"Crimea's talking only abt the mobilisation. Saying they're panicking doesn't convey anything, they're shocked. For 8yrs, they lived with a TV telling them abt the Russian army's greatness & how they'd defeat Ukraine in 3 days. They recall all their diseases to dodge the draft"
"Today, I saw almost crying vatnik (=pro-Russian) as he heard abt mobilisation. Many military acquaintances he has... had as ZSU eliminated some. The vatnik says: 'The RU army is naked and shoeless, is it fair to send us there? where are the millions allocated to the army?!'"
🧵Re: Russia's fake "referendums" in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia oblasts: it's pure desperation, they used to plan them after the seizure of the entire oblasts. With the Ukrainian liberation of Bilohorivka, Russia doesn't even control all settlements in Luhansk oblast.
(Russia hasn't ever been in Luhansk's full control - there have always been a few dozens of square kilometers of the oblast's territory under Ukrainian control, although without any villages there)
The Russian leadership is doubling down on the "people's war" narrative trying to get more cannon fodder out of the consumers of its cool stories on TV - there will be more attempts to brainwash Russians about "defending Russia".
Staged false flag attack on Russian allegedly gauleiter Pushilin in Donetsk (in reality, on the area of his office) - locals reported outgoing rounds from within the city, of course Pushilin didn't get any injuries.
A well-known gesture to show the tryzub trident exists for ages, here's Vyacheslav Chornovil showing it (the pro-Ukrainian presidential candidate who had lost to communist Leonid Kravchuk at the 1991 elections):
The biggest problem is that these geniuses are trying to reinvent everything to place their names behind it (for example, in 2019 and later on there was an idiotic - fortunately failed - campaign to rewrite the Ukrainian anthem's lyrics to make it "more optimistic").