@MriyaReport Actually Russian wives Putin has conned you since 1999 (to present day) remember your “Empire strikes back”Chechen War, Putin killing your men to raise his own popularity.
'We Got Screwed':Kremlin Rushes Payments to Russian Soldiers’ Wives Amid Fears of Protests Over Putin’s War @MriyaReport The wives of Russian men drafted under President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization last year have published an appeal criticizing the Kremlin for betraying its own people and making empty promises. newsweek.com/russian-women-…

@AlexKokcharov @Biz_Ukraine_Mag Putin’s victory cult serves the perfect antidote to grim revelations of Stalinist terror while helping to whitewash the extensive crimes against humanity committed by USSR during and after WWII. The contemporary political implications of this victory cult atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea… @AlexKokcharov @Biz_Ukraine_Mag …go far beyond the need to reconcile modern Russians with their country’s troubling twentieth century history. By rehabilitating the Soviet past, Putin has succeeded in legitimizing the authoritarian present. Throughout Putin’s reign, Russia has enthusiastically deployed…

@IAPonomarenko The Ukrainians are fighting a brilliant military strategy of using “Defense in Depth” which they learned to do quite quickly. It stalls & confuses Russians because it includes multiple levels of simultaneous attacks from conventional & irregular forces…ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/349… @IAPonomarenko Retired US Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Perry Blackburn described these in an exclusive interview for Ukrinform. He’s been in Ukraine helping distribute much-needed supplies to denied areas with his nonprofit group AFGfree.org. Recently he began an assessment…

@IAPonomarenko Vlad Putin's forces are heading for a defeat in Ukraine that could cement Russia's post-Soviet decline and relegate its great power status to a thing of the past, according to China's former envoy to Kyiv. Gao Yusheng, a Central Asia specialist who served newsweek.com/vladimir-putin… @IAPonomarenko …two years as ambassador to Ukraine between 2005 and 2007, spoke at a closed-door event hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences think tank, said a report by China's Phoenix News. Gao served under Xi Jinping's predecessor, Hu Jintao, and now no longer holds any position

@IAPonomarenko In recent weeks Putin has appeared to be looking noticeably more bloated around the face and neck - suggesting he might be undergoing treatment with steroids for a health condition. In pictures released by the Kremlin he was described as looking “ashen… nationalworld.com/news/world/put… @IAPonomarenko and bloated.” Valery Solovei, political scientist and former head of the Public Relations. The 69-year-old President looked pale and unfit. Fiona Hill, the British former senior White House expert on Russia, told Politico: "Putin’s not looking so great, he’s been rather…

Fascinating Jill Lepore (Harvard historian) interview I listened to on our local NPR station about her podcast The Evening Rocket, a deep dive into the Musk savior mystique & broader phenomenon of ‘Muskism’. Here’s a synopsis: For Lepore, Musk is the face…vox.com/vox-conversati… of extreme capitalism, a capitalism rooted in science fiction stories and animated by fanciful plans to conquer space and save humanity. She calls this phenomenon “Muskism” argues that it’s a recycled brand of techno-utopianism that’s fascinating, dangerous, profoundly revealing.

@IAPonomarenko Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, 48, was reportedly killed in a strike by the Ukrainian armed forces after telling his regiment the operation in Ukraine would only last a 'few hours'. Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, 48, was killed in a strike by… mirror.co.uk/news/world-new… @IAPonomarenko the Ukrainian armed forces, say military sources in Kyiv. He was Commander of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District. The Russian side has not so far confirmed the death. A service member said Lt. Gen. Yakov Rezantsev told them on the fourth day of their

#No2War #WagePeace 🇺🇦🕊💙☮️💛🙏🏻🇭🇺 Built with the power of Unity & Love. Huge crowd came together to create a Human Peace sign for Ukraine at Budapest’s Heroes’ Square to protest against the invasion of Ukraine and to express their compassion for the innocent victims of the war.

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Natasha, whose family lives in Moscow, said in her speech:
‘We Russians don’t want war. I’m devastated to realise that Russian soldiers are fighting against our neighbour, a country where so many of us have friends and relatives’- “Our real enemy is the machine that tries to…