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🚨 Russian Mig-31K capable of carrying Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missile with a range of 2000km at speed of Mach 12 took off in #Belarus. The entire territory of #Ukraine is under air raid alert. Ukraine does not have the capability to intercept this weapon.
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🚨🧵 BREAKING: General #Gerasimov as 1st Deputy Defence Minister declared that #Prigozhin's #WagnerPMC 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨 in an official government document. Translation follows⬇️
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Oil refinery in #Azarshahr in Iran is also on fire. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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According to #Osechkin, Prigozhin's #WagnerPMC in #Ukraine are chopping off fingers of the recruited prisoners to instill fear and maintain discipline in the ranks. They collect fingers in cans to show others.
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#Russia uses airfields in #Belarus to attack Ukraine.
#Poland - How about allowing #Ukraine to use your airfields to defend the nation from fascism? Let's get Ukraine some jet fighters and bombers and stop Putin's genocide as soon as possible. ✊ twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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"blasts capped a week of daily attacks that have killed at least 55. The first explosion – equivalent to 5kg of TNT – derailed a locomotive and eight cars near the town of #Izberbash." This was FSB, not "Islamic militants."
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Today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) unanimously voted to declare #Russia a terrorist state. It is past time the US Department of State follows suit. Designation by the United States will be most consequential in helping #Ukraine win the war. 👇 🧵 twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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Ukrainian Armed Forces thank everyone for their support this #Christmas. 🎄
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🧵 🚨 BREAKING: #WagnerPMC to recruit Ukrainian prisoners in occupied territories. Orders to execute if they refuse. Email to #Osechkin -
Subject: On sending prisoners from DNR (occupied #Donetsk) to PMC Wagner
"Good afternoon. I have a relation to the ministry of the DNR.
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🚨 Prigozhin vs. Girkin: FSB Department M (Law Enforcement Counterintelligence) leaked the secret plans of FSB colleagues in charge of #Prigozhin's personal security.
Translation: "Yesterday, the PMC (Wagner) were saying they will put a bag over #Girkin's head, bring him in,
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🚨#Mongolia: Protestors are attempting to breach the Government Palace in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. It appears the main grievance is corruption. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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According to Alexander, Russians also tortured women.
"There was a girl in the next cell, she was not even 20 years old. She was raped every night. And then they took her away for a supposed exchange. Later I found out that she was executed."
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Note the Kremlin immediately released high resolution CCTV footage. If these were Ukrainian drones, there is no chance the Kremlin would immediately release this footage - there's just not enough time to get that authorization. This appears to have been premeditated by Russia.
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#Mobilization in #Russia: Tents housing the mobilized have been set on fire at a military unit in #Orenburg. This has been happening quite a bit and appears to be an attempt by the conscripts to delay deployment to the front. Temperature -25 °F (-32 °C)
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#Russia: First photo is from last year when #Bryansk prisoner Iskandar Isatilloevich Rakhmatov, Uzbek citizen, refused to go to war to #Ukraine with #WagnerPMC and subsequently tortured. Executed in prison for refusal, cause of death 'cancer,' coffin handed to relatives.
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In 1933, an estimated 5-7 million Ukrainians were exterminated through orchestrated starvation by #Stalin. Bodies filled streets. Genocide known as #Holodomor. Stalin then repopulated those areas with Russians.
#Ukraine has no choice but to persevere through darkness & cold now.
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So long as the Russian population in #Moscow is able to live in relative comfort, Putin will maintain his iron grip over the country. Deep inside, the vast majority may be against his war, but will do nothing against the regime. Only desperation will overcome fear of rising up.
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Putin is in overdrive trying to prepare the domestic information space before the upcoming mass-mobilization. Putin's message to the Russian subjects of his fascist regime is clear: TRUST ME.
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