#Russian soldier talking to his wife is somewhat unimpressed with the commanders and even less impressed with the #Chechen Kadyrovtsy, the "Akhmat", who "fucked off (i.e. ran away), the fucking cowards" as the #Ukrainians closed in.
In #Mariupol overnight, #Ukrainians sang the national anthem in Liberation Square, knowing it can get them arrested and worse by the #Russian occupation authorities in the city. A sense that liberation is coming is spreading.
Kirill Stremousov, a #Russian administrator in occupied Kherson in #Ukraine, says "Nazis" are trying to come into the area and "other parts of Russia", and are "prepared to eat our children".
Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Ukraine "continue[s] to consolidate their control of newly liberated areas of Kharkiv Oblast". Some Russian units withdrew in good order; others panicked. The abandonment of high-value equipment suggests disorganisation is quite widespread. 
Nikita Yuferev, one of the Russian deputies from the Smolninskoye District of Saint Petersburg who called for Putin to be charged with treason on 7 September, refused to back down. His district council will likely be dissolved.
reuters.com/world/europe/r…
reuters.com/world/europe/r…
"In Russia, pilots of regional flights are being told to carry out aircraft maintenance on their own, says Oleg Bocharov, deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade ... This practice is being introduced to save money" euromaidanpress.com/2022/09/14/rus…
Thread. @penas_alvaro interviews @Mamulashvili_M, the commander of the @georgian_legion. #NAFO
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1570318540946935808
#Ukraine honours the memory of #Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, signing artillery shells in her honour.
Do check out @SignMyRocket to send your own message to the #Russians. All proceeds go to helping the Ukrainians evict the occupiers.
Do check out @SignMyRocket to send your own message to the #Russians. All proceeds go to helping the Ukrainians evict the occupiers.
https://twitter.com/SignMyRocket/status/1570017708934320128
Yevgeny Prigozhin, during his recruitment visit for "Wagner" (GRU) to a #Russian prison, told prisoners sent to the front they'll be executed if they do not fight and implored them not to rape "local women, flora [plants], fauna [animals], men, whoever." thetimes.co.uk/article/wagner…
#Russia deployed virtually its entire Army to #Ukraine, and, after it was mauled, they're now recruiting reservists and prisoners, but Eberhard Zorn, the head of #Germany's Army, believes Moscow could launch attacks in the Baltics or Georgia. Delusional.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1570318616800657408
Another crazily large stash of #Russian equipment left behind and captured by #Ukraine in Balakliya.
https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1570154083633483776
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the @NSDC_ua, said: "For every one of our fallen soldiers, there were nine or ten Russians" killed during the Kharkiv counteroffensive. Usually "you expend much more during offensive [operations] than ... defense" nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/po…
An former collaborationist official in Kupyansk in the Kharkiv Oblast of #Ukraine, interviewed in Belgorod, was told two days before the #Russians fled that they would never leave. "Now I'm worried for [the other traitors] in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia". theguardian.com/world/2022/sep…
#pt: The Russians insisted "they were there to stay for ever" and some tried either "to cooperate or simply try to live quietly". But "evidence emerging from the newly retaken territories indicates that Russian troops regularly used violence to put down any local dissent".
Assuming they follow through, good for #Germany.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1570400035082231809
Having previously said #Germany is stocked with Nazis and zealot nationalists, Vladimir Solovyov now attacks Ursula von der Leyen for speaking English, apparently a sign that she is really just a puppet of the Anglo-Saxons.
https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa/status/1570326742849540101
Important note from someone who visited #Izyum. It might well be that the death toll from #Russia's occupation in #Kharkiv is larger (it lasted six times longer) but the murders seem lower in scale and systematism than what happened around Kyiv in March.
https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1570347945232404482
Further moves in #Ukraine against #China, particularly its influence-peddling and infiltration.
https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1569925248023408640
#Ukraine's General Staff says in a statement today that four of #Russia's jets (three Su-25s and an Su-24) were brought down over Ukrainian territory; does not say where or when. facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…
Vladimir Solovyov a little bit slow off the mark: #Russia has already put together this Coalition of Rogues, for all the good it has done them.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1570350377878585346
#Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation has arrested two collaborators in Izyum who were working with #Russia's "law-enforcement" agency and a tax collector for the occupiers has been arrested in Kupyansk. All three will be charged with treason. t.me/DBRgovua/2759
Rare video of #Russia's airstrikes on #Ukrainian positions.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1570350819706281989
Fourth time #Russia's ruler, Vladimir Putin, has met #Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi this year. Since the attempt to eradicate #Ukraine began, all pretence this is not a strategic alliance have been cast aside.
https://twitter.com/KianSharifi/status/1570349492783943681
#pt: The commitment of #Russia to the alliance with #Iran is very long-standing and goes back to Soviet times. The belief in #Israel and elsewhere that there was some exploitable daylight between them has always been mad. See this from 2018: kyleorton.substack.com/p/why-putins-r…
#pt: Also see this essay on the #Russia/#Soviet involvement in the Islamic Revolution in #Iran: it was the KGB-run Communists who worked alongside the Islamists to bring down the Shah and then helped the clerical regime construct its security apparatus. meforum.org/62821/whither-…
A "court" in #Russia has revoked the website licence for Novaya Gazeta, a further blow to what was left of the independent media - @AFP
#Russia has set repeated "red lines", and done exactly nothing when #NATO has run over them, because it is not capable of doing anything.
https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1570365212447866880
Leonid Pasechnik, the "Head" of #Russia's puppet entity in eastern #Ukraine, the "Luhansk People's Republic", says the Ukrainians have swept through Kharkiv and arrived on the Luhansk Oblast's borders, but: "There is no reason to panic". Sure.
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1570369294671790081
Tucker Carlson continues with relentless #Russian propaganda.
https://twitter.com/VsimPohuy/status/1570063998506176515
#Ukraine and #Taiwan drawing closer together against the #Russia-#China (and #Iran) axis
https://twitter.com/ChairOlek/status/1570016688774721536
Shows how ideological the #Biden people are: the path of least resistance, demonstrated in practice, is to keep on with what has worked and let #Ukraine finish this decisively so we don't have to go through all this with #Russia again. But no.
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1570413926139166722
The cats and dogs of the #Ukrainian military have their own account, incidentally: @UAarmy_animals
https://twitter.com/UAarmy_animals/status/1570363071151099904
At their first meeting since Feb. 24 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, #Putin thanked Xi Jinping for #China's "balanced position" on the war to eradicate #Ukraine. Xi said the CCP was happy to work with #Russia as one of the "great powers". bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
#Turkey's ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met #Azerbaijan's ruler Ilham Aliyev, amid the flare-up between the Azeris and #Armenia.
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1570391530354925568
There is some evidence against this ...
https://twitter.com/minna_alander/status/1570147706856943617
#Putin's warlord-president of #Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is encouraging regional leaders in #Russia to self-mobilise to raise troops in #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1570393330164596739
Current levels of grain exports from #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1570369531046146050
#Ukraine has reported its first case of #monkeypox.
"Wagner"/GRU 'Grey Zone' channel admits: most #Ukrainians, born in a state independent of #Russia, see this as a "holy war" against a foreign attacker, leading to a "consolidation of society", while in Russia the purpose of the war is not understood. t.me/grey_zone/15037
Interestingly, says, "No matter how anti-Communist I am", has to be conceded the Soviet elites were involved in and made "personal sacrifices" for their policies. "Now there is no such unity ... only a few" in the Russian elite risk anything in this war.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1570469013574266880
Igor Girkin can see the use of prisoners as soldiers in extremis, but thinks that to manage them requires martial law and full mobilisation to provide the right framework for dealing with them, otherwise it will only exacerbate the discipline issues.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1570374548914053121
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