Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia has been using troops flagged as "Wagner" in the recent fighting in Popasna and Lysyschansk to hold down the official casualty figures. To make up manpower, recruitment standards have been lowered, including recruiting criminals from prisons. 
#Saudi purchases of #Russia's energy products has increased
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1548797924506755076
Another #British subject has been announced captured by #Russia's forces in #Ukraine. John Harding, a combat medic in his fifties from Sunderland who has been in the Donbas since 2018, was taken in May from Azovstal as Mariupol fell. bbc.com/news/uk-621951…
#Russia has it seems shot down one of its own Su-34 jets in Alchevsk in the Luhansk Oblast.
#pt: The Russians have always had problems "deconflicting" their war planes with their own air defences. See e.g. Georgia in 2008. Moscow's garbage air defences cannot tell friend from foe, one reason air power has been at such a low scale in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1498496071298781184
Rather stark differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the short-term economic sacrifices they are willing to make for security.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1548939271955947522
#Ukraine is clearly pressing in around #Russian-occupied Kherson
https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1548933724485582848
Quite something
https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1548919158196297729
#Hungary as willing to run interference for #Chinas as #Russia within Europe.
https://twitter.com/noahbarkin/status/1548930539867996160
#Ukraine's Embassy says #Russia is funding anti-Ukrainian demonstrations in #Israel, which have taken place so far in Haifa, Netanya, and in front of the Embassy in Tel Aviv.
#Russia moved Lt.-Gen. Rustam Muradov from the Karabakh to control the "East" Group of its troops in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/1548915712487755776
Life comes at you quickly ...
https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1548945799056343040
#Russia has a theoretically massive advantage in artillery, and has able intermittently to concentrate it on some limited zones in the Donbas, but achievements so far minimal. #Ukraine's far fewer assets have been put to much more militarily effective use.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1548763336078233601
Necessity is the mother of invention, etc.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1548944136941748224
#Russia sending its war-makers to the "peace" conference in #Turkey
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1548920783828688901
A stellar line-up!
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1548961933977845760
There is now a HIMARS song
https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1548934116216913920
Must confess, still think the Bayraktar song is catchier
The genuine heroism of #Russia's military
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1548980944882761729
Learn something new every day
https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1548992138276442113
Was indeed a telling moment that #Russia's mighty air defences in #Syria - the alibi for seven years of Western inaction - registered their first kinetic success against one of their own warplanes. Remains the only success to this day.
https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1549008098974748672
#pt: Again, #Russia's worthless air defence systems have demonstrated over decades, in multiple theatres, across continents, an incapacity with the most basic thing you would expect: an ability to tell friend from foe
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1548940894841315328
Jordan Peterson, now sadly reduced to the two-dimensional caricature version of himself that was unfairly attacked five years ago, has ventured into the issue of #Russia's war on #Ukraine, and, as @CathyYoung63 explains, the result is not pretty. thebulwark.com/jordan-peterso…
#pt: A "tell" that Peterson is being "naïve", as he concedes at one point he might be, is his reference to Aleksandr Dugin as a serious philosopher. Dugin is at most an emissary for the Putin government to the Western far-Right; he has no influence over the Kremlin whatsoever.
In a video call with officials, #Putin said Western sanctions were causing "colossal ... difficulties" for #Russia's tech sector. The online retailer Ozon and internet company Yandex have been severely hampered. VVP's proposal is to develop in isolation. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
When #Ukraine's Zelensky dismissed General Prosecutor Iryna Venediktova and SBU chief Ivan Bakanov on 17 July, he said 651 treason cases were open against people in their departments and 60 employees were collaborating with #Russia in the occupied zones wsj.com/articles/russi…
Quite the quote from Ben Wallace
https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1548775441221275649
Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the military administration in #Ukraine's Odesa Oblast, says the Navy has told him #Russia has moved "a significant number" of ships from Sevastopol (Crimea) to Novorossiysk (within Russia), presumably to get them out of range of Kiev's missiles.
In the first six months of 2022, more Jews fled the domestic repression in #Russia (about 16,500) to #Israel than fled from the war the Russians have imposed on #Ukraine (about 12,000). haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
This is excellent by @daltman_IR: "The West Worries Too Much About Escalation in Ukraine" foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukrai…
Further details about the hideous massacre by #Russia's "Wagner" unit of 200 to 600 men and boys over three days in late March 2022 in Moura, #Mali. This is the outcome of Moscow displacing particularly French influence in many areas of Africa. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Apart from everything else wrong with this, "democracy and freedom" were not the causes of Nelson Mandela's life. His ultimate adoption of those things was a break with everything he had ever believed and worked for—which is in some ways more impressive.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1549055782490095618
There have been several legal cases in #Ukraine already that point very strongly to treachery in #Kherson, particularly in the local branch of the SBU (intelligence service).
https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1549097825392377857
RSOTM, a #Russia's "Wagner" unit channel, says #Ukraine's HIMARS have taken out "very important facilities", all reports HIMARS captured/destroyed are false. Notes, too, that Moscow can't cope with Western MLRS and Russian air defences aren't working.
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1549149749076434944
#Ukraine's Army Commander-in-Chief, Valeriy Zaluzhny, says the #HIMARS have allowed targeted strikes on key #Russian positions, which has helped "stabilize the situation" and contributed to the Ukrainians' "retention of defensive lines". ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/353…
#Hungary's pro-government media overtly supporting #Russia's propaganda about its war on #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/peterkreko/status/1549163579001249793
The #EU turning to #Azerbaijan to make up the energy supplies cut off from #Russia.
https://twitter.com/KadriSimson/status/1549029224257708033
Missed this: Marina Ovsyannikova—the journalist who protested on #Russian state TV, went to Germany, then back to Russia—was released by Russian police on 17 July. She is charged with "discrediting" the Army b/c of a speech outside court during oppositionist Ilya Yashin's hearing
#Russia's Defence Ministry says that Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the Vostok group, which is fighting in #Ukraine, and has instructed them "to give priority to the enemy's long-range missile and artillery weapons [i.e. HIMARS]". reuters.com/world/europe/r…
A boy in #Mariupol braved the threats of the #Russian occupation authorities in the city to appear before the Donetsk Drama Theatre, which Moscow destroyed on 16 March, wrapped in a Ukrainian flag, and shared his picture. t.me/mariupolrada/1…
#pt: In his statement tonight, #Ukraine's President Zelensky mentioned the boy in #Mariupol whose picture with a Ukrainian flag before the destroyed Drama Theatre in the #Russian-occupied city went viral today.
https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1549116946871984128
#Greece opening up important access for the #US to supply #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549196132760313857
The #US House of Representatives approved a resolution expressing support for #Finland and #Sweden joining #NATO. The vote was 394-18: all those against were Republicans. Two Democrats and seventeen Republicans abstained. thehill.com/homenews/house…
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