This is reported by the Terrorist State's news agency. Did someone tell them Russia stopped starving, freezing, raping, looting and killing civilians?😡
As well as wasting money on missiles, #Russia and its oligarchs still spend countless dollars on producing fakes to try to influence people and cause division in foreign countries.
#Ukraine has seized shareholdings of disgraced oligarchs in businesses important for the country.
The order relates to Ihor Kolomoiskyi, Vyacheslav Bohuslaev, Kostyantyn Zhevago and Kostyantyn Hrihoryshin. Their holdings revert now become state property.
The Russian site which initially raised concerns over the total destruction of a whole battalion (500+) in #Donetsk, has published more compelling witness statements (translations here)
The war and forced mobilisation has now cost each region of #Russia at least 22.6 million rubles
If you read Russian or have the energy to use a translator, it's detailed + fascinating. But how many Russians will read & think how it could have been spent
The #Wagner mercenaries are attacking here and released this video purporting to show they're in the city, but they are still not there - #Ukraine's troops defended positions well.
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Today's UK intel update reports on #Russia's defensive work in Occupied areas.
Even though I expect a retreat this week to behind the river Dnipro in #Kherson, liberating all of the region's territory will be very difficult because The Kremlin needs the land route to #Crimea.
It's not unusual for schools in #Russia (and #Ukraine actually) to have some elements of military awareness, including visits by soldiers pre-war, showing guns etc.
Now #Russia looks like making a new subject of military training compulsory for kids.
The news agenda is still dominated by one event in #Russia, where the first serious questions are being asked by "regular" (non liberal) families over military disasters.
It follows this wipeout of a new battalion of mobilised troops by #Ukraine's forces
It's 3am in #Mariupol where temps will dip to +2
While many other areas of #Ukraine don't have power, many residents in occupied Mariupol don't even have windows. Civilians still forced to live in ruined tower blocks, hang banners "Children freezing" & "Where are the windows"
The @IAEA has a busy day. The nuclear watchdog's report into #Russia's allegations of #Ukraine making a dirty bomb may be out today
But problems at the huge #Zaporizhzhia plant where the last power line's been cut by shelling today. Just 15 days' fuel left for backup generators
#Russia is so well resources and prepared for the winter phase of its war of choice, that it continues to beg, borrow & steal.
Occupied parts of #Ukraine plundered,
Iran providing food/drink and they & North Korea sending missiles, while #Belarus is giving vehicles says UK Intel
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I saw this photo a few days ago on a busy day, so worth highlighting now. It really is remarkable the standard of some of #Ukraine's longer term bases created, and this isn't the only one just for the cameras.