Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army (1 GTA), "one of the most prestigious" units, operating under the Western Military District, "had not been fully reconstituted" before #Ukraine began the #Kharkiv counter-offensive; has now suffered further "heavy" losses. 
#Russia "recently requested to purchase ammunition for its Uragan rocket artillery from #Tajikistan, along with shells for Pion howitzers and armored personnel carrier (APC) engines." yahoo.com/now/moscow-see…
#Iran's drones - Shahed-136 (Geranium-2 in Russian) - visually confirmed to be used by #Russia in #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1569572931617050624
Sergei Mikheyev trying to maintain the thread of #Kharkiv not being such a disaster.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1569587195350249472
#Ukraine's Foreign Minister criticises #Germany's tardiness in shipping supplies.
https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1569637880204775426
#pt: Yup. Same throughout the West. A pointless routine of: "We couldn't possibly ... We might be able to ... Okay, we can ... Soon ... Any day now ... ". Repeated for every category of weapons. Leads to so many needless Ukrainian deaths.
https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1569643387112017921
#Russia: the FSB has arrested an employee of an aerospace factory in Moscow on suspicion of high treason. The man photographed "classified top-secret technical documents," and sent them to a mobile phone in Odesa. themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/13/fsb…
Some positive signs #Europe has resolved the energy crisis.
https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1569485873695313921
"Coping" is about right
Rather strong reactions in #Georgia against popular expressions of support for #Russia's government - and a countervailingly strong pro-#Ukraine response.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1569668725502091267
Gennady Zyuganov, the head of #Russia's Communist party, has called for "total mobilization" and a declaration of war against #Ukraine.
"How is a special military operation different from a war?" Even Communists get there eventually ...
"How is a special military operation different from a war?" Even Communists get there eventually ...
https://twitter.com/Sota_Vision/status/1569607565671014403
#Sweden doing its part for the Alliance in #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/UkraineAidOps/status/1569392902949715971
#US, quite correctly, supports #Ukraine's intention to liberate all of its territory, including #Crimea.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1569576786002083845
Sanctions seem to be having some effect ...
https://twitter.com/IikkaKorhonen/status/1569536372012195841
The Kremlin denies there is any talk of mobilisation, so, you know, could be announced any day now.
https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1569625929441239042
#Russian commentators fear #Ukraine will next move against Vuhledar, and that when it does the collapse will be similar to what happened in Kharkiv, opening the road to Volnovakha and Mariupol.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1569541298172096512
Thread on #Russia's catastrophic mismanagement of the war, more an issue of a military culture organised around a hyper-centralised command structure, than a lack of information per se, a stark contrast to #Ukraine absorbing #NATO customs and practices.
https://twitter.com/C_M_Dougherty/status/1569416520446492672
A snapshot of the catastrophic equipment losses #Russia has suffered.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1569655969814298630
Two Russian Su-25 jets just about evade two MANPADS. t.me/fighter_bomber…
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says #Ukraine has little to discuss with #Russia: any "peace" agreement would involve the total restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1569604028446945281
As #Ukraine's army approaches Luhansk Oblast, guerrillas within the #Russian-occupied zone are making headway.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1569611662717779968
#Germany's idea that it has or can have a "military leadership" role within #NATO is quite mad.
https://twitter.com/dw_politics/status/1569273488090734592
The teachers #Russia sent into #Ukraine as part of the attempt to eradicate Ukrainian culture and language got left behind as the Russians collapsed in Kharkiv.
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1569537108569915399
A Pentagon classic.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1569579286889373699
#Israel recently declassified info about the strike on #Syria's nuclear reactor in 2007. The backstory, a collaborative effort with #Iran and #North_Korea, facilitated by #Pakistan and #China, ultimately stretching back to the #Soviets, got less attention. aijac.org.au/featured/the-a…
Ivan Pechorin, a #Russian businessman, the managing director of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, "fell off a boat at full speed and died" on Sept. 10 near Russky Island in the Sea of Japan off Vladivostok. tvpworld.com/62731809/russi…
#Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin says the #EU has been naive about #Russia, should have paid more attention to #Poland and the #Baltic states.
https://twitter.com/dw_europe/status/1569612350604419072
#Germany yet again finding needless obstacles to assisting #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Lucian_Kim/status/1569704004594049024
The head of the Presidential Office in #Ukraine met with @AndersFoghR to present a Kyiv Security Compact, where the "guarantor states" will include: the US, Britain, Canada, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Turkey, and others.
https://twitter.com/AndriyYermak/status/1569651133433495552?cxt=HHwWgIC-2fbYwsgrAAAA
Interview with #Ukraine's President Zelensky, who is continuing to set an example by living life in public as the country's leader in his capital, encouraging his people to live their lives as normally as possible in the city.
https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/1569042390307987461
"#Russian troops were also pulling out from the southern city of #Melitopol, the second-largest city in #Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, the city's pre-occupation mayor said." washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-…
#Russian equipment losses
https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1569806669353189382
#Russia still holding 82 medical staff abducted from #Mariupol.
https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka/status/1569620471741661184
According to the #German readout of a call between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and #Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin, Sholz "urged" Putin to "find a diplomatic solution" ASAP in #Ukraine "based on a ceasefire [and] a complete withdrawal of Russian troops" politico.eu/article/scholz…
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