Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia is making "minimal gains" in the Donbas offensive, but #Ukraine is "holding the line". Russian-occupied Kherson is continuing to come under pressure from Ukrainian actions, with bridges and other access points being threatened. 
#Australia has been the largest supporter of #Ukraine outside of #NATO, and the Ukrainians have a great Ambassador Down Under, @AmbVasyl.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549620281303568385
Pentagon says its information confirms what has been visible for a while: #Russia is laying the groundwork to annex the occupied zones in #Ukraine - the whole Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk), plus Kherson and even Zaporizhzhia.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549631159696515072
#Russia's soldiers reporting on the devastation being inflicted on them by #Ukraine around Kharkiv, the second city. The battalion in tatters, under constant shelling.
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1549672074117087233
This is a positive step: #Britain's legal system is notoriously open to abuse by malign foreign actors - not just #Russia, but weirdo "celebrities" and others.
https://twitter.com/CatherineBelton/status/1549681006797471744
Without #Russia redefining its assault on #Ukraine as a "war", initiating a full mobilisation, it is difficult to see where Moscow is going to acquire the manpower to continue even the Donbas offensive. All the unofficial pools of recruits nearly drained.
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1549560891762479112
Will be interesting on #Russia's supply networks
https://twitter.com/damspleet/status/1549371417325707265
A classic of the genre: believing Putin will take Kiev in days and then taking a large dose of feintanyl.
https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1549655121000366080
The #US's annual human trafficking report has a section on state-sponsors and #Russia's actions in #Ukraine have landed it on a list of eleven states that have a "policy or pattern" of using forced labour, sexual slavery, and/or child soldiers. voanews.com/a/us-places-ru…
The #US has also added #Russia to its list of states where Americans are at a risk of abduction by the government.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1549643985412562945
#Russia's Ambassador to #North_Korea, Alexander Matsegora, said in an interview with Izvestia that people from DPRK might be sent to #Ukraine to rebuild destroyed cities like Mariupol in the occupied zones, referencing DPRK's role supplying Donbas industries in Soviet times.
Not that #Russia's aims were ever restricted to east #Ukraine, but nice to be sure.
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1549710511884963844
A #Ukrainian soldier fires on #Russian troops and says: "This is for #Syria."
https://twitter.com/ismail_alrej/status/1549450149222653953
#Ukrainian man in Hostomel near Kiev used the tracker on his AirPods: they were in Ulyanovsk, #Russia. Russian soldiers trashed his house, stole everything: electricals, coffee, batteries from kids' toys, dishes, and, erm, his wife's 'Womanizer' vibrator. zona.media/article/2022/0…
No mystery what #Russia will be doing next
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1549711941299470336
Excellent - if once again needlessly late. #Ukraine could have had a rudimentary air force by now if this had begun in December when it was clear #Russia's invasion was coming.
https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1549734500329979904
#US to send four more #HIMARS to #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1549728300062359552
Interesting in the sense that this is as close as #Putin has been seen to another human being since the COVID outbreak - and #Iran did not have a good pandemic. Wonder if he made Raisi get tested.
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1549704351362564096
#Lebanon is reported to have turned away two #Russian ships that tried to dock while containing stolen #Ukrainian resources.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1549776091103072262
A court in #Russia has banned the distribution of a book, "Katyn: In the Footsteps of the Crime", by Jadwiga Rogoża and Maciej Wyrwa, about the massacre of Polish elite by the Soviet secret police in 1940. Earlier, Poland's flag was removed from the Katyn memorial.
#Russia has moved a unit from the the occupied Kuril Islands, stolen from #Japan in 1945, to fight in #Ukraine, another data point in the Russians' struggle for manpower.
https://twitter.com/sebastienroblin/status/1549759136266702850
Promising signs #Germany's population differs with the government practice over #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1549730882734391298
These random #Russian attacks on Kharkiv are not even theoretically aimed at military targets; they are simple vengeance after the #Ukrainians threw back the invaders.
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1549724510945005569
That time of night already
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1549846158276759554
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