#Russia "officially" preparing to "annex" the Donbas in eastern #Ukraine.
Should be noted, the Russians had such plans in Kherson and Kharkiv, which were derailed by the Ukrainian guerrillas before the Army liberated Kharkiv.
Should be noted, the Russians had such plans in Kherson and Kharkiv, which were derailed by the Ukrainian guerrillas before the Army liberated Kharkiv.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1572137811209494529
Imprisoned #Russian oppositionist Alexey Navalny comments on that video of Yevgeny Prigozhin recruiting prisoners for the war on #Ukraine. Sees it as a clear sign of the disintegration of the Army and notes such recruits can only make it worse.
https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1572141944180019205
#Russia's "Wagner" (GRU) losing the cyber war, as well as the actual war, to #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1571956058200969217
#Ukraine is pressing ahead on the #Kherson front: there is a steady gain of territory, tying down #Russian troops even as the Donbas is threatened, and the long-range HIMARS strikes continue to be accurate and devastating to the Russian logistics system.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1571834281126952960
There are some in #Germany who get it
https://twitter.com/bopanc/status/1572143697655132160
One of the victims of #Russia's atrocities in #Izyum: Serhii Sova.
https://twitter.com/Broodlapino/status/1572133982375919616
More troubles for #Russia in #Kazakhstan.
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1572123409349328897
#US open to supplying more modern tanks to #Ukraine, and will continue coordinating the supply of Soviet-era tanks.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1572056470921056257
What the #Russians did to the #Sri_Lankans they captured in Kharkiv is grotesque.
https://twitter.com/SofiaBettiza/status/1572121848908742656
A lot in this thread and article from Oleg Zhdanov, but the escalation of #Ukrainian airstrikes is particularly notable. Does not seem to have come with serious losses, unlike #Russia's attempt to step up air power, which has led to a LOT more losses.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1571960301683187712
Clearly true. If #Ukraine liberates zones #Russia claims as "annexed", sets a precedent that makes #Crimea easier. Of course, the Russians might never even find the window to stage the "annexation": the guerrillas and ZSU disrupted the last plans.
https://twitter.com/Andrew__Roth/status/1572175051608436736
#pt: Explained more briefly and poetically
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1572176947911983104
Very Tolkienesque in spirit to recombine the universe he created for the present. Tolkien created "Lord of the Rings" from elements of medieval world and - though he always denied it - the Second World War he lived through.
https://twitter.com/YVolkotrub/status/1571466110997856259
Interesting report that #Russia is using special forces as "barrier troops".
https://twitter.com/VDV_Textbooks/status/1572123315086688256
Rest in peace Vasyl Pelysh
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1572027765154402304
Public announcement by #Russia's puppet administrator in #Kherson, Volodymyr Saldo, of plans for "annexation".
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1572169996314214401
Bizarre goings on at a bank in Kutaisi, #Georgia, which has been taken hostage.
https://twitter.com/OCMediaorg/status/1572166166268747778
Chairman of #Estonia's National Defense Committee, Raimond Kaljulaid (@PRB_Raimond), bluntly describing preferred approach to #Russia: hoping to weaken it, militarily and economically for decades in #Ukraine; decouple from energy; keep out its tourists.
Interesting for a senior official to compare #Estonia's predicament with #Russia to #Israel's situation surrounded by Arab states that meant to destroy her. #Ukraine's President Zelensky has, in less stark language, said the same thing many times.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1572184271003193345
Extraordinary video of #Russia raining incendiary munitions on the village of Ozerne in the Donetsk Oblast.
https://twitter.com/grishchukroma/status/1572084236324327424
Bless the cousins
https://twitter.com/flunkertungle9/status/1571768328577859585
Some time-sensitive fundraising campaigns for #Ukraine if you're able to help: for drones, night-vision goggles, electronic jamming equipment, winter clothing, and humanitarian supplies.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1572097657535090689
Gives a sense of the religious nature of the #Russian leadership's motivations. This picture originally - as far as I know - was created by Islamists, with the green flag of Islam in place of Russia's.
https://twitter.com/SalomeTseretely/status/1571935551447597058
Pentagon says it is interpreting the Prigozhin video recruiting prisoners in the same way as everyone else: a sign of deep trouble in #Russia's Army.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1572054489083056128
#Turkey's ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after meeting #Putin "he is actually showing me that he's willing to end this [war in #Ukraine] as soon as possible ... because the way things are going right now are quite problematic".
That is one view. pbs.org/newshour/show/…
That is one view. pbs.org/newshour/show/…
One of the prisoners #Russia has thrown into #Ukraine discusses the experience, including the one week of "training" before deployment.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1571941747307216898
#Russia sending a bill to the Duma that could lead to ten years in prison for refusing combat orders, and - in that wonderfully circular way dictatorships have - the Kremlin is currently recruiting for the war on #Ukraine from the prisons.
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1572155921094033408
Russian theatre actor Sergey Puskepalis killed in a road accident in Rostov while delivering equipment for the war on #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1572204792747036672
#Putin to make a televised address tonight, probably on the proposed "annexation" of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
https://twitter.com/ru_rbc/status/1572216518213074946
Even before the #Ukraine invasion, when #Russia could devote what it wanted to #Syria, it made one effort to challenge the #US, and got 200 people eradicated, responding meekly by disowning the "Wagner" forces, so ...
https://twitter.com/KatieBoLillis/status/1571931844714680320
Possible #Putin will use the "annexation" of the Donbas, and #Ukraine's encroachments into "Russian territory", as the workaround to get to general mobilisation, but all the reasons he hasn't done it so far would remain: extremely dangerous to his regime.
https://twitter.com/baunov/status/1572225028174790658
During the Feb. 21 televised Security Council meeting, one of the most insane pieces of #Russia's messaging ahead of the invasion, #SVR head Sergey Naryshkin said the Donbas would be annexed. This was a pre-record, but this "slip" got left in.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1495780094769569794
The Prime Minister of #Estonia - a state once "annexed" by Moscow using a sham referendum - sets out what will hopefully be the collective Western position: paying no attention whatever to #Russia's "annexation" claims in eastern #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/kajakallas/status/1572237835943530497
#US Department of Justice official Andrew Adams recommends to Congress at a Senate hearing that, in response to #Russia's signalling it will "annex" the Donbas, seized Russian assets be turned over to #Ukraine to assist against Russian aggression.
#Russia's puppet "republic" in Luhansk, in eastern #Ukraine, has announced it will hold a "referendum" on being "annexed" to #Russia from 23 to 27 September.
The "Donetsk People's Republic" has since announced it will do the same on the same dates. t.me/rian_ru/178480
The "Donetsk People's Republic" has since announced it will do the same on the same dates. t.me/rian_ru/178480
Perhaps I missed it, but the argument is not that "#Russia will just have to concede". It is that by continuing to supply #Ukraine, the Russian Army and its occupation authorities can be shattered. Moscow's "view" is then quite irrelevant.
https://twitter.com/EmmaMAshford/status/1572248218595119108
#Ukraine's Foreign Minister says #Russia's "sham 'referendums' [to annex territory] will not change anything. ... Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories and will keep liberating them whatever Russia has to say."
https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1572201219975692289
Oh no, not again
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1572238895810744322
#Putin's speech delayed ...
Sergei Markov, one of Putin's factotums, says the speech has been postponed until tomorrow. t.me/logikamarkova/…
#Ukraine's General Staff reports that #Russia is going to send soldiers of the 217th Guards Airborne Regiment from #Syria to Ukraine. pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…
#Russia having to move submarines from around #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1572334137029316609
Erdogan says #Turkey will not recognise #Russia's "annexation" of areas of eastern #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1572278635415109633
A #Russia flight went (via #Armenia) to #Iran, potentially to pick up drones.
https://twitter.com/Gerjon_/status/1572317309670404097
Much better from #France's President Macron.
https://twitter.com/RymMomtaz/status/1572287534419574785
#Putin's warlord-president of #Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is beyond parody.
https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1572349077505085441
#Russian soldier in Donetsk: the situation is "so fucked", but if he retreats "our own are there [to] shoot". Says #Ukraine's troops are all around them and there are a "fuckload" of Russians dead, inc his commander. Mentions Russian soldiers raping women.
Shahed-136 drones from #Iran have now been seen used by #Russia in the Mykolaiv Oblast of #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1572327136731746305
Has he, though
https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1572382758542147586
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