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Aug 13 • 23 tweets • 16 min read
Thread: 13 August 2022: Day 171 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update: The "two primary road bridges" to #Russian-occupied Kherson, west of the Dnipro, are "probably out of use" for "substantial military resupply" due to #Ukraine strikes. Even if repaired, remain vulnerable. Russians relying on pontoon ferry crossing points
#Sweden considering ramping up domestic weapons production to assist #Ukraine.
Over the past 24 hours, #Ukraine's military destroyed four #Russian Orlan-10 drones in eastern Ukraine and a Sukhoi Su-25, according to the Joint Forces Operation. facebook.com/easternbridgeh…
#Russia continuing to steal vast amounts of #Ukraine's grain.
Considerable fury in #Russia's puppet "republics" in eastern #Ukraine at Moscow's attempt to mobilise the population to fill its manpower gaps.
The ever-more demented Steven Seagal saga as a Russian agent continues.
Interesting: the Pentagon has revoked its earlier statement that said the explosions at #Russia's Saki Airbase in Crimea were caused by #Ukrainian strikes. DoD now says: "the United States does not know what caused the explosions". defense.gov/News/News-Stor…
#Ukraine's President Zelensky says #Russians should not be allowed to use #Europe as a "supermarket", though was careful to say visa restrictions should not apply to Russians who are "risking their freedom or their lives" against Putin and his policies. reuters.com/world/europe/z…
#Slovakia doing its part for #Ukraine.
#NAFO marches on.
Pentagon: "on a scale of zero to 10, the effectiveness of #Ukraine's armed forces would be a 12 'just based on how impressive they've been to us in so many different ways. … They have found ways to do things that we might not have thought were possible'." defense.gov/News/News-Stor…
"We have to integrate our coastal defense missile systems. The range of #Estonian and #Finnish missiles is greater than the width of the Gulf of Finland. This means that we will unify our missile defense and share all information with each other." mil.in.ua/en/news/estoni…
If one was advising #Russia on aesthetics, it would ... not be this. [sound on]
Seems like the #HIMARS time of the evening in Nova Kakhovka, in the #Russian-occupied area of Kherson.
#pt
Interesting: flight from #Russia to #Israel
Tulsi Gabbard doing her best for #Russia, as ever.
Igor Girkin ("Igor Strelkov") arrested by #Russia's forces as he crossed from Crimea into Kherson, #Ukraine, after months of posts criticising the Kremlin's waging of this war. The picture of Girkin going around, without his moustache, is ... disturbing.
#pt
#Montenegro has expelled #Russia's ambassador
#Netherlands joins Finland, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, and Norway in helping train #Ukraine's military in #Britain.
Pictures published of #Ukraine's President Zelensky meeting with representatives of the youth movements and groups on International Youth Day, 12 August.

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Aug 12
Thread: 12 August 2022: Day 170 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update: Britain not saying #Ukraine attacked Saki Airbase, but says "almost certainly" five Su-24 FENCER bombers and three Su-30 jets were seriously damaged or destroyed. Airfield probably usable. #Crimea clearly not a "secure rear-area" as #Russia believed.
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Salman Rushdie has been stabbed in New York as he was beginning a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. Rushdie's condition is unclear. Suspicion will naturally fall on #Iran, whose government called for his murder in 1989 and never repudiated the fatwa. apnews.com/article/salman…
Pictures circulating show the Salman Rushdie being wheeled away on a stretcher after he was stabbed in New York, contrary to some reports he walked off stage, and the perpetrator being arrested. ImageImage
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Aug 11
1,000 families are suing the Tavistock gender clinic for medical negligence, accusing the gender identity development service's (GIDS) "unquestioning affirmative approach" of rushing children into taking life-altering puberty blockers, with harmful effects thetimes.co.uk/article/4e7fc5…
This is noteworthy because it has often been the legal system that has brought damaging crazes within the psychological profession to an end, notably the Satanic panic.
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Aug 11
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. Image
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/…
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There has been some surprise about Amnesty International's report attacking #Ukraine for defending itself against #Russia, but, under the banner of "human rights", the group has been a hard-Left, anti-American/Western activist organisation for quite some time. A short 🧵
#Israel and her supporters have been, entirely fairly, most prominent in saying "we told you so" about Amnesty International. When AI jumped on the "apartheid" slander earlier this year, they were quite clear it was because it was popular with the far-Left
In calling #Israel an "apartheid" and racist state, making tendentious if inexplicit comparisons with the Nazis, Amnesty International was channelling the #Soviet active measures campaign from the 1970s, one of its most successful such operations.
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Aug 5
Thread: 5 August 2022: Day 163 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update focuses on with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant #Russia occupies. Moscow seem to be using the plant to rest troops, since it has protected status and #Ukraine won't attack it. Are using adjacent regions to shell the western bank of the Dnipro River. Image
Seems #Ukraine's HIMARS have been in action in Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson Oblast, destroying an ammunition depot.
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