It looks like Trump has been shot in the ear apnews.com/article/trump-…
Trump being led offstage with a bloodied ear after what sounded like shots fired Trump

State employees remove flowers laid for @Navalny in Yekaterinburg. Around Russia, police have been cordoning off memorials, dispersing mourners & arresting people with signs @navalny Police cordoned off the gulag memorial in Kazan & are now dispersing people from a makeshift @Navalny memorial nearby

Prigozhin denies this a coup attempt but it sounds like it could be the start of one: The FSB has opened a criminal case over inciting armed revolt after he said he’ll march against Russian military leadership themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/23/pri… Military vehicles are being spotted in Rostov following Prigozhin’s “revolt” in Donbas. Conscripts are reportedly being issued weapons & police have taken defensive positions https://t.co/HntIknwaK4161.ru/text/gorod/202…

Details are sparse but this seems very bad. @evangershkovich has lots of experience in Russia, has official accreditation & is obviously not a spy. This could be a game-changer for foreign media still working there themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/30/rus… I can only hope @MID_RF will stand up for Evan, whom they have accredited as a journalist for years. It will reflect badly on them if he is imprisoned. At least fight for him to be deported

Erdogan’s government demanded every part of the earthquake response go thru AFAD, which is like FEMA except run by imams.
Rescuers say that led to delays & disorganization that cost lives:
“After hours & hours (under the rubble) the voices were going mute”
time.com/6256540/erdoga… In Iskenderun the morning after earthquakes, it was locals & volunteers digging people out of the rubble, not state org AFAD. Some 1st responders said AFAD delayed them from going to quake zone

Gas leaking from the "sabotage" of the Nord Stream pipelines is a "severe safety & environmental hazard, especially should Russia not stop pumping gas into the system."
That sounds a lot like environmental terrorism. cnbc.com/2022/09/27/rus… To be clear, we don't yet know what exactly occurred, who is responsible or whether gas will continue leaking. The whole thing is just very odd, and the Danish & German authorities obviously think so too

How much blame (& sanctions) should ordinary Russians bear for the Ukraine invasion? It's a question worth discussing, especially after Visa & Mastercard stopped operations in Russia. An open-ended 🧵 .@idovidov notes that "people & their governments are different things," & the only ways for Russians to influence theirs are extralegal. Certainly it's too easy to demand Russians get arrested protesting from your couch in the west vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/w…

Russia's slide toward Soviet censorship has quickened. After the ban on "war"/"invasion," the investigative committee is creating "quick reaction groups" to ferret out calls to protest, "destructive user content" & false info about the "special operation" interfax.ru/russia/825549 These kind of things have been happening for years. The worrying part is that because of the Ukraine war, they're being thought up & implemented at a feverish rate. The situation is spiralling faster & faster

A missile has hit the Kyiv TV tower, knocking out broadcasting & possibly some gov't communications. It comes after Russia said it would strike communications infrastructure there to stop "information attacks." @Vitaliy_Klychko 5 people were killed & 5 injured in the attack on the Kyiv TV tower, the Ukrainian emergencies service says facebook.com/MNS.GOV.UA/pos…

Riot police in Moscow today (at least 1,853 people arrested at antiwar protests around Russia yesterday) Police warn a young woman not to leave a note of solidarity across from the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow. She was crying afterward, saying she felt Russians could do nothing to influence the Kremlin

Kyiv mayor Klitschko: "The city has gone into defensive phase. Shots & explosions are ringing out in some neighborhoods...some saboteurs have already entered Kyiv. The enemy wants to put the capital on its knees & destroy us" pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/… Guy says he's giving out guns so "come fight for your country." Said to be in Obolon district of Kyiv

Morning in Kyiv @nexta_tv More fighting near Antonov airport just outside Kyiv

LOT of national guard moving in downtown Moscow. 1st few protesters already arrested Just saw a couple arresrs at Pushkin

The aerodrome in Kharkiv Ukraine says was hit by a Russian missile after Putin announced the special military operation in Ukraine Donetsk separatist military spokesman says "fighting is going on along the entire contact line"

The foreign ministry says Russia will "recognize LPR & DPR in the borders in which the leadership of the republics is exercising its authority," as per @meduzaproject. War is still possible, but at least Putin seems to be giving himself the option to stop at the contact line And now Putin's spokesman says Russia will recognize the separatist republics "in the borders they declared themselves," but refuses to clarify if that means Mariupol i.e. war. It seems Putin hasn't decided yet. @meduzaproject

Putin's off to a hell of a start: "Modern Ukraine was completely created by Russia." "First we should say a few words about history," Putin said. That was more than five minutes ago

Separatist leader Denis Pushilin has asked Vladimir Putin to recognize the Donetsk People's Republic. Luhansk republic has asked the same iz.ru/1294732/2022-0… At the same time, the Donetsk separatist leader says their "main goal is integration into the Russian Federation" as they're "Russian at heart" ria.ru/20220221/dnr-1…

As both sides blame each other for ceasefire violations, Donetsk separatists say they're evacuating civilians to Russia, claiming that Ukraine is about to attack. Not good for de-escalation tass.ru/mezhdunarodnay… "Several hundred thousand people plan to leave the Donetsk People's Republic to Russia's region of Rostov" (!). It seems Russia is preparing the ground for DPR/LPR recognition, or in the worst case for "invasion" reuters.com/world/europe/s…

Donetsk separatists accuse Ukraine of violating the ceasefire.

Ukraine says 2 teachers injured when a kindergarten on its side was shelled.

Kyiv's been so worried a flare-up could lead to a Russian attack it previously ordered its troops not to fire back in any circumstance. Moscow previously said its troops would return from Belarus after military exercises this week. Now Lukashenko says he & Putin will decide tomorrow whether they will belta.by/president/view…

Danish intel says "Russian influence agents" forged a letter from Greenland's foreign minister to a US senator in 2019 saying it would hold an independence referendum reuters.com/world/europe/d… The fake letter was addressed to Senator Tom Cotton, who claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland. It says Greenland requires "a 30% financing increase" to hold an independence referendum 🤑 highnorthnews.com/en/fake-minist…

Putin says his "red line" in Ukraine would be Nato weapons, like the missile defense in Romania & Poland: "If missile strike systems appear in Ukraine, the flight time to Moscow will be 7-10 minutes, or 5 with hypersonic weapons"
If Nato missile systems appear in Ukraine, "we will have to then create something similar in relation to those who threaten us in that way," he says—such as a new sea-based hypersonic missile entering service early 2022 reuters.com/markets/stocks…