Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Ukraine's "offensive operations" around #Russian-occupied Kherson advance "on a broad front". The operation has "limited immediate objectives", but exploits Russia's weaknesses, and forces Moscow into a choice over deployment of its stretched forces. 
Essentially an "Honest Trailers" version of a Russian recruitment video.
https://twitter.com/SlavaUk30722777/status/1566126869761896448
God bless Sweden 😂❤️
https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1565789858068570112
As part of #Ukraine's counter-offensive in Kherson, a Bayraktar drone has destroyed a #Russian tank.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1565977656306409473
The work of @Kama_Kamilia and the #NAFO Fellas has been extraordinary.
https://twitter.com/Kama_Kamilia/status/1565977174271721472
Horrible video from Spain, where a Russian sporting symbols supporting the war on Ukraine calls a Ukrainian refugee woman "Khokhol" (an ethnic slur) and a "Ukronazi".
https://twitter.com/Flash43191300/status/1566009984701308928
Every dollar given to @SignMyRocket goes to the best cause
https://twitter.com/SignMyRocket/status/1565856862184038400
"President Erdogan stated that #Turkey can play a facilitator role in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as they did in the grain deal," said a statement from Erdogan's office, another pointless "mediation" effort with #Russia. rferl.org/a/ukraine-zapo…
#Sweden's lasting memory of #Gorbachev seems about right
https://twitter.com/louiseelisabet/status/1565992820145545216
Doesn't seem so controversial any more to say the "Wagner Group" is simply a component of #Russia's state security apparatus, but @Ayei_Eloheichem got there when it was rather more contested.
https://twitter.com/ruslantrad/status/1565720521077133313
This is much better from the #US, beginning to transfer the lessons from #Ukraine resisting #Russia to what #Taiwan needs to (hopefully deter and if necessary) hold off #China.
https://twitter.com/jhaboush/status/1565812032431169536
Curious: #Iran-origin weapons showing up among #Ukraine's stocks.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1565798835540090881
Credit to Macron where it's due >> "#France to restart all nuclear reactors by winter amid energy crunch" france24.com/en/france/2022…
#Russian blogger/YouTuber Semyon Pegov ("WarGonzo") arrested in Moscow, it seems for being drunk and disorderly at a hotel; over-aggressive with the lady working the night desk. Some suggestions, though, the Kremlin was not happy with him for OPSEC reasons about his "reporting".
#Russia's Defence Ministry has published a draft decree that would give plots of land in #Crimea and in the Moscow region to the military veterans and others who get state awards for their role in the "special military operation" in #Ukraine. ru.krymr.com/a/news-minobor…
#Germany's former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told Spain's ABC newspaper #Ukraine retaking #Crimea "makes no sense". Schroeder says he thinks the Russian invasion was a "mistake", but does not see "any good" in him distancing himself from #Putin. A complete disgrace.
The goodest boy
https://twitter.com/U24_gov_ua/status/1565681771441684480
Curious bit of history about the #Ottoman Empire's relations with #Ukraine at the end of the Great War.
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1565982521325756418
Can't even get the news from taxi drivers in Russia, SMH
https://twitter.com/Andrew__Roth/status/1565980543388360709
Ivan Neparatov, a literal gangster and murderer that #Russia's government plucked out of prison to assist in its attempt to eradicate #Ukraine, was given a state award "for courage". He is at least dead, another act of justice delivered by Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1565959192887836673
#Russia's air defences seem likely to play as successful a role in #Kherson as they have played elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1565966571637547015
#Ukraine launches another raid into #Russia, in Belgorod.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1565984811478548480
Ukraine-bound grain ship's engine fails in Bosphorus, second incident this week reuters.com/markets/commod…
#Russia is taking advantage of #Ukraine's "operational silence" around its counter-offensive in Kherson to push nonsense about high Ukrainian casualties and other apparent disasters. This is likely to continue. understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
There is something of a role reversal in this: for domestic political reasons, rather than operational ones, #Russia was relatively quite during the drive on Kiev in Feb.-March, which meant #Ukraine got control of the narrative, as well as the battlefield.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1566223142988783617
#Putin's warlord-president of #Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced he is taking an "indefinite and long" break.
Can see three options:
1) Ramzan is retiring; weird, and weirder timing
2) Ramzan wants something from Putin
3) Ramzan just says crazy things rferl.org/a/chechnya-kad…
Can see three options:
1) Ramzan is retiring; weird, and weirder timing
2) Ramzan wants something from Putin
3) Ramzan just says crazy things rferl.org/a/chechnya-kad…
#Russia's tank losses are over-1,000
https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1566075840722604033
#Ukraine seems to have collapsed the Nova Kakhovka dam bridge in #Russian-occupied Kherson with the HIMARS strikes.
https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1566083215139508226
Unsurprising, #Russia is activating its political warfare in #Europe.
https://twitter.com/ruslantrad/status/1566120942639714305
#Russia now accusing #Romania of being behind its problems in #Ukraine. Real strong look, there.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1566099257471426560
Awful: thousands protest in the #Czech Republic against support for #Ukraine, calling for buying gas from #Russia, dismissing their own government, and ceasing to the acceptance of Ukrainian refugees.
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1566130108779429894
Confirmation of what should have been obvious: #Ukraine has begun a campaign in Kherson intended to attrite the #Russians over months, not days. This is not a blitzkrieg, and is not well-suited to a modern attention span and Twitter-brain "takes".
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1566224559832973313
Footage shows military priests overseeing #Russia's forces in the Central Military District. The Russian Orthodox clerics like Roman Chebonenko are reportedly "constantly" with troops to help their morale: leading prayers, distributing crosses, and blessing military equipment.
#pt source: t.me/mod_russia/194…
#Ukraine has spelled out the nature of its counter-offensive
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1559870971007234048
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