One of he most disgusting moves from the Russian fascist regime: #russia is using Ukrainians from occupied territories to pressure the West.

A terminally ill woman from Mariupol was transported to the 🇪🇪 boarder and paraded to show how much Russians are suffering with a car ban.

https://twitter.com/mediazzzona/status/1703728326983004319

The shameless use of people and refugees to put emotional pressure and blackmail the West into giving up to Russian demands is frequently used by Kremlin and its allies (e.g. Lukashenko).
#russia is exploiting the compassion of the others is a hybrid war.

A short 🧵on a new Russian troll network:
A number of accounts appear to be posting same 5 "articles" in Ukrainian & German complaining about "Ukrainian losses", "the West abandoning Ukraine" & "lack of leadership from Zelensky"

(@gherkinator666 , @VoldemortessaLJ)
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Accounts were first spotted commenting in coordination under Ukrainian post.
Within 2min there were 14 comments from account that end up reposting the same set of "articles" in Ukrainian and in German.
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Sofia & her two children escaped from #Mariupol, a once prospering Ukrainian city, now completely wiped out by Russian invaders.
1/ Sofia is a professional stylist and make-up artist; she has her own studio and was a contractor for the Mariupol TV station. Her family just moved to their dream-house just before the full-scale invasion.
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#Feygin discussed russian invasion of #Ukraine, russian nuclear blackmail and much more with ex-commander of US Army in Europe, Ben Hodges. (featuring #Arestovych).
#RussianUkrainianWar #Russians #USA

https://twitter.com/FeyginMark4/status/1584966984319787009

#Arestovych is returning from the frontline and will join the stream soon.
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Part 1: 2022
Russian imperialism has a long & bloody history of attempts to eradicate cultures & languages of what the Kremlin views as its “colonies”. This is what “Ruskiy Mir”/”Russian World” is about – constructing a new “empire” by destroying everyone who dares to resist.
1/ The 🇷🇺 aggression on its neighbours didn’t start in 2022. Ask any Ukrainian, Georgian, Czech, Finn or Kazakh and you will learn about the grim events of 14, 08, 68, 1939 & 30s. It’s just that in 2022 we got an undeniable proof of the persistence of 🇷🇺 genocidal intentions.
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How was the life of Ukrainians in the russian-occupied territories?
It was full of terror, misery or worse. Many left their homes & run for the Ukrainian-controlled areas abandoning their livelihoods just to safe their lives.
🧵A story of Dmytro, Lidia & their 5yo Ksusha:
1/ Ukrainian father Dmytro Bahnenko reflects on the months he and his family lived there under occupation and secretly filmed for #BBC at great personal risk.
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The Russian Army – who is dying in the Kremlin's genocidal war in Ukraine?

RU is losing the war that it started in 🇺🇦 – more than 50k KIA 🇷🇺 and 300k more to be recruited as cannon fodder by the Kremlin. What are the 🇷🇺 soldiers dying for?
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wartranslated.com/the-russian-ar… RU leadership believed in its own propaganda: ignoring the dysfunctional state of the RU army, miscalculated the UA resistance and the Western support.
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