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Oct 28, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ A US citizen who lived in the Ukrainian city of Vuhledar, recently captured by Russia, is to be granted Russian citizenship after secretly providing Russian forces with targeting information on Ukrainian defences for at least the past two years. ⬇️ Image
2/ The 'Donetsk People's Republic' Defence Headquarters has stated that the unnamed American has been evacuated from Vuhledar to Donetsk, where he has been photographed with local forces.
3/ According to the statement, he has been in Ukraine for at least two years and "gave Russia valuable intelligence that allowed it to carry out high-precision strikes on the enemy while minimising damage to civilian infrastructure and the civilian population."
4/ The statement adds that "the issue of granting political asylum and obtaining Russian citizenship is being resolved".
5/ He is not the first American to defect to Russian forces in Ukraine. Perhaps the most notorious example was the so-called 'Donbass Cowboy', self-proclaimed Texan communist Russell Bentley. It didn't end well for him. /end
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Jun 19
1/ The Russian army is sending one-armed and one-legged soldiers into assaults, according to a wounded Chechen soldier who has been assigned to a so-called 'cripple battalion'. He says that the men's fitness status is systematically being falsified. ⬇️ Image
2/ In a video appeal for help addressed to Chechnya's dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, a soldier named Suleiman Khuseinovich Borshigov identifies himself as a member of the 383rd Motorised Rifle Regiment (military unit 11086), based in Voronezh.
3/ He says: "There are sick people among us who were registered as healthy. There are even one-armed and one-legged people among us. They forged all our documents, registered us as completely healthy. They threw us into the assault squad and now they are sending us to slaughter."
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Jun 19
1/ Poland's electoral commission has said that there were "major irregularities" in the second round of the recent presidential election, won narrowly by Karol Nawrocki. Votes appear to have been recorded wrongly, or transferred to the wrong candidate. ⬇️
2/ Nawrocki, a pro-Trump figure representing the right-wing PiS party, won by only 360,000 votes. The National Election Commission says there were "incidents that could have an impact on the outcome of the vote" requiring "an in-depth analysis of the reasons".
3/ It highlights "the occurrence of repetitive errors in the protocols of some district election commissions consisting in incorrect assignment of the number of votes cast for individual candidates" and has referred the matter to Poland's Supreme Court.
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Jun 18
1/ Israeli operatives who have infiltrated Iran have reportedly been using unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to attack Iranian sites with explosives. It's another echo of the unmanned systems that have been seen in Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ A video from Iran shows Iranian military personnel inspecting equipment in an Israeli "autonomous base" used to control the UGVs. The vehicles were reportedly used to make holes in Iranian defensive structures, through which explosive-laden UGVs were subsequently driven.
3/ Russia and Ukraine have both made extensive use of UGVs, employing them to carry supplies, evacuate casualties, and carry out attacks on enemy positions. As with drones, it seems that Israel has learned lessons from the Ukraine war. /end
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Jun 18
1/ Russian military recruiters are enlisting the elderly, alcoholics, drug addicts and the homeless into the army, apparently to meet recruitment quotas. Not surprisingly, the new recruits are proving problematic in training and on the battlefield. ⬇️
2/ A video shows a new recruit, likely in his late 60s, in a firing range literally unable to work out which way round he should hold his assault rifle. A frustrated instructor yells: “Look here, I’m here, look at me, put the assault rifle in combat mode, shoot there”.
3/ The instructor says despairingly: “In general, I don’t know what to teach these people.”

WIth many of Russia's young and healthy men having already perished in Ukraine, Russian military recruiters are now setting their sights lower.
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Jun 18
1/ Three years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a prominent Russian warblogger laments that the Russian people still don't understand what the war is about. He urges the Russian leadership to inspire the people, as with sufficient inspiration "they will go to Poland". ⬇️ Image
2/ Roman Alekhine writes:

"We do not have a description of victory. In the [Second World War], we fought to the death, until a clear victory, in which we clearly intended to "Drive a bullet into the forehead of the rotten fascist scum."
3/ "To knock together a strong coffin for the offspring of mankind." Then there was no "what if we come to an agreement." Everything is simple - a bullet in the forehead and into a strong coffin.
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1/ Iran's rapid military collapse is being blamed by Russian warbloggers on rampant corruption under the country's notionally Islamist regime. Everything is for sale like in "the late USSR", they say, which has allowed the Israelis to infiltrate Iran with ease. ⬇️ Image
2/ Dmitry Steshin writes:

"The West has found Iran's solar plexus and is hitting it precisely and methodically. Of course, it is being helped from within. Who? Why? I'll explain based on my personal impressions."
3/ "It is generally accepted that Iran is ruled by the 'ayatollah regime', it is solid, there are no cracks. This is both true and false. Iran, as it seemed to me, is a country torn apart by internal contradictions, like the late USSR. I lived there.
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