Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russian mobilised reservists have begun arriving in #Ukraine over the last two weeks with even fewer provisions than the Army. Notably, they have been buying their own body armour. Corruption and poor logistics remain central features of Russia's Army. 
The #EU are slow-rolling plans for sanctions on #Iran over sending drones to #Russia for its war to eliminate Ukraine. reuters.com/world/exclusiv…
German Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzer repaired in #Lithuania and send back for #Ukraine to use
https://twitter.com/a_anusauskas/status/1580811628617994241
Jeremy Hunt in as Chancellor is a complete catastrophe. The main reason to prefer Liz Truss to Rishi Sunak was Sunak's at-best "iffy" record on foreign affairs, specifically China. Hunt is even worse than Sunak; leaves little reason for Truss to remain.
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1581211006562279425
First [admitted] #Russian forces in #Belarus for this "new" joint force.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1581216105342726150
#Ukraine appears to have recommenced offensive operations in #Kherson this morning
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1581189501749452801
Some #Russian occupying forces down in #Kherson think the #Ukrainians will break through over the river, and Mykolaiv will soon be on the table.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1581202472097701888
Igor Girkin ("Strelkov") has reportedly been deployed within #Russia's force inside #Ukraine. Some suggestion he is in a leadership position within a unit. t.me/boris_rozhin/6…
#pt: If Girkin/Strelkov really has been sent into #Ukraine in a formal position within #Russia's Army, might be the Kremlin's way of reining him in. It seems the Centre has had enough of Girkin's carping from the sidelines about their handling of the war
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1580969147411755010
In #Belarus, the formation of the joint "regional grouping" with #Russia and the "exercises", are either preparation for a second attack at Kyiv, or are intended to look as if they are to draw troops away from the east. So far, the worst assumptions have been the right ones.
An enraged superpower can still get results from the dependencies: "#Saudi Arabia announces $400 million in humanitarian aid to #Ukraine" reuters.com/world/saudi-ar…
Interesting. Buryats have been one of the most prominent minority ethnic groups disproportionately represented in the #Russian Army.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1581260592689844225
Apparently the policy has changed again
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581345747777179651
Thread on the controlled antagonism Putin permits, setting Evgeny Prigozhin + Ramzan Kadyrov against the senior military officials, who have basically no say or sway, but all the responsibility. An instinctive Putin move, not well matched to the situation
https://twitter.com/IlyaMatveev_/status/1580987038203248640
To be added to the list of reasons the use of nuclear weapons isn't a serious concern; at best it is a good-natured if naïve distraction, at worst it is wilfully and actively assisting the Russian program.
https://twitter.com/akoz33/status/1581187075780378624
Father Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenk of the Russian Apostolic Church has been protesting #Russia's war on #Ukraine at considerable risk and helping Ukrainian refugees euronews.com/my-europe/2022…
Kind of amazing: #Russia has repeatedly said in public it is making these deportations of children to Russify them, not only one of the grossest crimes in PR terms a state could confess to, but the one that most technically meets the "genocide" definition.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1581356355671101442
#Russia's troops murdered #Ukrainian conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko at his own home in #Kherson on Oct. 14 when he refused to cooperate with the occupation forces. en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/8…
All dependents what the definition of "panic" is. #Kherson
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1581263021774540800
Bakhmut, the one area of #Ukraine where the #Russians can even claim to be advancing, looks like a colourised scene from Ypres.
https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1581253263294607365
Very interesting on #Russia recruiting prisoners nominally into "Wagner"
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1581186026524975104
People in #Poland not pleased with the continued presence of #Russia's "diplomats"
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1581304995500081154
#Russia pretty clearly solidifying its position, at #France's expense, in #Africa, of late particularly in Burkina Faso.
Interesting from #Norway
https://twitter.com/Hegghammer/status/1581304564078505985
#Russia misusing even the forces it has been able to mobilise into the field
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1581212955395657728
Report that in Belgorod, a staging area within #Russia for the war on #Ukraine, someone among the Russian soldiers there has opened fire and killed 22 people, while wounding 16. No official comments yet.
#Kazakhstan showing what something approaching even-handed #Russian press coverage of the war might look like
https://twitter.com/NHaliloglu/status/1580972800260521984
Brave in the circumstances: families of mobiks protest directly at Putin
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1581385210876243970
#Zelensky: "If Russia is permitted to win … this will certainly lead to a world war. It'll be a world of … big countries strangling the little ones, as they carve up the world. But there can be an opposite … scenario—in which everyone … ha[s] the same rights and protections"
#pt: President Zelensky was interviewed on Oct. 12 by the German journalist Katrin Eigendor for the ZDF TV channel. They spoke in Russian. Says Macron asks Zelensky to call him on WhatsApp, the nuke talk from Moscow is by feeble men after the vodka hits. meduza.io/en/feature/202…
Very interesting: was pretty clear the shooting of #Russian troops in Belgorod had come from within the force; new details suggest it was two shooters and they were #Tajiks, who were both killed.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1581407586091663360
The things you find in a #Russian tank
#Russia building out its infrastructure in #Mali
https://twitter.com/casusbellii/status/1581412807722954758
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