Latest @DefenceHQ update: Ongoing "inconclusive fighting" in Donbas and Kherson: #Russia's "dilemma": devote resources to offensive in the east or defences against a #Ukraine counter-offensive in the west? Russia still struggling for manpower and extracting damaged equipment. 
Eurovision 2023 to be held in UK on behalf of Ukraine - and search for host city has begun news.sky.com/story/eurovisi…
#Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid has refused to accept #Russia's framing of closing the Jewish Agency as a legal matter and has directed the Foreign Ministry to prepare options for political retribution.
https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1551234586948128769
Igor Girkin confirms #Russia's struggle to find manpower and the pressure #Ukraine is applying on occupied Kherson
https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1551394505173213189
Last night Trump said he told #NATO members when he was President that if they were not paying the 2% GDP for defence he told them "I will not come to your defence" if they were invaded by #Russia. "And the next day, money came pouring in."
#Ukraine has really put the #HIMARS to effective use
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1551519628446294019
#Russia's occupation authorities in Kherson making kids sing #Soviet songs. Healthy.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1551429018704035840
Essentially a race now between #Ukraine's counter-offensive in #Kherson and #Russia's preparations for "formal" annexation, all while the Russians struggle with manpower and logistics to cover offensive operations in Donbas and a defence buildup in Kherson
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1551364703561162752
Further craziness from #Russia
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1551537812524175360
Explains a lot about about what went wrong with "Better Angels" if this is the understanding of violence that was brought to it.
https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1551546737428500481
Aftermath of a #Ukraine HIMARS strike
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1551616569628934149
#Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei visited #Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kiev. This is the first time in twelve years a Latin American leader has visited Ukraine. A visa-free regime comes into effect between Guatemala and Ukraine this month.
#Russia's invasion of #Ukraine has provoked some worries in former Soviet Central Asia, especially in #Kazakhstan, the one state of the five that shares a border with the Russians, and is now quietly reaching out to the US and Turkey. wsj.com/articles/russi… v @evangershkovich
#pt: The firmest public distancing #Kazakhstan has done from #Russia is refusing in June to recognise the independence of the occupied oblasts in the Donbas.
#Uzbekistan had already said the same thing in March: rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-u…
#Uzbekistan had already said the same thing in March: rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-u…
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1538827453497593857
#pt: Walking the line, #Kazakhstan banned both anti-war demonstrations and public displays of the Z sign. The Kazakhs are wary #Russia will act on the claims to the northern part of the state, or indeed to all of it since Putin has said Kazakhstan is not a real country.
#pt: In April, #Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev met with the #US human rights envoy and signed a bilateral accord on aid. Eight days later, #Russia forced the Kyrgyz ruler to dismiss Kazakbayev.
#pt: There are #Russian military bases in #Kyrgyzstan and #Tajikistan, and an anti-ballistic missile testing site in #Kazakhstan. The top trading partner of all five Central Asian states is Russia. Remittances from workers in Russia makes up 33% of Kyrgyz GDP, 25+% for the Tajiks
#pt: "#Kazakhstan ... has increased its own defense budget by 441 billion tenge, or about $918 million", and is trying to forge an alternate trade route - since it gets 80% of its energy from #Russia - with #Turkey and #China.
In southeast #Ukraine, in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, #Russia's occupation regime is "an abyss of fear and wild lawlessness": civilians are randomly "disappeared"; those who survive have nearly all been tortured. Captured soldiers are tortured to death. hrw.org/news/2022/07/2…
#pt: The behaviour of #Russia's forces in the occupied zones of #Ukraine—a terrifying system of chaotic lawlessness overseen by criminals who disappear, torture, and murder at will—is what it has been since 2014. See @ChristopherJM's piece from June 2020. rferl.org/a/the-executio…
#pt: Also see this thread from December 2021: accurately predicts based on #Russia's past behaviour what it would look like in areas of #Ukraine that were conquered.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1470562920119422978
#France's prosecutor opened an investigation on 1 July into properties acquired in the country by oligarchs close to #Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin.
https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/1551575612581715970
Beyond parody: former Chancellor of #Germany Gerhard Schröder has gone to #Russia, apparently for "vacation" - or so he says in front of the headquarters of the Russian state oil company he used to lead.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1551669138233475076
The #Taliban went to a conference in #Uzbekistan, a state that has been attacked twice from #Afghanistan this year by #ISKP. The Islamic State was displeased about the trip and used it as further evidence of the Taliban's jihadi backsliding militantwire.com/p/taliban-dele… @LucasADWebber
#Russia has refused to "rehabilitate" human rights activist Sergey Mokhnatkin, who died in May 2020 from complications related to a spinal injury he suffered in a penal colony in Arkhangelsk. The case is dismissed; there was no "not guilty" verdict. t.me/sotaproject/43…
The obvious assumption is that #Ukraine's HIMARS are at work again tonight against a #Russian ammunition depot in Donetsk, but have to see.
https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1551623413319483392
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