Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia has lost at least 23 Ka-52 HOKUM attack helicopters, a quarter of its in-service fleet, in #Ukraine, many to MANPADS. The Russians still do not have air superiority and the helicopters have less cover from combat jets than they are meant to. 
#Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier went to #Ukraine today, where he is rather suspected because of his record on #Russia. He met President Zelensky and Kyiv Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, with whom he visited sites attacked by Russia using the Iran-supplied drones on Oct. 17.
Evidence suggests that #Russia's wave of attacks on #Ukraine's infrastructure that began on Oct. 10 had been planned for more than a week, and did not come as a response to the Oct. 7 bombing of the Kerch Bridge from Crimea to Russia.
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1584609369827987456
Curious: on Oct. 24, a railway line was sabotaged with an explosive between towns of Novozybkov and Zlynka in #Russia's Bryansk oblast. This is just about ten miles from #Belarus' border. novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/…
#Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, formerly of Kommersant and author of the excellent and influential book "All the Kremlin's Men" (2017), announced today that he had got married in Portugal to a Russian actor, Jean-Michel Shcherbak.
Really quite something
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1584682770650976257
A #Soviet monument to the Red Army in Litomerice, in the #Czech Republic, has had red paint thrown on it (symbolising the Russian army's murderous conduct) and the pedestal has been modified to look like a washing machine (a reference to the looting in Ukraine).
#Ukraine's military intelligence reports that #Russia's army, specifically the Wagner unit, has recruited prisoners with serious diseases, and has started marking them with wrist bands: red for HIV, and white for hepatitis C. t.me/uniannet/77673
#Russia's turn in the direction of totalitarianism since February has, of course, included the transformation of the schools into outright indoctrination centres.
https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1585008766226866176
The UN investigation, which has focused narrowly on four areas of #Ukraine (Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy) over a five-week period (March-April 2022), found horrific criminality by #Russia's Army, especially rape - against women, men, kids, elderly.
https://twitter.com/mykhed_o/status/1584867753860558848
#Russia still going with the nonsense about #Bucha. If Moscow had more sense, they would just keep quiet and let our attention-deficient age forget.
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1584985439320309761
Notable: in this messaging from #Ukraine's Defence Ministry calling on #Russia's soldiers to surrender, they refer to "Putin's bloody war", a specific rejection of collective Russian responsibility.
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1585003262184333313
#pt: The other notable think about #Ukraine's Defence Ministry video calling for #Russian soldiers to surrender is how much is devoted to explaining that Ukraine's is a law-bound army that treats POWs humanely.
Which is clearly something that needs doing
Which is clearly something that needs doing
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568691611844116480
"The #United_States is considering sending older HAWK air defense equipment from storage to #Ukraine to help it defend against Russian drone and cruise missile attacks, two U.S. officials told Reuters." reuters.com/world/europe/e…
Chaos: @RepJayapal and the other hard-Left Democrats at @USProgressives have now not only withdrawn their letter proposing a #Russia-friendly "solution" to the #Ukraine war, but explained that its release was basically a procedural error.
https://twitter.com/USProgressives/status/1584956074779516929
#pt: The @USProgressives' attempt to annul their letter by saying it was never intended for release and anyway was meant to support Biden, not demand a course change, will not wash.
The faction is substantively hostile to Ukraine and friendly to Russia:
The faction is substantively hostile to Ukraine and friendly to Russia:
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1585046787697557505
#Taiwan and #Ukraine continue drawing closer together
https://twitter.com/MOFA_Taiwan/status/1584758947323736066
Thread on liquid national gas
https://twitter.com/AndreasSteno/status/1584450659625361409
More signs of trouble among #Russia's mobilised soldiers, this time in the the 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment, after they were deployed to eastern #Ukraine, perhaps around Lyman.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1584988667961315328
Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Using Academic Cover to Target Individuals in United States justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/chi…
One of the few positive signs about Rishi Sunak being Prime Minister
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1584853003839971330
#Ukraine's President Zelensky congratulates #Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and hopes for continued close relations.
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1584866250597228545
Strong piece from Alon Pinkas about #Israel's errors over #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1584783467857866752
#Putin's warlord-president of #Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said in an audio address he was unhappy with the direction of the war on #Ukraine; feels #Russia has responded to meekly. Then declares: "This is a battle of Satanists against Muslims and Christians" mk.ru/politics/2022/…
Kadyrov at one point says during this rambling speech, "Europe has no strength. What can they do? Will they send their LGBT people to fight?"
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1585086709649113088
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