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Jul 21, 2025 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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1/ 'Anti-woke' American Derek Huffman is the third Texan to move to Russian-held territory to fight against Ukraine. As his predecessors were kidnapped, tortured to death, blown to pieces and killed by Ukrainian forces, it seems unlikely that his fate will be any better. ⬇️ Image
2/ Huffman is a 45-year-old former welder who moved with his family to Russia in May 2025 to "escape LGBT propaganda" in America. He joined the Russian army to get fast-track citizenship, but to his family's dismay, he has been sent to the front lines.
3/ Huffman is the third person from Texas to have joined Russian forces. His two predecessors, both self-declared communists, were killed – one by his own side, the other by Ukrainian attacks during an assault.
4/ Russell Bentley – dubbed the 'Donbass Cowboy' – travelled to Donetsk in April 2024 to join a local militia battalion fighting Ukrainian forces in the first stage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He married a local woman and settled in Donetsk. Image
5/ In April 2024, Bentley was abducted by Russian soldiers who believed he was a spy. He died under torture in an abandoned mine. To conceal their crime, the soldiers blew up his body with a block of plastic explosive. No remains have been recovered.
6/ Michael Gloss also died in April 2024. The son of a senior CIA official, he dropped out of university, went backpacking, and ended up in Russia intending to "defeat the military-industrial complex". He identified variously with communist, Islamic and environmental causes. Image
7/ He joined the Russian army in September 2023. On 4 April 2024, he was sent into an assault with the 137th Airborne Regiment near Soledar. He died the same day in unclear circumstances, but it's likely he was killed by artillery or a drone strike. Image
8/ Huffman has clearly not been granted any special favours, despite reports that he was promised a role in a rear area. It's likely that he too will be expended in a 'meat assault'; the life expectancy of Russian troops on the front line is often not long. /end
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🔹 istories.media/stories/2025/0…
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1/ The Russian authorities have published details of three people accused of Friday's shooting of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev. Two men have been arrested, one in the UAE, while a woman is said to have escaped to Ukraine, which is blamed for the attack. ⬇️
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1/ General Vladimir Alexseyev, who was shot yesterday in a Moscow apartment building, may have been secretly visiting his mistress before the attack. Despite a reputation as an uncorrupt officer, he is said to have enjoyed the same luxurious lifestyle as many of his peers. ⬇️ Image
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3/ According to neighbours, the apartment is occupied by a younger woman with a young child. They say she was seen often with the child, but Alekseyev was only seen rarely. His 'official' wife is in her 60s (he is 64) and their children are in their 30s.
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1/ Why has Russia failed so abysmally at providing secure battlefield communications to its troops in Ukraine? The answer, concludes Russian warblogger Oleg Tsarev, is that the military communications budget has been looted for years by corrupt generals and contractors. ⬇️ Image
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"I remember how, at the beginning of the Special Military Operation, all units were buying Motorola radios. There was no other communications."
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1/ The attempted assassination of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow this morning has outraged Russian warbloggers, who regard him as a hero of Russia. They have highlighted his key role and contributions to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. ⬇️ Image
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"An assassination attempt was made on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev [who is known as 'Stepanich'], First Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian Ministry of Defence."
3/ "An unknown assailant fired several shots into his back in the elevator lobby of a building on Volokolamsk Highway at 7:00 a.m. The assassin fled the scene. Alekseyev was hospitalised.
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1/ Russia's battlefield communications are reportedly "in chaos" following the Starlink shutdown. Communications specialists are said to be scrambling to find alternative solutions, while warbloggers advocate torturing Ukrainian PoWs to get their Starlink passwords. ⬇️ Image
2/ Yuri Podolyak writes:

"So, what everyone had long feared, but secretly hoped wouldn't happen until the end of the Special Military Operation has happened. Elon Musk flipped the switch, and 80% of Starlink terminals on the front line went down."
3/ "Moreover, it's highly likely that on our side, this will soon reach 100%, and only Russian ingenuity can attempt to circumvent it. And they will probably circumvent it somehow. But not with a return to 100% functionality as of yesterday morning.
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1/ A Russian warblogger explains what the Russian army in Ukraine saw when they were disconnected en masse from Starlink yesterday. ⬇️ Image
2/ "Starlink went down across the theatre of military operations in a rather strange way.

At around 22:00 Moscow time, it was like this:
3/ "– All terminals in the Ukraine theatre of operations are blocked. Both ours and those of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Even from their "white list". All of them.
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