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🚨 New wave of #mobilization in #Russia, after some delays, is now expected to begin at the end of January or beginning of February. Target number of conscripts ranges from 500,000 to 2 million. #Ukraine will be out of munitions & overrun unless we act decisively. #ArmUkraineNow!
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Across the Amur river from Russia, China is putting on a show and conditioning the impoverished Russian population to perceive China as mighty and benevolent - polar opposite of Putin's Russia. (Chinese city of Heihe)
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43 busloads of #WagnerPMC mercenaries & recruited prisoners have been transported to #Zaporizhzhia direction accompanied by Wagner-marked black SUVs - reported by Ukrainian mayor of currently #Russia-occupied #Melitopol Ivan Fedorov.
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🚨 Osechkin's source from Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs:
Crime rate in #Russia is skyrocketing with a giant influx of weapons smuggled from the front. Half of the country's criminal investigators have been diverted to such cases and the clearance rate is essentially zero.
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We must focus on doing what is right, and seize the possibility of Russia collapsing as a once-in-a-century opportunity to make the world a better, safer place for all. Russia's collapse, just like the Soviet Union's collapse, is in the interest of all humanity.
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#Ukraine is currently the only country to have sanctioned Kharitonin for funding Putin's war.
sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/sanction-pe…
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🚨🧵 GUR, Ukraine MoD Intelligence Directorate, advises Russian public to stay away from the May 9th Soviet WW2 Victory parade on the Red Square and to avoid proximity to war criminals & military equipment. Ukraine has event security measures, seating, & routes. cc:@BBCSteveR
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The FSB would then release the person and detonate the car bombs at the time of their choosing with the released occupant in the car - this is the system of "suicide terror bombings" in Dagestan.
voanews.com/a/russia-dages…
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#Ukraine: Soldiers on the front lines in #Bakhmut ask for modern tanks to be delivered as soon as possible. #ArmUkraineNow!
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🚨 #Ukraine: Two Russian FSB officers killed by a car bomb in Russian-occupied #Melitopol. This city is strategically critical for Ukrainians to liberate in order to move on to liberating #Crimea.
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My personal view is still the same - if Putin were to order a nuclear strike, he'd be removed in a coup.
youtu.be/RxFRfxEoQ-Q
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I'd like to ask that everyone retweet & quote-tweet this thread - this is the history that unfortunately many of the current elected politicians in the West may not be aware of, and this may help shift their personal paradigms concerning Ukraine. Thank you 🙏
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Kharitonin has mysteriously avoided US and EU sanctions this entire time, despite being intertwined with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova & her husband Viktor Khristenko, who was Minister of Industry when Pharmstandard was established in 2003
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Kh…
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Former US Secretary of the Treasury @LHSummers on using the hundreds of billions of dollars of seized assets from #Russia to fund #Ukraine in the defensive war against Putin.
"The expedient, popular & easy thing is also the right thing" and has precedent.
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For example, Dutch humanitarian worker at Doctors without Borders, Arjan Erkel was abducted in #Makhachkala and spent 607 days in captivity until a ransom was paid.
msf.org/arjan-erkel-ki…
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There has already been a meeting where Prigozhin's mercenaries were delegated authority and guaranteed a regime of impunity and tacit approval for acts of aggression and intimidation against those who protest against the war and #1's (Putin's) policies.
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Putin's fascist regime burned bodies, including bodies of Russian soldiers, at a landfill in the occupied #Kherson before it was liberated earlier this month.
theguardian.com/world/2022/nov…
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After over 8 months of Putin's terror, the liberated people of Kherson have much to celebrate. Bittersweet. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…