The official comment from the Ukr military is pure trolling:
"Dogs love meat,
Crows love cheese,
And I love cotton delivered to Crimea"
("Cotton" is a pun on Russian хлопок, an official euphemism for explosions, meaning both "bang" and cotton)
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Putin has signed a decree allowing authorities to deport inhabitants from the occupied territories in Ukraine if they haven’t accepted Russian citizenship. 1/
The decre allows deportation if such a person is found to present a threat to Russia's national security - a no-brainer in today's Russia 2/ publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/…
How many people still have Ukrainian passports in the occupied territories is unclear, there are no reliable population figures. I estimated in March that more than half of really just 2 million in the "People's Republics" (Donetsk and Luhansk) kept them: civicmonitoring.org/developments-i…
According to @bbcrussian, Russian Duma members today voted for the annexation of four Ukrainian regions "unanimously" - but with varying degrees of presence - 413 for Donetsk, 412 for Luhansk, 411 for Kherson and just 409 for Saporizhzhia bbc.com/russian/news-6…
Full-blown purge underway in the Donetsk "People's Republic" against the people close to slain leader #Zakharchenko and his "revenue minister" Timofeyev.
New separatist strongman Pushilin fired six ministers today - including justice, transport, industry and agriculture dan-news.info/politics/pushi…
Timofeyev aka Tashkent is already referred to as "scandalous" by the Pushilin loyal @rssDanNewsInfo site