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I strongly urge our leaders in the United States not to repeat this mistake now. We must not arbitrarily limit military support to Ukraine out of fear of Russia's collapse when Ukraine prevails. Let the chips fall where they may.
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Bush came to Kyiv after spending two days with Gorbachev at a dacha. He said the collapse of the Soviet Union isn't in America's interest & assured Gorbachev that he will argue against Ukraine's independence. Bush refused to even meet with pro-independence leaders in Ukraine.
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The Soviet Union collapsed 145 days after this speech, in part because Ukraine became independent. This was dubbed the Chicken Kiev speech due to Bush's colossal misjudgment, weak tone and catastrophic miscalculation. Full speech:
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🧵 On August 1st, 1991, President Bush came to Kyiv and gave a 20 minute lecture to pressure the government not to declare independence from the Kremlin. 3 weeks later, Ukraine declared independence. 4 months later, 92.26% of Ukrainians voted to withdraw from the Soviet Union.
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37 years ago today on April 26th, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a meltdown, just 60 miles (96km) from Kyiv. This is how the Soviet propaganda lied about the event on April 28, after complete silence for 2 full days.
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#Russia: Putin reportedly headed to the Kremlin with some urgency at 10pm. Unusual.
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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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Moisei Bondarenko at Times Square in New York. twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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Ukrainian drone successfully completed a recon mission above the Kremlin and the Red Square. You can see Lenin's Mausoleum in the initial shot. Putin is not the only one preparing for May 9th.
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Russians are booby trapping lighters they leave behind as they retreat.
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#Russia: Kremlin has ordered its subjects not to believe that Putin sends his double(s) out in public while hiding in his bunkers. Here are some of his doubles and bunkers.
The statement was made by none other than Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman.
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Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas:
For enduring peace, "We need Ukraine in the European Union. We need Ukraine in NATO." ✊
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🚨 Wagner PMC convict recruit Uldarov identified the commander 'Eisman' who ordered brutal executions of #Ukraine's unarmed POWs and #Russia's 'deserters.' His name is Vladimir Kitayev, dob July 1 1984 (B-90650). He also cut off limbs and beheaded a person on video in #Syria. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The properties in New York and New Jersey were purchased by Malysheva and her family with embezzled money, which probably gives our government the right to seize the real estate. meduza.io/en/news/2020/0…
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🧵 Russian state-propaganda Channel One TV host Elena Malysheva spotted enjoying life in New York, where she owns tens of millions of dollars in real estate.
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#Russia's dystopia here and now. Warehouse workers at Wildberries, a Russian ripoff of Amazon, go through strip searches before starting and ending their shifts to mitigate theft.
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#Russia: Explosion so massive a car flew up and landed on the roof of the building. Possibly a car bomb. Downtown #Belgorod. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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🧵🚨 Vladimir Osechkin, recipient of #FSBletters from #WindofChange, has published interviews with Putin-pardoned convicts who contacted him to disclose the war crimes they committed under #WagnerPMC leadership in #Ukraine.
Executions of children:
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🚨🧵BREAKING: #FSBletters from #WindofChange dated April 14, 2023. Subject: #China's secret agreement to deliver weapons to #Russia.
Translation: "I can vouch for the data with the highest degree of reliability.
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🚨 Multiple sources inside #WagnerPMC have claimed the beheadings of Ukrainian prisoners of war are ordered by the nazi Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin to create conditions that would prevent Russian conscripts and soldiers from surrendering to #Ukraine out of fear of reprisals.
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#Russia: Russian army torture session of a Russian draftee from North Ossetia ended with the torturer ordering the tortured to purchase a new (not used) sleeping bag for the torturer.
Video in the post below.
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🚨 Primorsky Krai prison #29 videos leaked to Osechkin by a prison employee. A group of 'VIP' prisoners, typically agents of FSB, entertained by an inmate sex slave. Such inmates are forced to become 'dishonored' through torture. Such 'VIP' prison rooms exist all over #Russia. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…