Latest @DefenceHQ update on #Russia's plans to completely conquer Donetsk Oblast in eastern #Ukraine and then stage a referendum to annex the zone to Russia. 
#Ukraine fighter pilot, Anton Lystopad, recognised in 2019 as the country's top pilot and who had been awarded an Order for Courage by President Zelensky, was killed in combat against #Russia | pravda.com.ua/news/2022/08/1…
Aftermath of the HIMARS strike by #Ukraine that demolished the #Russian base, occupied by Russian troops flagged as Wagner, in Popasna, in the Luhansk Oblast.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1558872770221572096
#pt: The #Russians doxxed their own base in Popasna, which #Ukraine then devastated with HIMARS.
https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1558923077622325250
#pt: Rumours spread after #Ukraine eliminated the #Russian base in Popasna that Yevgeny Prigozhin, "Putin's chef" who nominally runs the "Wagner" unit, was killed. Russian channels then began sharing pictures ostensibly proving Prigozhin was alive.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1559207111766179840
In Melitopol, in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, #Ukrainian guerrillas have sabotaged a railway in the #Russian-occupied city.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1558945003841495043
Bizarre framing from the Catholic Pope, saying the war in #Ukraine - which he seems to think descended from the heavens, rather than being imposed by #Russia - is distracting from the looming famine in #Somalia. reuters.com/world/ukraine-…
A worthy project
https://twitter.com/HALLONSA/status/1558904029966733320
Two #Ukrainian drones downed
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1558918002933993473
Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirms #Germany will not support an #EU-wide ban on issuing #Russian citizens with tourist visas. abcnews.go.com/International/…
#Ukraine's President Zelensky has "dismissed the heads of the main departments of the State Security Service of Ukraine (#SBU) in Kyiv, Lviv, and Ternopil regions, and also appointed a new head of the SBU department in Kyiv and its region." interfax.com.ua/news/general/8…
#Ukrainians attacked in #Switzerland by #Russian speakers.
https://twitter.com/SukachSofia/status/1558740595958599686
#Saudi Arabia's role in cushioning #Russia from the sanctions
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1558901464185044996
#Serbia acting as a loophole in the sanctions on #Russia
https://twitter.com/ivanastradner/status/1558981909526577158
Putin says Russia and North Korea will expand bilateral relations, KCNA reports timetotimes.com/?p=106589
#Russia has set up a GULAG in the foothold it still has around Kharkiv
https://twitter.com/SarahAshtonLV/status/1559039811528364032
#Russia's forces have seized 5,100 #Ukrainian orphans, and deported them to Russia, putting them in the homes of Russian parents, presumably hoping to Russify them, which is a flat breach of the Genocide Convention. euromaidanpress.com/2022/08/15/rus…
From the Genocide Convention un.org/en/genocidepre…
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1559320477956546561
Not great for Elon Musk to be getting close to #China, especially right as it threatens #Taiwan (again) and supports #Russia's war on #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/kendraschaefer/status/1559062274194620416
Thread on #Russia's effort to use announced "annexations" of the occupied zones in #Ukraine as a way to freeze the frontline - and politically reframe the war - as it tries to regenerate manpower before recommencing the effort to conquer Ukraine
https://twitter.com/MassDara/status/1559185289884614658
#Russia is trying to steal #Ukraine's electrical supplies generated by the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. wsj.com/articles/russi…
Not doing much for stereotypes
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1558968965229068299
#Germany living down to expectations
https://twitter.com/MKarnitschnig/status/1559082517575208960
#Russian journalists reporting on Russian war crimes during the brief occupation around #Ukraine's capital earlier this year.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1559090775954178048
Nice piece on one of the most good-natured outgrowths of this terrible war. #NAFO
https://twitter.com/MaybeImALizard/status/1559089009678323712
Love this from #Finland.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1558823926129741824
Looking forward to this film
https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1557803019391082496
#Russia tightening its relations with the #Taliban-#Qaeda regime in Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/azelin/status/1559162936815394816
#pt: From 2017: "Iran and Russia Are Using the Taliban Against the West" kyleorton.co.uk/2017/08/05/ira…
Good signs domestically in #Ukraine: President Zelensky has been cleaning up the intelligence side, and this seems like a positive step for the judiciary.
https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka/status/1559141754355466243
#Russia got what it wanted from Tulsi Gabbard, as usual.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1558925649053720576
#Putin insisting #Russia's weapons are all working great
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1559219651124645889
Salman Rushdie said in 2010: "It looks very much as if Amnesty [International]'s leadership is suffering from a kind of moral bankruptcy and has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong." thetimes.co.uk/article/salman…
#Russian soldiers speaking about their actions around #Ukraine's capital from late February to early April this year. Admits openly to looting and murdering civilians. theins.ru/en/news/254127
"Even if Russia does annex Ukrainian territory and tries to force an operational pause, Kyiv and its Western supporters don't have to comply. Russia's overall ambitions for Ukraine [i.e. total conquest], after all, remain intact." foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russia…
This really has been forgotten and some of the "discourse" has gotten terribly toxic. Goes partly to a fundamental issue about what "public opinion" actually *is*, i.e. how fixed/contingent it is and whether or to what extent it's even a "real" concept.
https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1559231709035614209
A majority of Russians, right now, in this phase of the war and with these incentives (extreme domestic repression), support the war. Doesn't seem to be mass-enthusiasm. Without coercion and after a humiliating defeat, would this hold? Maybe. But maybe not
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1559342128232386563
#Ukraine's President Zelensky met today with ambassadors for @united24_gov_ua, @jksheva7 and @LievSchreiber, to discuss ways of keeping the world's attention on the Ukrainian cause after nearly six months of war to hold off #Russia's invasion.
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