#the_ukraine_situation

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gusty tendon
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Keep uploading Val, this is where I get my Ukraine war news

copper monolith
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sorry im taking a year break from thread now bye

copper monolith
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good, some nerd translated the post

gusty tendon
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They’re coping

copper monolith
copper monolith
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Ukrainian army's gonna fucking roll them yet again

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Svatove next, where russians will move to "even more advantageous positions" - said Arestovych.

“In the north towards Svatove, trouble is developing for the Russians, and there is no defense - everyone pulled under Lyman.

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One mistake leads to another, and that's how the disaster works”

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Let’s see what is happening in Russia

They celebrated their annexation of 4 Ukrainian regions yesterday .

One of the speakers, a “former neo-Nazi” said the “Special Military Operation” has come to and it’s time for “Holy War”

He told the world “be afraid, we’re coming for you”

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The speaker, Ivan Okhoblystin, is a typical proponent of the “Russkiy Mir-ideology”.

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great people, well done Putin 👍

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#CAESAR guns on 6x6 trucks delivered by #France to #Ukraine have been successful in combat. Now France is trying to transfer to Kyiv a fancier 8x8 Czech-tailored model with fully-automatic loading and twice the internal ammo storage from 15 due for delivery to Denmark.

↘️ Quoting Oryx (@oryxspioenkop)

After earlier donating 18 155mm Caesar SP...

fierce arch
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why is it so hard for these sites to make good embeds

copper monolith
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it's an fxtwitter link too

fierce arch
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ik

copper monolith
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doesn't work with any other embed service lol

fierce arch
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fxtwitter sucks so much at jt

copper monolith
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idk how much this is an issue on other platforms

fierce arch
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i think one of the sites puts the actual like, text of the message in the author field

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if theres an image

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its vxtwitter

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like why

copper monolith
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lmao

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Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a tank offensive in the Kherson region

Russian military correspondents report that the 1st tank battalion and the 1st infantry battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine moved out of Novovorontsovka in the direction of Khreshchenivka and Lyubymivka

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There is no panic in the Kherson direction. Only Russians squeal for some reason.

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The Lyman situation: What is known?

  • Ukrainian soldiers are in Lyman
  • Russians announced that they retreated from the city
  • Russians suffered high casualties during the operation
  • Ukraine got some prisoners of war
  • Battles continue in the Zarichne-Kreminna direction

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What is not known?

  • No proof of thousands of surrendered Russian soldiers in Lyman
  • No proof of a massive encirclement
  • No clear proof of Ukrainians in Kreminna yet
  • No proof of high Russian morale

Not meaning these couldn't be true, these are just not confirmed

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copper monolith
# copper monolith https://fxtwitter.com/wartranslated/status/1576308598333841408?s=20&t=nvcrEbUUtr...

Wow. In light of Lyman defeat, Russian z-journalist and blogger Anastasiya Kashevarova goes to telegram to post a long rant asking the right questions because all the other military bloggers have "pu*sied out". This is being picked up by other channels.

https://t.me/akashevarova/5532

copper monolith
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Teachers of Mykolaiv (the city that is shelled constantly) sing near their ruined schools.

That's Teacher's day in Ukraine today.

I thought of my first teacher today - Nina Gryhorivna, she was the best!

I hope she's well.

Do you remember your first teacher's name?

📹: MART

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copper monolith
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The construction of a wall on the border between Poland and Belarus has been completed, said Stanisław Żaryn, a representative of the Polish special services.

He said that from now on "illegal entry into the territory of Poland is impossible. And the Polish border is currently the best protected in Europe."

And this is more relevant than ever in the presence of such sick-headed neighbors and their "allies".

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Local residents report a convoy of Russian trucks moving towards the Zaporozhye front front.
A pair of trucks presumably collided with each other while moving in a convoy. 🤷‍♂️
#Ukraine #Melitopil

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copper monolith
# copper monolith https://vxtwitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1576518604396412929?s=20&t=xP1ntB5D...

Two history teachers, Oleksii and Andrii, as many others, are defending Ukraine on the frontlines.

Other Hero teachers hold the domestic front, teaching children in schools, bomb shelters and online.

Today is their day.

Happy Teacher's day!🇺🇦

📹: Operativno.ZSU/Telegram

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Everything is according to plan, that is why ru-mortality counter turned to new page. 60,000 Russian looters have already died on Ukrainian ground. Three times as much injured. Time to ask the "army" of conscripted office workers: where did the "second army of professionals" go?

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“Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have f…ed with? That’s me.”
Walt Kowalski

Total combat losses of the enemy from Feb 24 to Oct 2:

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viral junco
copper monolith
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I like the marker tatoos of the swastika and UA coat of arms

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🎻

copper monolith
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The Russian rapper Ivan Petunin has committed suicide.

He recorded a message to his fans about mobilization.

He said he refuses to murder another man.

He said Putin has taken all Russian men captive, leaving them with 3 choices: becoming a murderer, going to prison or suicide.

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viral junco
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shows how fucked the propaganda is

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Stunned reactions keep coming in with respect to Ukraine reclaiming Lyman. Andrey Gurulyov, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district, said he couldn't explain the defeat. He blamed in on a system of lies, "top to bottom" and was suddenly disconnected.

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Gurulyov was later re-connected, but didn't say much else about Lyman or endemic lying.

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copper monolith
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Reality sneaks up onto unsuspecting Russian state TV hosts. One pundit reveals they aren't supposed to mention Lyman (although the host denies it). He says that everyone knows things aren't going well for the Russian troops. Another pundit says Kyiv might start bombing Moscow.

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NEW: Animation showing Ukraine's success in regaining territory since September 1 as it continues its push further east, after retaking the crucial transport hub of Lyman yesterday.

Read @maxseddon's and @MehulAtLarge's excellent piece
https://www.ft.com/content/c3c4d6e4-2b91-4065-97a6-70c5daaf2516
#gistribe #dataviz

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wicked panther
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Satisfying

copper monolith
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2 Russian sources say that Ukraine is continuing to use TB2. One says Russian commanders didn't believe this until Tor systems shot down two of them and the other says they are being used to locate targets but not to drop munitions.
https://t.me/voenacher/30154
https://t.me/sashakots/36160

It appears TB2 are being used on both the Kherson and the Kreminna fronts. They mention two consistent Ru military problems: 1) that Russian adjacent units aren't communicating or coordinating properly 2) that commanders don't believe/respond to reports from front line units.

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State Duma claims that the boundaries of the annexed territories will be where they were during their "formation and acceptance" to so-called Russia. Quite ambiguous, no date given. If we assume it is 29 September, it may be to avoid a "casus belli" on attacking "Russian land".

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Which is a bit too late anyway, given what's going on on the frontlines.

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Mobilised from Norilsk were left to sleep in the empty field near a VDV unit in Omsk. This man recommends others to take everything with them, including food, sleeping bags, gas burners. Temperatures in Omsk this time of year go to -5 celcius at night.

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unreal path
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Sadly the won't be joining anytime soon, I'm pretty sure one of the requirements is no territorial disputes (at least with non nato members), plus article 5 would get automatically triggered

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Plus Türkiye is giving Finland and Sweden a hard time joining :/

hexed quarry
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yeah if erdogan isn't going to let sweden in he certainly won't allow ukraine

vocal wren
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Didnt he already give the Ukraine the go ahead?

unreal path
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I get Türkiye has issues with Sweden and Finland...but could you like not right now :/

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This is why vetos are important to have

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And a way to veto the veto

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We should be able to discount their vote since they are clearly doing it for self gain and not in the interest of nato

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I will say this Türkiye, you kinda have ruined your relationship with Russia, so idk if you should be acting like this -_-

vocal wren
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Ahh

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unreal path
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Im just saying they should be a bit more careful because members can be removed, and what are they gonna do betray Ukraine and go back to Russia, plus get sanctioned. They are pulling the same crap Greece did to North Macedonia attempting to join NATO and the EU

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Doesn’t seem very collective when one member can basically hold a potential membership hostage

fierce arch
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why should a country be forced to defend another country that it doesnt want to

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at that point they may just leave the alliance

copper monolith
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Dire conditions of the Russian Army. This video is from Russian social media & was filmed by one of the mobilized who was sent to Omsk. They spend days & nights in the open field, eat what they have & drink. No command, no uniform, no barracks, no tents, no sleeping bags.

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copper monolith
# gusty tendon Huh, I wonder how that happened

I think Perun made a great video on it, the whole military is extremely corrupt, missing or fake stocks of equipment etc, its why most of equipment used by Russia has been faulty and dysfunctional

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Tonight on Russian state TV: the mood is grim, look at their faces. Dmitry Sablin, Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee, admits that Russia desperately needs "to stop and regroup" and is experiencing all sorts of shortages, compared to Ukraine that has it all —and then some.

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limber wagon
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Lets hope they continue having successes in both the Kherson and svatova/kremina front (or whatever its called now). They've really been making yuuge gains there

gusty tendon
copper monolith
gusty tendon
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To anyone here who hasn’t watched it

copper monolith
limber wagon
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When the army is requesting air support through social media you know things are going well

copper monolith
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While all eyes were on Lyman, 🇷🇺 channels are now saying that 🇺🇦 have made advances of up to 20km this morning N of Kherson.

New defensive lines are now at Dudchany. "The advance is very significant" Without additional reserves and aviation "This could all end badly."

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"The situation in the Kherson direction is very difficult. The enemy is trying to break into Berislav near Nova Kakhovka"

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Barislav is probably like 30-40km from the bottom of the line in the first post

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Copium

limber wagon
copper monolith
copper monolith
# copper monolith https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1576615100395331585?t=aOEcFsMKuDd5e1zOyBj8...

Without winter uniforms, Russian soldiers will not be able to fight very soon. Not surprising - corruption in Russia is massive. Most likely, those uniforms were never manufactured, but government funds were appropriated and distributed into the pockets of Generals.

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In today’s Russian papers:

  • “The surrender of Lyman becomes a political problem.”
  • Mobilisation “has rocked the boat of political stability.”
  • The world “on the edge of a [nuclear] catastrophe.” #ReadingRussia http://bbc.in/3rsxfzf
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limber wagon
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Though if they really want to, they could just take regular winter cats and spray-paint them or something.

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Very DIY, but if you have no other choice

split aurora
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nato just would not work unless everyone has a strong desire and commitment to defend eachother

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and if a nation can get placed in against your will

paper cedar
copper monolith
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paper cedar
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oh yeah I watched a video of it, they did say the military gives them guns and clothes though

copper monolith
paper cedar
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my god

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ok nvm that's worse than I thought

copper monolith
copper monolith
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The surreal thing about Russian last week's annexation is that they declared "Russian" even those territories which they do not de facto control. Zaporizzhia city, for example. Big parts of Zaporizzhia, Kherson and Donetsk oblasts. 1/2

So, according to Russian "law", Ukraine is an "occupier" as it stays on territories which RU declared as Russian. Incredible surreality, typically Russian. You occupy a country and declare this country an occupier. War is peace, freedom is slavery, victim is perpetrator 2/2

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The new Russian annexation of territories is making Russia even weaker. 1) Now any new town liberated by the Ukrainians will be considered in Russia as a loss of the "Russian" territory. And will provoke disappointment and dispair. 1/2

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  1. Crimea has no longer any "special" status for the Russian imagination. If Ukrainians took a "Russian" Lyman, they can now take a "Russian" Crimea, no difference. Crimea can no longer be a red line. -- So Russians created a trap for themselves
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Dmitry Peskov - Press Secretary of President of Russia says that the borders in which the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions will be accepted into Russia have not yet been determined 🤡

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lol

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Russian forces who broke from encirclement near Drobysheve, Lyman area complain that they sleep for the second day on the street near the heating main. And they don’t know what will be next.
(English subtitles)

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ok?

split aurora
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don't really agree with this tbh

copper monolith
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hm?

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how so charlte

split aurora
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Was the Warsaw uprising seen as "capture of a German city" or "liberation of a Polish city"

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saying the occupied ukranian land will be treated as russian territory because russia said "ohye we annex it" is... incorrect

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Or, the falklands, for a simpler example

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Argentina invaded, occupied, declares it theirs

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yet it was seen internationally as the liberation of the British falklands, not the annexation of the Argentinian falklands

tired scaffold
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I thought they were referring to how it'll be viewed internally by Russians

copper monolith
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yeah ^

fossil horizon
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I don't think that's the point of the tweet

split aurora
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My point still stands

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If the British went and invaded the argentine capital

fossil horizon
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It's about how Crimea is now in the same bag as other occupied territory

split aurora
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That would be seen as a completely fundamentally different thing in Argentina

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as the liberation of the falklands

fossil horizon
copper monolith
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either way the currently recaptured territories by Ukraine are technically not Russia because they still haven't decided where the new border is suppose to be

split aurora
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Liberating a currently occupied territory and conquest of a core internationally recognised territory are not seen the same

fossil horizon
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Crimea isn't the capital of Russia afaik

split aurora
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I just don't think this view of how the Russians will treat the territory holds up to precedent

fossil horizon
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So loosing Crimea now isn't as "exceptionnal" as it would have been a few days aho

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They can't pull the "it's our core territory" card anymore

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Or at least it's going to be harder now

split aurora
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And Russians won't view it the same either, they won't go "Kherson, Moscow, Crimea, ah its all the same it's all russian territory"

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as the tweet seems to be implying

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Theres a clear distinction between what they occupy and claim and what is core national territory

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and to ignore that is just ignorant

fossil horizon
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What

split aurora
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and trying to argue it on academic pedantism is worse

fossil horizon
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I'm not talking about Moscow

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Why do you keep on bringing up Moscow?

fossil horizon
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It's not saying that Russians are powerless or anything. Just that they will have a harder time claiming that Crimea is somehow different than other annexed territories

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fossil horizon
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I am confused

split aurora
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pls no arguing over this ty

copper monolith
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split aurora
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I tried to ignore them because I didn't want to be rude

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I've had then blocked for a while

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but I didn't want people to think I was having a convo with them and willfully ignoring/talking over them

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I had no way of clearing it up without sounding rude

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fossil horizon
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I ameven more confused now

split aurora
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yeah this became something it didn't need to be

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🙃

copper monolith
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if anyone heard reports about Russian nuclear subs leaving their ports, just know it may just be disinfo spread by some news org https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1576907982893633538?s=20&t=VCDmbFRUhYiGEQ0zCJbHiQ

Italian @LaRepubblica_it published article: 🇷🇺submarine with Poseidon (aka Doomsday) nuclear rockets went out to sea, citing NATO.

🇺🇦Center for Countering Disinformation: info isn't found on NATO's website. Might article be informational manipulation to increase nuclear worries?

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split aurora
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weird

limber wagon
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Ya know, I havent seen many people talk about the fact that launching nukes to Ukraine would also very likely spread fallout to Russia itself.

fossil horizon
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I... I think I will go now

copper monolith
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#Ukraine: The UK🇬🇧 supplied Wolfhound TSV is also used as armoured recovery vehicle by the AFU; this time pulling a captured Russian BTR-82A back from the front lines in the South.

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What appears to be the end result, Ukrainian forces managed to recover the Iranian-produced, Russian-operated Mohajer-6

↘️ Quoting OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical)

Ukrainian forces recover a downed Iranian-produced, Russian-operated Mohajer-6 UAV

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Interactive panels and maps at the service of the Armed Forces. For maximum consolidation and quick access to the most up-to-date data on the placement of Russians

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leaden grove
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Ukraine-Russia Peace:

  • Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.

  • Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).

  • Water supply to Crimea assured.

  • Ukraine remains neutral.

stable girder
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Musk wtf

leaden grove
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I love how he contradicts himself in the second bullet point by implying that Crimea wasn’t annexed

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And what‘s so special about 1783, shall we restore the Ottoman Empire too while we‘re at it?

fossil horizon
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Why does anyone ever take this guy seriously again?

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The stupidity of his takes is jaw dropping

leaden grove
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Y u p

leaden grove
split aurora
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Give sevastopol back to the British

leaden grove
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Like this is clearly outside his regular area of expertise, but it doesn’t get better when it comes to transport either

split aurora
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we occupied it for a while

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safe in our hands 😌

fossil horizon
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Thry had colonies there

limber jolt
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revive the Roman Empire

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I read somewhere that apparently there are some Greek speaking minorities in Turkey that still technically call themselves "Roman"

fossil horizon
limber jolt
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or some form of that term

fossil horizon
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Exploiting slaves in his parent's emerald mine?

leaden grove
split aurora
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I mean he's awful at the former

leaden grove
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leaden grove
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As you might have noticed, names like Sevastopol or Kherson don’t exactly sound Slavic, and that‘s because they aren’t

limber jolt
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also people at least on American news seem to constantly mispronounce these cities

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people on youtube too

leaden grove
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Fun fact but Vladimir originally wasn’t a Slavic name either

limber jolt
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I once saw someone pronounce Kherson as "herison" and I died inside

leaden grove
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It‘s derived from the Norse Valdemar who was the first prince of Kyiv

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But that‘s just a side note lol

limber jolt
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yeah

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at that point I feel like the cultures of Eastern slavic countries kinda are blended together historically, they hadn't fully split off yet

fossil horizon
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That area in particular was a fun mix

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You had Vikings coming from the north to serve in Constantinople and Byzantine Greeks making colonies along the coast

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In between there were the Slavs watching it all xD

copper monolith
tired scaffold
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Russia decolonises
That would make it very small

copper monolith
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good

fierce arch
copper monolith
limber wagon
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A modest proposal

fossil horizon
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European Union the Original

limber jolt
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Avē Caesar!

leaden grove
copper monolith
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elon ratiod by ai, amazing

leaden grove
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I mean, he‘s complaining about supposed bots now lmao

copper monolith
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maybe he should fix his own bots from running over ppl

steel jasper
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it's not like Russia's going to declare a second warfront

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and they're pretty desperate

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great time to get any outcry for your little genociding shut down

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It's nothing short of stupid to let a chance like this pass if you're on that side

steel jasper
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reminds me of those stories of guys in charge of military depots practically publicly sell off what they got

limber wagon
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Not a fan of the Mongol empire #CancelMongolEmpire

tired scaffold
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this Genghis guy is low-key problematic ngl

limber wagon
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^ this tbh

stable girder
leaden grove
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sigh

gusty tendon
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Can’t say I’m too surprised

split aurora
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ah yes war success is all about population

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that's why we all remember when india conquered the british emp-

fossil horizon
# leaden grove

So going by this logic should we all submit to China/India/ whoever has more people right?

leaden grove
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Correct

fossil horizon
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Then by all logic Elon should bow before his workers

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and unions

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😈

leaden grove
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👀

fossil horizon
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Truly a genius this man

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only people with iq over 9000 will understand his thought process

stable girder
copper monolith
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more ratios KEKL

fossil horizon
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his tweet has almost triple the likes of Elon's original tweet right now

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nice

copper monolith
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in a response to a new poll

fossil horizon
copper monolith
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the old poll does have almost 1.5m votes

unreal path
fossil horizon
copper monolith
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imagine getting rolled by an actual president KEKWHAT

fossil horizon
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I mean he has like 20 years of comedic experience

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Elon is no much against his powers

copper monolith
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just noticed "Elon" and "Crimea" in the worldwide trends

fossil horizon
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I don't have a Twitter account

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Can you see the results of the poll?

copper monolith
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oh you can do that with polls in discord embeds by adding "fx" before twitter

fossil horizon
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Wow

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Fuck Elon

copper monolith
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^

molten tartan
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uh oh

steel jasper
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"The problem isn't from bottom to top, it's from top-"
"Sorry we lost your signal"

coral idol
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Why don’t the Ukrainians actually declare peace with the Russians and then continue their reclaiming, by stating “it’s a special military operation”

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I feel that’d be pretty funny

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Because then the Russians would have to admit that this actually was a declaration of war

unreal path
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Can people seriously stop thinking this guy is a genius, he's an idiot

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They of course deserve self determination...but they aren't getting that right now EyesSquint

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What if Russia occupied Alaska and held a referendum...there's a clear bias in that referendum

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All you need to ask is this. Are both parties involved with the referendum and is any 3rd party like the UN moderating it?

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Nope? Then it's clear bullcrap even if they truly (doubt) want to join Russia

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This is also the guy who got all upset at California shutting down his stuff because umm there's a pandemic going on

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(I don't swear) literally fuck Elon musk

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Very based Mr. president

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copper monolith
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And also replacing ethnic people with its own

copper monolith
unreal path
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Also I've heard stories that even some people that call themselves Russians not Ukrainians are turning on Russia

unreal path
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Next time I need a plumber I call @elonmusk He doesn’t do plumbing?! Then what the heck’s the matter, why does he speak of international relations and internl law? Btw a good plumber is better than Musk’s secondhand opinions on illegally occupied territories of a foreign nation

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copper monolith
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Glad I wasn't born there

unreal path
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I mean there’s a good reason a lot of Russia’s youth is leaving

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And then you got Kazakhstan going…hey if you need a place to stay ameowbox

copper monolith
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People born in the ussr trying to bring it back in their own fucked up way, and still have the same old worldview

unreal path
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I really like how Kazakhstan has started to stand up more

copper monolith
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They do own Russian main space port

unreal path
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And I remember some Russian were basically saying the same stupid claims about Ukraine to Kazakhstan

unreal path
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I mean the already beat Russia at their own game of withholding fuel

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Sorry Kazakhstan for some reason after you condemned us your pipeline that goes through us needs to be shutdown for the time being…you know safety issues… and Kazakhstan goes understandable we have some safety concerns about the train shipments of coal that come from here to Russia so we will do the same :)

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Very ballsy and they got the W, for some reason the pipeline was able to operate again ablobthinking

copper monolith
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Meanwhile in Russia: a host urged the citizens to exercise "internal censorship": not to read hostile media reporting and abstain from complaining, lest their comments end up being used by foreign networks like CNN. He also seems to be striking at the comments made by head of RT.

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Huh it is 1984

wicked panther
copper monolith
fossil horizon
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Even if it's all propaganda and Russia lost half of that it's still a terryfying number to look at

copper monolith
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Visually confirmed tech loss is like 65% or more of what Ukraine military posts

unreal path
copper monolith
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Have they decided on a border yet

leaden grove
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Nope

copper monolith
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Russia already caused a massive escalation that caused great harm to Ukrainians and the world you stupid fucking idiot

coral idol
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I’ve been saying this forever. Elon Musk needs to shut up 😭

copper monolith
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⚡️ North Korea supports Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories.

North Korea has supported sham referendums that Russia had held in the occupied Ukrainian territories on Sept. 23-27, claiming they were organized “in keeping with the UN Charter.”

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“(We) support the Russian government’s stand of making the above-said regions the composition of Russia,” said Jo Chol Su, director-general of international organizations at Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry, referring to Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts.

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lol

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Gotta love that backwards advancement

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Hasnt been posted here yet, but there were some reports about nuclear weapons being carried towards the Ukrainian border

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Those appear to be false according to the US

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Hopefully

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I read "ANOTHER" so I assume not

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I assumed Russia would lose Kherson AFTER the railway through lysychansk is cut off

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but no, they just did it now, amazing

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fr

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absolute speedrun

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also for a moment I thought you were Lino, similar pfp or something

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his old pfp atleast

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Lino did make this pfp, so thats probably why

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oh huh

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part of the reason why my parents left Russia is they knew their kids would have a better life elsewhere lol

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I dunno if I missed a Russian territory being lost

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A lot of souther Ukraine

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me, a finn, looking at Karelia

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The Russians are breaking in Kherson boyyyyyyys

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Mate i honestly dont know more than that its very ethnically finnish, and was "Lost" after the winter war

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All I needed to now you have my Belgian approval to hold a referendum on it rejoining glorious finland

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@copper monolith I just saw an ad on instagram by a bunch of conspiracy theorists who are looking for people to translate videos from Russian into German lmao

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i sometimes get ads about calling different numbers in russia and telling them the truth about the war

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Oh yeah, I know those

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Your first mistake was giving them any attention to begin with. They're just a person.

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# nocturne osprey https://twitter.com/SergiyKyslytsya/status/1576993822948855808?t=HaUzENgVqdWrc_B...

U.S. quietly paying millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims; while SpaceX appears to have donated a significant sum, it has done so with public assistance. US & other countries have paid to send much of the known equipment https://t.co/Kf8VSuxHVi

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Meanwhile on Russian state TV: grim predictions that Russia is at least two months away from even attempting to advance. Also, some surprising admissions about how unprepared they were and the magnitude of the losses they've experienced in Ukraine.

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What about

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Also Elon the UN recognizes all the "annexed" territories including the two regions in the Crimea Peninsula as Ukrainian...why would that do that especially when Russia is literally illegally occupying them

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When the UN is having a stronger position on Russia, you are dumb

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Either Elon is just ignorant or he's sus (or both)

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I don't think anyone would trust him with propaganda since nobody knows what the fuck is happening inside his dumb head. He is probably just a useful idiot that wants to feel "not like other guys"

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Pfft lmao

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That's a good one

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Though I think Königsberg more belongs to Germany

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It would be nice to have it independent

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A 4th baltic state

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Hell fucking yeah, the return of Prussia

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You know things aren't going particularly well when these start driving past by

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Here's the testimony of a Bundeswehr officer that tested one of the Nationale Volksarmee's BTM-3s (BAT-M). (Spoiler: It wasn't that great tbh)

For those that understand German:

https://t.co/Gop4EYKZ4G

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(This is a trench digger)

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👀

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The Russian Defence Ministry denies major drawdowns from Kherson

Its maps present a different picture, as they show Russia out of Dudchany and having departed positions from the west bank of the Oskil River

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A retreat from the Oskil River of about 20km would push Russian forces eastward towards Luhansk

This would reaffirm Zelensky's claims that Ukraine has advanced in a "rapid and powerful" manner against Russia's occupied southern regions

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@leaden grove san diego has about of the 4 major military bases that are basically a hub for most military stuff

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and like the school has talked to us that we are very much a target due to that

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Wait why

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because they are a hub for most of the military

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it is american public school

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I honestly think that they were just scaring you

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Also it is quite far away from Russia. If shit ever goes nuclear they will probably bomb Ukraine and/or Poland first

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The US is not an active participant in the war and San Diego is like on the other side of the war and US territory

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Top pro-Kremlin propagandist is despondent because of Russia's defeats in Ukraine. He refuses to be cheered up even by Elon Musk's insertion into the timeline of propaganda. Solovyov advocates for the restoration of the death penalty, because people refuse to shoot themselves.

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It is very unlikely nukes will be launched

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Azovstal Defender Mykhailo Dianov tells what helped him hold on in 🇷🇺 prison. He is incredibly strong and brave.

This is part of a large interview. He also said that they were given stale bread and 30 seconds to eat it. After that they were forced to get up and run.

📹: Front18

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Mhm, and I‘m just gonna say that the US is probably one of the safest places there are from like a military view

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Witness a steady diet of upside-down propaganda fed to the Russians: head of RT claims the West is supposedly trying to "colonize & enslave" Russia and other countries. Without a hint of awareness, she unwittingly describes what Russia is doing to Ukraine and why Ukraine resists.

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⚡️ISW: Ukraine continues to make simultaneous advances in Kherson, Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts.

The Institute for the Study of War reported that Ukraine's interdiction campaign is crippling Russian attempts to transfer additional ammunition, reserves, and mobilized men.

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The experts noted that Ukrainian forces liberated several settlements on the eastern bank of the Inhulets Rive, forcing Russian troops to retreat toward Kherson.

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They have also severed two Russian ground communication lines in northern Kherson Oblast, pushing Russian units south of the Kherson-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast border toward the Beryslav area.

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I don't know if you all talked about it already but in Poland they are already preparing for the worst outcome

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Средств на выплаты мобилизованным не хватает, признались в Омской области. Власти региона договорились с военкоматами, чтобы дать время мобилизованным на переоформление бизнеса (без уточнения, на кого), сообщает ТАСС.

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Mobilized Russian soldiers from Omsk region asking the uncomfortable question of when they're going to be paid. Local officials say that they don't have the actual money to pay them all right now.

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While some people may be buying iodide I never heard of any official action as well as any new bomb shelter plans

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didn't get actual source though but I'm pretty sure he got it from Polish news

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Russia ain't gonna do shit to Poland

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I'ma check quickly polish news

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All I saw was some regions distributing iodide to the fire departmends when than nuclear power plant was on fire in case of Chernobyl 2.0 happening

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But it has nothing to do with Russia directly nuking us

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Very cool the first thing I see when opening one of the top Lithuanian news websites is a picture of the tsar bomba mushroom cloud and the articles about what happens in a nuclear explosion

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But other than that I don't see anything about any preparations here

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I hate how they try to generate panic

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Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki w Warszawie

We wtorek, 4 października br. w Mazowieckim Urzędzie Wojewódzkim w Warszawie odbyła się konferencja prasowa Wojewody Mazowieckiego Konstantego Radziwiłła, podczas której zostały przekazane założenia dotyczące dystrybucji tabletek jodku potasu w przypadku potencjalnego zagrożenia radiacyjnego. Obecnie na terenie województwa mazowieckiego utworzon...

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literally polish government website ^

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they said they want to be ready if it happens

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Yeah

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They aren't distrubuting them yet

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They just secured a stock in case something happens

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I like how of I look at any polish text without reading it, it just looks like bottom speak someone keyboard smashed, but I'll still understand it cuz it's similar to Russian lol

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It's the same for me and most non-cyrylic slavic languages

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# fossil horizon They aren't distrubuting them yet

yeah you are right
here is a second source about it: https://www.gov.pl/web/uw-warminsko-mazurski/dystrybucja-jodku-potasu

Warmińsko-Mazurski Urząd Wojewódzki w Olsztynie

W celu zabezpieczenia ludności Polski na wypadek wystąpienia zdarzenia radiacyjnego, rząd premiera Mateusza Morawieckiego zdecydował o utworzeniu rezerwy preparatów stabilnego jodu w postaci tabletek. Aktualnie nie istnieją powody do uruchamiania dystrybucji tabletek jodku potasu w trybie alarmowym.

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It's readable but weird

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I'm too polish to understand

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The problem with polish is that they used latin alphabet to write sound that aren't meant for it

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So theye are plenty weird lettercombinations that replace them

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tbh I like that
at least didn't require for me to learn entire new alphabet when learning dutch and english

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True true

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As nature intended it to be

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Can we talk about how Russia is Mordor xDD

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oh lmao

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didnt even notice that

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also "little mordor"

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oh god lmao

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And Hungary became the Huns

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honestly, "Little mordor" makes it sound so quint

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Wtf the Czechs are so based

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I really want a Czech Kaliningrad now

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XD

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Stare into the abyss

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Do you think they too are afraid of running water?

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that fits so well

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I love it

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yeah Ukrainians call russia Mordor, and why they tend to refer to the russian soldiers as orcs, mainly due to them wearing green clothing

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less than a week

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The US had 58k casualties in the vietnam war

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.... that lasted 10 years

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Russia managed to beat that in less than a year

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"The partnership with our Baltic neighbours has never been stronger"

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-Czech minister of foreign affairs

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I love this so much

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Czechia is a Baltic country 💪

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Anyonewanna join the new Czech navy?

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lets goo

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@nocturne ospreySCcheese

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Finally: czech world domination

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or is this 20+30

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it looks more like 20+30

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I think this means 30km instead of the 20km yesterday

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so 10 more

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uhuh

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But keep in mind the "Reportedly"

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I don't really doubt it, I'm just surprised ukraine didn't wait until they cut the railway to kherson first

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a Russian BMP-2 crew are surrendering with their intact vehicle in Kherson region https://vxtwitter.com/SputnikATONews/status/1577707319684927489?s=20&t=bzZLDKWnruzFO8dZSsoxjg

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IT BEGINS: Moscow's TASS news reports that mobilized troops in the Omsk region are electing spokesmen to complain about conditions and lack of pay. These are literally acts of mutiny and insubordination-- and don't bode well for the combat performance Putin’s newest troops.

↘️ Quoting SOTA (@Sota_Vision)

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Російська пропаганда – це частина гібридної війни путіна.

Під час виступу на Конференції Консервативної партії Великої Британії у Бірмінгемі закликав західні держави блокувати російські пропагандистські ЗМІ і фінансування кремлем неурядових організацій та проросійських політиків

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Putin saying that Russia respects Ukrainians.

Looks like admitting that they are a separate nation, and not “Little Russian” is not included in his definition of “respect”.

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I completely forgot when Turkey, a NATO country, shot down a Russian jet that crossed a small 10km section (I think one of the pilots died too?)

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📢Евакуація поранених під обстрілом російської артилерії. Хоробрість наших хлопців безмежна💪🇺🇦

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Russian media reported that mobilized men in the Belgorod region are rebelling because of terrible conditions, lack of food and roof, and that they were given decommissioned weapons. In the videos, they claim that among 500 new drafters many got cold, weren’t assigned to any unit

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Chechen deputy Adam Deilmkhanov threatens all students of Russian universities with consequences if they stand against the regime. This is quite unheard of given he is Chechen, indicating increasing influence of this party in the country.

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and "pro-russia" is definitely not a vague term and totally the same as "wanting to join russia"

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I imagine for most that just means "wanting closer ties with russia", not "wanting to get invaded, warcrimed and annexed by"

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Russian mobiks, location unspecified, recording an address to the public, saying they were abandoned, they are all sick, they were given weapons which are not registered anywhere, they have to buy their food, and there are mentally unstable people…

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Just found another video filmed by the guy in the centre, he mentions there's about 500 of them, they are all in Belgorod Oblast (bordering Ukraine), and have been living in these conditions for a week.

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у меня один вопрос к человеку, который в ночи согласовывал этот пресс-релиз — ты че там на хуй ебнутый совсем?

из-под москвы они ехали в нижний новгород НА УЧЕБУ через белгород

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Top propagandists on Russian state TV brainstormed about various ways of attacking the West for helping Ukraine: from plotting to kill powerful government officials on "The Satanovsky List," to using energy as a weapon against Europe. More in my a…

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# copper monolith https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1577897586656165888?t=sT3Yyvf-7jMNtv7l...

For @elonmusk: the difference between the 2012 map that you posted and the 2019 map on the right is neither small, nor insignificant. It reflects the forging of a united, coherent Ukrainian nation. Granular data on the 2019 first round describe the same phenomenon as well.

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The Dutch-made IFW YPR-765, with a remarkable and unique silhouette, is often seen on the roads of Ukraine’s east and south nowadays. Day and night, without stopping, they are chasing the russian occupiers out of Ukrainian land.

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hmmm yes, 15k soldiers suddenly appeared while there is absolutely nothing better they could be doing

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This dude said Belarus was participating in the "special op" a few days ago when him and his boyfriend met

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Also pretty funny seeing Prigozhin direct his disinformation efforts from the West to Putin and Russia. I suspect a heart attack or a fall out a window could be on the cards.

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# copper monolith https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1577779335699877888?t=K2P84RtNwKmQzX7Fm0...

Didn't post it yesterday cuz I was a scrub but here's a thread about this, also qrt of another thread and vid https://fxtwitter.com/kromark/status/1577753851544977411?t=rId6SZHeUequwaaSOdPnGw&s=19

In an weird twist this guy, whose name I think now can be revealed (Sergey Surkov) drops with yet another complaints and allegations against their commanders and organizers of the Russian mobilization. Says they're "somewhere in Belgorod region". https://t.me/insiderUKR/42878

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Wacky as fuck

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I hope that the CHP is less dumb

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CHP?

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The opposition party

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The party founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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ah

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Father of Modern day turkey

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ye I know of Ataturk, and how he's probably rolling in his grave because of what Erdogan is doing

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Aka the opposite of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Atatürk: I'll make a modernise secular state

Erdoğan: embrace neo-ottomanism and religious economics "erdonomics"

Atatürk: am i a joke to you?

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Crying Russian propagandist accused those who don’t want to die in Russia’s war of being “a zero, decay and garbage.” Despondent, he wept live on-air, urging others to join the battle, but didn’t express any desire to do so himself. More in my art…

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nukes will never be involved in this war

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As soon as the cat is out of the bag, it’s hard to put him back in

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I mean ukraine's not in nato

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and unless poland sniffs the radiation somehow then they won't call for article 5

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the radiation will go everywhere, and it'll piss off pretty much everyone, including Russia's remaining relevant allies like China

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Even if the radiation is nowhere near the border, the surrounding nations will call it

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it's now impossible to hide nuclear detonations, the US alone has many spy sats constantly looking at the entire Ukraine

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#Ukraine: The Ukrainian army continues to destroy Russian artillery using HIMARS/M270 systems - a 9P140 Uragan multiple rocket launcher and what appears to be a 9T452 transloader with ammo were destroyed by precise strikes somewhere in the East.

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Kherson: Russian occupation authorities declare school holidays beginning TODAY until 21 October to ensure “everybody’s security” https://t.co/CRdTkrsQll

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All #Kherson schoolchildren will be evacuated to Crimea apparently today https://t.co/9PbS4i98Ko

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A bunch of strikes was reported during night on Russian positions in Kherson region.
Some of those:
Kherson KhBK, district base/barracks(photos 1)
Vesele village (p-2)
Kakhovka (p-3)
Map(p-4)
#Ukraine #Kherson

Consequences of a night strike in Kherson, in a place used by the Russians

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So has any Russian official been stupid enough to comment on the chech referendum

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500 mobilized Russian men went off the train in Belgorod region and started a protest

They complain they have no helmets, bulletproof vests, medicine, money and even food.

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The Lukashenko regime has decided to seize the most prominent Catholic temple in Belarus, the Red Church in Minsk. Last week unknown persons set fire to the building, and now officials have terminated the use agreement - Catholics must remove all their property in a few days.

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@WWFerguson2 Yes, there was no reprivatisation in Belarus so pretty much all historic buildings are state-owned

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Torture room in Pisky-Radkivski village in Kharkiv region. This is where Russians detained Ukrainians.

One of their prisoners gave testimony. His hands still bear signs of torture.

📹: National Police of Ukraine

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Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, says Musks's comments that most people in eastern Ukraine "prefer Russia" reflect "reality"

https://t.me/rbc_news/59742

↘️ Quoting Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

@LindseyGrahamSC Below is the electoral map of 2012. Blue is the pro-Russia party.

copper monolith
# clear creek elaborate

elon started posting russian propaganda and just saying dumb takes, showing he knows nothing about the war, so some russians are praising him, while others still dislike him for things like providing Ukraine with vital Starlink terminals

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⚡️ Reuters: Most Americans think US should keep supporting Ukraine, despite Russia's nuclear threats.

A recent poll shows 73% of U.S. citizens agreed for their country to continue to support Ukraine, despite Russia's threats to use nuclear weapons, Reuters reported.

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It's 15% up compared to the previous similar poll in August.

According to Reuters, President Joe Biden's administration has provided over $16.8 billion of security assistance to Ukraine since Russia started its all-out invasion on Feb. 24.

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Wow why did no one think of that before! Such a revolutionary measure... oh wait they already did that during soviet times and it ended with empty shops and comically long lines

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The apartment in #Zaporizhzhia after it was hit by a #Russian missile strike this morning. Almost everything was destroyed, the dog is scared, and the man is searching for the leash for his dog to leave the house.

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Russia’s senate speaker says Russia is prepared to stop the war in Ukraine if Kyiv agrees to Moscow’s conditions – which, at present, essentially amount to ending Ukraine’s existence as we know it

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Соняшники розквітли і розквітне Україна💙💛

Гвардійці показують, як у несезон розквітли соняшники на деокупованих територіях Харківщини і Донеччини🌻

😌Добре, що вороги носять насіння соняшника в кишенях 🌱

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Two Russian men fleeing the draft navigated nearly 300 miles of rough fall Bering Sea waters, landing on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.

“The men told villagers they had sailed their boat from the city of Egvekinot in Northeastern Russia”

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“The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the men were taken to the public safety building in Gambell. Town Clerk Curtis Silook said the men were flown off the island on Tuesday”

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Top Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is joined by Andrey Gurulyov, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district. He says the Ukrainian forces timed their advances specifically to ruin Putin's Birthday. Gurulyov predicts tha…

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This would totally affect my own perception of the Ukrainian military, despite the Ukrainians not blowing civilian buildings, forcing occupied local to conscript or invade another country.

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I always wondered how clowns makeup is usually red white blue 🤔🤡

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Oh no not the birthday /jjj

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⚡️ Police: 534 bodies of civilians have been found in liberated Kharkiv Oblast.

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Since Sept. 7, 534 civilian bodies, including 19 children, have been recovered in the liberated territories of Kharkiv Oblast, said Serhii Bolvinov, head of Kharkiv Oblast police's investigative department.

He added that this number includes bodies found at a mass burial site in liberated Izium.

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The knives are well and truly out in Russia after recent retreats in Ukraine

This morning Vladimir Solovyov had this to say to the military top brass

"Do you think time is on our side? They've hugely increased their amount of weapons... But what…

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Biden pls

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As Vladimir Putin turns 70, one Russian paper says he has “turned the world upside down.” Another advises Moscow against using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine: “It risks sparking a full-scale nuclear war & complete strategic isolation." #R…

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deserved rtgameLUL

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OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever ordered her killed is still at large. And turns 70 today.

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For uncovering official wrongdoing she was awarded Russia's prestigious "Kalashnikov prize for journalism" and died at the scene.

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True!!!

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maybe ukraine can make it to moscow and deliver him a birthday cake

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Japanese minister for Internet who never used a computer be like

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Even though NATO supplied weapons systems have become more common in the Ukrainian artillery corps, recent acquisitions of Russian ammunition have put older systems, like the D-30 howitzer seen here, back into heavy use.

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People queue in front of Kharkiv blood donation centre from early morning. They come to donate blood for Ukrainian soldiers to support them in any way they can. The staff works around the clock in a bomb shelter, receiving 180 donors a day.

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Kherson — way to the Ukrainian Crimea and historical frontier of battles. Quite special region for Ukraine, where 🇺🇦democracy started its own way out: Cossack's sich, the first Constution of Pylyp Orlyk in 1710. Now, as centuries ago, Kherson stan…

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Earlier, Russian media reported on the explosion of a drone at Shaykovka airfield.
Now, referring to sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, OBOZREVATEL editor-in-chief Orest Sokhar claims that two Tu-22M3 were destroyed as a result of the incident.
Link - https://t.co/iACccAU7RQ

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The statement is serious, I hope the confirmation will also be serious🤷‍♂️

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Ratnik will be a game changer on the battlefield, make a soldier extremely strong and durable
Ratnik in reality: https://vxtwitter.com/wartranslated/status/1578469183204904960?s=20&t=GYjH8Iq3LyrdM5i5nCJxrw

The helmet from the most modern Russian set "Vatnik"... sorry, "Ratnik", turned out to be a simple old soviet steel helmet.

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the list

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Right into my city, this is so epic

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Now all the patriotic Russian colonisers will have to travel over Ukraine to get to their shitland

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dayumn, thats a pretty big collapse

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So a train exploded then maybe?

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I guess we'll know soon enough

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Oh didn't even notice that lmaooo

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me neither wtf

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Alexander Lukashenko says that Belarus is facing an attack with "tactical nuclear weapons" from Poland

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Lukashenko is holding talks with Russia on mitigating this risk and vows to take measures

As Russia's nuclear brinkmanship rhetoric intensifies, the risk of Russia deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus, which has been legalized, grows

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Bozos now gonna go through a himars reachable roads lool

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Article 5?

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Article 5?

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Wouldn't constitute for that

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They are weaponizing desperate immigrants, but its not a military action kinda

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Its dumb and we'd need an actual bigass wall like the one Poland built, but I'm not sure most people here would fork out more tax money for that, especially since we're being fucked by inflation and ever growing energy bills

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The recent rhetoric around nuclear weapons somehow reminds me of the pre-24 Feb situation, when governments started shouting about the looming war, and towards the end began giving specific dates. I think we're not there yet, but we could be just a few steps away.

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With Musk, it doesn't seem to me that he just decided to spread his message out of the blue. I think someone whispered something, specifically to him, due to his reach and significance. He defends his position so vehemently as if he knows something.

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I could be totally wrong on all of these of course, and I hope I am.

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Funny thing, my dad was wondering if we got any of those watermelons this summer, and I was like "u think they'd import produce from occupied territories by a country we ended pretty much all trade with?"

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It's just not a very smart way of putting it now

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A peace with a decolonized, demilitarised, denuclearised Russia sure

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Yeah

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Basically we can have peace once Russia grows up from their "we're still an empire! We're still relevant!" phase

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It looks like some vehicles were in the blast, that's quite unfortunate if there are dead people

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Melitopol also has a very active partisan movement so every future supply will be under even more threat

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Yeah it's def gonna take quite a while to get the bridge up and running again https://twitter.com/ElaurantScott/status/1578619906765258752?t=Qwgi7g_gW0f3Cmc5x0Tv4g&s=19

@WarintheFuture @DarthPutinKGB Mick the embodied heat energy in those rail cars, if left to burn, will soften the steel in the rial bridge and buckle it too.
Same cause of failure as the WTC towers coming down after burning fuel from the aircraft melted the steel.

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Rail will be unusable until they replace a chunky chunk of rails

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"Can I become a POW and not fight at all?", - Russian conscripts call 🇺🇦 hotline "I Want to Live".

Chief Intelligence Service of Ukraine said that over 2,000 Russians contacted 🇺🇦 side about surrendering after partial mobilization was announced.

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BREAKING: A source within Vladimir Rogov's Russian occupation government in Zaporizhzhia says the last communication line between the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and Ukraine's energy system has been cut

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In line with the Kremlin's past statements, the problem is attributed to Ukrainian shelling last night. The cutoff of ZNPP could also be a Russian asymmetric retaliation for the Crimea bridge attack or a sign that Russia is redirecting power to its occupied territories imminently

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The great panic begins

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I'm the end the guy says he can't get to work now because the road he uses is blocked lol

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⚡️Crimean Bridge has been severely damaged following explosion.

According to first videos of the aftermath, published by witnesses, a part of the bridge had collapsed.

The video also depicts the burned out tanker train.

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Bridge go boom

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So no more supplies for the south

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Looks very yes

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^ close up

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I actually thought it was a rocket from Ukraine that did this

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But a truck and so much damage?

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And how can a fire spread so well on a bridge

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Ah that makes sense
I read that the heat from the fire made the metal more soft and weak

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⚡️Zelensky staffer: 'Everything illegal must be destroyed'.

Following the Crimean Bridge explosion, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of Ukraine's President’s Office, wrote on Twitter that “everything illegal must be destroyed."

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He said that "everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled.” In August, Podolyak said that the Crimea Bridge should be destroyed as a legitimate military target.

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Gonna take a while to be repaired lol

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Half the bridge is just gone wow

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that's really a suicidal attack

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Lucky that only 1 car has been absolutely destroyed

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Kremlin is props freaking out

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Kherson looks more and more likely to fall with every day

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Russia reports the Kerch bridge will be closed until October 31st. Think it will probably be longer 🥳

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Meanwhile, the fake installed kremlin thugs in Crimea announced a restriction on the sale of groceries. 3 kg per person. Panic is setting in. Crimea is and always will be Ukraine

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in peacetime? yes

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if its being built up again it just needs another missle lobbed at it and its gone

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we don't even know if it was a missile

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some say it was a truck, others that it was some sabotage team setting charges and timing them to explode when a fuel cart was near

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Indeed, but even so

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There's not much a military engineer can do against a bayraktar or something rapidly approaching them at high speeds

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Especially when the Ukrainians take more of kherson

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pretty sure he was here for a pretty long time

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like since the invasion started

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he's been in charge of the army group south iirc

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he is also more experienced and of a higher rank than the commander of the other army group, which is in charge of the north eastern front iirc

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though that other commander has priority now that he's directly in charge of defending Russia's borders iirc

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the guy prob got promoted to have a bigger role, as a state run news agency tweeted about it in the last hour

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even bigger than the commander of army group south then ?

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maybe they realised the guy at the north disrupting the southern operations by having priority over resources was dumb

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Some quick thoughts on #Putin’s nuclear threats:

Should take it seriously when leader of #Russia, a nuclear-armed state, makes nuclear threats. Ignore @mfa_russia’s Zakharova’s “what Russian nuclear threat?” line; she knows and we know what Putin implies by “all means." 1/6

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Good reasons to think #Russia will not use nukes:

  • not obvious nuke use in #Ukraine would have decisive military impact
  • Pentagon sees no change in Russia’s nuclear posture
  • Russian nuclear use would alienate China, India and Global South, making Russia a global pariah. 5/6
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thread about what it would take for Russia to repair the bridge (use "translate tweet" feature lol) https://twitter.com/chebykin_d/status/1578715207073157121?s=20&t=o_pRPLtab2qSGrbGnzeQcw

Минимальные (и реальные) сроки возможного восстановления Керченского моста — полгода, и это в лучшем случае, если коллективный Роттенбергопутин начнёт прямо сейчас.

Загруженность заводов, трудности в логистике, очень сложные условия для монтажа осенью/зимой.

Инженерный тред🧵

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tl;dr under best conditions (for russia) it would take until at least April to fix it, but since the battle fronts are moving more and more south, it would take even longer, if they could ever even finish it

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Russian repair crews have sent the first test train across the damaged section of the Crimean Bridge. A dozen passenger trains are scheduled to follow tonight, Transport Ministry officials say. A remarkable feat, given the footage of the damage fr…

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Russian Deputy PM Marat Khusnullin and Russia's head of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, visited the bridge earlier today. If Khusnullin succeeds with the rapid repair work and nothing more collapses, this could make him an overnight hero in Russia.

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Even earlier in the day, repair crews also restored partial roadway service on the bridge. (This is all while I was sleeping, so apologies if cooler peeps have already tweeted these images.)

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damn I'm gonna be really disappointed if trains and cars will freely cross by tomorrow

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the quality of the repair must be ultra shit

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idk whats going on now lol

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I mean, if you dont care about safety, long term solutions or money you can patchwork fix things much faster than if you want to do it the "proper" way

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Tl;dr rn 20 cars per hour and max 3.5 tonnes

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So basically no more cargo

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And keep in mind that this will likely quickly change due to how recent it is

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Could be the ridge can handle more, could be that the entire bridve becomes unusable within a few days

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from what reports say

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so it may be the russian republican movement

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was it an actual truck?

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cuz I know missiles can be ruled out due to it being too far and damage being too much

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I thought I heard somethong about it being a military truck carrying explosives.

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Dunno if thats true or not tho

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But the explosion definitely looks too big to my untrained eye to just be fuel or something

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I've seen image/video of the supposed truck at a check point being checked, but they apparently didn't find anything

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Those darn anglo-saxons again

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“It was a bridge the Kremlin had built. Just after six in the morning it was attacked.” Our report for @BBCNews on the huge explosion on the bridge between Russia and Crimea. Producer @BBCWillVernon Camera/edit @AntonChicherov.

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Going through some Russian state media updates from the past hour, and let’s just say Russian authorities might be a bit too optimistic, talking about opening a bus service across the bridge in the next 24 hours, restarting train traffic immediately, etc.

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The concrete nuggets of information-

Ferry service should start by tomorrow morning.

Russian authorities plan to have the capacity to move 200-250 people per day via the ferry.

FSB appears to be in charge of the ferry operation.

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Meanwhile in Moscow, some particularly crazy – even by Russian standards – pro-Kremlin activists held a protest outside the US embassy and demanded Russia launch a nuclear missile on Washington

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Bruh could you not -_-

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It seems like an incredibly dumb idea to have actual cars still going less than 24 hours after the blast

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I hope it freezes there soon

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Frost cycles and concrete with microfractures go together like 2 things that can have catastrophic consequences together.

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Это Запорожье. Последствия ракетного удара ночью. Минимум 17 погибших. Кромешный ужас, который стал для многих обыденной строчкой в новостях.

Надеюсь, все, кто вчера активно писал, какие эмоции можно и нельзя испытывать по поводу моста, поделятся с нами мыслями и на этот счёт:

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⚡️Update: 12 killed, 49 injured after Russian attack on apartment building in Zaporizhzhia.

Governor Oleksandr Starukh said Russia fired 12 missiles, hitting residential buildings.

President Volodymyr Zelensky called the Russian attack an "absolute evil."

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2nd one this week

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Russian MP Pyotr Tolstoy says that Russia should bomb Ukraine into the 18th century and then rebuild it

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Tolstoy calls for attacks on “government shelters” which presumably means Kyiv decision making centres and also “roads from Poland” https://t.co/pGbjQJRNJi

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Kyrgyzstan cancels at last minute joint military exercises with Russia, Belarus, Armenia and other former Soviet countries that were supposed to bring nearly 7,000 troops and showcase unity with Russia.
Unironically, the exercises were named "Unbreakable Brotherhood 2022".

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@KevinNash82 They declined to explain why but it came as a surprise to all invitees.

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The first 20 bodies of civilians and soldiers were exhumed at the mass burial site in Lyman. Civilians were buried in separate graves, defenders - in a trench 40 meters long.

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These are reports from Ukrainian intelligence about arrests in Moscow, and the ISW says that Shoigu and Gerasimov were removed from their posts, would recommend waiting for more info on this before posting

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Russian host says the events in Crimea call for an escalation. He demands that New Year's celebrations be cancelled. Instead of Christmas trees, lights and decorations, he says money should be spent on winter uniforms for the troops. More in my ar…

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#Crimea: Ferries, by the way, never launched🤷‍♂️

Heavy trucks, buses, minibuses are not allowed to cross the bridge and they are waiting for the ferry, which is not there

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The battle for Petropavlivka, 🇺🇦92nd brigade vs. 🗑️🇷🇺200th brigade.

  • The BMP-2M Berezhok destroyed
  • In the beginning, it's hit by a 122mm shell, and the driver is gone
  • BMP losses mobility
  • BMP Destroyed

‼️Reminder: help them with comms equipment

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Неделю назад Путин сообщил жителям свободного от оккупации города Запорожье, что они теперь с «Россией навсегда». С тех пор его армия дважды тупо и кроваво обстреляла жилые кварталы Запорожья — видимо, для устрашения и наглядной демонстрации, что такое путинский «русский мир».

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Very safe!

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Belarus: ablobnervous could we not?

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⚡️American vet @MalcolmNance is now a soldier in the Ukrainian International Legion and reports back. It’s a unique look inside the brutal battlefield.

Hear/watch #IndependentAmericans and subscribe for free:

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Some guy went on wikipedia, copy pasted everything ready and made this screenshot

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elon musk

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Every time they call Ukraine something it’s just projection

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Wow. Strikes all across Kyiv. This is the glass pedestrian bridge connecting the park, aka the Klitschko bridge. People take in the view of the river and pose for selfies here. Certainly not a military target. Nothing strategic about a…

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Virtually all of ukraine is under attack today

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Just hit a tree instead