#HumanSafari 🧵: A new Russian military tactic:

🔸 Small drones hunt civilians
🔸 Drop explosives, incendiary devices, banned mines, propaganda
🔸 Target homes, infrastructure, resources
🔸 Goals: Create "gray zones", sow panic, train pilots

The history of coverage, reports: I published the first report about #HumanSafari in Kherson in @BylineTimes on 29 July 2024.

The residents reported several attacks a day, referring to it as #HumanSafari and #HuntForHumans.

bylinetimes.com/2024/07/29/khe…

⚡Trump’s presidency might put at risk Ukraine’s sovereignty and encourage Russian aggression. His administration’s ties to the Kremlin, history of transactional diplomacy, promises of isolationism might devastate Ukraine and the global community.

🧵+ article for Fresno Alliance Russian officials celebrated Trump’s victory.

⚫Medvedev tied it to Russia’s war goals
⚫Putin hinted at “dialogue” but referenced an assassination attempt
⚫Patrushev warned of “obligations” Trump must fulfill, ⚫Dugin claimed a “globalist defeat”

fresnoalliance.com/what-trumps-re…

🧵🚨Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, worked for a firm lobbying for Kremlin-linked oligarchs.

Her boss, who recommended Wiles for Trump’s campaign, lobbied for a Russian oligarch with deep ties to Putin and Rosneft.

Part 2: here.

Part 1: ⬇️

https://x.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1855371636851040280

Before working for Trump's 2024 campaign, Wiles was a co-chair of Mercury Public Affairs.

Bryan Lanza, Mercury partner, lobbied for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s energy and aluminum firm conglomerate EN+ Group in 2018.

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

Would #Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, pass a background check? Her daughter Caroline Wiles failed a security clearance in 2016.

🧵Alleged family ties to a Kremlin-linked lobbyist infamous for the Trump Tower “dirt” meeting and lobbying against the Magnitsky Act. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-born US citizen, a lobbyist with a two-decade relationship with Putin allies, is a longtime associate of Lanny Wiles, ex-husband of Susie Wiles, a known GOP operative and lobbyist.

nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/…

🧵 Russian oligarch Petr Aven played a critical role in #Putin’s rise to power.

Reports suggest links between Aven, #Trump’s presidential campaigns, and #Musk’s X acquisition.

These connections call for further examination. Voters deserve clarity on the national security. One of the entities backing Musk’s Twitter buyout employs Aven’s son.

While Petr Aven has no known formal connection to X acquisition, the nature of the Russian mafia state calls for an investigation.
dw.com/en/what-do-xs-…

#Moldova 💥🚨🧵 With 1.7% votes of the referendum (to EU or not EU?) still left to be counted, what is going on?

In 2022, I did on the ground reporting and research in Russian interference in Moldovan politics. Good background.

With Georgia and US elections next, important ⬇️ In Chisinau, I followed a crowd of bussed old ladies to an anti-government process. This is what I have found:

#Disinformation #Russia 🔴🧵#Microsoft reports: “Russia pivot towards targeting the #HarrisWalz campaign, with actors disseminating fabricated videos designed to sow discord and spread disinformation about the new Democratic nominee Vice President #Harris.
1/… 🧵In late Aug-Sept, Russian actors used fake videos to discredit #Harris, generating millions of views

1. an attack by alleged Harris supporters at a supposed Trump rally
2. false claims about hit-and-run accident
3. a fake NY City billboard w/ false claims (Harris’ policies)

@AndrewPerpetua I have been on the ground, reporting about the "human safari" in Kherson for the last month: over 100 attacks on civilians a day. 🧵Eyewitness reports, authorities confirmations, videos: Byline Times (UK), 29 July 2024: An overall analysis bylinetimes.com/2024/07/29/khe… @AndrewPerpetua Euromaidan Press (UA), 10 August 2024: A detailed follow-up report with multiple video interviews euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/10/rus…

🚨#protestforPalestine are used by Russia, China and Iran to sow division, confusion in order to demoralize Americans; undermine the U.S. globally and to influence the US presidential elections outcome. 2 important new articles: quotes/links. 🧵👇🏼 “Russia is seeking to exploit America’s divisive debate over Israel’s offensive in Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washington’s global image”

#Moscow, #Russia on March 22:

1. Launches the largest air strike on #Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war

2. Runs a concert “Future is Ours” next night, w/6,200 attending, in a venue owned by Putin’s ally. Fails to prevent mass murder of which it was warned.

👇🏼🧵

https://twitter.com/zarinazabrisky/status/1771301915114057850

Attempted ecocide: the largest hydroelectric power plant and the largest nuclear power plant are targeted.

World: No reaction and little coverage.

https://twitter.com/zarinazabrisky/status/1771048477151080643

🔴🔴🔴 The Kremlin stages a propagandist event at Times Square, New York on March 16, 2024 to coincide with the celebration of Putin's sham election victory and the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.

While the video below is fake, Russian festivities were real. 🧵

https://twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1769985253207097790

Russian Youth of America (aka “Russian Youth in America,” the “Youth Russian Society” and the “Young Russian Society”) organized the event at Times Square on March 16, 2024. roscult.org/event/times-sq…

🔴 Ivana Trump had also confirmed that Donald #Trump had Hitler’s Mein Kampf on his bedside table as reported by the Vanity Fair here:

🧵 vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/…

https://twitter.com/realmartyt7/status/1769464934549590459

In the 1990s, #Trump’s cousin who worked for the Trump Organization was reported by Ivana Trump to click his heels and say, “Heil Hitler” on entering Donald Trump’s office. vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/…

March 17 2018: analysts, journalists, politicians gathered in NY to warn the world (again) of the danger #Putin brings to the world if re-elected.

March 16 2024: a review from under fire in Ukraine, 2 years into the full-scale Putin war.

There'll be more if we don't stop him. David Satter, journalist: Putin and the FSB carried out the 1999 apartment bombings. This terrorist action similar to the Reichstag fire brought Putin to power. The West accepted the Russian government's explanation of the apartment bombing and left it without consequences.

#Moldova is on Putin's wishlist. 🧵

#Transnistria, a mini-USSR, with pro-Russian authorities and the Kremlin-brainwashed population, is the tool.

In the 90s, Russian “peacekeepers” were stationed in Transnistria after a brief but intense armed conflict. In 2022, FSB had 3 scenarios for capturing Moldova:
->forming a corridor to Transnistria thru southern Ukraine, w/the subsequent recognition of the region;
->the capture of the whole territory of Moldova;
->access to the borders of Transnistria w/o recognition of its independence

The democracy in the US and the world is in extreme danger.

#Trump used #Kremlin’s mechanism to suppress investigations by stacking courts & appointing loyal people to key positions of power.

KRUGOVAYA PORUKA.

It is the way to a lifelong presidency.

🧵 art by @LuluLemew Steps towards silencing and suppressing criminal investigation:

→ Strategic hires block trials.

→ Through bribes, blackmail, murder, investigations silenced, stopped.

→ Public opinion formed by the press working for the government.

→ Independent journalists killed/exiled.

🔴 Ukraine Intelligence: #Russia aims to divert attention from the war by spreading false narratives, demoralizing, sowing panic. $1.5 bn spent on information operations in Nov 2023.

Doppelgänger bot networks 🧵
@BylineTimes
w/@ushadrons @Patrioticats
bylinetimes.com/2024/02/29/und… Russian special services spent $250 mn on ‘Maidan-3’ special operation on Telegram. It is due to peak in March-May 2024, questioning government legitimacy, spreading panic, creating artificial divisions, causing discord with allies, and promoting conspiracy theories.

#Navalny murder is Putin's non-verbal signal. He challenges the world.

Gang leaders establish dominance hierarchy through murder.

"Bespredel" went global (bespredel: "limitlessness." "lawlessness")

Each country has a mafia; only in Russia does the mafia have the country.  🧵 In the 1990s, Russian organized crime, law enforcement, secret services, and government structures merged and created a criminal syndicate that abandoned the accepted rules of human conduct and morality.

This syndicate, headed by Putin, currently rules Russia.

🔴 #Trump spoke of abandoning #NATO first time in Sept 1987, two months after his first visit to #Moscow on the invitation of Intourist, the Soviet cover for intelligence operations.

He bought full-page ads in the NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe for $94,801.

🧵1.

Since 1978, Trump has been followed by the Communist secret services.  Ivana Zelníčková, Trump’s first wife, was under the Czechoslovak security service surveillance, the Státní Bezpečnost (StB). Ivana’s father Miloš Zelníček, was also monitored by the StB.  
2.

#Putin Tonight, you'll be served a #Kremlin narrative aimed at

-> normalizing war crimes and mafia state,
-> glorifying a mass murderer

Here are a few facts from Putin's actual bio. 🧵

Forewarned is forearmed. #Putin's official bio is a myth: rags to riches through education and state service.

Reality: he was formed by early exposure to violence and crime.

His judo coach, Usvyatsov: a criminal authority, a gang member. His gravestone epitaph: "I'm dead, but mafia is immortal."

🧵In 2017, Russian state media reported a fake story:

#Putin Birthday Burger served in a NY restaurant.

Goal: normalize Putin’s crimes; glorify him by faking respect and recognition on a global scale.

In 2024, #TuckerCarlson serves the US a Putin Nothing Burger.

Method: 1. A false claim/story produced.
2. Circulated on SM. Bots/trolls push #s to trending
3. MSM reports it
4. Many outlets echo
5. A public discussion ensues. Experts, prominent public figures, laymen join in with opinions, repeating the story until it becomes common knowledge...

🚨🚨🚨Kremlin trolls’ activity: unprecedented high after a short break.

They masquerade as authentic X users; gaslight; amplify disnfo; confuse; etc

Time for a refresher on their tactics: #Kremlin propaganda playbook. 🧵w @BylineTimes

1. Pushing Kremlin Narratives->… 1. Pushing Kremlin Narratives
The Kremlin has been working  on creating a new “post-Western world order” narrative (Western countries and institutions no longer enjoying the same amount of power and influence they once did.