Latest @DefenceHQ update: the governor of Belgorod within #Russia announced on Oct. 24 that the main rail line linking Russia and #Belarus was sabotaged by "Stop the Wagons" (StW), ostensibly a "Russian anti-war group". 
It does not take an especially suspicious mind to believe that "Stop the Wagons" (StW) is supported by, if not fabricated by, #Ukraine's intelligence services, which suggests a serious issue for #Russia, at least in the key war staging areas on the border.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1585400193352171546
Once again the #US messaging is pretty off-base: it seems there are NASAMS in #Ukraine, but this has not been announced, and perhaps will not be for weeks.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1585076093559529472
#Russia: At a mobilisation centre in Novosibirsk, in southern Siberia, a mobik from the Republic of Tuva has died from alcohol poisoning, the third such death at the Novosibirsk centre. nsknews.info/materials/mobi…
China’s wealthy activate escape plans as Xi Jinping extends rule ft.com/content/3e2376…
#Germany: in Hamburg, a 62-year-old man has been fined €4,000 euros for displaying the "Z" symbol of #Russia's war on #Ukraine in the rear window of his car. The man can appeal. dw.com/en/german-cour…
Thread 👇🏼 Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to #Ukraine's President Zelensky, speaks candidly about relations with #Israel.
https://twitter.com/akoz33/status/1584995621433667584
Slightly awkward moment on #Russian state television when pundit Viktor Olevich is asked about the accusations #Ukraine is preparing to set off a "dirty bomb" on its own territory and turns out to be a little too reality-based.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1584976926678347777
Key point from #Ukraine's Defence Minister @oleksiireznikov, which is why the argument #Europe should step up before the #US does more is the wrong way around: the Europeans get on board when they see the Americans are serious in seeing something through.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1585113875565142016
#Russia's messaging against "Satanism" in #Ukraine is a logical continuation of a lot of the Orthodox & nationalist ideological trends that launched the war, but the fact President Zelensky is Jewish has made this "anti-Christ" theme resonate in the West.
https://twitter.com/DylanBurns1776/status/1585083859053735937
#Russia's lead propagandist Vladimir Solovyov directly endorses #Chechnya's warlord-president Ramzan Kayrov in describing the war on #Ukraine as a war against "Satanists". "This is a jihad", Solovyov says multiple times.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1585315793889538049
A former #Russian military official explains that in the Army there is male-male sexual contact, but it is non-consensual, a "tradition of punitive sex", thus it is okay, unlike "literal faggotry ... in the degenerate West".
Excuse me, the Russian Army does have its standards.
Excuse me, the Russian Army does have its standards.
The official is also proud of the fact that overt homosexuals run a serious risk of being beaten in the streets in #Russia, and in general the police do not trouble themselves with preventing or punishing such things. Again, pure class. H/T @JayinKyiv
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1585408449852354560
Notable moment in Saint Petersburg: a university professor, Denis Skopin, who has been jailed for anti-war activities and now fired, is cheered as he leaves campus.
https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1585146070421610496
Another ordinary day with Ramzan Kadyrov: "jihad", "devils", and a pre-advertised intention that his forces should commit systematic war crimes in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1585149004408532992
#Ukraine clearly pleased that Ben Wallace is staying in place as Defence Minister in #Britain's government.
https://twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/1584960319906287616
This is what Ramzan was responding to with his call for "jihad" and the massacre of "devils" (Ukrainians): Ukraine struck a base with Chechens in Kherson and killed a significant number of them.
https://twitter.com/TCG_CrisisRisks/status/1585149884340277250
The cost of #NATO abandoning #Afghanistan has not even begun to be seen yet, but here is one piece of it: #Russia (of course in direct collaboration with its strategic partner in #Iran) is looking to scoop up the people we betrayed and use them against us
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1585120963792080897
#Germany to limit #China's ownership of its Hamburg port to below a quarter, which is presumably seen as a responsible step, rather than a catastrophic, needless opening up of a security vulnerability coupled with political clownshoes.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1585179053543378945
Many criticisms to be made of the Democratic Party, but becoming an inhospitable environment for Tulsi Gabbard is a sign of political health in any institution.
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1585018503236816897
#Finland's XA-185 ("Pasi") at work for #Ukraine against #Russia.
https://twitter.com/J_JHelin/status/1584763081896255488
#Baltic states meeting in and with #Australia shoring-up coordination over #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/EesmaaKersti/status/1585145723170930689
Signs of progress from #Australia after some recent reporting highlighting its laggardness: some troops are going to help the training mission in #Britain and there seems to be some move on the Bushmasters, but shipping three per fortnight is ... slow.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1585407601172312064
More on the @USProgressives' Russia-friendly advocacy: having disavowed the letter and blamed it on a procedural mistake that it was even released, they are now briefing that they support the substance but "The Blob" came after them.
https://twitter.com/alexjordanATL/status/1585289511562518529
Brittney Griner, the #American basketball player abducted by the state in #Russia exactly a week before the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, has been "sentenced" by a "court" to nine years in the prison camp system as part of Moscow's hostage diplomacy.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1585418950497947648
#Slovenia's government engaged in the hopeless task of trying to get #Russia's government to stop lying ...
https://twitter.com/govSlovenia/status/1584936237806206976
"#South_Africa's government insists it will allow a #Russian oligarch [Alexei Mordashov] to dock his superyacht in Cape Town" bbc.com/news/world-afr…
Some trouble building up between #Poland and #Turkey over how to handle #Russia, specifically the Kaliningrad enclave.
https://twitter.com/kwasylewsky/status/1585192064392003585
Details about #Russia's military condition in Balakliya in the Kharkiv Oblast as it was swept away by #Ukraine in August and September.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1585249198005329920
Anton Krasovsky has "apologised" for genocide advocacy: "My country wanted to be better than the enemy. I'm a fool who mixed good with evil." And RT's Margarita Simonyan says she is bound by Orthodox Christianity to forgive him. thedailybeast.com/rt-boss-margar…
#pt: If Krasovsky is now "forgiven" after his "apology", have to be some narrative revision for some of Russia's propagandists.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1584517428582973441
#Putin announced that #Russia is being moved on to a wartime economy, mostly meaning in a practical sense that pseudo-legal cover is being given to the presidency interfering with infrastructure, education, and other aspects. moscowtimes.eu/2022/10/25/put…
.@oleksiireznikov is almost certainly correct about this: the West has sent every other category of weapons; for some reason we just insist on a delay (and all the needless deaths in that time) first.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1585183265647837184
#Russia still on the #Ukrainian "dirty bomb" thing and #China being used to reinforce the nonsense.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1585218699723788288
That's a start. If people are interested in the Grayzone perspective, they can just invite the Russian Foreign Ministry to send someone directly.
https://twitter.com/WebSummit/status/1585308814437273612
Horrible. More evidence of what #Russia has done in #Mariupol.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1585385338163564544
It is amazing how dysfunctional #Russia's Army is: it manages to be so centralised that Moscow is taking decisions brigade commanders should, while simultaneously not being an "army" but a collection of competing, predatory militias that don't coordinate.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1585430063646138369
This held up well ...
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1573620756692377600
.@LawDavF gets it: "[#Russian mobiks] have been used as disposable soldiers, good only for one attack before dead, wounded, or surrendered", possibly why Moscow is "not bothering to kit them out properly, saving scarce equipment for experienced soldiers". samf.substack.com/p/general-wint…
Interesting signal: #Armenia has banned Konstantin Zatulin, the Duma deputy dealing with the Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS), and RT chief Margarita Simonyan, who is of Armenian extraction.
https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/1585002574914105344
#Putin still on the bio labs thing and more of the general idea that his war on #Ukraine is a war with #NATO.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1585303861467938817
Instructive thread on #Russia's condition before it fell back from Balakliia/Balakliya in the Kharkiv Oblast in September.
https://twitter.com/saitomri/status/1585228271662166016
A practical demonstration of how seriously #China treats state sovereignty.
https://twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1585169917565087744
The eternal problem of what to do when the habitual liar is [almost certainly] telling the truth.
https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1585319139832479757
An expression of displeasure at #Hungary's government continuing to pursue a pro-#Russia line over #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/CicaHamu/status/1585157430027354113
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