Latest @DefenceHQ update focuses on the problems #Russia is having mobilising and motivating its "auxiliary forces", i.e. the #Ukrainians in the occupied territories like the Donbas. Moscow is trying terror and inducement (money), but the forces remain unreliable for offensives. 
Thread on the "Wagner" unit, an instrument of #Russia's state, often wrongly referred to as a "mercenary" outfit.
https://twitter.com/ruslantrad/status/1561517684776394753
Is this ... meant to be a criticism?
Credit to #Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock realising there is no path to peace that doesn't involve arming #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1561472997793341441
You can write to political prisoners in #Belarus. It not only tells the victims but their oppressors that they have not been forgotten.
https://twitter.com/Tsihanouskaya/status/1561665344774733825
A daytime HIMARS strike by #Ukraine on the Antonovsky bridge in #Russian-occupied Kherson.
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1561656893432643586
#Japan's remilitarisation proceeding promisingly
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1561518711760007169
#Ukraine joining its direct warfare on #Russia's rear base in #Crimea with political/psychological warfare
https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1561485643812937731
#Russia has claimed that #Ukraine was responsible for the killing of Aleksandr Dugin's daugher in Moscow - @AFP
#pt: Thread from yesterday
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1561289104498753538
An entirely spontaneous pro-#Russia protest by #Ukrainians in Kupyansk in the Kharkiv Oblast.
https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1561670560224010240
#Lithuania has, like all the Baltic states, performed wonderfully in #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/AndriusTapinas/status/1561683529783812097
#Ukraine's commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny says "nearly 9,000" soldiers have been killed since #Russia's invasion began, a rare public acknowledgement of the casualty stats on the Ukrainian side. english.alarabiya.net/News/world/202…
Naturally, #Russia has fabricated "evidence" that the organiser of the bombing in Moscow that killed Dugin's daughter was a member of the Azov Regiment.
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1561691165191200775
The Russian Imperial Movement, which forms part of #Russia's invasion force in #Ukraine, is a designated terrorist organisation.
https://twitter.com/MuKappa/status/1561394206651850752
Reports that #Russia is removing its air force assets from #Crimea.
https://twitter.com/RoksolanaKrim/status/1561645981384560640
Another triumphant day for #Russian messaging
More Starlinks to #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1561683218948038658
I spoke too soon, Russia had not yet peaked in its messaging for the day
https://twitter.com/ichbinilya/status/1561713219571515392
On a scale of 1 to 10, the convincingness of #Russia's story about #Ukraine being responsible for killing Dugin's daughter is in Salisbury spire territory.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1561694976878252035
An adviser to #Ukraine's President Zelensky says #Russia's propaganda "lives in a fictional world" (which is true) and "vipers in [Russia's] special services" are behind the assassination of Dugin's daughter (which is also probably true).
https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1561706360676425735
Seems there has been another explosion in #Crimea
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1561736276369358848
#Russia's television threatening #Britain again
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1561761879285981184
Horrendous #Russian assault on Marinka, near the red Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Donetsk Oblast.
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1561806024167890944
#Ukraine's President Zelensky spoke tonight about #Russia's senseless missile attacks on civilian targets in Kharkiv.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1561807227979276288
Vladimir Solovyev shows how little respect #Russia has for #Germany and its Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. All the concessions only increase Moscow's contempt.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1561812744843792384
#Hungary's government cultivating pro-#Russia sentiment at a popular level
https://twitter.com/NoYardstick/status/1561735529401618433
#Russia moving to eliminate the Jewish Agency, and nothing #Israel has done to avoid directly confronting the Kremlin since the invasion of #Ukraine has been enough to prevent this.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1561868349730078723
U.S. rejects Ukraine demand of blanket visa ban on Russians reuters.com/world/us-rejec…
The passport accompanying #Russia's official story of the assassination of Dugin's daughter isn't up to much
https://twitter.com/IssandJumal/status/1561781504975540225
#EU announces the same day as the #US no blanket ban on issuing visas to #Russia's citizens
https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1561744785643282433
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