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Jul 21 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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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Aug 5
1/ Donetsk and Luhansk's catastrophic water shortage is being caused by the Russian invasion's destruction of a 70-year-old canal. Russian sources say it can't be restored until the end of the decade at the earliest, even if Russia captures the source in Ukrainian territory. ⬇️ Image
2/ The occupied east of Ukraine is a naturally arid region, with no large rivers. This proved a challenge to the industrialists who built the region's coal and iron mines in the 19th century. Industrial activity severely depleted the region's groundwater.
3/ To allow for a big expansion in the region's industry, the Soviet Union embarked on a project in 1955-58 to build a canal 133.4 km (89.9 miles) in length to bring water from the Siverskyi Donets river in the north of the region to Yasynuvata near Donetsk city. Image
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Aug 4
1/ A senior Russian officer was reportedly killed by his own men after boasting that he would be promoted for sending them to die in assaults, and declaring that he would bring funeral notices to their families and "fuck their wives". He allegedly profited from their deaths. ⬇️ Image
2/ In November 2024, the Russian army announced that Colonel Yevgeny Borisovich Ladnov had "died near Luhansk near Kreminna as a result of artillery shelling on 10 November 2024." He was the commander of the 19th Tank Regiment (military unit 12322).
3/ A man who served under Ladnov, Junior Sergeant Andrey Mikhailovich Perevoshchikov, has given an account of what he says happened to the colonel. According to Perevoshchikov, Ladnov was deliberately sending his men to their deaths en masse and told them so in blunt terms:
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Aug 4
1/ Ryazan has become the latest Russian region to introduce bounties for citizens who find recruits to join the Russian army. The initiative has raised concerns that slaves and vulnerable people will be 'sold' to the army for profit, as has already happened in some cases. ⬇️ MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION MILITARY REGISTRATION OFFICE OF THE RYAZAN REGION
2/ The 7x7 news outlet reports that the Ryazan regional authorities have approved the introduction of payments to those who attract people to sign a military contract. Recruitment of a local resident will be rewarded with a bounty of 57,500 rubles ($718). Image
3/ A resident of another region is worth 344,800 rubles ($4,000) and a foreigner is worth 80,500 ($1,062). Government workers and those who are already employed as military recruiters are excluded from the bounty programme. Contracts must be signed by the end of 2025.
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Aug 3
1/ A key factor in the current water crisis in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is the collapse of the existing water infrastructure, in which at least 50% of the already limited supply of water is lost through leaks. People are now reduced to collecting water from the streets. ⬇️
2/ As previously reported, the occupied eastern regions of Ukraine are undergoing a catastrophic shortage of water that Russian commentators have called a "water genocide", caused by war, mismanagement and corruption by the Russian-installed authorities.
3/ The water infrastructure installed by Ukraine before the Russian takeover in 2014 has become dilapidated due to neglect and theft from maintenance budgets. Reservoirs are empty and groundwater is undrinkable due to iron contamination from the region's abandoned mines. Image
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Aug 3
1/ An 'army mafia' has developed within Russia's invasion force in Ukraine, operating with near-impunity to smuggle commodities back into Russia and strip seized industries to sell for personal profit. A Russian commentary highlights the difficulties of tackling it. ⬇️ Image
2/ Russian warblogger Svyatoslav Golikov writes (in carefully elliptical terms) writes of how military crime has developed in occupied Ukraine, following the Russian Army's December 2022 reintroduction of corps and divisions in response to the challenges of the war.
3/ He writes that "a stable symbiosis of local driven entrepreneurs and those same anonymous northerners was formed on the [occupied] territory, providing a very reliable protection [literally 'roof'] for entrepreneurial initiatives, …
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Aug 2
1/ With drug use widespread on the Russian front lines, it's not surprising that soldiers are overdosing. In this video, a military medic is providing first aid to a man who has had a drug overdose, prior to sending him to a hospital. ⬇️
2/ There have been many accounts of the scale of drug use in the Russian army – "corruption, drugs, alcohol all around" as one ex-Wagner soldier has put it. At least one in ten Russian soldiers is reported to be using drugs.
3/ Drug use on the front line has been attributed to a variety of factors – boredom, stress from the continuous threat of drone attacks, disillusionment, lack of oversight by absent commanders, ready availability of drugs in the gangster-ridden occupied territories.
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