Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia has struggled for manpower since the outset and the "problem is likely becoming increasingly acute". The Russians are stretched between offensive operations in the Donbas and trying to defend against a #Ukraine counter-offensive in Kherson. 
#Hungary overtly celebrating keeping #Russia's Gazprombank off the #EU sanctions list
https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1549050097836519424
Very helpful details on how #Russia ran the war in eastern #Ukraine since 2014 through agents like Igor Plotnitsky and Igor Girkin (Strelkov)
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549272410150649858
An excellent speech by #NATO General-Secretary Jens Stoltenberg: supporting #Ukraine is not just about morality; it is in the Alliance states' own interests, and whatever the monetary cost of that would be larger if #Russia prevails.
https://twitter.com/ralakbar/status/1549184729198608386
Deputy Minister of Defense Volodymyr Havrylov is clear that #Ukraine will target #Russia's fleet in the Black Sea whenever possible (the Russians have pulled ships back already because of this) and the ultimate aim is to push the Russians out of Crimea. thetimes.co.uk/article/well-s…
#Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska has been in Washington for high-level meetings with #US officials about the support her country needs.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1549147271278858240
Another way to help #Ukraine, if you are able
https://twitter.com/aerorozvidka/status/1548728453310124033
#Ukraine continues laying the groundwork for a move on #Russian-occupied Kherson
https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1549332651898806274
This is a start from Rishi Sunak
https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1549133660837797889
The Islamic State has published a video of its forces taking down a drone in the Menaka region of #Mali. It seems the drone belonged to #Russia's "Wagner" unit.
https://twitter.com/casusbellintel/status/1549279641894010885
#Russia unsubtly signalling a threat to #Europe if they don't deliver a "ceasefire" that legitimises the Russian occupation over areas of #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/BLSchmitt/status/1549162427383783424
Europe being enticed by #China as the CCP's #Russian ally pressures Europe over #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/fbermingham/status/1549028499524034561
Seems we're quibbling over the definition of "desperation": #Russia is clearly using the S-300 as land missiles because it has them to hand. But, especially given how ineffective the S-300s are, implicitly concedes their precision stuff is not to hand.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1549169658061901824
Should also be added that the Russians using the anti-ship missiles on land is another important data point suggesting that the precision-guided weapons are running low.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1549356610379816960
Reality continues to elude the EU
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549342672271335425
#Iran and #Russia further meshing their energy sectors
https://twitter.com/AnnaRajskaya/status/1549317813298405376
That's something at least
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1549342587223511040
Very disappointing from #Ireland
https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1549380412295634944
#Russia publicly engaging with #Iraq, a state under heavy Iranian influence, on the same day Putin is in Iran.
https://twitter.com/nafisehkBBC/status/1549382824582594561
Unless I'm mistaken, the first citizen from #Sweden killed helping #Ukraine defend herself from #Russia's invasion
https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1549384346607534081
#Ukraine requesting advanced air craft from the #US
https://twitter.com/KpsZSU/status/1549376685409275906
#Russia has launched missiles against Kramatorsk in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern #Ukraine. An block of flats was hit; reports are of ten people injured.
Gotta keep up the social distancing
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1549406467966619649
#Ukraine's air defences in action
https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1549477512924860417
Highly dubious: was reported yesterday by the "General SVR" Telegram channel that the head of #Russia's Security Council and former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev had survived an assassination attempt (poisoning). dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
The same channel also reports that Putin regards his daughter "Katerina Tikhonova [as] the only person who can act as a guarantor of the stability of the existence of the Putin regime, without being a direct successor." Which is almost certainly not true.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1549510727500718081
Mostly demented from Andrei Isayev, of course, but he does reiterate that #Russia's war, while geographically in #Ukraine, is against the #US-led global order. His colleague chimes in by saying Russia has resisted the "economic blitzkrieg".
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1549320012418228226
#Australia has risen to the occasion marvellously
https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1549342807361454081
#Latvia displaying a seriousness that is notably lacking when it comes to #Russia further West in Europe
https://twitter.com/Pabriks/status/1549300284207292416
Credit #France where it is due
https://twitter.com/Harry_Boone/status/1549437342045405184
#Iran has hardly hidden its support for #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, seeing it in the same framework as Moscow as a war against the #US and the global order it underwrites, but now it comes from the Supreme Leader directly.
https://twitter.com/KianSharifi/status/1549442368587325440
A guest on Olga Skabeyeva's show on #Russian state TV says: "It's called trans-fascism. They're taking over the whole world. Europe surrendered a long time ago ... they've reached the North Caucasus." Skabeyeva adds: "We'll have to denazify them, too."
So rarely a good sign when propaganda turns to medical analogies about dealing with enemies.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1549381189336711169
Once hailed as the leader of the West, the legacy of #Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel (r. 2005-21) is being written in the blood of #Ukrainians and the economic devastation of Europe by the powers, #Russia and #China, she courted so assiduously. thetimes.co.uk/article/why-is…
#Russia having another entirely normal day
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549562989203935232
#Ukraine claims, and some of #Russia's semi-official channels seem to confirm, that a Russian jet was brought down over Liubymivka, a Russian-occupied town in the Kherson Oblast.
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