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While we are still sitting on our hands and refusing to supply #ATACMS, #GreatBritain says so be it, we are going to send #Ukraine Storm Shadow cruise missiles (#SCALP). 250km - 560km range, 1000 lb warhead. 👏
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#Russia: "Partial mobilization is complete, and there absolutely will not be a second wave." - Viktor Sobolev, 72-year old Communist Party member of the Duma Defense Committee.
Translation: mobilization will start soon.
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🧵 In 2014, #Navalny supported the criminal annexation of #Crimea by Putin. In a new interview, his deputy Maria Pevchikh confirmed that the position has not changed. Navalny is a dangerous ultra-nationalist & imperialist, and consistently so over decades. theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
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🚨 #Belarus: The KGB (yes, they never rebranded) took hostage the 15-year old brother of the proprietor of the Telegram channel "Railroaders Community of Belarus" which has been disclosing Russian troop & equipment movements on a granular level. KGB demands he close the channel. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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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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Thank you Ukraine for your bravery.
Thank you Ukraine for your resilience.
Thank you Ukraine for your humanity.
Thank you Ukraine for your spirit.
Thank you Ukraine for achieving the impossible.
Thank you Ukraine for being the shining beacon of light for all.
#ThankYouUkraine
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Chinese Zoo held a ceremony to transition from the Year of the Tiger to the Year of the Rabbit.
The rabbit is OK.
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#Moscow government reports the unemployment rate in the city declined by 23% down to just 28,100 unemployed in 2022. Many locals online are laughing at the ridiculousness of the lie, while others suggest the unemployed must have either fled the country or died in Ukraine.
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🚨 RUMOR: #Putin is negotiating with #Taliban on the purchase of coalition military equipment that was left behind in #Afghanistan as a result of the United States' hasty withdrawal in 2021 for use in the war against #Ukraine. $7.12B in aircraft, vehicles, weapons + munitions. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Prigozhin is begging the Russian State Duma (parliament) to enact a law to imprison journalists who criticize and expose #WagnerPMC, a transnational criminal organization. The answer will most certainly be No. He has been used up by Putin & is likely close to being discarded.
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Russian fascists in total meltdown mode online with the news that Leopard + Abrams tanks will be delivered to #Ukraine. Fascists in-the-know say the T-90 tanks are no match. Lots of talk that Russian threats of consequences if West delivers the tanks are empty threats.
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🚨👀 #Kremlin is preemptively accusing #Ukraine for possible assassination of #Prigozhin. Looks like Putin wants to keep his options open to remove him. This playbook already used by #FSB during the war to prepare domestic information space before they proceed with assassination.
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Russian Orthodox Church set on 🔥:
Feodorovskaya Church, also known as the Church in Honor of our Lady of the Theodore Icon, built in 1913 to celebrate the Romanovs' 300 years of reign of the Russian Empire, was set on fire in Kirov. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Russia: Two privates and a corporal from a #Moscow regiment punished by their Russian army commander in occupied #Zaporizhzhya. They've been in the hole for more than 2 days in freezing temperatures.
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Olga & Oleg, survivors of Putin's criminal missile strike on #Dnipro apartment buildings in #Ukraine.
Photos by @lynseyaddario.
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#Russia: Communists showed up on the Red Square calling for a Revolution against Putin's fascist regime.
Welcome to 2023.
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🚨 Yesterday, #Russia attacked Turkish cargo ship "Tuzla" at the port of #Kherson. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Scandal in UK Parliament, as it should be, after @openDemocracy exposed how terrorist #Prigozhin, while under sanctions, received special permission from the UK Treasury to use the UK attorneys and courts to try to silence UK investigative journalist, Bellingcat's @EliotHiggins.
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🚨 🧵 BREAKING: Former FSB agent who fled to the US struck by car in a hit-and-run.
From Osechkin: The vehicle hit Fidar Khubaev at high speed in New Jersey, who on November 25th 2022 requested political asylum in the US.
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Russian soldiers continue to innovate the art of fragging. No ammo needed.
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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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