1. Alexei "Fly" Maximov is from St Petersburg's "Totenkopf" Nazi group. Hired to impersonate Ukrainians, Maximov has a "Made In St Petersburg" tattoo on the back of his head. (Remember his group's T-shirt. This will be important later.)
1a. Alexei Maximov is available for hire via his "sister" Katarina Aistova at the Internet Research Agency. In 2016 Russia sent Maximov to Estonia to appear at a NATO event.
1b. Another picture of Alexei "Fly" Maximov of St Petersburg, this time with his shirt off. The second photo in the set shows Maximov's "Made In St Petersburg" tattoo.
1c. More Nazis wearing Alexei Maximov's "Totenkopf St Petersburg" club shirt. Confused Ukrainians? More Russian infiltrators? Propagandists don't care. Fun fact: "Totenkopf" released a 2021 Nazi album called "Made In St. Petersburg". discogs.com/release/213869โฆ
2. "Misanthropic Division" is a Russian Nazi group. Their leader Mikhail Oreshnikov was arrested in 2008 for stabbing 2 anti-fascists and began cooperating with the FSB.
3. This is a Russian Imperialist rally. The Russian Imperialist Movement has been formally designated as a "terrorist entity". canada.ca/en/public-safeโฆ
3a. Russian Imperialism is a violent ethno-nationalist movement broadly popular among Russian soldiers, civilians, and religious figures in Russia and occupied Ukrainian territory.
4. This Ukrainian woman was disfigured at Mariupol School No.25 shortly before 27 March 2022. The women were branded with swastikas by their Russian captors to humiliate them. voxukraine.org/en/fake-a-photโฆ
4a. Russian propagandist Patrick Lancaster posted the video of the mutilated woman on 27 March 2022 while the area was under Russian control. He claimed she was killed by "Azov Nazis" but the bruises are too red and too fresh to be more than a day old. jcp.bmj.com/content/54/5/3โฆ
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@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 1. The best general overview of Russia's April 2014 invasion of Donbas is the MH17 court. Not saying "believe the MH17 court because they are authorities", I'm encouraging you to read through the court transcripts and examine the evidence they examined. courtmh17.com/en/insights/neโฆ
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 2. The *earliest* evidence of Russia's April 2014 invasion of Donbas is Russia moving tanks from Crimea to Donbas in late March.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 3. In April there may have been a distinction between Ukrainian rebels and Russian soldiers, but by May the entire Donbas "rebellion" was given Russian vehicles and supplies and organised under Russian command structures with Russian unit numbers & commanders reporting to Moscow.
@karel_bellic A consilience of multiple lines of evidence indicates that the "Little Green Men" in Eastern Ukraine were Russian Federation soldiers under the direct control of and regular communication with Moscow, starting with Putin's early admission.
@karel_bellic Combat deaths in the 2014-2022 Donbas war included 400-500 Russian Armed Forces who died in Donbas because they were there.
@karel_bellic Russian soldiers had terrible opsec, literally waving their passports around to prove that they were Russian.
@chrisbentley13 Here's a micro-thread of Russian Government officials saying they will invade other countries after Ukraine. ๐งต
1: @MedvedevRussiaE is the Deputy Chair of the Security Council and former President of Russia.
@chrisbentley13 @MedvedevRussiaE 3: Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev, Russian colonel general, commander of the Central Military District and the Center Grouping of Forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
@throught_hills @NikkiHaley Mini-thread of Russian state representatives and state media spokespeople saying that they would invade other countries after Ukraine. ๐งต
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