Russian forces reportedly advanced near Bakhmut amid continued positional engagements in the area on February 10.
Russian drone footage published on February 9 showed Russian forces executing Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) near Klishchiivka in the Bakhmut direction. (1/3)
2/ Similar previous footage has shown Russian forces executing Ukrainian POWs near Robotyne in western Zaporizhia Oblast and near Stepove in the Avdiivka direction in December 2023.
3/ The Russian Southern Grouping of Forces is responsible for the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, and a separate unnamed Russian grouping of forces is responsible for western Zaporizhia Oblast, indicating that the practice of executing Ukrainian POWs is not limited to a single sector of the front or an area under one Russian grouping of forces. isw.pub/UkrWar021024
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Russian forces made confirmed advances near Avdiivka and in western Zaporizhia Oblast amid continued positional engagements along the entire frontline. (1/7)
2/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavlyuk as Ukrainian Ground Forces Commander, replacing current Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi.
3/ Russian forces appear to have constructed a 30-kilometer-long barrier dubbed the “tsar train” in occupied Donetsk Oblast, possibly to serve as a defensive line against future Ukrainian assaults.
Russia is conducting a deportation campaign in the Ukrainian territories that it is occupying that has the intent of robbing Ukraine of its multigenerational potential & damaging Ukraine’s future claims to its own people. Ukrainian children are a clear target of Russia’s deportation campaign.🧵
2/ Russia’s occupation design for Ukraine is meant to raise a generation of young people in a Russian-controlled system in which children are forced to forgo their Ukrainian language, history, and culture.
3/ The deportation of up to 700,000 Ukrainian children to Russia physically deprives Ukraine of its future generations—young voices who will be essential for the reintegration of Ukrainian lands into Ukraine.
2/ Newly appointed Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi identified several of his goals as commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian actors reportedly conducted a successful drone strike against two oil refineries in Krasnodar Krai on Feb. 9.
3/ Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces are increasing their use of illegal chemical weapons in Ukraine, in an apparent violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which Russia is a signatory.
NEW: The Russian online community noted that Putin did not offer any new information in his interview with Tucker Carlson and simply repeated longstanding Kremlin talking points about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for American audiences.
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2/ Kremlin sources focused on presenting the interview as a massively successful and popular Russian effort to shape the information environment in the West and claimed that the interview demonstrated that #Putin is an influential world leader.
3/ Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev noted that Putin told the Western world in the most thorough and detailed way why Ukraine did not exist, does not exist, and will not exist.
Russia's occupation of Ukraine amounts to a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign that relies on a strategy of forced depopulation and repopulation, creating the façade of multigenerational and irreversible impacts intended to further isolate Ukraine from the West. 🧵(1/5)
2/ Russia is engaged in what appears to be a deliberate campaign to depopulate parts of occupied Ukraine by removing ethnic Ukrainian populations and replacing them with Russian citizens, thus substantially altering the demographics of occupied areas of Ukraine.
3/ Russia’s modern deportation campaign is an updated application of the tried-and-true Soviet strategy of moving ethnic minority populations around within its claimed territories.
The Kremlin’s occupation of Ukraine aims to eliminate Ukrainian identity by forcibly integrating occupied Ukraine into Russia socially, culturally, linguistically, politically, economically, religiously, and bureaucratically. 🧵(1/6)
2/ Moscow seeks to persuade Kyiv and its supporters that the forced integration of Ukraine into Russia, and the resulting elimination of Ukrainian identity, are permanent and irreversible so that the Kremlin can fully subjugate these territories and people for its own gain.
3/ Russia first experimented with its occupation playbook in 2008 when it invaded Georgia and occupied the South Ossetia and Abkhazia “republics.” Russia further developed means and methods of occupation in Ukraine after it invaded and seized Crimea and parts of Donbas in 2014.