Let’s not forget, Russia crossed a globally accepted redline, first occupying Chernobyl NEZ, then Europe’s largest operating #nuclear power plant… #ZNPP.
Then 🇷🇺threatened it’s safe operations for months, while world & IAEA did nothing but ‘urge’ restraint, of Ukraine also! 🤦🏼♂️
After 🇷🇺’s ‘successful’ forcing of ZNPP to shutdown by attacking critical assets not at the plant itself, completely calculated to deceive observers, Russia then threatened the safe operation of all other operating NPPs inside Ukraine in the same, calculated, manner.
Ukraine has been investigating & charging suspected Russian collaborators since February 24th at all levels of civil society.
We’ve charged European leaders of associations aligned with Russian interests, especially related to energy and claimed threats to nuclear energy itself.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I’ll be straight up frank, if you’ve paid attention to the war in Ukraine in the slightest, you would know the International Committee for the Red Cross has been crucified & excoriated for its ‘efforts’ in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, IAEA is applauded for doing far, far less for #ZNPP
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When I argued last summer to destroy the large pumps stealing water from Ukraine to inconvenience occupiers in Crimea and force Moscow to decide between supplying the frontlines/stealing 🇺🇦resources or organizing logistics to supply from other sources, the predominate response… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇷🇺GPS Jamming causing inconveniences in Moscow, or something else?
Frankly, I don’t care, as long as Russians are inconvenienced and bear the cost of their war against Ukraine.
A History 🧵 of RBGB's aka "Russian Bridges Go BOOM!" verified & annotated Open-Source Intel of logistics, energy and critical assets enabling the Russian war machine's destruction & genocide in Ukraine, in 3 simple images.
@davidhelms570 recently posted an image of primary shipping routes of the Black Sea. Unfortunately, I cannot locate it, but it shows Tuapse as a primary russian terminal in addition to Novorossiysk (which only has a crude oil tank farm, nor refinery capacity).
I let my excitement get the better of me, hoping for the best outcome, not the actual outcome.
The orange area is the site of the explosion/fire, not the green area. The area circled green in the photo, looks like reflection from water, but is grass reflecting the facility… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The simplistic solution to the relentless Russian logistics is to send ATACMS to hit deeper.
The unfortunate reality, my government and its calculus will not untie AFU's hands and allow US provided weaponry to hit targets inside Russia enabling this war to continue.
Related & worth criticism
On price cap...
"But the second goal, is one that concerns Americans & countries all around the world, and that is, we want to keep Russian oil flowing, because Russia is a significant supplier to the markets."
~Janet Yellen
These are 2 nuances within US policy worthy of critique, while not diminishing or attacking the overwhelming commitment & support we are providing to Ukraine, in a war having little effect on my day-to-day, but directly impacting Ukrainians immeasurably.
The 20+ most underappreciated/unrecognized power centers (literally) for the prosecution of Russia's war on Ukraine.
These are the workhorses of 🇷🇺🚊logistics & enable the delivery of more death to Ukraine than airbases in Engels or Kursh.
We'll never see 🛰️ images posted. 😤
/2 Each Traction Station has at least two (2) high voltage step down transformers about the size of a Russian tank or MLRS, which go figure can't move or be hidden.
The giant tank full of oil mounted above them guarantees a destructive fire, more certain than oil/fuel tanks.
/3 TBH I deprioritized the southern Luhansk route, given the route via Luhansk (city) is not electric rail & crossings of the Siever Donetsk River are compromised.
However, everything, incl heavy Dragon's Teeth & shells enter via Likhovskoy - Ivanivka route.