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Remember most military experts saying #Kyiv will fall in mere days in February 2022? Post-mortem of why Russia failed?
1) Offensive wasn't properly prepared and rushed.
2) Not enough troops.
3) Ukraine got lucky in Hostomel.
We gave Putin 1 year to prepare Spring 2023 blitzkrieg.
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After over 8 months of Putin's terror, the liberated people of Kherson have much to celebrate. Bittersweet. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Mobilization: Wife of a conscript in #Russia received payment from the government for his military service. 2 rubles and 26 kopek. 3 US cents.
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#Russia: Cargo door on AN-26 passenger plane failed mid-flight.
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#RELIGION: This is Dmitry Zamesov, Russian Orthodox "Church" Chairman of the Diocesan Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies in #Russia. This is real, direct from the official church website - mosmit.ru/eparhy/kliric/…
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🚨 🧵 Former commander in #WagnerPMC, Andrei #Medvedev has escaped to #Norway and requested political asylum. Wagner had kept all of his identity documents. His escape on foot is one for a Hollywood movie 👇
Correction: He was not a convict when joining Wagner. twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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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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Russia essentially only has mid-20th century weapons systems. If we continue to supply Ukraine with our stocks of similar weapons systems to maintain some kind of "equilibrium" because of fear of "escalation," we will run out of such junk weapons first and Russia will win.
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#Bangladesh territory and population vs #Russia.
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Full November 8th letter from the FSB to Osechkin available in article form here:
open.substack.com/pub/igorsushko…
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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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Emran says the 2nd Service of the FSB essentially controls all criminal activities in Dagestan and Chechnya.
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#Putin scheduled to make a public address to the people of #Russia tomorrow, January 18th.
Could be any of the following:
1) Formal declaration of war against #Ukraine.
2) Mobilization
3) Martial Law
Next phase of war is coming. #ArmUkraineNow!
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🧵🚨 #Russia: Pavel Melnik, previously fired from Saratov prosecutor's office for rape & torture of inmates in the Tuberculosis Prison Hospital-1 (OTB-1) has been put in charge of the entire Ministry of Justice for Saratov region by the FSB.
theins.ru/en/news/259168 twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…
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Part 2 - The horrors in Irkutsk prison
youtu.be/WNi4HUotozc
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#Ukraine: Two-day old baby murdered by a Russian missile in #Zaporizhia.
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Refusal to designate Russia as a state-sponsor of terrorism is seen by Russia itself as appeasement from the West. Appeasement will eventually end as it doesn't work. So let's skip the unproductive middle part of waiting and designate Russia as a state-sponsor of terror now.
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Putin has broken Spy Games: Artem #Zinchenko, a Russian GRU (military intelligence) spy who was caught in #Estonia in 2017 and traded back to #Russia has defected back to Estonia and asked for political asylum.
news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-r…
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In Yalta, Crimea, currently occupied by Russia:
"Are you not afraid of the counteroffensive?"
"We support Ukraine! ✊"
#WindofChange
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Sabotage in #Russia: Garages containing equipment at a military unit in #Moscow were set on fire. 🔥
#RussianResistance
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🚨 Time to disband the United Nations. It has failed. Democratic nations of the world must establish a new global organization with proper controls, like an ability to prevent a genocidal authoritarian regime (#Russia) from assuming the leadership role. Too much to ask? twitter.com/UN/status/1642…
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This could be a precursor for Putin to lay the groundwork to impose martial law. He's been hesitant to do it so far because of potential chaos and instability, not to mention economic costs, but the writing is on the wall for Putin without martial law and general mobilization. twitter.com/igorsushko/sta…