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🚨 #Russia: Family arrested at a #Krasnodar restaurant "Na Drovoi" for having an anti-war conversation. Person overheard Olesya & Alexei Ovchinnikov's table conversation and called the police. Police arrested them at the restaurant and took away their 9-year-old child.
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#NewYear in #Russia: Wifes trying to get their husbands back as they are taken away by riot police in #SaintPetersburg. No one seems to know why it's happening, same as in #Moscow. Probably straight to the front in #Ukraine.
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SO IT BEGINS: Russian banks don't have cash to satisfy withdrawals and pension payments. Bank employee tells pensioners in line to go home. This will hit undeveloped regions living in poverty first, but will likely eventually reach #Moscow and #SaintPetersburg.
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This is Russian-occupied, once thriving Ukrainian city of #Mariupol.
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Vadim #Boyko, Russian Navy Colonel & Deputy Head of Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in #Vladivostok has been killed in his office with 5 bullets to the chest. He was heavily involved in Putin's mobilization efforts.
Russia propaganda reports it was suicide (I am not kidding). twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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🧵🚨URGENT in #Germany: On the heels of news that even German Foreign Intelligence's head of counterintelligence was a double-agent spying for #Russia, Putin's mafioso billionaire Viktor #Kharitonin has quietly purchased the Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The German government must act.
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Putin's Spring 2023 offensive will likely come from all directions - North, East, and South, a repeat of Feb 2022 invasion but with lessons learned & hundreds of thousands more troops. It will be bloody. Time is running out for the West to act decisively. Too little too late.
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Putin's bodyguards shot & killed a conscript on the shooting range in #Ryazan who approached Putin too aggressively. Putin's promo video exiting his limousine had to be redone - reportedly disclosed by FSB & Kremlin sources. Conscript witnesses + family threatened to stay silent.
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🚨 BREAKING: Russia may launch missile strikes on Kyiv this night. Two nuclear warheads allegedly at the airfield but not armed on the planes at this time.
Osechkin's source: "Orders have been sent to the air bases in Engels and Shaykovka to prepare a number of TU-22Ms for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After #Netherlands announced they can supply F-16s to #Ukraine, we now have the following statement from US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter:
US will support the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by allies.
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🚨 #Bakhmut may very well end up being the catalyst for a Russian civil war.
1) Putin has ordered that Bakhmut must be taken by May 8th, in time for the Soviet Victory Day parade on May 9th. He has threatened Shoigu and others with dire consequences.
2) Prigozhin has Putin's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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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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🧵🚨 Senior Lieutenant at Russian FSB Counterintelligence defected to Europe. Emran #Navruzbekbekov was sent to Turkey & Syria for an operation against Russian citizens wanted by Putin. Instead, he used the opportunity to flee to Europe with receipts & asked for political asylum.
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Wishing you a Happy New Year, little Ukrainian angel. 👼
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🚨 General & Colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in #Iran are dead.
They were responsible for the program that sent drones to #Russia that have been murdering Ukrainian civilians. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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As Putin is committing genocide, rapes, and tortures of Ukrainians, President Zelenskyy's ability to respond to such an asinine question from an Italian journalist in a civil manner is commendable. A true leader. ✊
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#Azerbaijan: Civilians blocked Russian military "peace keepers" from entering the country.
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Ukrainian sniper defending the civilized world from fascist Putin.
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🚨 #Iran: What appears may have been a bunker-buster strike against an underground weapons factory in Iran was followed by a significant earthquake in the area.
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