#Ukrainians explain why they stayed to fight #Russia's invasion
Instructive that even in a zone where they have even seriously beaten, #Russia is still moving towards annexation in Kharkiv
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1545906052918550529
More of #Russia's ammunition stores have been been destroyed by #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1545963914252505102
The #Russians have taken over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and are using it as a military base, knowing they can avoid #Ukraine's retaliation by firing from there. But the whole range of Russia's criminal behaviour has been on display
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1545841477934252032
#Germany as willing to help #China as #Russia
https://twitter.com/thorstenbenner/status/1546036685800181760
#Russia: in Nizhny Novgorod (previously Gorky), a man, Alexey Podnebesniy, has been fined under the law against "discrediting" the armed forces after complaining about the economic impacts of the war on #Ukraine and referring to the "special operation" in quotation marks. 
More on the case from BBC: Podnebesniy wrote a VK post, he claimed the quotation marks around "special operation" were because the phrase is new and unusual. The judge took less than two minutes to decide it was derogatory and fine him 30,000 rubles.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1546119125143093248
#Russia's air defence systems about as useful as Orthodox prayer in repelling #Ukraine's missiles. Who knew?
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1546130594966278145
"Sad!", as a great recent philosopher said
https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1546130104731967490
This is who Noam Chomsky has always been: his central ideological commitment throughout his life is anti-Americanism. It has led to him supporting everyone from the Khmer Rouge to the Islamic State movement ("Iraqi resistance", in Chomskyist parlance).
https://twitter.com/ChrisDYork/status/1546012892276850688
"The Russians completely wrecked them": an intercepted phone call from one of #Russia's soldiers, released by #Ukraine's intelligence, says that Moscow accidentally destroyed a battalion of its own Ukrainian recruits in Donbas. Which sounds about right. english.nv.ua/nation/russia-…
#Japan doing her part
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1546141571552272384
Something to watch
https://twitter.com/RedIntelPanda/status/1546145858441412609
Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov tells @TheTimes Ukraine has transferred over three months from Soviet-era weapons to NATO platforms; weapons supply is still too slow; and President Zelensky has given orders for planning to retake the south-east. thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrain…
#pt: It is hopeless with #Russia's "negotiators", says #Ukraine's Defence Minister: "it's like they have an FSB officer’s gun to their temples. They have a narrative that was signed by [Putin], so they will go down this unreal propaganda track. They are not going for compromise."
The BBC has documented 62 fatalities in #Russia's elite 331st Guards Parachute Regiment, though the real figure is likely 120+, and 400+ have been wounded - a casualty rate of about 50% since the unit entered #Ukraine in February. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
#Russia's "Wagner" unit confirming that #Ukraine are playing havoc with their command posts since the HIMARS have come online
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1546234978001833984
The #Iran/#Hizballah-#Russia alliance is very long-standing and deep
https://twitter.com/nafisehkBBC/status/1546238287655878658
It isn't clear (yet) that this isn't being run the other way - with #Russia fostering the sense in the West (already widespread among #Ukrainians and others in East Europe) that Marina Ovsyannikova was "under control" all along. But very curious altogether
https://twitter.com/A_SHEKH0VTS0V/status/1546077544453226496
Photographs from 8 July of #Ukraine's President Zelensky visiting a hospital in Dnipro to meet with civilians wounded in the hundreds of #Russian missile/other attacks; inspect the food and medicine supplies; and familiarise himself with the situation in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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