The former rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Anatoly Gerashchenko, had a "tragic accident" on Sept. 21, he "fell" - indeed, "flew" - down several flights of stairs and "received injuries incompatible with life". moscow-post.su/news/society/b…
#Putin's delayed speech, delivered this morning, rambled through the war being necessary to stop #Ukraine having nukes, #NATO running Kiev's army and refusing peace, Novorossiya, neo-Nazis, and annexing the Donbas, to announce partial mobilisation.
https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1572465816741847045
Most impressive
https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1572286891076259845
#Russia's Defence Minister spoke after #Putin: the upshot is he says 300,000 Russian troops will be raised by "partial mobilisation", which probably isn't true and wouldn't rescue the Russian position if it was, but as a statement is enough to cause panic.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1572477069115949057
Signs an exodus from Russia has already begun after the announcement of "partial mobilisation" five hours ago
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1572489636915847169
#Russian contract soldiers to have their terms of service extended throughout the partial mobilisation (which has no end date).
Putin is playing with fire here. This will do nothing for Army morale. Puts Russia on a path to mutinies and worse.
Putin is playing with fire here. This will do nothing for Army morale. Puts Russia on a path to mutinies and worse.
https://twitter.com/ntvru/status/1572471755242971138
Incentives af
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1572530483149549569
Which is quite mad, but this is an ideological war Putin is waging: it will not stop until it is stopped
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1572484732193222657
Glad the #US has dismissed with contempt #Putin's signals about "annexing" areas of eastern #Ukraine to #Russia.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1572482751869386753
Conscripting people into the ranks as a punishment is doubtless the way to improve the devastated morale of the Russian Army
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1572511869033943041
Such a world clearly cannot function. All of this was hashed out in the Cold War, not that anyone now remembers, nor did it stop the Soviets' sympathisers agitating, as Putin's agents of influence do now, right down to 1991.
https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1572541943514824705
The paradox, as in the Cold War, is that the surest way to maintain peace is to be absolutely serious about our willingness to go to war, including nuclear war, with the Russians. The alternative is to allow Moscow's nuclear blackmail card to be a free pass to everything it wants
#Russian ammunition depot in Novoaidar in the Luhansk Oblast gone.
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1572566821269827586
Another #Russian pontoon bridge disaster, somewhere in Kherson
https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1572563299576975361
#China clearly is not serious, but interesting to see what they feel a need to say publicly.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1572549954064642048
#pt: Better explanation of what #China is up to
https://twitter.com/Copernicus2013/status/1572499759054876673
After the announced "partial mobilisation", "Russian airlines have stopped selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 unless they can provide evidence of approval to travel from the Ministry of Defense." airlive.net/breaking-russi…
And that was in a war most #Russians understood, quite correctly, as defending the Empire from an aggressive #Germany, led by a ruler whom most believed God Himself had appointed. Neither form of legitimacy exists now, with the war on #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1572564435939762177
Protests have erupted across #Russia against the mobilisation, and the crackdown has been as swift and ruthless as ever.
https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1572590013485056000
President Biden speaking at the UNGA
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1572609429216063488
Navalny's team pranked the son of Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, Nikolay, pretending to be a military commissariat calling him up for conscription. He responds: "it is not exactly right for me to be there ... I'll be solving this on another level"
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1572608312298053632
As ever, Navalny's team have a very good feel for what will resonate with Russians.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1572616830610735104
#Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with #Britain's Prime Minister @trussliz in New York at the UN meeting yesterday. Shmyhal thanked Truss for the support given so far, and Truss announced $500 million more to purchase gas. kmu.gov.ua/news/denys-shm… 
#Lithuania's Rapid Reaction Force has been put on high alert in response to #Russia's "partial mobilisation".
https://twitter.com/Lithuanian_MoD/status/1572505092271771650
#Russians protesting the "partial mobilisation" in the city where the Bolsheviks murdered their Emperor.
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1572595671068299269
Protests in Saint Petersburg against the "partial mobilisation", at the Cathedral of Saint Isaac. #Russia
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1572617827235889154
Protests against the "partial mobilisation" spread to Moscow.
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1572626663573184515
#Russia's opposition, broken up by arrests and the remainder terrorised into quiet since February, has taken the first chance of an event, the "partial mobilisation", where popular discontent against the regime manifests, to return to the streets, knowing the price. Brave people.
It is not just tactically and morally wrong to dismiss #Russian protests against #Putin; it is analytical malpractice. It misses the complexities behind saying "popular opinion" - a nearly meaningless term even in free countries - supports this war, and the options going forward.
What we know is that there was a massive domestic reaction against #Putin's regime when the war on #Ukraine began, and that this switched - at least in terms of what people were willing to tell pollsters - after a draconian crackdown and saturation of the information space.
It is not to say a majority of #Russians don't passively support the war, if only in the sense that most support their country at war, but it is very different to them agitating for the war and it means this opinion is malleable if Russia is defeated.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1572630311875530752
#Russians protesting in Moscow directly against #Putin, again knowing how severe the penalties are for such things.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1572625388265938944
Perhaps not the sturdiest basis for a mobilisation
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1572474075955580930
#Ukraine's First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevheny Yenin said of the bodies of those murdered by #Russia in #Izyum: "These include broken ribs and cracked skulls, men with bound hands, broken jaws, and severed genitalia." dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
"[A]nother Kharkiv-like operation could relatively quickly place Ukrainian forces along the Luhansk-Severodonetsk line and effectively force the collapse of Russian forces' willingness and ability to fight in this war. ... [T]ime is now on Kyiv’s side." ridl.io/the-kharkiv-of…
Nice piece by @konrad_muzyka for @RiddleRussia.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1572635534094401537
#Ukraine has stopped asking in public for Patriot air defense systems, F-16 fighter jets, and Gray Eagle drones, but behind the scenes is still negotiating with the #US over them. "Both sides are discussing whether to send all three items". politico.com/news/2022/09/1…
That said, the overwhelming impression is of #US foot-dragging.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1572636190368481280
#Russia has released ten foreign POWs taken in #Ukraine, after mediation by the #Saudis. Those released: two Americans, five British, a Croatian, a Moroccan, a Swede. Seems Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner (UK) and Brahim Saadoun (Morocco) among them. reuters.com/world/europe/r…
#Ukraine flags appearing in #Armenia during protests against CSTO, #Russia's new pseudo-Warsaw Pact.
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1572625354006859779
The citizen from #Sweden captured fighting for #Ukraine, who has been released today after the #Saudis mediated with #Russia
https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1559589407778344960
A #Russian citizen in the Arbatskaya area of Moscow, shouts, "No to war!", as he is roughly arrested.
https://twitter.com/Sota_Vision/status/1572623472987361281
The protests in #Russia today against the regime have been on a large scale.
https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1572648018167341064
Interviews by @CurrentTimeTv with #Russians living in the Kaliningrad enclave and Ekaterinburg: many firmly and articulately against the war; those who say they would go to war in #Ukraine look uncomfortable and rely on official talking points.
Via a Russian friend: "Soldier in the reserve"
#Putin has traded 215 #Ukrainian prisoners of war, including the #Azov defenders taken when Mariupol was conquered, for 55 #Russian POWs, including Viktor Medvedchuk, one of Putin's main agents in pre-invasion Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/lesiavasylenko/status/1572703119183867904
#North_Korea has surveyed the situation and decided its reputation - based on a Nazi-ish ideology, nuclear weapons, and the enslavement of a whole people in a giant concentration camp - would be sullied by an association #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1572696716301811712
Awful video from earlier of police in Moscow beating up an anti-war protester.
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