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Jun 29

🧵1/9 🚨‼️☣️MUST WATCH/READ☣️‼️🚨
I first came across this at the end of the 80's and the article back then said the munitions/ships, of which there are 300-400, were close to start leaking and if the contents of one ship would leak it would kill probably all marine life in the Baltic Sea. Time for the ones who decided this to pay for the clean-up.

Something is going terribly wrong in the Baltic Sea

Chemical weapons are corroding on the seafloor – and Berlin’s plan to remove them without Russia’s help may spark an irreversible environmental crisis

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Beneath the waves of the Baltic Sea lies a silent but growing threat – the decaying remains of chemical munitions dumped after World War II. For years, these weapons have sat largely untouched, posing a known danger to marine life and coastal communities.The issue gained serious attention in the 21st century as scientists began to sound the alarm about growing environmental risks. Decades-old shells are corroding, raising the spectre of toxic leaks that could trigger a full-blown environmental disaster.

Now, Germany is moving to recover and destroy these submerged stockpiles. But framed as an environmental clean-up, Berlin’s project may in fact worsen the environmental balance in the Baltic.

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Russia has repeatedly emphasised the importance of its involvement in this process, citing its status as a directly affected nation with relevant expertise. Yet with international relations strained, meaningful cooperation remains elusive. So what happens if this mission is carried out without Russian input? RT takes a closer look.

Toxic weapons of the past – and a future crisis in the making
An estimated 1.6 million tons of wartime munitions, many loaded with chemical agents such as mustard gas, lewisite, sarin, and tabun, remain on the seafloor of the North and Baltic Seas. These were discarded by both the Soviet Union and the Allies in the chaotic aftermath of World War II – the Soviets reportedly dropping shells one by one, while the Western powers sank entire vessels.

Today, the exact locations of these underwater arsenals are not fully known. Many lie near Bornholm Island and off the Latvian coast near Liepaja. But the threat is far from contained. Damaged shells are occasionally hauled up in fishing nets. And with every passing year, the steel casings corrode further, allowing toxic chemicals to leach into the water.

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Jun 29

🧵1/4 - Zelensky will sanction 'partner' states who buy more Russian oil — FM Sybiga reported by UNITED24 Media🤡

➡️Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha called for sanctions in response to attacks on maritime infrastructure, undersea cables, pipelines, energy facilities, ports, and civilian vessels.🤡🤡
➡️Speaking at the “Fair Play” conference (June 27), he emphasised the need to counter Russia’s war funding through trade restrictions.

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➡️Ukraine urges partners to target major buyers of Russian oil.
➡️Calls for visa restrictions on Russian diplomats and non-recognition of non-biometric Russian passports.
➡️Advocates reducing issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens.
➡️Highlights that Russia earns significant revenue from both third countries and members of the sanctions coalition through oil, gas, and related exports.

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➡️Notes that Russia still earns more from its war economy than it spends on military aggression.
➡️States that Russia acquires critical components from at least 19 countries for missiles and drones used against Ukraine.
➡️Announces plans for new sanctions targeting top Russian oil-buying countries. (So they're basically going to "sanction" the countries that pay their bills and keep them afloat🤡🤡🤡)

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May 27

🧵1/4 -‼️‼️Breakdown of an article by Alexander Gabuev for "Foreign Affairs" called "The Russia That Putin Made: Moscow, the West, and Coexistence Without Illusion"‼️‼️
(Link to article in last tweet below)

Putin's Russia is not a historical exception, but a form of historical completion. In his text in *Foreign Affairs*, Alexander Gabuev records not a metamorphosis, but a mutation: the country, which for decades balanced between integration and isolation, has finally chosen the latter - not out of fear, but out of instinct. He is right when he says that Putin has created a new Russia. But it would be more accurate to say that Russia has finally recognised itself in Putin.

Many still cling to the hope of a return. But a return to what? To the semi-colonial existence of the 90s? To the imitation democracy of the 2000s? This choice was not made in the Kremlin, it was made in the subconscious of the system, in its deep code of the people. Putin has become not so much an architect as a medium between political matter and historical will. His figure is not the sum of decisions, but the point of inertia assembly.
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Russia no longer wants to be Europe, but it does not aspire to the East either. It is assembling its image from the fragments of the empire, not for the sake of nostalgia, but for the sake of assembling a subject. The idea of modernisation has given way to the idea of mobilisation. Democracy, as understood by the West, has proven incompatible with the country’s long-term survival in the context of global fragmentation. Russia has chosen not comfort, but sovereignty. Not participation, but resistance. This is not isolation – this is the alchemy of rejection.

Gabuev records the phenomenon: war has ceased to be an excess and has become a matrix. This is not only a political transformation, it is a cognitive revolution. A special type of consciousness is being built inside the country - not totalitarian, but *organising*. People inside it live not by fear, but by confidence. They do not need approval, they need direction. And the authorities, feeling this, changed their tone from explanatory to directive. This is not a dictatorship, this is the discipline of the era.
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The West, as has been rightly noted, is mistaken when it views Putin as a failure. He is a pattern. He is a function of accumulated mistrust, disappointment, and geopolitical stress. His power is not based on fear – it is based on cognitive symmetry with society. And what is considered repression is in fact protection from internal decay. It is not Putin who is paradoxical, but the West, which in 30 years has not understood what it is dealing with.

What to do with this Russia? The answer is simple: accept it. It cannot be reformed, it cannot be outplayed, it cannot be persuaded. It can either be destroyed or recognised. And the world today is wavering between these two strategies, afraid to make a final choice. Russia has already made its choice. And this makes it dangerous not because it is aggressive, but because it is whole.
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May 6

🧵1/4‼️🚨📑The Russian FSB published archival documents about the connections of Uniate priests with Ukrainian Nazis and German intelligence before the start of the Great Patriotic War.

❗️ According to the report, Uniate priests stored nationalist literature, scarce medicines and surgical instruments for Ukrainian nationalists, and also hid OUN** representatives in monasteries and churches. (** Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).

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"78 Uniate priests who maintained ties with the OUN underground and provided assistance to bandits were arrested," the document says.

❗️ In addition, since the 1930s, representatives of the Uniate Church have collaborated with German intelligence.

During the occupation of the Ukrainian SSR by German troops during the war, the Metropolitan of the Uniate Church organised ceremonial meetings of German troops in populated areas of Ukraine.

Absolutely no Nazis in Ukraine...

Translated documents in tweets 3 and 4 below

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Here are the Russian documents AI translated to English

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May 3

🧵1/4 🇷🇺🇬🇧British military brutally murdered several thousand Soviet POWs (prisoners of war) from Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic 80 years ago.

The Russian FSB has published declassified archival documents about how on May 3, 1945, the British sank three German ships in the Bay of Lübeck: "Cap Arcona", "Tielbek" and "Deutschland", on which the Germans were transporting prisoners to Norway.

The British cold-bloodedly bombed and shot defenseless people from the air, although they asked for mercy, and then finished off those trying to escape from boats.

( English translated versions of the documents in tweet 3 and 4)

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According to various estimates, from 7 to 12 thousand people died then. The overwhelming majority of them were Soviet prisoners of war. Only 300 people were saved. Moreover, the tragedy occurred despite the Red Cross warning about the upcoming convoy.

The declassified documents contain the testimony of witnesses to the incident.

Vasiliy Salomatkin, who survived the tragedy, said that the British were no different from the Nazis in their atrocities 80 years ago. According to him, the British did not even want to bury the dead, and the few survivors were placed in a camp, where they were tortured in every possible way.

(English translated versions of the documents in tweet 3 and 4)

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Here is a Russian AI translation to English of the above documents, last 4 in tweet below. 1 through 3 of 7

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Mar 25

🧵1/17 - Progress of special military operation as of March 25th - RUS MoD

💥 In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, an assault regiment of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade

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close to Ugroyedy, Miropolye, and Krasnopolye (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, and two artillery guns.
🚩 As a result of active and decisive actions of elements of the Zapad Group of Forces, Mirnoye

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(Donetsk People's Republic) has been liberated.

🔥 The Group inflicted fire damage on two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades near Malaya Shapkovka, Kamenka, Krasnoye Pervoye, Grigorovka, Tishchenkovka,

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