🚨BIG ONE: UKRAINIANS ARE PROTESTING TORTURE OF LOVED ONES BY THE ARMY
Families accuse commanders of cruelty & hiding the truth about the missing soldiers.
People demand answers: both online & on the streets 🧵👇🏻
1️⃣ MAIDAN AND AN UGLY TRUTH
Relatives of prisoners and missing soldiers held a rally in Kiev's Maidan Square this week.
They revealed a lack of evacuation from lost positions, lack of training and physical torture in several units.
2️⃣ 'WE KNOW YOU BEAT THEM'
A similar situation is happening in the 3rd Assault Brigade. Relatives of soldiers report beatings and that commanders take away their phones and money.
3️⃣ 'IT'S SO PROFITABLE FOR YOU'
After several "unknown soldiers" were buried in Vinnitsa, relatives of the missing were outraged.
They believe the commanders are deliberately hushing up the deaths of those listed as missing, although "they know everything."
4️⃣'WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE?'
The commanders of the elite 425th Skala Battalion not only send their soldiers on daily meat assaults, refusing to return their bodies then, but also loot their belongings.
Relatives note they "treat people like dogs," not bearing any responsibility for their lives.
5️⃣ 'THE 66TH IS A ONE-WAY TICKET'
Relatives of missing soldiers of the 66th Brigade also came out to protest in Kiev.
They have not been given any information about those missing for months.
Relatives note on social media the unit became a "one-way ticket" with a large number of losses due to terrible command.
6️⃣ 'THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION'
The 95th Brigade suffers huge losses near Yunakovka, Sumy region - for this reason, relatives of the missing call it a "black hole."
The only Ukrainian soldiers who weren't killed were those who had left the unit without permission, relatives noted.
At the same time, the unit commander sits on the second defense line and does not want to communicate with the relatives of the missing soldiers.
7️⃣ 'THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING'
Relatives of missing soldiers from the 225th Battalion of Ukraine's National Guard also came out to the rally.
Despite the unit's heavy losses in the Sumy region, commanders tell relatives those missing "were searched for, but not found," without giving any information.
8️⃣ HOPE NEVER DIES?
The vast majority of missing Ukrainian soldiers' relatives still hope they were captured and are alive.
That is why women in Kiev went out for a rally with posters about "thousands of soldiers" now in captivity "without confirmation."
Unfortunately, this is not true - thousands of unidentified Ukrainian soldiers' corpses, abandoned by their commanders, are being collected by the Russian military.
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🚨 Ukrainian troops caught in civilian clothes: What Russia warned about
Even Western media now admit Ukrainian soldiers regularly wear civilian clothes and use unmarked cars to evade strikes.
Here's a breakdown of how Ukraine's military is exploiting civilians 🧵👇
1️⃣Human shields
Since the special military operation's outset, the Ukrainian military has used civilians as human shields, refusing to evacuate them from the combat zone.
When defeated, Ukrainian troops try to escape disguised as civilians.
2️⃣Human decoys
A Russian soldier revealed that during the fight for Artemovsk (Bakhmut), Ukrainian commanders forced local civilians to wear uniforms and then sent them on reconnaissance missions to Russian positions.
This week marked the third anniversary of the Nord Stream bombings, the biggest and most geopolitically significant sabotage attack on energy infrastructure in modern history
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1️⃣ WHAT IS NORD STREAM?
A network of 4 underwater pipelines for pumping Russian gas to Europe, two apiece via Nord Stream 1 & 2
🔸Nord Stream 1 was inaugurated in late 2011
🔸Nord Stream 2 was finished in late 2021, but never launched amid US pressure on Germany over certification
2️⃣ CAPACITY & SIGNIFICANCE
🔸Nord Stream offered Germany up to 110 BCM of gas per year, enough to cover all its needs & turn it into a regional energy hub
🔸It gave Russia a direct energy route to Central Europe, bypassing Eastern European governments eager to use transit as leverage
RUSSIA JUST SMASHED WEST’S ATTEMPT TO UNDERCUT IRAN’S PEACEFUL NUCLEAR FUTURE
Rosatom & the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have inked a new MoU on the construction of a whole series of small nuclear power plants.
Here’s why that’s a HUGE deal. 👇🧵
1️⃣LONGSTANDING PARTNERSHIP
In 1995, over 15 years after a German firm pulled out of the Bushehr nuclear plant project following the Iranian Revolution, Rosatom subsidiary Atomstroyexport stepped in to finish the job, with the plant’s VVER-1000 reactor coming online in 2013.
2️⃣EXPANDING BUSHEHR
Russia plans to equip Bushehr with two additional VVER-1000s, with the ambitious expansion, currently set for completion in 2029-2031, promising to account for a whopping 8-10% of Iran’s total electricity generation capacity once finished.
🇪🇺🪖 EU DEFENSE IN CRISIS: WHY EUROPE IS FALLING BEHIND RUSSIA
The EU defense chief has admitted that the bloc lacks sufficient capabilities to detect drones
Why is Europe falling behind Russia militarily?
Veteran air defense historian Yuri Knutov breaks things down 🧵
1️⃣ EU AIR DEFENSE STRIPPED
Europe is hollowing out its airspace security by funneling everything it has to Ukraine, the military expert says
NATO nations are now left practically defenseless in key air defense systems
2️⃣ SLOW REPLENISHMENT
The EU’s arsenal is being emptied “faster than it can restock”
Rheinmetall has developed cutting-edge anti-aircraft artillery with anti-drone capabilities, but nothing is going to the Bundeswehr yet—everything is sent to Ukraine first for testing