Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia making "tactical advances" around the Vuhlehirska power station in Donetsk. Lavrov in Africa, long an interest of Moscow's, trying to blame the West for the food crisis.
Not happy with Wagner being defined as a "private military company"
Not happy with Wagner being defined as a "private military company"
#pt: "Wagner" is a unit of the #Russian military under GRU. The purpose of the "private military company" presentation is to make it "deniable" - to minimise the domestic political impact of losses and to distance Moscow internationally from its atrocities foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/06/wha…
#Russia's government not making the aesthetic choices that might be expected when it is being criticised as "fascist".
https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1552241032825290752
God rest Oleksandr Savochenko
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1552243361679134721
#Uganda among the states in #Africa falling under #Russia's influence. This has resulted in nothing but misery (and military coups) everywhere else it has happened. reuters.com/world/africa/u…
Aftermath of #Ukaraine's HIMARS hitting the Antonovskiy bridge in #Russian-occupied Kherson.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1552198832036913152
Sanctions seem to be having a serious impact on #Russia.
https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1551959912191823873
#US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gave verbal approval on 26 May, formalized on 29 June, for "up to 18 wounded [#Ukrainian] soldiers at a time at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center", the American military hospital in Germany. cnn.com/2022/07/26/pol…
Jeremy Corby and his supporters even more blatantly have been reliably pro-Putin voices throughout all of this.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1552004485857349633
#Germany increasing its use of nuclear energy is such an easy, obvious economic and security gain - for the whole #EU and indeed #NATO. But politics is not a rational business, so we shall see how far this gets.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1552026782383181827
Training of #Ukraine on Iris-T SLM air defence units to start this week. A positive step, if long overdue.
https://twitter.com/AlexLuck9/status/1551921500252520450
It has taken many months but there does seem to be a growing recognition that the "far-Right problem" in #Ukraine is mostly with the #Russian invaders
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1552200910687707137
The Twitter suspension system being gamed again to target those who counter #Russia's disinformation.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1552254723713114112
#Russia accidentally shot down one of their own Kamov Ka-52 helicopters in the Kherson Oblast of #Ukraine when trying to attack Ukrainian forces, according to the Ukrainian General Staff. Such helicopters cost $16 million. "A pity", indeed.
https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1552152183973593091
#Ukraine's Foreign Minister is not wrong. #Russia's state media is by definition an instrument of government policy - it's subversion, not free expression.
https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1552197462160449538
#Iran providing further assistance to #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. Be interesting to know if #China is playing a role in this.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1552264037752258561
A look at where #Russians who have fled their country over the war on #Ukraine have ended up - and who they are. Overwhelmingly younger, anti-Putin, participated in anti-war activity, and followed Navalny's advice. 75% think things will get worse.
https://twitter.com/IrisovaOlga/status/1552021634063679488
The Bolsheviks did not reverse Russia's decline. The Tsardom was rapidly liberalising and industrialising by 1917. The Communist takeover devastated the trajectory Russia was on and plunged it into penury and slavery of a kind unknown in its history.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1552151736206237696
#pt: Soviet apologists always did this: took production figures from Russia in 1917 and compared them to Soviet stats (which were lies anyway) in 1970/whatever. The true comparison, of course, is with what would have happened in 1970 had the Tsardom remained on course.
As ever with #Turkey, the Lord giveth (in the headline) and the Lord taketh away (in the details)
https://twitter.com/DiegoCupolo/status/1552234480772988930
There is a definite element in the visceral hatred of #Russia's forces on the ground in #Ukraine of resentment and jealousy at finding a people they think of as inferior living in superior conditions. Explains in part the extent of the destruction.
https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1552209963191255040
That speech by #Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has (rightly) drawn a huge amount of criticism across the West, including from some who usually defend his antics and even from within his own government. It really was a disgraceful business.
https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1551885044528173056
Again, not the aesthetics I would have gone with to counter accusations of "fascism".
https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1552045345697325056
#Ukraine has been asking for air defence systems since before #Russia invaded, and this is why. Horrible scenes down in Mykolaiv.
https://twitter.com/SimonOstrovsky/status/1552141699606106112
#Ukraine looking to isolate the #Russian forces occupying Kherson as a counter-offensive looms.
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1552270029898616832
Very late in the hour, but must accept good news when it is available
https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1552291106678784001
Thread on the effect of #Ukraine's HIMARS on the Antonovskyi bridge in Kherson
https://twitter.com/zahed/status/1552211470024310784
The disgusting spectacle of #Russia's show trial of Brittney Griner rolls on.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1552293697865371649
#pt: For a flavour of how this "trial" in #Russia is being conducted. Brittney Griner is a straightforward hostage, being held and subjected to this public show trial to try to influence the #US's policies over #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1552292280199008266
More fun news for #Russia's useless air defence systems
https://twitter.com/SamBendett/status/1552254796916293633
Positive signs in the #Philippines
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1552195280854044673
#Russia has initiated another criminal case against oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was close to the late Boris Nemtsov and serves as vice-chairman of Open Russia.
https://twitter.com/vkaramurza/status/1552275580787347457
Rather an important fact to bear in mind: even if #Ukraine's President Zelensky could be convinced on "peace" that leaves #Russia occupying parts of his country - and there's no evidence he can be - he answers to a population firmly against any such thing.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1552292895092314112
This barely says anything clear, and what is clear is utter garbage, already disproven by events. Adds absolutely nothing to proceedings.
Never seen such contrived "outrage" in all my life. There are obviously some stupid people who actually believe the talking points attacking Zelensky and the First Lady over this. Many on here know the score and dislike it precisely for what it achieves.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1552339791693373443
#Ukraine's President Zelensky posts a picture on @instagram of him meeting Piers Morgan and says a video of their interview is to follow.
Increases ones admiration for Zelensky; the things he puts himself through to keep his country's cause before the eyes of the Western world.
Increases ones admiration for Zelensky; the things he puts himself through to keep his country's cause before the eyes of the Western world.
Zelensky's face in the picture meeting Piers Morgan is ... interesting. Caption at will.
It was always pretty clear that #Russia wanted Viktor Bout back, and that is (at least part of the reason) why #Americans were taken hostage, first Paul Whelan and then Brittney Griner, whose "trial" was meant to hasten exactly a deal of this kind.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1552367913658638337
I thought it was common knowledge that #Russia's consulate in New York was a SIGINT hub, but a positive either way to close it down.
https://twitter.com/shanvav/status/1552227638563012609
One had thought it was Geopolitics 101 not to incentivise hostage-taking against your own citizenry, but the Biden administration very much moves in its own way.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1552447618076516352
#France's President Macron was blunt in his speech in Cameroon about the way some in #Africa are behaving over #Ukraine: "This is a war launched by #Russia ... I see hypocrisy on the African continent [where states affect] not knowing how to qualify it."
https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1551920902459342850
Some fairly serious long-term damage being done to #Hungary's populace as the present government inculcated sympathy with #Russia and #China
https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1552197611821621248
#pt: A super-majority of the "Christian nationalist" ruling party in #Hungary are in favour of letting a foreign power descended from the League of the Militant Godless, that is #China's CCP government, run riot in their country
https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1551161990982209536
Igor Girkin, once #Russia's man in the Donbas, continues his public campaign against the Russian Defence Minister and some other officials, proposes trading them all to #Iran for the Iranian Defence Minister, who has shown a capacity for drone production.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1552275810446360576
Good thread: it is very clear #Hungary will not be joining the #NATO effort to prevent #Russia conquering #Ukraine, and Budapest's ruptured relations with #Poland follow from this: Orban sees Warsaw as behaving emotionally about an intra-Slavic war.
https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1552291896327798787
The "Come Back Alive" Foundation has raised enough to purchase a Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone for #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/BackAndAlive/status/1551981959001391108
In mid-June 2022, the #US State Department official for central/east Europe, Robin Dunnigan, asked #Hungary to expel #Russian spies under diplomatic cover. The Orban government refused, and instead complained about weapons shipments to #Ukraine. azonnali.hu/cikk/20220722_…
#Russia has managed an operational tempo in Donetsk that is rare in its war on #Ukraine, but even there the two axes of the offensive, towards Siversk and Bakhmut, are likely to be exhausted before any significant population centres fall to Russian troops.
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1552460132252106752
Great piece on the #Soviet support, specifically through #Putin, to neo-Nazis in Germany, focused on Rainer Sonntag: instruments of political warfare and destabilisation in the Cold War got ideas of their own once the wall came down, and continue now. magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-lea…
#pt: The #Soviets/Stasi "used neofascists to keep the left in check, and vice versa. [They] didn't want either side to control the streets; chaos was his preferred state." This has been #Russia's operating practice down to the present; promote and manipulate disorder.
#pt: Piece didn't mention (guess it was focused on the far-Right not far-Left, but ...) that the #Soviets not only ran the Baader-Meinhof Gang, but it was one of their agents, policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras, who shot and killed student Benno Ohnesor, igniting the whole thing.
#pt "Since the 1960s, Russian intelligence services have infiltrated neo-Nazi groups in the West and nudged them into extremist activity in order to promote false narratives about the rise of the far-Right in the West." It is unlikely this practice stopped eeradicalization.com/the-far-right-…
Major Oleksandr Kukurba, 28, a combat pilot, head of intelligence of #Ukraine's 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade and a "Hero of Ukraine", was killed on 26 July while fighting against the #Russian invaders. pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…
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