Thread by @KyleWOrton

Thread: 11 August 2022: Day 169 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine

Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia is highly unlikely to be able to fulfil some export orders for armoured vehicles as it needs the capacity for its own army in #Ukraine. Weapons exports have been hit because the credibility of many Russian weapons is now undermined.

60 members of Amnesty International in #Norway have resigned since the publication of the #Ukraine report in open protest at its contents; another 40 have left without explanation.

Previously: the head of Amnesty in Sweden and of the Ukraine desk resigned rubryka.com/en/2022/08/10/…

"Since April, at least 42 flights ... linked to #Iran's Revolutionary Guards have landed in Moscow, compared to just three in 2021." This news comes a week after the US confirmed #Russia was getting drones training in Iran. haaretz.com/israel-news/se…

The attempt to vandalise the fence with a #Ukraine flag that is opposite #Russia's Embassy in the US backfired.

#Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Oleksii Kryvoruchko has daughters with American citizenship and a home in #America, which is quite common for Russian officials.

https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1557407175554768897

The ferocity of #Ukraine's taunting after the Saki Airbase attack in #Crimea has been quite something.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1557621932429819907

#India continuing to not have a great war

https://twitter.com/DionisCenusa/status/1557400747536535555

The pro-Palestine rally in London was about what you'd expect it to be. Adds to my thesis that a significant motivator in the far-Left and far-Right anti-#Ukraine sentiment, other than the usual anti-Americanism, is because the Ukrainian President is a Jew

https://twitter.com/hurryupharry/status/1557658033848811520

Four of #Iran's IRGC operatives arrested in Argentina as they headed to the #Netherlands, where the Iranians have their own intentions, but it should be noted #Russia's spy-terrorist offensive against the Dutch has been escalated recently. Possible overlap

https://twitter.com/Khaled_Musleh/status/1557613529217306631

#Russia boasting of war crimes committed against #Ukraine in Pisky in the Donetsk Oblast

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1557657795964575745

#Latvia's Parliament, the Saeima, has voted to recognise #Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

https://twitter.com/Jekaba11/status/1557634377089253381

#Indonesia has summoned #Ukraine's ambassador to complain that the Ukrainian ambassador criticised Indonesia's condemnation of #Israel. Jakarta has all-but openly sided with #Russia in this crisis.

https://twitter.com/dianseptiarii/status/1557623391787847680

#pt: This was the tweet from the Ukrainian ambassador that annoyed Indonesia.

https://twitter.com/VHamianin/status/1556318262686023681

#China running interference as usual to protect #Pakistan's jihadist terrorist assets.

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1557613314380746755

That time of the evening. #HIMARS

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1557804070538199048

Now deleted, this was the tweet of the #Ukrainian ambassador that got him summoned in #Indonesia.

An excellent trilateral project between the #Czechs, #Slovakia, and of course #Poland, which is at the head of so much, to help #Ukraine, expanding their weapons production to help close the gap on #Russia's artillery advantage

https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1557862813086924810

#Russia is sending death notices to the soldiers of families on documents printed in the Soviet Union in 1974, a rather strong indicator of the scale of the casualties the Russian army is suffering in #Ukraine. meduza.io/news/2022/08/1…

A kangaroo has attacked the gates of #Russia's Embassy in Canberra. Appears that #Australia has radically stepped up the escalation ladder.

Solid work as ever. #NAFO

https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1557850484001603585

An internal report by #Ukraine's government finds that #Russia's missiles hit their targets about one-third of the time, and the Ukrainians are distinctly unimpressed with the captured Russian equipment.

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1557907018001788928

Think we can definitively say that all the noise about #Germany's "change" after the invasion of #Ukraine was just that. Chancellor Scholz wants to use #Russia's agent Gerhard Schröder as an "intermediary" with Moscow over energy deliveries.

https://twitter.com/dpa_intl/status/1557678465603846144

#Estonia has barred #Russians from entry to the country, even those who have Schengen visas.

https://twitter.com/UrmasReinsalu/status/1557693058581504002

Be fascinating to see what the Russian files actually say about Steven Seagal. Difficult to imagine Moscow thinks that highly of him. Must be some FSB analysts thinking, if not writing, "Have we really come to this?"

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1557933881365610496

Interesting recent moves by #Turkey with the Tatars in Crimea and in Kazakhstan, forging links with the more "troublesome" (from Moscow's perspective) Turkic peoples and states within #Russia's orbit.

https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1557912400732557313

The love for Boris Johnson in #Ukraine is quite something. A really stark contrast with the popular view in #Britain at the present time.

https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa/status/1557978808585785344