Russia
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What you need to know about the Russian military presence in Transnistria. ▪️ 60% of the inhabitants of Transnistria are Russians and Ukrainians. They sought to secede from Moldov...
A few thoughts on the Russian winter offensive, which began 3+ weeks ago, and has so far yielded little progress for RU forces. Poor force quality, loss of junior officers, ammunit...
1/ Ukraine TVD, 1-31 JAN 23. The first month of 2023 saw a determined effort by the VSRF to finally seize control of Bakhmut in central Donetsk, blunt ZSU advances in Luhansk, and...
Gigantic anti-government protest in Russia. Oh...wait. This is actually France. Nothing to see here 🤗 https://t.co/EcjbCbMu93
🧵After a series of serious defeats in the fall of 2022, Russian occupational forces faced serious logistical constraints, but they were able to adapt, which would also require more...
What’s Next?🧵 The always impressive @witte_sergei treated us to a great thread yesterday, wherein he discusses the possibilities for the soon-to-come Russian winter offensive. I...
🧵🇨🇳🇷🇺 Does China distance itself from Russia because of war against Ukraine? A terrific @FT piece helps to understand how Beijing wants its policy towards Moscow to be seen in West...
The tsarina of Russia was supposed to give birth with midwives, her husband, older relatives, and sometimes with a minister, immediately after the birth of a tsarevich or tsarevna...
1/ Soldiers of the Russian 55th Motorized Rifle Brigade are being denied food or medical attention for illness and injuries until they agree to go back to the front line near Svato...
1/ Russia is planning a second wave of partial mobilisation over the winter of 2022/23 but lacks the capacity for a general mobilisation, according to the independent Russian news...
1/ Mobilised Russian soldiers from Western Siberia have been 'trained' to fight in Ukraine using snowballs as grenades and practicing shooting without ammunition, according to thei...
That is why this morning is very tough for me mentally. Because of indefinite cruelty and violence is what Russia is all about. This man, Evgeny, was a Russian prisoner of war in...
1/ A Russian court has declared 17 missing sailors from the sunken cruiser Moskva to be dead, according to the Agency News Telegram channel. Translation follows. ⬇️ https://t.co/Mc...
Important Defense Exercises between India and other countries - (A thread🧵) ⦿ Surya Kiran - India & Nepal Army ⦿ Vajra Prahar - India and US Army ⦿ Yudh Abhyas India and US Mi...
New Study Finds The Rest Of The World Supports China And Russia "However, for the 6.3bn people who live in the rest of the world, the picture is reversed. In these societies, 70%...
1/ In a somewhat macabre ritual, the Russian army has brought in a priest to baptise (living) soldiers using body bags as baptismal fonts, according to Russian local TV channel Tel...
1/ Untrained mobilised Russian soldiers are being held prisoner in a basement in Luhansk oblast after refusing to go back to the front line. Following a bloody defeat near Lyman, t...
1/ What is the price of defeat? Few episodes in the Ukraine war illustrate this more vividly than the five-month battle for the village of Dovhenke, an episode which likely cost hu...
Wow. In light of Lyman defeat, Russian z-journalist and blogger Anastasiya Kashevarova goes to telegram to post a long rant asking the right questions because all the other militar...
People think the energy crisis is just a blip in the transition to renewables, but it's not. Europe faces rapid de-industrialization & stagflation. Governments are taking over ener...
Let me get this straight: 1. Russia thought their "special operation" would last 3 days. 2. After 2 months of fighting with Spetsnaz, Airborne & 190+ BTGs, they achieved NONE of th...
1/ @ian_matveev, who's one of the smartest Russian-language commentators on the Ukraine war, has posted a very interesting and detailed thread discussing the reasons for Russia's d...
🧵 on alternate realities in Russia You may have heard that yesterday Putin opened a ferris-wheel in Moscow, which broke down almost immediately and had to be shut down. You may ha...
I see a fallacy here. Russian soldiers KIA =/= total Russian casualties. Ministry of defence estimates do not count: 1) Private military companies (Wagner, etc.) 2) Donetsk and Lu...
