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Feb 21 4 tweets 3 min read
⚡️Russia’s Nuclear Terror: Zaporizhzhia.

As @OSCE’s environmental security adviser for Zaporizhzhia BEFORE the full-scale invasion, I’ve been watching the world’s first terrorist occupation of a nuclear power plant VERY closely.

Here’s the story in 30+ tweets, since 24 Feb 2022. For those who care about nuclear terrorism, and historians… 👇🏾

1/Image ⚡️My first Tweet 👇🏾 warning of the imminent targeting of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant by Ruschist soldiers.

Strangely those most susceptible to Ruschia’s nuclear blackmail trolling (and who continue to promote idea Ukraine should surrender to Russia to save the world from nuclear annihilation) don’t pay ANY attention to the longest and most brutal and sole terrorist occupation of a nuclear power plant in world history. Go figure🤷🏾‍♀️

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Apr 6, 2023 11 tweets 5 min read
⚡️Russia has murdered and tortured many priests in Ukraine - a quick thread🧵

Forcibly disappeared son of Zaporozhzhia's governor attested to this torture of a priest 👇🏽
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Image First priest Ruschists murdered in Ukraine was Father Maxim, a Moscow Patrichiate priest from Dnipropetrovsk. 👇🏽
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Apr 1, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
“Dehumanizing Ukrainians (Russia’s key propaganda goal), denying them the right to an unique identity different from a Russian one, after justifying atrocities ("the punishment must be harsh") and glorifying repression, re-education and Ukrainian suffering…” "the Catholic regions," western Ukraine, "will remain hostile to Russia, but it will be neutral and demilitarized, and Nazism will be banned there. The haters of Russia will go there."
And what would "guarantee" the quietist subjugation of rump Ukraine…” 2/
Apr 1, 2023 15 tweets 12 min read
Wimbledon's a bit like Bucha - parks, nice houses, prosperous people. What Russians did to Bucha 🎥👇🏽It's what Russians will do to @Wimbledon, its brand, & given a chance, its wombles, village & villagers. Russia had lists of Bucha residents to kill - they killed them. 1/14 ⚡️If Russia hadn't murdered Ukrainian athlete Dariia Kurdel while she was training for the Olympics, Dariia would have enjoyed seeing Russia lose the #Olympics sport of threatening genocide. No other country was competing. Threatening genocide breaches international law. 2/14
Mar 30, 2023 8 tweets 7 min read
Let's decode @Olympics troll that participation in sport is a human right. Ukrainian international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht's vision for human rights as UNIVERSAL as a matter of LAW was accepted as LAW by 1949. 1/ Image Human Rights as a matter of law were accepted as LAW after the holocaust & Nazi/Soviet occupation of Ukraine killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians 1941-1945. Only States have a duty to protect human rights, not @Olympics. ALL human rights are subject to derogation,... 2/ ImageImage
Mar 30, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
"Ruble is down over 20% since November against the dollar. The labor force has shrunk... Uncertainty has curbed business investment... Russia’s economy is entering a long-term regression... ballooning military expenditures with the subsidies and social spending..." 1/ Image "Oleg Deripaska warned this month that Russia is
running out of cash. “There will be no money next year..."... Moscow is becoming ever more reliant on China, threatening to realize long-simmering fears in Moscow of
becoming an economic colony of China..." 2/
Mar 6, 2023 20 tweets 8 min read
"Early Saturday, Ukrainian assault brigades went on the attack. Over the weekend, hundreds of troops joined the counteroffensive, mounting assaults from the ground and pounding Russian positions with artillery from the surrounding hills..." 1/ "Even before Ukraine stepped up its attack on Russians in Bakhmut on the weekend, its forces had moved to beat Russian troops back from the last main highway into the city. That preserved both a supply line and an exit route for them should they decide to retreat..." 2/
Mar 5, 2023 25 tweets 10 min read
"When Tatiana Vlaiko’s 11-year-old daughter Lilya came home from school last September saying her class was going to a two-week summer camp, alarm bells immediately rang..."

Stealing children's a deeply embedded theme in Indo-European folklore (see disinfolklore.substack.com/p/disinfolklor…). 1/ "“I was afraid,” Vlaiko, 36, said. “It’s a war and I told her it might not be so easy to get you back. But her friends were going and she really wanted to go.”
Nor did there seem to be a choice. Consent forms sent by the school instructed parents..." 2/
Jan 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Why Disinfo Debunking's not simple...
Affective biases.
Confirmation biases.
Motivated reasoning.
Dfferences in intellectual hinterlands.
Differences in emotional education.
Propagandists mesmerise, using the firehose of falsehood.
Gaslighting.

1/4 Image Collective control.
Grooming ("There is no truth." etc.)
Emotional hacking-straight to System One invoking Fear, Anger, Disgust, Sadness and Amusement.
Mistake.
Infections of confidence.
Wishful thinking.Thinking that none would lie about a matter as important as this.
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Dec 3, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
⚡️Let Me Count the ways Muscovy Lost.

1 Your 10 day conquest is now on its 265th day. To conquer all of 🇺🇦 at this rate Muscovy needs time machine, & capacity to learn from mistakes; neither of which are within the realm of possibility.

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Bonus 🧵1️⃣: Never controlled the lands you fake-annexed. Never will. West repeats same mantra 1m times: "with 🇺🇦 for As. Long. As. It. Takes." Yet Ruschists so slow of mind, they walk right into the self-demilitarisation bear trap set for them.

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Bonus 🧵2️⃣:
Oct 24, 2022 24 tweets 9 min read
"Well, it is very difficult to evaluate the stupidity of the Russians by some logic. I will put it this way: undermining Nova Kakhova dam will definitely cause environ disasters, this is a fact...other aspects. 1st is: why do it - what will they lose & what they will get?..." 1/ Head of 🇺🇦 Military Intelligence Budanov: "The Crimean Bridge is the symbol that will be destroyed. When Crimea returns to Ukraine, this bridge will cease to exist. No-one needs this transport artery...Russians love numerology & everything related to it: 10.10.22..." 2/
Oct 21, 2022 11 tweets 6 min read
"Scale of abuse of the population in eastern 🇺🇦 under Ruschist occupation is most likely greater than that seen in the spring in Bucha & Kyiv region given the breadth of the territory and the length of the occupation, police officials said..." 1/11 nytimes.com/2022/10/20/wor… "So far, police officers have logged more than 1,000 cases of people being detained in police stations & temporary holding facilities across the region, said Kharkiv Police chief. Real figure is probably 2x or 3x that, he said.
Torture was routine, according to witnesses..." 2/11
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Oct 17, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Why is this Silicon Valley Peace Plan so flawed?

1 2014-2022: Muscovy was bound by a ceasefire agreement it signed twice. US was a guarantor of it.

2 Muscovy violated this ceasefire almost every day for 7 1/2 years. For 3 years I observed & reported these violations.

1/5 3 US acting as a guarantor for Muscovy's ceasefire obligations is akin to US giving Kyiv Security Treaty guarantees to Ukraine (see below). This means if Muscovy violates the ceasefire, US sends in the troops to 🇺🇦. Is this what @DavidSacks is advocating? If so, I agree.

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Oct 16, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
England's Ukraine policy is a huge saving grace. Like a vagrant fallen on hard times nevertheless remembering in the midst of their chaos to perform a duty properly like saying "thank you." 1/6 There's a fair bit of schadenfreude in a not unpleasant way. That said, many of us who are trained to understand the minutiae of England's constitution been highlighting inevitable output of continuously trashing it. 2/6 medium.com/geopolitical-i…
Oct 4, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
"❗A resident of Melitopol received curses from Russian relatives because of the death of a mohilized. Unprepared conscripts have already begun to die on our land. So many Melitopol residents are connected with the Russians by family ties, they began to receive a reaction..." 1/ "My second cousin lives in Irkutsk. The last time she was with us, in Melitopol, in March 2010 - she came with her husband and son to the anniversary of our common relatives. We were friends. And they even kept in touch in 2014, when the war broke out in Donbass..." 2/
Oct 4, 2022 15 tweets 13 min read
"Russian troops set up base in the school (👋🏽 @amnestyusa) & used it as a supply hub, warning locals to stay away...shortly after 10am on Mar 28 when 2 Ruschist soldiers, clad in tattered uniforms, began visiting homes and ordering people to leave..." 1/13 Image "Ruschist soldiers walked from house to house, knocking on doors, the villagers said.
People crowded into the street, holding whatever possessions they had grabbed. One carried an infant and a spare set of diapers. Another was tending to cows when Ruschist soldiers came..."2/13 Image
Oct 2, 2022 6 tweets 5 min read
"The first time the Russian soldiers caught him, they tossed him bound and blindfolded into a trench covered with wooden boards for days on end.
Then they beat him, over and over: Legs, arms, a hammer to the knees, all accompanied by furious diatribes against Ukraine..." 1/6 Image "“No one needs you,” Ruschist commander taunted. “We can shoot you any time, bury you a half-meter underground and that’s it.”
Brutal encounter at the end of March was just the start. Andriy Kotsar would be captured & tortured twice more by Ruschist forces in Izium..." 2/6 Image
Sep 17, 2022 21 tweets 9 min read
"Russian forces terrorized residents throughout their six-month occupation of Izyum, a strategic hub in northeast Ukraine, with witnesses and victims this week recounting the torture, killings and forced disappearances that soldiers carried out..." Wash Post 🧵- 1/ "Officials said they had quickly identified signs of torture on some of the corpses. At least one had a rope around his neck.
"Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izyum. Russia leaves death everywhere," said President Z on Friday..." 2/
Sep 16, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
"Kadyrov's initiative was also welcomed by former Ruschist Occupier in Ukraine Ihor Girkin.
"Well, thank God! At least someone has dared to call on the Russian authorities to start working instead of the Ministry of Defence..." 1/6 "After all, it is already clear that the ministry has not coped with the recruitment of reinforcements. And - therefore, - most likely will not cope with mobilisation either."
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Sep 16, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov gave an algorithm of action for the traitors of Melitopol.

"After the de-occupation of the Kharkiv region, the SBU detained 16 collaborators and found lists of all officials of the occupation administrations." 1/6 "The Security Service of Ukraine continues large-scale stabilization measures in the frontline areas of eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian courts have already issued 75 sentences with real prison terms of 10 years or more with confiscation of property against collaborators." 2/
Sep 16, 2022 14 tweets 6 min read
"In Melitopol, an FSB officer selected a state-owned enterprise for more than 10 years he lived in a hospitable Melitopol, rubbed confidence in famous politicians and businessmen, created a family and worked for the FSB all this time..." 1/ "Lukoyanov was the head of the successful group of companies Melitopol Cherry. In parallel, Lukoyanov actively promoted the projects of his wife Aksana Vlasenko “The Most Beautiful Women of Melitopol” and an exhibition of paintings by his wife..." 2/