#the_ukraine_situation
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Also mfw they've an Irish flag
Clearly someone failed basic history
I say this jokingly yet this is genuinely how these people see ukraine and Russia.
their name literally starts with gaelic
lmfao
jesus christ
Truly despicable just forget the whole still not owning it fully part til 37
Probably a person who's distant cousin's dog was called mollie
Putin: "If anyone decides to meddle in ongoing events and create unacceptable strategic threats for Russia, they must know our response will be lightning-quick.
"We have all the instruments for this, ones nobody else can boast of. And we will use them, if we have to."
lol
Go a day without threatening nuclear destruction challenge
(literally impossible)
All we can hope is that they do respect the evacuation by the UN and Red Cross
Meduza, citing sources close to the Kremlin, reports Putin wants to hold “referendums” in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts about joining Russia next month.
Notably, they were meant to have happened already, but have been postponed by battlefield setbacks
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well now its confirmed by the russians themselves
good fucking luck on that
Glory to Mykolaiv honestly
Odesa's holy shield
Gen Waldemar Skrzypczak, also a former junior defence minister, complained that a loose-lipped prime minister had revealed too much to the Russians and that his remarks risked the safety of the soldiers involved.
Speaking to Polish tabloid Fakt, Skrzypczak said that Johnson had revealed “a military secret” and that “bad words are on the lips” when he gave details of the Ukrainian training plan on a trip to India last week.
“Military training is a matter of the army, in such a situation secret. Let a man restrain himself and think before he says such things,” said the former general to the newspaper, which described his tone as irritated in an article from Friday.
“The prime minister may not be aware of it, but with such```
our PM is extremely smart.
fuck 

i mean is it really that big a deal? it's already been made public that ukrainian forces are/were training with american forces on howitzers, why is this suddenly a huge problem?
i get that they don't want to give russia anything to work with but i don't think it's really a big deal
I mean he mentioned the type of training, the weapons being trained, and where they're being trained
On the visit, Johnson had revealed that Ukrainians were being taught how to use Nato-standard weapons in both Poland and the UK. “I can say that we are currently training Ukrainians in Poland in the use of anti-aircraft defence, and actually in the UK in the use of armoured vehicles,” he said.
It aint ideal tbh
not the biggest deal, but still a fucking dumb slipup
yeah i agree, i thought they were just making a bigger fuss about it than they needed to
to be fair making a fuss out of it now
means its a lot less likely to happen again
boris johnsons a fucking idiot and not at all is it out of picture he would disclose a lot more information then this
and a public telling off in the media is a good reminder for him to not do that
yeah i feel that, i'm not on the "joe biden is losing his mind" bandwagon but sometimes i worry he'll let something slip out that the generals told him not to say
mhmm
it doesn't help that boris johnson is very well connected to russia
and not in a good way
in April 2018 johnson, then secretary of state, went on a plane alone with no security detail to a secret private party held by Russian Oligarch Evgeny Lebedev in his italian castle
one of many such instances
done against advice of MI6
BREAKING
Evidence #Russian Navy trained dolphins deployed to entrance of Sevastopol Harbor during #Ukraine war. You heard it here first.
First found in low-resolution Sentinel 2 imagery
Thx for help from @COUPSURE and unnamed others
https://t.co/Fhtek0CVaA
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maddest thing is
Russia isn't the only country that weaponises dolphins for military use
They what.
I have arrived in Ukraine after visiting Moscow.
We will continue our work to expand humanitarian support & secure the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones.
The sooner this war ends, the better – for the sake of Ukraine, Russia, and the world.
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7 hours ago but thought it was interesting
⚡️Canada lawmakers vote to label Russia’s acts in Ukraine as ‘genocide.’
Canadian lawmakers voted unanimously on April 27 to call Russia’s attacks in Ukraine a “genocide”, adding that there was “ample evidence of systemic and massive war crimes against humanity.”
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what the fuck https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519411625350078469?s=20&t=n5vZ2HA2xDnlICGbhFKDew
⚡️Governor: Russian forces shell Sumy Oblast over 50 times in half an hour.
The Esman territorial community was heavily hit by mortar shelling, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the governor of Sumy Oblast, wrote on April 27. The number of casualties is yet to be determined.
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Ukrainian Mi-8 equipped with GUV-8700 gunpods flying low over the eastern part of the country
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those pods are beasts, can’t wait to see footage of them ripping open bmps
Ok what the hell, all I saw was something about training dolphins
The us marines tried to train bats to fly under houses strapped with incendiary devices
Training animals are not uncommon imo
i think the soviets also trained dogs to suicide bomb (😔 ) german tanks in ww2, but it didn't work because they kept blowing up the soviet tanks
Not the marines
That project was initially under the USAAF before being transferred to the USN
It was proposed by a loony dentist from Pennsylvania
In his letter, Adams stated that the bat was the "lowest form of animal life", and that, until now, "reasons for its creation have remained unexplained". He went on to espouse that bats were created "by God to await this hour to play their part in the scheme of free human existence, and to frustrate any attempt of those who dare desecrate our way of life." Of Adams, Roosevelt remarked, "This man is not a nut. It sounds like a perfectly wild idea but is worth looking into."
It was transferred to the Navy after the bats burned an air base down
Yea sounds about right, it was in perpetration for the war in the pacific so I immediately assumed marines which was still attached to the navy if I recall
https://t.me/verkhovnaradaofukraine/3150 BRAZIL 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷
🇺🇦🇧🇷 The Federal Senate of Brazil recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people
On April 26, the Federal Senate unanimously approved a bill by Senator Alvaro Diaz, which recognizes the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people. The bill stipulates that the fourth Saturday in November in Brazil will be ...
Two dolphin pens were moved to the Sevastopol harbor base in February, concluded the US Naval Institute’s review Russia has a history of training dolphins for military purposes. Photograph: Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty Images Russia has deployed trained military dolphins at its naval base in the Black Sea – possibly to protect its fleet from an underw...

Damn thats sad as fuck
My city hall has a Ukraine flag on display
based
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519588542581780481?s=20&t=b8lZJM3bJMAUoE9CJXA8QQ https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519588544016261120?s=20&t=b8lZJM3bJMAUoE9CJXA8QQ
⚡️ Moldova to join EU sanctions on Russia, provide aid to Ukraine.
Advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry Anton Herashchenko said on April 28 that Moldovan President Maia Sandu has decided to provide Ukraine with humanitarian aid and sappers to demine liberated settlements.
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Sandu reportedly made the decision following recent events in Russian-occupied Transnistria.
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519579286818197504?s=20&t=b8lZJM3bJMAUoE9CJXA8QQ https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519579289145991169?s=20&t=b8lZJM3bJMAUoE9CJXA8QQ
⚡️ Russia to impose rubles in Kherson Oblast from May 1.
Russian state-controlled Ria Novosti news agency, citing pro-Kremlin official Kirill Stremousov, said the shift would follow a four-month transitionary period, during which rubles and hryvnias will circulate.
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Russian forces in temporarily-occupied Kherson initially planned to enforce the ruble in April.
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⚡️ General Staff: Russia transfers up to 500 units of military equipment to Izium.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on April 28 that Russian forces continue to attack Kharkiv and are trying to advance towards towards Sulyhivka – Nova Dmytrivka and Andriivka – Velyka Komyshuvakha.
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519600812481253381?s=20&t=b8lZJM3bJMAUoE9CJXA8QQ what an analogy lol https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1519600813953454080?s=20&t=b8lZJM3bJMAUoE9CJXA8QQ
⚡️ UK Defense Secretary says Ukraine can target Russian logistics, but unlikely to use British weapons.
Ben Wallace said on April 28 to BBC that it “would be legitimate under international law” if Ukraine did so, but U.K.-supplied artillery is being used within Ukraine.
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Wallace also noted that, while he expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to dig in Ukraine like a “cancerous growth,” he appears to want to expand further.
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As Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine, experts feared that the Ukrainian banking system would collapse in the event of an all-out war. The closure of Ukraine’s main banks, cashless ATMs, and free fall of the national currency were expected by many. Yet, the Ukrainian banking system proved the opposite, […]
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⚡️ Russia launches phosphorous bombs, around 50 airstrikes on Mariupol overnight.
Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment Sviatoslav Palamar called for decisive measures to evacuate the city, as Russia is employing “everything that a barbarian can use against humanity.”
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that's all for the info spam for now lol
Literally the war crime capital
war, war is hell
why are brimstones getting sent for anti-shipping stuff? unless they're used to attack patrol ships i can't see how they'll useful in that role https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britains-anti-ship-missiles-will-arrive-in-ukraine-within-weeks-6lhmwzgpr
might as well send harpoons if you want to give them anti-ship missiles
RT chief Margarita Simonyan says Russia has 2 options: Defeat in Ukraine or World War III starts
Simonyan predicts that Putin will go the route of World War III and use nukes
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russia is the geopolitical equivalent of those xbox live kids who said their dads worked at microsoft
they can say "surrender or we use nukes lmfao" all they want, it's been two months and they've done jack shit with nukes. it's an empty fucking threat
lol
Russia without nukes is just Belarus but bigger
⚡️ Russia claims to have deported over a million Ukrainians to its territories since Feb. 24.
183,168 of those allegedly deported to Russia are children, reads the statement posted on Russia’s Defense Ministry website.
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WOW, this is a biggie.
White House sends Congress $33B request for Ukraine
The White House package is by far the largest single funding proposal of the war and dwarfs the annual defense budgets of most nations.
https://t.co/5EXMNPIdcj via @politico
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i'm hoping the us starts sending tanks at some point, we have a good amount of m60s and early gen m1s in storage from what i know
America: "we have no money to pay for covid tests"
Also America:
⚡️ Kherson official: Russia lacks people's support for staged referendum in Kherson.
According to Yurii Sobolevskyi, deputy head of Kherson Regional Council, Russian occupiers have no support from the locals and are thus unable to hold a staged referendum.
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It seems like there won't be one
But they could still try connect it to Crimea somehow
Err, why does that matter? of course there isn't enough support, thats why they're staging them right?
they can't bring in enough actors
thing is, back when LPR and DPR were being formed, there was a good portion of separatists living there
- newly brainwashed folk
So it was possible there
Kherson on the other hand has no ideas like that
Or at least not enough to matter
of the $33 billion that biden wants to send to ukraine, around 20 billion is for military aid, the rest it seems is for economic and humanitarian stuff https://t.me/ukrainenowenglish/6423
⚡️ Joe Biden confirmed that he had asked Congress for an additional aid package for Ukraine. We are talking about $ 33 billion: $20 billion in military aid and $ 8.5 billion in economic aid.
✅ $20.4 billion to equip Kyiv and European partners with additional artillery, armored vehicles, anti-tank and anti-aircraft capabilities. It also acceler...
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⚡️ US House of Representatives passes Lend-Lease bill to speed up weapons supply to Ukraine.
The House passed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 by a vote of 417-10.
If signed by U.S. President Joe Biden, Ukraine will be able to get military equipment faster.
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⚡️ 3 Russian missiles intercepted over Odesa Oblast.
Governor Maksym Marchenko said that the air defense systems intercepted the missiles and “have the sky under their control.” Two series of explosions were reportedly heard in Odesa on the evening of April 28.
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Ukrainian firefighting efforts after the strike in Kyiv this evening
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https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1519632226962526211?s=21&t=DLs0om0UzDcM2AAA_ToxYA 11hrs ago
I wonder what city that is
I bet someone on Reddit has already figured out what exact coords are
@antonioguterres War is something somebody starts. It’s not evil in itself. Defending yourself is righteous. Attacking others and killing civilians is evil. So please, speak clearly. Vladimir Putin and his supporters are evil. War is not evil.
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worst take of the day (in the replies to above tweet)
war is always evil
its sometimes a necessary evil, to defend yourself or another
but its always an evil
Saying "war is not evil" only "killing civilians is evil" implies war in and of itself isn't the issue
Oh I just looked in his bio
Former CIA
Well that makes sense then

Borodianka, town of 13k on the outskirts of kyiv
occupied, and site of civilian massacres
he's later visiting bucha and irpin
are you arguing against russia or ukraine not being evil? i think it’s really hard to say the ukrainian war effort is automatically evil even though it’s 100% justified and their only realistic option. like yeah, it’s tragic that this is the path they had to take, but it’s not really evil for them to do so
War is always an evil act, but that doesn't make you an evil person, nor it a wrong act
Murdering someone is wrong, and it is evil. But if it is in genuine proportional self defence, then it is a justified and acceptable evil
Fighting a true war of defence
as ukraine is doing
its justifiable and right
but war is always an evil
albeit one sometimes justified and necessary, in our very imperfect world
but calling war in and of itself not evil, implies the harm is not in war, rather other surrounding factors
and that argument can be used to justify far too much imperialism and bloodshed
this distinction may seem trivial or petty, but I think it is significant and important to make
ahhh, man seeing the images are one thing but being there and walking around I bet is a whole other thing; hope they stay safe, don't trust Russia not to target him - _-
I kinda understand what they are saying but like bruh it's a tweet 
they's making it out like it's some kind of official document or speech 
war is evil because they are other ways to solve problems
and this proves my point ^
and this is why I'm so concerned about that UN/Red Cross evacuation of Mariupol, I hope nothing happens
if that's still gonna happen
war is the quickest one though lol
or perhaps, most direct
all problems can be solved without war but all problems can also be solved with war, especially if you win
cold war is a great example of this
yep war can be quick and "easy" while other options can be slow and difficult (but at least no one is dying)
War does present itself with a fair share of new problems that arise
I mean even on just a economic view war isn’t great for business, unless you make the weapons ofc
Secretary-General António Guterres today (28 Apr) visited sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine where he condemned the “evil” acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability.
The UN chief’s visit to the Kyiv suburbs of Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpin comes nine weeks since the Russian invasion began. Guterres urged Russia “to ...
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He looks so fucking old, as if he's just going to collapse
Today we have significant news for our state, for our defense. The United States has prepared a new support package for Ukraine worth $ 33 billion. In particular, more than 20 billion can be allocated for defense. More than $ 8 billion is planned for economic support. Another $ 3 billion will be allocated for humanitarian aid. This is a very imp...

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Why is the Russian Army's T-72 seem to be having all kinds of problems in Ukraine?
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BUCHA, Kyiv Oblast – When Russian forces turned an ordinary residential road in Bucha into a battlefield, wheelchair-bound Liudmyla Usenka, 69, was alone at home in the darkness. With a look of horror on her face, Usenka told the Kyiv Independent about the never-ending sounds of shelling and heavy street fighting […]
Epic embed fail?
This is so sad
I'll just post them here. Russian air defense radar thingamajig damaged due stupidity.
I can assure you it's merely a tactical radar repair
It may seem like a mistake but it's DEFINITELY surgically done
Heavy /j

Damn, thats a lot
TIL we had 200 tanks
Imagine going back to 2005 and telling someone that the Crazy Frog cover of Axel F would one day be used in an official video released by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces showing invading Russian units being destroyed by artillery.
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Izyum, Russian field hospital in what appears to be a church building
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(warning: graphic footage) improvised drone threads the needle by dropping a grenade through a sunroof https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/uejzql/an_extended_version_of_the_drone_drops_grenade_on/
honestly tho this was kinda hard to watch. it's easy to see a crashing helicopter explode and think "fuck that guy lmao", but when you actually see them like in this video it's just sad
that's impressive from the pilot's side but incredibly depressing from seeing the soldiers
the bombs seem so tiny too, like a frag grenade
#Ukraine: Remarkable video from the Ukrainian 30th Mechanized Brigade showing a BM-27 Uragan MRL resupply point of the Russian Army struck by artillery in Irmino, #Luhansk.
3x 9P140 launchers, 2x 9T452 transloaders & 5x trucks full of rockets are seen- almost entirely destroyed.
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currently has 444 young soldiers
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1500794161963937793
Thread on Russian losses in Ukraine. Note, I will only share information from Russian sources, either media, social media or officials, which means the family members will have been previously notified.
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so many wasted lives
people with hopes, dreams, ambitions, families
lost to a pointless conflict
and one man's ego
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian tank crew towing a valuable 9A316 transporter erector launcher for the BUK-M2 air defense system - this one was captured from the Russian army.
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2 Russian IFVs hit by Ukrainian drone dropped munitions
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MAKARIV, Kyiv Oblast – Life is timidly reappearing in the half-destroyed town of Makariv. A dozen women in headscarves and rolled-up sleeves clean up the street, armed with brooms, against the apocalyptic backdrop. Not far, one of them is crying on her husband’s shoulder. Ripped-open buildings and craters are everywhere, […]
surprise mothafucka https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/uen5f9/russian_soldier_gets_hit_by_a_shell/
can't tell what exactly happened to the guy, but i'd imagine he isn't in very good shape since he's close enough for little embers to be visible
"main objective was achieved, done as a +5 (Russian grading system goes from 2 to 5), in total we have three 300s---"
main objective was achieved
This should be their main objective from the beginning
⚡️ Ukrainian troops blow up railway bridge in Donetsk Oblast.
The bridge across the Siversky Donets River has been blown up along with Russian rail cars, making it impossible for Russian troops to go by rail to the city of Lyman, the Joint Forces Operation said on April 29.
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⚡️ Official says US trained 100 Ukrainian instructors to use American artillery.
A senior U.S. defense official also said that the U.S. had trained 15 Ukrainians to use radar systems, CNN reported on April 29.
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⚡️ Zelensky says another mass grave with 900 people found in Kyiv Oblast.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the region by Russian troops. Zelensky also told Polish media that about 500,000 Ukrainians have been unlawfully deported to Russia.
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Deported to Russia? They can do that?
Why would they send them to Russia? I don’t get it
As work power
Most of them are also just children
There's many possible goals to it
First would be raising those kids in lies about Ukrainian nazis, just like it was in DPR and LPR
That’s horrible, though that goes without saying
Using them and adults as work power
Or to play an act of "Strong and mighty Russia providing shelter to civilians from the rubbles Ukranian nazis caused"
Or everything at once
in short, it's just fucked up and straight up wrong
worse yet, red cross helped in doing it
Sounds horrible to me
thats the sad reality of the russian war machine
@gloomy spearwhat's worse is that many of Ukrainians are being deported to fucking Siberia
the geneva convention in this war is more of a checklist for the fuckers
Can’t believe people buy into the fucking Ukrainian Nazi thing
like, there's no denying that there are Nazis, specifically the Azov battalion, but they make up a very tiny percentage of the overall Ukrainian forces, but Russia's propaganda likes to portray as if nearly everyone is a nazi
Exactly
the jewish president is also a nazi, according to them btw
Like it’s clearly blown out of proportion
How that makes sense to anyone I’ll never know
decades of brainwashing, no independent media because everyone who's not under the hand of the Kremlin is labelled a foreign agent
for people outside of Russia it's easier to see the bs, but in Russia it gets harder by the year, especially now that they've blocked some western social medias
not to mention that many main Russian channels spend many, many hours peddling Kremlin's own worldview
the reason why many buy it is due to the azov battalion, an ultra nationalist group which was formed due to russian aggression in 2014
they used to show movies and series but now it's just "we did well in ukraine, west bad, america america, ukraine bad"
one which would not exist had it not been for that aggression
I mean I’ve seen a lot of American sympathy for Russia and I don’t understand that
in the last couple years of my mum's life, I would constantly hear the Russian tv she watched where Russian media would constantly focus on shit talking Ukraine, just constant "Ukraine this, Ukraine that", I almost said "why are they so obsessed with Ukraine? why won't they ever talk about the shit happening in Russia? that 1000s are dying every day from covid?"
Can’t believe people trust anything Tucker Carlson says
people being exposed to one source of media only
I guess I just don’t understand how people are so easily manipulated but then again I don’t trust mainstream media unconditionally
it's ironic that conservative people are so distrustful of MSM, yet... watch MSM like FoxNews and OAN
Conservative people don’t seem to know what they’re talking about in my experience
many people on the right also are more supportive of Putin, probably mainly because of how fascist he is, just ask Thiskal, whose dad watches Putin's drivel
I remember when in history classes, and WW2 movies in general, "fascists" and "nazis" were the same, but unfortunately Russia is now full blown fascist in everything but name
I just don’t understand it tbh
Like how do people willingly not see who’s side is in the wrong
I’d bet after this war is all over that they will deny Putin did anything wrong
theres two reasons why people accept it
one is out of fear for repercussion, another is out of brainwashing
ye, if you watch any vids of independent people trying to ask Russian people on the streets, many just refuse to answer
especially since it's 15 year jail sentence for calling the war a war
The brainwashing part is what doesn’t make sense to me
Like how people just don’t think for themselves
the effects of the ussr in effect still
yeah, like I even mentioned here several times of quotes from the propagandists and Putin himself, things like "the Ukrainian government has a monopoly on the news media and therefore there is only anti russian propaganda", "only Ukraine every uses people as human shields and bombs their own cities", or nobody stopping to think "hm, why is most of the world denouncing this special military operation? its the ukrainians and london and us that are faking all the massacres!"
It’s all so strange to me
But then again I was taught not to trust one source and think for myself
if you tell a lie enough times to a person they will believe it true
always been tempted to ask my dad if he knows what fascism is, and then tell him "how the leader is above all, and should not be criticised, and his close circle shouldn't be criticised, and how nothing bad must be said about the regime, while everyone else is an enemy", and then ask him who comes to his mind
It doesn't help that propaganda and lies are so common and ingrained in modern society
trying to sort fact from truth and avoid falling to it is difficult
and people fall down various rabbit holes
I feel bad for your dad Val
mhmm
I am grateful to the United States, President Biden and Congress for an analogue of the famous Lend-Lease program, which will be very helpful in the fight against Russia, against the Russian invaders. Which helped a lot in the fight against the Nazis during World War II.
I am sure that now the Lend-Lease will help Ukraine and the whole free worl...
I wonder what my mum would've said about this war

Damn it
Hmm, she seems to have a reasonable reason (Not to say I support it, just that I can see why you'd believe it, it's more then just "Ukraine bad")
she claims that the bill would violate the 4th Amendment
in that it grants the president the power of seizures, without requiring warrants
The Fourth Amendment originally enforced the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government. It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance, as well as being central to many other criminal law topics and to privacy law.
idk, the Russian oligarchs are not US citizens are most def would do anything to undermine the US
Yeah that seems a bit weird to me
alright, a bit less agains AOC on this, but still a big bruh
As Americans we can’t always judge by our own rules
money would still save lives
I don't know the constitution well enough to pass judgement
on whether her argument holds water
the entire thing that I'm too tipsy to read https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fourth_amendment
At least it's not her openly simping for russia, the way some are doing
ye
I would hope AOC doesn’t end up doing that
im trying to google her view on the war
google just keeps popping up obvious right wing misinfo sources
I thought the website was "Free Bacon" but unfortunately it's not as badass

Why do I get the feeling they won’t go through Congress first
America was going through congress for the weapon transfers
however they passed the land lease act
where the President can basically just
Point at tank
"100 of them to kyiv"
"ok"
So a bypass basically
only other time that happened was during WW2
yeah
to supply the uk
Modern $690billion was sent throught it to the war allies
just over 60% to the brits
Guess it makes sense they’d use a bypass to avoid being directly involved the conflict
It's mostly significant as
upto now, biden had to justify to congress
why he wanted to send what he wanted to
where now he can send however much he wants, and theres 0 congressional authorization needed
the land lease act has no limit on tech, either
sooo if biden decided "fuck it, lets send them an aircraft carrier".... he could
lmfao
Kinda lowkey hate the games they have to play to get around Congressional law but I guess there’s worse ways it could go
interesting details on the upcoming “victory” parade in moscow https://mobile.twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1520093374757363713?cxt=HHwWgoCzvdu3upgqAAAA
on a related note, if their “next generation” weapons like the t-14 and su-57 weren’t purely items of propaganda, they definitely are now. now that russia has torpedoed its own economy and no longer has access to parts needed for building their weapons, it’s very unlikely that any of these systems will go into serial production at any point in the foreseeable future
mhmm
theres a reason the west makes generations of vehicles last decades
it is not at all cheap or easy to replace a vehicle or weapon
and Russians just yeeted it's production capacity off a cliff
Putin has upset one of his very very few allies
Serbia
A diplomat of his said he recognises kosovo
Which is not something the balkan state wants
And for the first time the tabloids in Serbia are upset at him
1/7 Let's break down the Kremlin propaganda piece published today by @guardian. It's authored by an ex-PR advisor to the Kremlin, Angus Roxburgh. And it's quite indicative of how the "export" variant of Russian propaganda works.
A🧵incoming.
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Small thread on how propaganda looks for different sides
More than 1 mln people evacuated from Ukraine to Russia since Feb. 24, says Lavrov https://t.co/xhh5lJKCzb
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🤔 Are the sanctions helping Ukraine defeat Russia? Have they destroyed the economy of the terrorist country? Have they stopped the war?
Well… the previous five packages of sanctions have made a huge difference in these matters. But, at the same time, the bombs have not stopped raining down on Ukraine.
❗️We want to be transparent about this wi...
⚡️UK Intelligence: Russian forces in Ukraine have weakened morale.
According to the latest British Defense Ministry update, Russia faces challenges in its invasion of Ukraine, forced to merge & redeploy “depleted & disparate units from the failed advances in northeast Ukraine.”
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They can wish all they want
Jesus christ reuters
⚡️Ukraine's Intelligence: Resistance can ruin Putin's plan to establish proxy-state in Kherson.
Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate says ongoing fighting in Kherson Oblast & civil protests in the regional capital are set to ruin Russian plans to hold a fake “referendum.”
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Chinese state tv shows a map of what country will take which territory if russia collapses https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1520061360939360256?t=ErMntB-fU-VHIgz8QOAkhQ&s=19
isn't this just a geographical split?
what nqtion is closest to each part of russia
yeah it is
Hmm. Maybe China turns on Russia
I doubt this means much
tbh
its no different then the maps you see of the usa on Instagram all the time
its just "which country is the territory in russia closest to"
China is probably just fantasising a bit
Clown country
Bruh, I stop making these graphs for a week and in that time Russia managed to loose about 150 more tanks
Nice
Weekly graph. Note that the current week is still incomplete.
We can see a definite increase in losses in week 9.
Found this weird ass fantasy map by some kremlin troll
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1520337992405200896?s=20&t=gL64ZwTfdiv7kZ35tatd8g

drugs were used in the making of this thread
the amount of people agreeing with this schizo post is disgusting
makes me thing they're these people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tE8UHbGvyo
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good vid, even after 3 years
NATO is apparently moving in heavy military equipment in the baltic states
on the border with russia
take it with a grain of salt, since i did see it from twitter
pretty old news
The Defender Europe exercise is supposed to start soon, but none of those troops are there to stay and it doesn’t take place near the border either
The most permanent recent troop movements were Danish soldiers arriving in Latvia https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/rigas-osta-sagaida-danijas-militaro-tehniku-notiks-izkrausana-un-parvietosana-uz-adaziem.a454267
But that had already been announced back in early March
There are plans to establish a second international military base in Latvia, as well as the deployment of division-sized units in the Baltic states, but none of this has been agreed upon yet, and I don’t think they‘ll be stationed in Latgale or Ida-Virumaa
Tartumaa is a possibility but I think they’ll keep the bulk of their forces near Tallinn
As for Lithuania, Rukla has been chosen by the German military for their new permanent base
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Fascinating
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1520483058453037059?s=20&t=2kGDeo37vtgYWM8-FtZPbA https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1520483177520930817?s=20&t=2kGDeo37vtgYWM8-FtZPbA
⚡️Mariupol mayor: Russian military killed twice as many residents as Nazi Germany.
Vadym Boychenko said that in 2 years of Mariupol’s occupation during World War II, the Nazis killed 10,000 people. Russians have doubled the number of victims in 2 months of the Mariupol siege.
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“This is one of the worst genocides of civilians in modern history,” Mariupol mayor said.
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⚡️Media: Denmark to supply Ukraine with dozens of armored personnel carriers, mortars.
According to Danish publication OLFI, Denmark will send Ukraine 25 Piranha III armored personnel carriers, 50 M113 armored personnel carriers, and M10 mortars with thousands of shells for them
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NEW: Ukrainian military says there was no “ghost of Kyiv”
“Stepan Tarabilka is not a "Ghost of Kiev" and he did not shoot down 40 planes. On March 13, 2022, Major Stepan Tarabilka heroically died in an air battle with the superior forces of the Russian occupiers”
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isn't that old news
I saw rumors about this as recently as yesterday
I kinda forgot about ghost of kyiv
Im still skeptical about his entire existence, and I haven't really seen any official claims of him being fake
I even read that Stepan Tarabilka is not the ghost of Kyiv
it's someone else
no one really knows
but even if he's a myth, he sure was a good one
the popular claim rn is that the "ghost" shot down 40 planes, i'm sorry but that's impossible. assuming those 40 air-air kills actually happened, it's much more likely that the "ghost" is actually a collection of mig and flanker pilots
Probably the most truthful take
like this isn’t wwii, where skilled pilots could rack up hundreds of kills. bvr combat and modern air defenses have made that kind of one-sided air-air combant pretty much extinct
we're already up to 40? I can't wait until its 100
40 is the most common number I’ve seen recently, but yeah, it might yet increase
This afternoon Ukraine announced that it had liberated four more villages (Ruska Lozova, Slobidske, Prelesne and Verkhnia Rohanka) from the outskirts of Kharkiv. This follows the recapture of Momotove yesterday. Ukrainian forces continue to push Russia back from Kharkiv city.
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✈️ Ghost of Kyiv did not die
Earlier, The Times published an article about the legendary city Ghost and named them Major Stepan Tarabalka, who died on March 13 in an air battle.
However, the Armed Forces denied the information and told about the true identity of the hero: "The Ghost of Kyiv is a superhero-legend, whose figure was created by ...
Well there we have it
why the fuck..
yeah that’s pretty much exactly what i thought, the ghost wasn’t a singular pilot, he was a collection of pilots
the madmen did it again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuyL5ixoHjQ
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if russian pilots keep flying like that, it won't be long before the russian alligator go extinct, if you catch my drift
that's their 13th visually confirmed ka-52 loss, meaning they've now lost at least 11% of their original inventory
in all likelihood, there's a lot more losses that we haven't seen too
The economy will be in shambles if they even try to buy one of them back
Zelensky awarded U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the Order of Princess Olga for a “significant personal contribution" to strengthening Ukrainian-American cooperation and "supporting sovereign, independent and democratic Ukraine.”
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⚡️US House of Representatives speaker visits Kyiv.
U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has met with President Volodymyr Zelensky during her visit to Ukraine’s capital on May 1.
Video: President's press service
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1520693376701579266?s=20&t=WDW_Ax4mUI5l9PtjNueq8Q https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1520693496738373633?s=20&t=WDW_Ax4mUI5l9PtjNueq8Q
⚡️Ukraine’s Intelligence: Russia continues to prepare Transnistria for war with Ukraine.
According to the report, a local newspaper in the Russian-occupied part of Moldova will publish an article calling on Putin to involve the Transnistrian forces in Russia’s war on May 2.
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Russia is also setting up mobilization points to recruit volunteers to fight in the Transnistrian army in an attempt “to legalize thousands of its troops who will carry out provocations from the territory of Transnistria,” Ukraine's intelligence reported.
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Good thread from German man https://twitter.com/Der_Parrot/status/1520403333533605888?t=65R5NKSgRv6wNmIN7DK7Ig&s=19
All eyes are rightfully on Ukraine now, but very soon possibly before the war ends, there will be one single priority topic in Europe: Energy, Energy, and Energy. We were not prepared for a sudden end of Russian energy imports, and now we are forced to act quickly. 🧵
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allegedly not nazis btw
Have you been able to verify that image? Because I remember someone claiming the badges were photoshopped, but I haven’t heard anything other than that
Theres apparently more https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1520466096662405120?t=thO-KdeHorq51Bftn3f-Hw&s=19
4 images in the post @ mobile users
Okay, yeah, that is a lot of images
@sumlenny Now, be good )))))
Thoese armbands are for practice only, each one bearing the number of the rank in which the individuals have to form up.
However, the colour scheme is rather ... retro.
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man sometimes i forget it's already may
every day i feel like yesterday was february 24th
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⚡️⚡️⚡️ Today, thanks to the efforts of the Office of the President of Ukraine, with the support of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, together with the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, we have conducted the most difficult operation since t...
So it's from a bit back but i wonder, is it possible that ghost of kiev was a mistranslation from ghostS of kiev? i dunno how plurals work in Ukrainian, just know that there are other languages where a mistake in plurality is easy to sneak in with translations
but as we now know it supposedly refers to the entire air battalion that protects the skies above and around kiev, though i guess when used to refer to a collective like that you can possibly use ghost instead of ghosts?
no, i think you're trying to look too deep into this
it does refer to the battalion, ghost of kyiv was their personification
all of them in one imaginary pilot
thus the ghost of kyiv and not ghosts
in the beginning they made it pretty clear that the ghost was one ace pilot
of course, that wasn’t actually the case, but early on that was the claim
Azovstal evacuation https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1520821621891772416
https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1520817355022032900 "Poland has officially stated that it will not support any peace treaties if they provide for the surrender of at least some Ukrainian territories. By the way, Poland became the first country among the possible guarantors of Ukraine, which clearly expressed its position."
Польша официально заявила, что не поддержит никаких мирных договоров, если те будут предусматривать сдачу хоть каких-то украинских территорий. Кстати, Польша стала первой страной среди возможных гарантов Украины, которая чётко высказала свою позицию.
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a few hours ago, a military arsenal splodered near Belgorod https://t.me/zhest_belgorod/11240
hopefully the other 900 can leave soon too
I hope no one gets hurts :( after Russia hitting Kiev with a missile while the UNSG was there, I'm worried
just heard a Burger King ad on Rossiya 24 lmao, I expected them to get rid of all the ones that symbolise America
Germany's progress so far on energy divestment from Russia
Coal
Pre-war: 45%
Now: 8%
Oil
Pre-war: 35%
Now: 12%
Gas
Pre-war: 55%
Now: 35%
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I really hope they are able to setup that safe passage for the city citizens 
You lot should’ve seen the Alice Schwarzer interview yesterday, I‘ve rarely seen someone talk someone so much nonsense
she‘s convinced that German arms deliveries will result in a nuclear war
And also casually mixed up Ukrainians and Hungarians 😃
nice, boats will be i double digits now https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521041061740699649?s=20&t=EmpB2ZrPyWXi6HAzPv7yPw
⚡️Ukrainian military destroy 2 Russian patrol boats in Black Sea.
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the Raptor-class patrol ships were destroyed with Turkish-produced Bayraktar drones near the Zmiinyi (Snake) Island at dawn on May 2.
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kewl, they now show the increase https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521035338248077312?s=20&t=EmpB2ZrPyWXi6HAzPv7yPw
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said over the weekend that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had "Jewish blood," prompting a furious response from Israel https://t.co/860iti9rIW
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why is he such a dumbass lol
2 Russian Raptor class patrol boats hit by a TB2, reportedly near Snake Island
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#Ukraine: Ukrainian artillery fire struck a Russian staging point in the vicinity of Sulyhivka, #Kharkiv Oblast.
As a result, ~5 armoured vehicles (MT-LB, BMP & possible BTR variants), at least 1 transport vehicle, and a T-72 variant tank were destroyed or damaged. (Vid Part 1)
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rip 76 fuel tanks and 4 SRMB's. You will be missed
consumed by vehicles and special equipment
yeah
uh oh 
(the other explosion icon is of the air defences engaging with a russian drone from over a day ago)
@limber wagon 😎
Smol ones, but boats nonetheless
tiny

if this bridge gets completely destroyed, that southern part of Ukraine will be completely cut off, and they won't get to send anything through Moldova because of Transistria
"accident"
wtf
https://t.me/dsszzi_official/3320 Security services foiled Russian attempt to destabilize situation in Odesa. 12 suspected saboteurs detained, weapons and ammunition seized. Also 2 person connected to former MP Ilya Kiva detained
❗️Зірвано плани рф дестабілізувати ситуацію в Одесі на роковини трагедії 2 травня. Державне бюро розслідувань затримало 12 диверсантів.
▪️Затримані підозрюються у підготовці диверсій, протестів і заколотів на Одещині. Також, за оперативною інформацією, вони працювали над підбуренням одеситів до масових безпорядків.
▪️Слідчі ДБР порушили кримін...
Russian drone shot down over Odesa https://t.me/dumskaya_net/35804
☄️Над морем поблизости Одессы сбили вражеский беспилотник
Как сообщает оперативное командование "Юг", враг продолжает попытки выявления объектов для ракетных ударов по Одессы и области. Над морем была зафиксирована работа БПЛА, который уничтожили неподалеку от берега.
⚡️Взрыв над морем было слышно в 13:23 сегодня.
СМЕРТЬ РОССИЙСКИМ ОККУПАНТАМ...
⚡️Russian missiles again hit bridge across Dniester estuary in Odesa Oblast.
Sergey Bratchuk, a spokesperson for Odesa Oblast governor, said that the Russian occupiers have fired at the bridge, which has already been hit twice by the Russian forces.
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lots of news in and around Odesa 
in better news, more evacuations https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521063114137305089?s=20&t=XKwk09OpG5dbcZVt2mCpag
⚡️Local official: Evacuation from Mariupol begins again.
Advisor to Mariupol mayor Peter Andryushchenko said buses have departed from Mariupol and they plan to pick up people in Berdyansk and Manhush on the way to Zaporizhzhia, where thousands of Mariupol residents are stuck.
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Lots of news about Odessa due to entire day of curfew today
Also transnistria stuff
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521103404101160963?s=20&t=HnNL22mqHwlX6z3pUB-46Q https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521103512679198721?s=20&t=HnNL22mqHwlX6z3pUB-46Q
⚡️ FM Kuleba: Lavrov’s statement demonstrates that ‘today’s Russia is full of hatred towards other nations.’
Kuleba called Russian foreign minister's statement about President Volodymyr Zelensky that “some of the worst antisemites are Jews,” a “heinous remark.”
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Kuleba said that the statement was offensive to Zelensky, Ukraine, Israel, and the Jewish people, adding that Lavrov “could not hide the deeply-rooted antisemitism of the Russian elites.”
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How many times have they hit that airport now? And the russians are still using it.
Chornobayivka 17
man's going senile
big splosion in Odesa https://t.me/dumskaya_net/35818
⚡️ Bloomberg: Dutch port refuses to unload tanker with Russian fuel.
Employees of a Dutch dock refused to unload a tanker Sunny Liger carrying about 60,000 tons of diesel from Russia’s Primorsk port, Bloomberg reported.
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⚡️ Deputy Defense Minister: Ukraine regains control of Ruska Lozova in Kharkiv Oblast despite ‘escalations and losses.’
Hanna Maliar reported on May 2 that Ukraine’s Armed Forces have finally liberated Ruska Lozova along with several more villages in Kharkiv Oblast.
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⚡️ Ukraine identifies first suspect in Bucha massacre.
Sergey Kolotsey, commander of a Russian National Guard unit allegedly killed four unarmed men on March 18 and tortured another civilian on March 29, according to Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova.
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⚡️ Russian missiles hit Odesa, casualties reported.
The exact number of casualties is yet unknown. As a result of the attack, several infrastructure facilities were damaged, including a religious building, according to NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov.
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@scarlet crownlmao https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1521182739713736706?s=20&t=yl5n0H-AbZjSHH0aFl3CsA
Ukraine’s military has pushed the Russian military about 40 km back from Kharkiv: Senior US Defense Official.
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13y/o and 15y/o died in the Russian attack on Odesa, and another teen wounded
⚡️U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on May 2 that Britain will provide $375 million in military aid for Ukraine, in addition to the $250 million they have provided so far.
The aid will include electronic warfare equipment and a counter-battery radar system.
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a bit conflicting reports on the ages, still what the fuck https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521231646770577411?s=20&t=7QifzrZ6QVfmg0BFnSJd6w
⚡️Zelensky says Russian missile hit a dormitory in Odesa.
“In Odesa, a 14-year-old boy was killed, a 17-year-old girl was injured. What is this? What for? How did these kids and this dormitory threaten Russia?” said Zelensky.
Video: State Emergency Service
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Southern Axis Update:
#Russian forces continued to regroup, reconnoiter, and concentrate logistics on May 2, likely in preparation for ground assaults on #Ukrainian position in the directions of #Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih, and #Zaporizhia.
https://t.co/r0ji1e47hp
It honestly looks like a ww2 fighter
Once again the Russians are trying to make people afraid
They're boasting on state media how they can wipe our both Ireland and the UK with one nuke
The state of the r/russia subreddit. Note the usernames
Very not suspicious mhm
Best hoi4 mod clearly
Man shows what's left of his home, and the remnants of what used to be a school https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1521396925844574208?s=20&t=pQ5adMT2BUoW-b0RuBnJNA
the last point, quite a chef's kiss
Russia I imagine is no longer a superpower, just a big country with nukes
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521414603619590144?t=QpC9jEsorCSQRVODZFpx0g&s=19 https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521414607239368704?t=ldFWkFJ5FE1m-L9juDxQ5A&s=19
⚡️Bloomberg: EU eyeing Africa as it seeks to replace Russian gas.
The European Union will seek to increase cooperation with African countries to help replace imports of Russian natural gas and reduce dependence on Moscow by almost two-thirds this year, Bloomberg reported.
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Countries in Africa such as Nigeria, Senegal, and Angola offer largely untapped potential for liquified natural gas. As a result of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, some EU countries aim to stop buying Russian gas.
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Regional superpower, only able to influence its surrounding countries
Russian TV debating how long take a Russian nuke to strike London. Answer? About the same time it would take a UK Trident 2 D5 to strike Moscow. So, Russia, unless you are planning to commit nuclear suicide stop over Ukraine stop your nuke rattling. ALSO, our nukes work.
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https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1521299473158258688?s=20&t=yVKzCEQQX7KoPHRyBGzgNg
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1521369667260006400?s=20&t=yVKzCEQQX7KoPHRyBGzgNg
🧵#MOSCOW: Giant warehouse fire spanning 34,000㎡ - 8.5 acres, out of control, 2 hours NE of the Kremlin in #Bogorodskoye 🔥#Russia
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In #Krasnoyarsk, #Russia, a polyethylene waste storage area of 500 square meters is on fire.
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More totally random fires
Specifically the south of london and Manchester
yknow I do wonder if this is sabotage, or just terrible health and safety compounded with increased production
It would kill us though
Estonia doing things
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1521386966297812993?s=20&t=yVKzCEQQX7KoPHRyBGzgNg
Theyve been threatening with nukes for what, 3 weeks?
@nexta_tv Hi @nexta_tv, this is not true. A populist opposition party proposed the idea but the parliament will not discuss it. Please be careful with what you report.
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This is what my mates would call a “do it no balls” situation
Draft resolution reading will be today according to the agenda https://www.riigikogu.ee/en/agenda/agenda-2-5-may-2022/
Agenda for the 13th Working Week (2 May 2022 – 5 May 2022) of the 7th Session of the Riigikogu Plenary Assembly Monday, 2 May 1. Interpellation concerning solidarity during war time (No. 130), submitted by Members of the Riigikogu Riina Sikkut, Helmen Kütt, Eduard Odinets, Lauri Läänemets, Ivari Padar, Raimond Kaljulaid and Kalvi Kõva …
huh
interestin
I know nothing of the border deal so can't comment on whether it's a good or bad idea
pffft
Lmao
smh getting really tired of all the anti-britain or england jokes even from british people, it's been a constant for many years now and I have many friends living there
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1521424734747045888?s=20&t=oiMav1cauryNgwom7VZTwQ https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1521425171160129536?s=20&t=oiMav1cauryNgwom7VZTwQ
Ukrainian 25th airborne brigade laying down accurate fire on a Russian armored formation
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hmmmmm
Video showing Russian artillery strikes on a Ukrainian defensive position in Donetsk. The position looks well-fortified and the soldiers are likely underground. Not clear whether these strikes are particularly effective without a ground assault.
https://t.co/8r9hFUCovs
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@MID_RF @yairlapid Думаю вы таки допизделись, хуесосы рашисткие
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I survived COVID, let's talk about nuclear war.
Russia's nuclear threats, and warnings of potential nuclear war growing out of the Ukraine invasion, make for great headlines - but how much substance actually sits behind those threats?
Nothing triggers fear quite like the prospect of a world ending nuclear exchange, but that doesn't make the hy...
⚡️ Russian forces begin to storm Azovstal.
Russian troops are trying to break into Mariupol’s Azovstal plant after a night of intense shelling that killed two civilians, Ukrainian defenders told Ukrainska Pravda on May 3.
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You know shits going down if they're threatening the world with nukes the entire time
Truly a terrorist state
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I deleted it
uncoolcon
So, about the border deal
Basically, there was the Tartu Peace Treaty in 1920, which established the borders between the newly-independent Estonia and Soviet Russia
Now, as we all know, the Soviet Union occupied Estonia later on and when the Soviet Union dissolved, certain areas (around 5% of Estonia‘s total area) were left under Russian control
To be specific, those areas include a couple cities near Narva and near Pskov with a population of maybe around 30k people
This was an issue for quite a while, as especially nationalist parties wanted them back, but there were border agreements later on as countries have to settle their border disputes before being allowed into the EU
As there are still certain issues regarding those towns and sea borders, new agreements keep popping up every once in a while and what EKRE (a far-right party) tried to do was try to pass a resolution to not sign the latest treaty, and that resolution was rejected today
EKRE are a bunch of idiots anyways, I don’t believe this is a mainstream opinion in any way
Yeah the border demand at the moment is a bit dangerous to do
Yeah, and most people don’t particularly care about those towns either
There are barely any Estonians left there, and if anything, the main issue related to an ethnic group called the Setos
They live in the area near Pskov and Tartu and practice their traditions there, but the border has complicated things because most of them don’t want to have to pick a side
You‘re welcome!
don’t know if anyone has already sent this, but this is a very eye-opening look into destroyed towns like bucha https://360war.in.ua/en/bucha-4
oo, interesting
shiit, this place got fucked hard https://360war.in.ua/en/bucha-9
huh signs on the bus stop at the swedish ambassador office in moscow say sweden = nazis
lol
can't wait for them to piss off China and lose their only passive supporter that has any influence
⚡️ Parliament greenlights deploying Territorial Defense Units in war zones.
Ukraine’s parliament voted to allow Territorial Defense Units to fight outside their assigned regions.
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apparently they used a quote from someone that said something like "I fear the soviets more than I do the nazi's" and that was their proof of nazism.
Quote was from ww2 btw
I cant confirm what this says tho
https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1521418873437925376?s=20&t=n2JL_wanMsyjXxflncQHWQ
astrid lindgren
i've been hearing a lot of reports recently that russia has lost over 1000 tanks so far. assuming that's true, just about 1 in every 3 russian tanks in active service before the war are now destroyed or owned by ukraine
realistically they can't keep up these losses for much longer
may 3rd here
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And those numbers seem realistic considering there are 600 documented tank losses https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
it's also worth noting that while tanks are easy to replace, tank crews aren't as disposable. that's why nato tanks like abrams emphasize crew survivability
russian tanks however don't really care about crew survivability
I wouldn't be surprised if they sent understaffed crews too
seriously tho who thought it was a good idea to put the t-72's ammo directly beneath the crew
This threw me off for a bit lol
i get that it wasn't as vulnerable when it was first designed as it is now, since javelin and nlaw didn't exist back then, but russian ammo is so volatile that it's probably still extremely dangerous compared to the blowout panel storage on abrams and leopard 2
we did it Patrick, we liberated Moldova!
Yes, that‘s what it says
I can barely read the text below but it‘s just a bunch of quotes to prove their point
It's a couple of quotes from, what I can tell, influential people in Sweden
Even then i doubt these are the exact quotes
As we all can understand, this is a petty propaganda move
Russians use an auto loader, and they don’t have anywhere as big of a crew turret that an Abrams has, we store the ammo behind the gunner, they store them in a ring around the turret as the auto loader does the work for them, meaning they don’t need a bulky turret, but because they still need storage for extra rounds, they keep them elsewhere, in arms reach of the the crew
i know about the autoloader, what i mean is it couldn't have been that hard to come up with an autoloader that doesn't put its crew in unnecessary danger by storing the ammo below the floor
Where else would they be stored, the floor may the the safest spot when you think of it
i get that the carousel is convenient and easier and all but still
i mean i'm not tank design expert, but i would assume that basically an automated version of the abrams storage system would be safer
open door -> load round -> close door
blowout panels make the crew safer
Having dedicated storage holds for the rounds makes the overall size of the tank bigger unless they sacrifice firepower, a larger silhouette makes the tank easier to hit
also significantly more mechanical complexity in a system like that
The only reason western countries can get away with it is because we dedicate more to our maintenance and our air supperiority
I feel like "competent maintenance practices" should be required to run an army, not optional
Especially an army that uses complex mechanical devices, such as tanks
It’s not that, where we may have 15 people working on one vehicle, the Russians may have say 10 or 12 mechanics, meaning they can dedicate more to combat jobs
⚡️Ukrainian troops repel 12 Russian attacks in Donbas on May 3.
Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation reported that Russian losses in the fighting in Donbas include six tanks, two artillery systems, three MLRS, 15 units of armored combat vehicles and nine cars.
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#Ukraine: Ukrainian Forces hit a Russian supply convoy in the vicinity of Vesele in #Kharkiv Oblast, destroying at least 4 fuel/ammunition transport vehicles.
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Video of destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles reportedly after MLRS strikes by Ukraine's 81st Airmobile Brigade.
https://t.co/CggRo4SPEr
https://t.co/6L80fgR21S
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Russia is 6 days away from their vday parade lmao
I wonder what they’re going to do for it given that the war, which was supposed to last like a week for them, has drawn on for three months
And with considerable damages to equipment and casualties
Can someone confirm what this says? https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1521727524069416962?s=20&t=IWhttbfrvf9nRuNldIlIGQ
lmfao
I mean, if it works
Then who cares about a little bit of blood sacrifice to an elder god beyond our mortal comprehension
Kinda metal
wheeezeeee
So the article does say that
The funniest thing is this culturologist claiming that the symbol in first pic is "a magic sign of dark forces, which contains ideas of anarchy, weaponry and fascist symbolism"
remove the 2nd to last word and thats very metal
Yea
I mean this would be pretty fucking cool if it was real
But the fascist symbolism claim blows it
⚡️ Ukraine’s Intelligence: Russia plans to hold military parade in Mariupol on May 9.
Intelligence Directorate reported that Russia is conducting “preparations for the parade,” by cleaning central streets from debris, unexploded ordnance and removing the bodies of those killed.
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Bruh
Just hide the dead bodies and the destroyed buildings behind the curtains
with pleasure
I'm pretty sure if a drone strike will actually happen on the parade then Russia will say that Ukraine are terrorists
as if they weren't saying that before
besides, it'll be their fault only
it's still a warzone
grr these terrorists just bombed our annual jerkoff show off parade in a city we utterly wiped from the map
how inconsiderate
Yeah of course but you gotta take Russia citizens perspective
If they are watching the parade and explosions happen and people die on screen
^ a warzone they've made themselves btw
then theyll see what the ukrainian war is really like
its not flowers and rainbows, whatever putin says
Oh hmm that's a good point
Idk why but I thought people would blame Ukraine even more
the whole parade is a propaganda move, so if we interrupt it, it'll be quite the watch
Yes good point
especially if it's a live translation
if you blow up the propaganda it becomes reverse propaganda
or reversganda
™️
I wonder how heavy defended it would be
Because it seems so stupid for Russia to do this that it feels like a trap for Ukraine
That Russia wants for Ukraine to focus on this parade
perhaps its a double bluff, they want the Ukrainians thinking theres a trap
so they wont attack it
Maybe
i don't think it's that deep
yeah me neither
just a parade for a check in the list of russian "achievements"
like look look we did it
the way that the russian army jerks around makes me believe they're not one for the hidden layers game
it won't be our main priority either, we've already got enough to care about
but a nice strike with something heavy would be ideal
I guess we will see
you just hate to see it
while they're cleaning up, others are still assaulting Azovstal factory
jesus...
Apparently one of Russia's state medias claims that Fish and Chips is a russian """"invention""""
north korea claims kim il sung created the hamburger or something
Really?
i think so
they also claim he invented the burrito https://nypost.com/2022/01/05/north-korea-claims-kim-jong-il-invented-the-burrito/
man they're getting desperate for some sort of achievements
((copium doses maximum))
i could understand their fighting over Borsh, but why bother with british kitchen?
Everyone know that Sir Phis An Cheep invented it in 1995 after he double handling beat up both the President of England and the King of France
They should be celebrating their actual heritage things, like seeing the moskva, you needn't even look to far for it
They do have such beautiful place, if they spend the fund on tourism rather then the military, imagine just exploring the vast regions of Siberia
Think of the inhospitable nature you can see like snow!
And more snow!
And even more ice!
Though the nature would be cool it's a shame they've ruined it
Modern heated trains travelling at different stops across Siberia, showing off native cuisines and traditions
something like that
yet they chose military
only for it to be corrupted and lose a good half of it in Ukraine in like what
2 months of a full-scale invasion
with no real supplies to fully replenish it
Btw, about ukraine, when the war is over.
It probably be easy to not only implement a Marshall plan system, but maybe have a temporary tariff free system to allow the industries to catch up
"that'll show him!!"
hahahaa
Its actually quite interesting looking at the history of fish and chips
the concept of fried fish wasnt created by the British
it was brought to the uk by Jews fleeing religious purges in Spain in the 1600s
Then in the early 1800s a Jewish takeaway in London created the idea of putting fried fish and chips together
You got the 9 upside down
nope
1500s/1600s
In Christianity Friday is a meat free day, and the Jewish holy day is on Saturday
Soooo Jews attracted no attention to themselves cooking and eating fish on Friday, as most catholics did too, and they then ate the leftovers on Saturday, when food preparation was banned, as a good way to mask that they were jewish
⚡️ Bloomberg: Hungary objects to Russian oil phaseout.
After EU proposed a gradual ban on Russian oil and oil products export, Hungary voiced objections as the measures “would threaten Hungary’s energy security,” the spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government said.
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🤡 The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that in Ukraine "in fact, Israeli mercenaries are fighting back to back with the Azov militants."
According to Zakharova, she saw "video and materials" confirming this. She did not provide details about these materials.
Well, if you are going to ruin the rel...
man they're just shining with anti-semitism
Yep
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521857308556505088?t=QRzGbKH8sFZH8joovyIRmA&s=19 https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521857337094553606?t=sQmV5bTvGttGA258msWcRw&s=19
⚡️ Associated Press: 600 civilians killed by Russian airstrike in Mariupol drama theater.
An investigation by Associated Press shows that the March 16 airstrike that destroyed the Mariupol theater killed over half of the 1,000 civilians who used it as a shelter.
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The investigation also shows that there was no Ukrainian military in the theater, a pretext used by Russia to justify its airstrike.
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A March 24 letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 48 influential Ukrainian civil society members, bearing over 3,800 signatures, criticized the humanitarian body for not doing enough to help Ukraine. The appeal accused the ICRC of prematurely pulling out of the encircled city of Mariupol, […]
Well most of these accusations... don't make much sense
⚡️ Defense Ministry: Russia tries to increase pace of its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Russia is regrouping its troops and building up logistics to try and seize the whole Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast, according to Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, spokesman of the Defense Ministry.
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And the sky is blue mate
Whats new
the only valid accusation i'd send is them cooperating with Russia to deport ukrainians there
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1521875165197524992?s=20&t=-RhJIbENYhEljV6KAuMbig https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1521874306619351043?s=20&t=-RhJIbENYhEljV6KAuMbig
#Ukraine: The Ukrainian 128th Mountain Assault Brigade hit and destroyed a Russian BMP-3 IFV somewhere in the East.
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That's a tricky one, as there will be people in ukraine, particularly russian ethnic peoples in the East, who do evacuate to russia
As well as those moved by force
so the IRCs position is to work with people wanting to move, and not with people forced
#Ukraine: Apparently, the Ukrainian army received Milkor M32A1 40mm multi-shot grenade launchers - and they are already being utilized in combat. The delivery was not announced previously, but likely they were supplied within recent military aid packages from the US.
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NEW: Ukraine now has control of more than 90 percent of the 90 U.S.-provided howitzers pledged by President Biden: senior U.S. defense official
Nearly 90,000 of 144,000 rounds of artillery are now in Ukrainian hands, too.
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#Ukrainian🇺🇦 soldier with an #American🇺🇸 made PSRL-1 (RPG-7 clone).
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the war is broadcasted through tick tock https://twitter.com/Orxan_012/status/1521854180100608003?s=20&t=S79fMba_Nik7h3g8CHMm3w
I like how most of these clips of tanks and shit getting blown up are always accompanied by high bpm music
i’m so used to seeing eastern clones of western weapons, it’s weird to see it the other way around
i mean otherwise it's lofi hip hop to watch shit get blown up to lol
when will we get a clip of an entire column getting blown up to the tune of Kevin MacLeod's Carefree
that'll def make it kid friendly too
lmfao russia is starting to use the ka-27 instead of the ka-52 in their heli attack groups https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/status/1521853253327417344?cxt=HHwWgMDTzZDe2p4qAAAA
Russian Mi-28, (first sighting in Ukraine of a) Ka-27, and Ka-52 helicopters said to be in Kirovske
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mi-28s have frequently been seen flying with ka-52s
i think they’re really starting to feel the loss of those 52s if they’re now using those puny 27s like that
The Russian government be like
"Here comes our glorious air force" 

lmao, deserved
this also happened https://mobile.twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1521917744651853825?cxt=HHwWgoCztYKI-J4qAAAA
#Ukraine: A Russian Mi-35M attack helicopter was drag out from Dnipro river, #Kyiv Oblast. Highly likely this one was shot down on Day One - and it is also observed on the famous video below.
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#Ukraine: The 1st appearance of Mistral MANPADS donated by Norway/France (Launchers and 100+ missiles), now in use by UA forces. The Mistral is well regarded- generally comparable to Stinger/Igla MANPADS that are common locally.
This unit is pickup-mounted for maximum mobility.
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#Ukraine: Another BMP-2 from the Russian forces was destroyed in recent days by @jmvasquez1974 and his team- as you can see, a NSV HMG was also taken.
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this man participating in the battles https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974
weird, poopy embed
I guess it sees the RIA News watermark and automatically goes nope
ackchually nvm lol
Going to delete my tweet with Shakhnazarov’s “sterilization” quote. Apparently, he was describing what he thinks the West is doing to Russians. Still crazy, but not as bloodthirsty.
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talking about this, if anyone finds this vid in the wild https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1521802979619311618?s=20&t=quD3BI_IDhfbXC9rILpWbg
“The opponents of the letter Z must understand that they will not be spared. Everything is serious here: concentration camps, re-education, sterilization!” - this was declared by Shakhnazarov on the state TV #RussiaWarCrimes
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Ten days ago, there were 50 to 80 Russian shelling and rocket attacks on Kharkiv every day. Now, thanks to a Ukrainian counteroffensive, the number has fallen to about five.
May 9th is Victory Day in Russia, celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. We’re likely to see some stuff coming from the Russian government that day, and here’s what I expect.
- More nuclear saber-rattling, practice parades already indicate that SS-25 Sickles…
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sounds about right
"The United States has provided intelligence that has helped Ukrainians target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials."
https://t.co/7Xo8kFIfog
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"The United States have been providing intelligence in the eradication of the biggest bozos"
Russian propaganda put to the max in Melitopol https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1522164161073098753?t=CnQMGYYgMbMZ9euOacRc6Q&s=19
Ukrainian forces managed to splode a russian ammo depot https://twitter.com/SputnikATO/status/1522156826825007107?t=jnKT5MaA47HY7l2UYAnFiQ&s=19
Hello discord y u no embed
Together w/@AndrzejDuda🇵🇱, @valstsgriba🇱🇻 & @KadriSimson🇪🇺 launched newly built gas pipeline connecting Lithuania & Poland.
It's a big day for the energy independence & resilience of the Baltic region!
Together we say NO to Russian gas, NO to Russian oil, NO to financing the war.
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Як гвардієць-строковик нищив ворожу техніку на Житомирській трасі💪🏼
Гвардієць-строковик однієї з військових частин Вінниччини з позивним Зять 26 березня підбив два російських танки та одну БМП під час боїв на Житомирській трасі.
Детальніше: https://t.co/Cz1jx8nfse
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Lmao
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522188196599185408?t=71boTlrkW68HAqWaqCwZzg&s=19 https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522188199849832456?t=DvEQB9LmXj17fdNbxQFadA&s=19
⚡️Commander: Ukraine launched counteroffensives in Kharkiv Oblast.
Valeriy Zaluzhny, chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, announced that Ukrainian troops have now switched to launching counteroffensives near Kharkiv and the Russian-occupied city of Izyum in Kharkiv Oblast.
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He added that fierce battles still continue in the vicinity of Popasna, Kreminna and Torske in Luhansk Oblast, where the main efforts of the Russian occupiers are focused.
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ukrainian marines taking one of their trophies on a joyride https://twitter.com/Arslon_Xudosi/status/1522257180988219392
#Ukraine: Ukrainian forces (marines) driving a captured #Russia-n T-72B3 Obr. 2016 MBT. It is most likely already in service with the Ukrainian armed forces. Exact date of capture unknown.
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Security Council Meeting on the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine.
To view LIVE & On -Demand on ZH, ES, RU, FR, AR, and EN please visit: https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k1zhrg89ul
there's unconfirmed rumors that russian frigate admiral makarov has been hit by ukrainian anti-ship missiles. no confirmation yet, but an american rq-4 surveillance drone is curretly flying above the black sea, so if it did happen i think we'll know very shortly https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1522349841807986688?s=21&t=CCsutkSqLey_N2AyBVF3JA
There are Unconfirmed reports from some Ukrainian Sources that the Russian Naval Ship the Admiral Makarov which is a Admiral Grigorovich-Class Frigate operating within the Black Sea has been struck by Ukrainian Anti-Ship Missiles off the Coast, so far there is no evidence.
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In a joint @UN-@ICRC operation, 2 safe passage convoys successfully evacuated nearly 500 people from the Azovstal plant, Mariupol & surrounding areas.
I hope that continued coordination with Moscow & Kyiv will lead to more humanitarian pauses to allow civilians safe passage.
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⚡️ Bloomberg: EU proposes to revise sanctions on Russian oil to give Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic time until 2024 to comply.
“Other member states would phase out imports by the end of 2022, with imports of crude halting in 6 months, refined petroleum products in 8 months.”
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⚡️ UK intelligence: Russia’s renewed effort to get Azovstal linked to May 9 ‘Victory Day,' desire to have 'symbolic success.'
“Whilst resistance continues in Azovstal, Russian losses will continue to build, frustrate their plans in southern Donbas," UK Defense Ministry said.
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1522394360339390469?s=20&t=KODzuHL2SLjoL1g4zuup9Q https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1522394367348158465?s=20&t=KODzuHL2SLjoL1g4zuup9Q
Remember the father of the "missing at sea" soldier? He got this response from RU's military prosecution, claiming his son simply failed to report for duty without notice after "extraordinary circumstances brought the demise" of the ship "not involved in the special military op"
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@scarlet crown u need to see this shit
fucking bastards
News: Germany and the Netherlands will deliver a Howitzer package (12 Panzerhaubitze2000 systems / 7 from DEU, 5 from NL) to #Ukraine soon. The training for UKR soldiers in Germany will start next week, the package could be sent to UKR in the next weeks - DEU def min Lambrecht.
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does discord know what war footage is and just gets rid of the embed lol
Korean sites say this features the Korean navy seal fighting with Ukrainian foreign legion. Gear kinda matches the one photo so may be early kyiv battles
Azov is a no surrender group afaik and they're the ones in there if I remember right
ye
So the Russians will pay for the factory in lots of their blood
someone was drunk when they taped that Z https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1522528013052788736?s=20&t=2T2TjYehgj9zlxNlWmSmHQ
#Ukraine: New footage from the famous Snake Island - a Russian 9A330/9A331 Tor surface-to-air missile TLAR was destroyed by a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 UAV.
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Antiwar activists in Moscow staged this demonstration outside the Bolshoi Theater on Thursday. I don’t see any reports about what happened to them, but I assume they were arrested (unless they ran like hell after these photos.) https://t.co/KudykdlNWv
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Despite the Kremlin spox saying full-scale mobilization rumors are “nonsense,” Russian state agencies (from the post office to the tax inspectors) have started flooding online job portals with listings for “mobilization experts.” 👀 https://t.co/dw84glJ6e0
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#Ukraine: A Russian T-72B3 Obr. 2016 tank was captured by the Ukrainian forces on the Eastern front. However given the damage of the tank it requires serious repairs.
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nice, they have a page on Bayraktar frags https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/defending-ukraine-listing-russian-army.html
now that a t-90m is confirmed to have been destroyed, i never ever ever want to hear another russian shill say “lol putin is just saving his good stuff for later”
that’s their most advanced tank and it got fucking owned only a week after arriving in ukraine
⚡️Foreign Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia visit Kyiv.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the trip was “about the rebuilding, restoration and the EU candidate status for Ukraine.”
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https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1522549331382915074?s=20&t=yt7O1BZdbBJVbbAtIzV-GQ https://twitter.com/mmatviishyn/status/1522550447768231936?s=20&t=yt7O1BZdbBJVbbAtIzV-GQ
fuckjing beeeeeast https://twitter.com/ngumenyuk/status/1522433649534246912?s=20&t=vOVChqRaQTA1Xa3I6s7i2g
The Kremlin denies it vociferously, but Western analysts and state officials warn that Vladimir Putin could declare Russia’s full military mobilization as soon as May 9, when the country celebrates the USSR’s victory in World War II. Ben Wallace, the UK’s secretary of state for defense, says such an announcement wouldn’t surprise him, adding tha...
Still Not Confirmed but 👀 👀 👀
can't blame them
man that's a good brain drain
lmao
pee ocean
⚡️ Australia completes shipment of 20 armored vehicles, howitzers to Ukraine.
The last of the 20 Bushmaster armored vehicles gifted to Ukraine along with several M777 howitzers are en route to Ukraine, Bruce Edwards, Australian Ambassador to Ukraine and Moldova, said on May 6.
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Absolute art
urine trouble - ukrainians that fired the missiles at the ship
Reportedly the first video of a Switchblade loitering munition strike on Russian troops by Ukraine's 53rd Mechanized Brigade.
https://t.co/dF8RlPWm5a
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rough google translation:
【preliminary report! !! ]
In Ukraine, a howitzer, probably an American M777, was confirmed. I'm sorry if I made a mistake because I passed each other.
Multiple units are being transferred. I cannot disclose where I was running.
I'm posting at a later time, so it's NOT real time.
@scarlet crown
https://twitter.com/ItsBorys/status/1522552037409497089?s=20&t=obLX7lhgKFRYpYrKaGIDNg
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1522559208218152961?s=20&t=obLX7lhgKFRYpYrKaGIDNg https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1522559729591062533?s=20&t=obLX7lhgKFRYpYrKaGIDNg https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1522563712183320577?s=20&t=obLX7lhgKFRYpYrKaGIDNg
#Ukraine: What is claimed to be the first ever combat use of the Ukrainian 155mm 2S22 "Bohdana" self-propelled howitzer.
This was still in trials, existing only in very small quantities- but represents a very curious milestone in local arms development.
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Djezus christ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade these things are pretty nasty lmao
The AeroVironment Switchblade is a miniature loitering munition, designed by AeroVironment and used by several branches of the United States military. Small enough to fit in a backpack, the Switchblade launches from a tube, flies to the target area, and crashes into its target while detonating its explosive warhead. The name switchblade comes fr...
anything that kills is pretty nasty
⚡️ Amnesty International investigation reveals 'pattern of crimes committed by Russian forces.'
Russian forces “must face justice for a series of war crimes” committed in the region northwest of Kyiv, Amnesty International said after publishing a comprehensive investigation.
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jesus that's a lot of men dead https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1522581906314993667?s=20&t=U5KPmNchnElmcA13f6lw3Q
Video reportedly from a cemetery in Ryazan with new graves. Ryazan is the home of the VDV's Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School as well as the 137th Airborne Regiment.
https://t.co/LPwFxTltby
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the sound throughout the video is the Kremlin Clock, it's usually played when New Year starts in Moscow
True that
this is claimed to be extremely zoomed in tb2 footage of admiral makarov on fire. it's impossible to tell whether this is real or video game footage, but the ship does bear a strong resemblance to a grigorovich frigave https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1522578632560025601?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1522578632560025601|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fujoaus%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dtrue
Unconfirmed video of russian Makarov frigate hit by Neptune class missile by Ukraine soldiers. Hopefully we will have official confirmation soon.
#ukraine #russia #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack
big hmm indeed
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1522579101718089731?s=20&t=U5KPmNchnElmcA13f6lw3Q https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1522581417405956096?s=20&t=U5KPmNchnElmcA13f6lw3Q
Russian Orlan-10 UAV footage showing TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS strikes on Ukrainian positions in the Lyman area.
https://t.co/xoFScMTKs3
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Video of a Russian TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS in the Izyum area. 2/
https://t.co/KPpu85UXua
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Missiles were quickly adapted by the UK to be fired from the ground specially for the Ukrainian army- first and foremost due to the lack of Ukrainian air launch platforms which can use these missiles.
We haven't seen the ground launch platform yet.
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isn't brimstone basically a bri'ish hellfire?
what's a hellfire
oh yeah they do seem similar
i'm kinda confused about it tho because i heard it was being sold as an anti-ship missile, but it's way too tiny to do any real damage to anything besides a patrol boat
probs can sploder or at least severely damage things like fuel trucks and other light armour vehicles
Natalia Poklonskaya continues to rock the boat, holding an official Rossotrudnichestvo meeting with the mothers of conscripts deployed illegally to Ukraine who still haven’t returned. Others fear redeployment, she says. https://t.co/rF2fXqqQpE
@split aurora https://twitter.com/hdevreij/status/1522567204751003649
Nice use of 360 images in this new Amnesty International report on Ukraine https://t.co/xjIrvdOyuw
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time to look at war crimes in vr!
16 times the detail...
i was talking about ships, brimstone can kill a tank pretty easily but it'll do jack shit against big ships
ah
i mean it's better than nothing i guess, but if they want to send anti-ship missiles why not send harpoons
fuck off dickhead https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522609929613455361?s=20&t=cvxaoq6jsTALWp9s__tPiA
⚡️ Russian top official says Russia is in Kherson 'forever.'
“There will be no return to the past,” Andrey Turchak, Russian senator and one of the leaders of the United Russia governing party, said on May 6.
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Video reportedly showing RK-3 Corsar ATGM strikes on Russian BMPs by the Ukrainian National Guard Omega unit near Velyka Komyshuvakha, Kharkiv Oblast.
https://t.co/NS3mPvv06r
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https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1522608028935200768?s=20&t=rXwN9a_V0BHZFWU0OQc7BA https://t.me/sotavision/39482
From April 26: @SotaVision found that Russia’s Foreign Ministry ordered 175k new diplomatic passports, though the agency employs just 15k people, only 5k of whom qualify as diplomats. Most likely a ploy to allow FSB agents & sanctioned officials to evade travel restrictions.
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❗️«Сота» обнаружила путь, через который Россия пытается обходить санкции
На сайте госзакупок появился контракт на закупку практически 175 000 бланков строгой отчетности «для государственных нужд». Это оказались дипломатические загранпаспорта. Обладатели этих документов могут по облегченной форме въезжать в ряд стран, в том числе, и участников Ш...
ukrainian officials now confirming that admiral makarov was indeed sunk https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/ujrl9f/the_general_staff_of_the_armed_forces_of_ukraine/
article translation is in the comments
russia is once again claiming that the ship spontaneously combusted and wasn’t hit by missiles

How is that better in any way
“Wars going great just a shame our boats keep exploding randomly, anyway, join the navy kids!”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522637476556386304?s=20&t=tIyjJe6U0vvIAVzrYaf4Eg https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522637484169084928?s=20&t=tIyjJe6U0vvIAVzrYaf4Eg
⚡️Putin to hint at nuclear war by displaying ‘doomsday’ plane at parade.
Russia’s annual May 9 parade will include a flight by the Il-80 “doomsday” plane, which would carry Russia’s top brass in the event of a nuclear war, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, as cited by Reuters.
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⚡️General Staff: Ukraine liberates 5 settlements in Kharkiv Oblast.
These include Oleksandrivka, Fedorivka, Ukrainka, Shestakovo, and Peremoha, Ukraine’s General Staff said. Russia continues to replenish its troops in northeastern Ukraine, it added.
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#Ukraine: This Russian T-72B3 Obr. 2016 tank was halted in the picturesque fields of East Ukraine.
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⚡️Biden to sign lend-lease for Ukraine into law on May 9.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed it on May 6.
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Under the lend-lease law, Ukraine will be able to get military equipment faster, bypassing bureaucratic procedures. The name echoes the World War II-era measure that allowed the U.S. to quickly resupply the Allies in the fight against Nazi Germany.
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⚡️Reuters: Biden to sign new $100 million weapons package for Ukraine in coming days.
The package will likely include more munitions for howitzers, according to Reuters citing undisclosed U.S. officials.
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The Kremlin is establishing economic, governmental, and informational control over occupied Ukrainian territory, indicating that Russia may be preparing to create a series of Russian proxy “people’s republics” and/or to directly annex some occupied Ukrainian territory.”
#Ukraine: The Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade destroyed another Russian supply truck in the East.
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#Ukraine: Two Russian T-72B tanks and a BMP-2 IFV were destroyed by Ukrainian Paratroopers in the East.
[Corrected!]
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https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1522667908199071746
qrt "Number of Russian tanks added to the list today: 18.
Number of tanks operated by the Netherlands: 18."
In late April, Russian Internet giant Yandex announced it was selling its news service, Yandex.News, and its personal recommendations service, Yandex.Zen, to the social networking company VKontakte (VK). VK is run by Vladimir Kiriyenko, son of Russian presidential administration First Deputy Chief of Staff Sergey Kiriyenko. Since Russia’s invasi...
Pretty wild to read about how Yandex employees came to hate their own product, thanks to Kremlin meddling. What could have been!
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epic embed fail, Russian made boody traps in the liberated villages in north east of Kharkiv
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522697648993542144?s=20&t=uY8r6lI2Zvz2meKrokEqSQ https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522697650004393984?s=20&t=uY8r6lI2Zvz2meKrokEqSQ
⚡️Ukrainian troops repel 8 Russian attacks.
Russian forces continue to attack Ukrainian positions in eastern Ukraine, but are reportedly suffering heavy material and personnel loses.
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These include three tanks, eight artillery pieces, including four multiple rocket launchers, 7 armored combat vehicles, three special engineering units and one regular vehicle. The Ukrainian army also downed 14 Orlan-10 UAVs.
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522686177031213057?s=20&t=uY8r6lI2Zvz2meKrokEqSQ https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522686183322447873?s=20&t=uY8r6lI2Zvz2meKrokEqSQ
⚡️Berlin bans Ukrainian flag, symbols on May 8-9.
Ukrainian activists planned to hold a peaceful rally in Berlin and commemorate the victims of World War II, which killed millions of Ukrainians. But Berlin authorities forbade them to bring Ukrainian symbols.
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Berlin put Ukrainian flags on the same list as Russian imperialist symbols, including Z signs in support of Russian aggression and Saint George ribbons. Germany has been heavily criticized for its reluctance to help Ukraine since Russia started its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24.
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Eastern Ukraine, damaged Russian TOS-1, destroyed T-72 variant, and a couple of captured T-72Bs.
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#Ukraine: A Russian MT-LBVM armored personnel carrier was destroyed by "Kraken" special unit during the ongoing Ukrainian counter offensive in #Kharkiv Oblast.
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i don't understand
I think it's some fence sitting bs like not trying to piss off one of the sides, which is pretty dumb
why in the literal fuck do they remotely care what russia thinks of them
true that
but they still need to do everything in their power to get rid of russian gas
this is slightly dishonest reporting
hm?
2secs just 100% checking my facts

Yeah, the "ban" is a ban on war related flags and music, specifically around the WW2 memorial. They want to keep the memorial a place of honouring fallen, rather then becoming a protest ground for a current war, on the graves of those who died in other wars
ah, understandable
Not saying I necessarily agree with it, but I can certainly understand their position
ye
3 more days until the fuckfest in Moscow (and potentially other places), can't wait to hear what the balding man says
gotta be more attentive to air sirens in those days..
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1522752316964806656?s=20&t=tuDjy5s5oiZWbb28kwkw6A ooookay??
⚡️ Google Play bans Russian users from downloading, updating paid apps.
Google stated that, while paid apps will be affected as of May 5, free apps will remain available.
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Most phone users in Russia have android
so Google play is still pretty important
but still, since it's android, piracy is more than a popular choice
there's a lot of store apps where you can get pretty much anything for free
⚡️Russian shelling destroys museum in Kharkiv Oblast.
The Hryhorii Skovoroda national museum was attacked late on May 6. The building was destroyed, however, the most valuable exhibits had been moved to a safe place in advance.
Source: Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov
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“Ukrainian forces continued to repel Russian attacks on the Izyum axis in the last 24 hours, with Kharkiv Oblast civilian leadership reporting that Ukrainian forces inflicted heavy casualties on Russian forces on the outskirts of Barinkove.”
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#Ukraine: A Ukrainian Bayraktar TB-2 drone strike struck and destroyed what appears to be Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft, again at Snake Island.
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a lot of activity in and around Snake Island, possible retake plan underway?
Ukrainian army liberated Oleksandrivka, Fedorivka, Ukrainka, Shestakove, Peremoha and part of the village of Cherkaski Tyshky in the Kharkiv region - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
https://t.co/H4JOHFfHkI
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DATA: US has now given $3.8B in military aid to Ukraine since Russia's invasion: DoD
February 25: $350m
March 12: $200m
March 16: $800m
April 1: $300m
April 5: $100m
April 13: $800m
April 21: $800m
April 24: $322m
May 6: $100m
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UPDATE: U.S. has now provided Ukraine with 209,000 155mm artillery rounds in the past month: DoD data
April 13: 40,000 rounds
April 21: 144,000 rounds
May 6: 25,000 rounds
U.S.-provided M777 howitzers typically fire at least 2 rounds per minute, and up to 7 rounds per minute
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"The Switchblades, also called “kamikaze drones,” require little training to operate, defense officials say, and already have proven effective against Russia’s more advanced military."
https://t.co/LtpBuCbMBP
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#Ukraine: Footage shows the destruction of a 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer during battles in the east yesterday, with a massive blast and shockwave as a result.
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Graffiti in Russia has incorporated claims by the Ukrainian authorities that “Granny Anya” was forced from her home by Russian artillery fire. “Anna Ivanovna’s home was destroyed by a Russian bomb. No to war!” says this text. https://t.co/h6ntDUcmiZ
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⚡️Railway traffic resumes on rebuilt Irpin bridge.
The bridge was rebuilt over the course of one month after Irpin was liberated. It was destroyed in March when Russian forces tried to cross the Irpin River in the direction of Kyiv, during the battle of Kyiv.
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god the Orlan can be so shit, how do they see anything with their repurposed, consumer cameras https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1522870763023437824?s=20&t=-HRq-J82dl_vH7ywDYjiow
Russian Orlan-10 video showing Russian strikes on Ukrainian positions reportedly in the Lyman area.
https://t.co/CIqF9Zjts3

