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UPDATE 3: The precision strike took place at exactly 00:01 on January 1st completely leveling the 3-story building which sat on 12,750 ft2 (1,185 m2), with an entire Russian battalion from #Saratov gathered inside for a #NewYear party, just 12 miles away from the front.
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UPDATE 6: In the Russian media space, Denis #Pushilin, the Ukrainian traitor who was installed as puppet head of occupied Donetsk region by Putin in 2014, is the prime candidate to be declared "guilty." He was born in Makeevka. Heads will roll.
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🚨 #Ukraine: Russian strike destroyed the Altair ice arena in Druzhkivka near #Kramatorsk. Attack was captured live on French TV. This is 40 miles north of Russian-occupied #Donetsk. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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🚨 #Mobilization: A commercial print office received an order for 5,000 conscription notices in #Krasnodar in #Russia. Region borders #Crimea.
Order received on December 31, to be printed by January 1st.
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As always, retired 3-star General Ben Hodges @general_ben, who commanded US Army Europe until 2017, knocked it out of the park. Fantastic and succinct assessment of the situation in #Ukraine, and what must be done.
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#Russia: Reports that 40 of some of the best IT specialists from Russian Ministry of Defence sent to #Ukraine were eliminated at their lodging by a precision strike. They were to set up IT infrastructure throughout occupied territories. Probably a separate strike from below 👇 twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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Catastrophic failure by the Chinese totalitarian regime to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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News from #Russia: Governor of #Samara Dmitry Azarov ordered volunteers to collect clothing donations from the public, including underwear, for the survivors of the #HIMARS strike in #Makiivka that killed hundreds of Russian soldiers, many from Samara.
Read that sentence twice... twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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Ukrainians captured an intact S-300 air defense system.
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Russian soldiers should leave Ukraine and go back to their families in Russia. Then they won't get raped by Chechens and Ukrainians won't get raped by Russians. Everyone wins.
My heart goes out to all of the Ukrainian victims of Russian war crimes including torture and rape.
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🧵 #Mobilization: Rumors of a potential option for #Putin to delay martial law & general panic in #Russia -
1) Mobilize up to 2 million in 2023.
2) 8 million men are already forbidden from leaving the country because of prior military service and/or due to alimony debt.
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#CRIMEA: Reports of an explosion in Cape Fiolent in occupied #Crimea - the southern tip of the peninsula next to #Sevastopol. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Russia: The sign reads
NO TO WAR!
STOP THIS INSANITY!!!
Jan 5th, downtown #Novosibirsk.
Brave hero.
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"The fact that they broke their own batons against my legs along with the legs, that was the easiest to endure. The hardest part was the torture with electrocution. They put electrodes wherever they could: legs, genitals, ears."
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🧵 "The hardest is electrocution torture"
Ukrainian Alexander Tolkachev was kidnapped six months ago by Russian fascists in occupied #Mariupol. Exchanged for Russian POW in October.
He was tortured every day by Russians and is living with the consequences to this day.
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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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#Mobilization: This Russian hero received a conscription notice with a January 6th, 2023 deployment date and promptly burned it. ❤️🔥 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Russia on 🔥: Belarus MTZ factory on fire in Saint Petersburg. Company manufactures tractors and other heavy machinery.
Born in Ukraine. American. @WindofChangeRG | Former Racecar Driver - Japanese SUPER GT #FSBletters igorsushko.substack.com