuters.com/world/europe/e…
Magomed Daudov, the head of #Chechnya's "parliament", says #Putin told Kadyrov the war on #Ukraine is "first and foremost" about "defending Islam", and unless VVP tells them to stop they will take this "jihad" all the way to Berlin.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1544361566082109445
Alexander Sladkov, the #Russian "journalist"—GRU (military-intelligence) officer—doing the media work for the invading forces, complains that #Ukraine's attacks in the occupied areas of the east are a "humiliation" that has been insufficiently responded to
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1544262785923784704
#Russia potentially setting up for a sea borders dispute with #Norway, soon to be explained by "realists" as further proof of this Kremlin's good neighbourliness
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1544426206375952393
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