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Evolution of War: Presumably, this #WagnerPMC mercenary spotted the Ukrainian drone above, raised his hands up and was escorted by the drone to surrender to #Ukraine.
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Drug Cartel that controlled 1/3 of Europe's Cocaine trade has been dismantled through coordinated worldwide raids. 30 tons of drugs seized. Most arrests were reportedly carried out in Dubai but also included Spain, France, Belgium, and Netherlands. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Concerts and fireworks on the #RedSquare next to the #Kremlin for New Year were cancelled. Red Square closed.
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Aziz Fayzullaev sentenced to 3 years in prison & 700,000 ruble fine for allegedly setting a Russian government building on fire with Molotov cocktails in occupied #Crimea on Jun 5. Forced to confess on video with clear signs of torture.
Putin has been exterminating Crimean Tatars
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🚨 #Russia on 🔥: Russian Foreign Ministry building was set on fire downtown #Moscow on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square.
#RussianResistance at work.
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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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Wagner terrorists surrendering in Bakhmut. Footage from a Ukrainian commander who orders his men to hold fire. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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🚨 #Ukraine's Air Command has asked the residents of northeast border regions of #Chernihiv and #Sumy not to publish photos or videos of Ukrainian Air Force aircraft during currently ongoing operations.
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Gerard #Depardieu, recipient of Russian citizenship from Putin himself, asked if Russian invasion of #Ukraine changed his attitude toward #Russia:
"Nothing has changed for me. I'm still Russian. I love Russian culture. When I love a country, it's always because of its culture."
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Russia's newest drone Lancet, released in 2019, can't penetrate the Gepard, released in the 1970s. ✊
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Real estate prices in occupied Crimea have crashed as Russians continue to flee back to Russia and try to panic-sell property stolen from Ukrainians.
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Kharitonin has mysteriously avoided US and EU sanctions this entire time, despite being intertwined with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova & her husband Viktor Khristenko, who was Minister of Industry when Pharmstandard was established in 2003
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Kh…
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For example, Dutch humanitarian worker at Doctors without Borders, Arjan Erkel was abducted in #Makhachkala and spent 607 days in captivity until a ransom was paid.
msf.org/arjan-erkel-ki…
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🧵 Igor Eliseev is #Prigozhin's consigliere, lawyer for #WagnerPMC, and literal general director of a company named OOO "Consigliere." Identified by #Osechkin.
The recipient is also mafioso & member of the European Parliament. Video published to threaten the parliament body. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Just between 2002 and 2006, 55 Tu-22Ms (16 Tu-22M2s and 36 Tu-22M3s) were scrapped at airbases in Poltava and Priluki, and also at the Nikolayev aviation plant.
See this PDF for a more complete timeline:
Ukraine Bomber Decommissioning & Transfer Chronology nti.org/wp-content/upl…
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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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Putin's purges, genocide, and relocation of civilians to concentration camps happened in occupied #Kherson as warned during the planning phase in March of 2022 by #WindofChange in the #FSBletters. Evidence collected post-liberation appears to confirm the veracity of that letter. twitter.com/visegrad24/sta…
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🧵 Full translation of the Jan 16 Volya Media article titled:
'What the Russian Armed Forces are preparing and why Gerasimov was appointed to command the military'
Please share far & wide. This is a long read.
igorsushko.substack.com/p/what-the-rus…
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"#SlavaUkraïni (Glory to Ukraine), no, no, I will not shut my mouth. No! I will not shut my mouth! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes! ... "
To Putin's gestapo taping: "I can feel how ashamed you are. I know. In your youthful age how you live in shame for everything you do."
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#Russia: All schools in #SaintPetersburg were ordered to procure dummy F-1 & RGD-5 grenades and Kalashnikov assault rifles from their budget in September 2022 for "Initial Military Training" curriculum for 10th/11th grades as part of #mobilization.
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The target audience of Prigozhin's speech appears to be the Russian public, and it's an ominous one:
"We will be waiting until we are again needed by the people of Russia - I think that's about to happen."
It's intentionally ambiguous to not exclude an insurrection against the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Russia: people scavenging expired food thrown away by a grocery store in the Urals. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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🚨 Video of the Russian Kh-22 missile with 1 ton warhead directly striking the intended target - civilian the apartments in #Dnipro in #Ukraine. You can see the missile itself on a direct trajectory. The story pushed by #Arestovych that it was shut down by AA is utter BS.
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#Russia: Tu-22M strategic bomber made an emergency landing at the Pulkovo civilian international airport in #SaintPetersburg, blaming 'weather conditions,' which must be code for 'my plane is falling apart!'
All civilian air traffic was halted.
Born in Ukraine. American. @WindofChangeRG | Former Racecar Driver - Japanese SUPER GT #FSBletters igorsushko.substack.com