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.@nytimes "concluded that the perpetrators of the massacre along Yablunska Street were Russian paratroopers from the 234th Air Assault Regiment led by Lt. Col. Artyom Gorodilov." The commander was promoted & unit given awards after the #BuchaMassacre 🤬 nytimes.com/2022/12/22/vid…
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“The cost of this fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen. We either back Ukrainian people as they defend their country, or we stand by as the Russians continue their atrocities and aggression in Ukraine.” @POTUS
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Missile terrorism by Russia, with support from Belarus. Nowhere in Ukraine is safe. War crimes everyday. We are not doing enough. Ukraine needs more weapons (from air defense, 100 more HIMARS, to armored vehicles) We need more sanctions. #ArmUkraineNow twitter.com/mhmck/status/1…
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“11 bodies were so mutilated that police could not even determine their gender.” In Izium 447 bodies exhumed, many women and children #ArmUkrainaNow with all they need to stop this genocide. pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/… via @ukrpravda_news
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This would be huge if true. THE Gerasimov. Top general in the entire Russian military. IMO him being sent to Ukraine at all would be extremely abnormal, a sign the new theater commander (General Dvornikov) not producing results fast enough. Russia is losing (already lost really). twitter.com/christogrozev/…
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On #Mariupol Putin's announcement is recognition of defeat. It is a terrible situation, but as long as there are living, breathing, brave Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol, it is not a Russian win. Russians liking shifting forces, priority, assets to other areas. #SlavaUkraini
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This really makes me sick. Physically. What a disgrace. I wish no ill even on the stupid. I hope he gets mental help. twitter.com/RonFilipkowski…
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War is hell. This is hard to watch even after the things I have seen in my own experiences in war. The children, brother and sister...Paramedic of #Mariupol who was captured by Russia and status unknown, but not before smuggling out her footage. youtu.be/d7qDqx4hKKI
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Russia seeks stronger bonds with Iran and now North Korea...clearly a trend here...Again if you think Russia-Ukraine is just about Ukraine, wrong. Putin has big intentions. If he is not stopped in Ukraine, he will not stop. twitter.com/RichPreston/st…
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Why Russia is STILL a member of the UN Security Council after committing so many blatant war crimes (and genocide) in Ukraine is insane 🤬🤬There has to be a way to at least suspend them. twitter.com/Apex_WW/status…
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I 100% agree. NATO and UN should have directly intervened after Bucha. They should intervene to relieve the Ukraine ports so Ukraine food supplies can get to the world. Never again has to mean something. twitter.com/KyivPost/statu…
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Another mass grave of civilians found 🤬🤬 Give them the damn #ATACMS, tanks, IFVs, aircraft, and everything else they need to defend their citizens and sovereign land. #armukrainanow twitter.com/KyivPost/statu…
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"The alternative tactics that Amnesty is suggesting Ukrainian forces follow — to base themselves in woods or structures further away from residential areas — are not realistic, according to John Spencer...specialist in urban warfare studies..." @nytimes nytimes.com/live/2022/08/0…
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Putin will not stop at the Donbas. He will not stop at Ukraine. He is our generation’s Hitler. We (the free world) can help Ukraine stop him now, or we all pay severely later. #ArmUkraineNow twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/…
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I dislike reporting that the illegal Russian war has transitioned to a protracted phase, even worse analogies to Russia facing an insurgency. Russia controls no city, very few "safe" areas. Ukrainians are killing Russian soldiers daily. Get more weapons, ammo in. Ukraine can win.
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Words matter, I said greatest (multiple metrics from comparative of the two forces, strategic implications, importance to the country, Europe, free world) not largest.
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Lyman has been liberated!! #SlavaUkraini twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/s…
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Russia has been (for months now) taking Ukrainian babies -
Kidnapping - and giving them to Russian couples in Russia to be raised Russian. Literally genocide. twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/…
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OFFICIAL FROM UKRAINE! 53 injured #Azovstal troops in #Mariupol evacuated to occupied Novoazovsk for medical treatment. 211 more taken to occupied Olenivka. There will be a prisoner swap! #SlavaUkraini
The rest of the Azovstal garrison is yet to be rescued.
They still fight.
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Bollocks. Russia is NOT headed to Moldova. It can't simply bypass Odesa. Kherson will be liberated! Russian military will culminate soon (weeks, not months).
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On my way back from Ukraine now. At a loss for words in all that I saw studying the Battle of Kyiv. We visited Bucha, Irpin, Moshchun, Brovary, Skybyn, Demydiv, Ivankiv and many other sites. Speaking to commanders, fighters that defended the city. #Ukraine #urbanwarfare
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Didn’t @elonmusk say this wouldn’t happen? twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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"we failed Ukraine in the beginning & China is not Russia. If we wait 6 months to go all in...just in aid, Taiwan won't survive...Russia is a test...If we don't stop him [Putin] in Ukraine, then this does lead to a complete unravelling of the world order." @PiersUncensored
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This is terrible. Ukrainians must continue to be careful in areas previously occupied by Russians. They left booby traps everywhere. Follow the three Rs if anything suspicious is seen or discovered. twitter.com/Osinttechnical…
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Russian front in Kherson collapsing. Godspeed to the Ukrainian fighters! twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/s…
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