Bob Hamilton

Colonel (Ret), U.S. Army; think tanker; Hobo dog dad. Double Hoo. Professional Kremlin hater.

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

Unless Russia pays for its intentional and serial war crimes in Ukraine (and Chechnya, and Syria, etc.) the idea of just war and the power of the Geneva Conventions will lie in ruins, like countless Ukrainian hospitals, schools, shopping centers, and apartment blocks.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Russia just going more and more brutal feeling impunity, committing more atrocities. Double-tap Shahed attack on a city hospital in Sumy. At least 7 killed and dozens injured. The hospital was full of patients.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Motherland in stars and stripes tonight. Happy 4th of July to everyone celebrating freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

Your periodic reminder that Russian commits war crimes as an instrument of its military strategy in Ukraine.
Unless Russia is made to pay for this, the idea of international law and a rules based order will not survive.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Once again Russia came to kill us.
25 killed in Kyiv.
Dozens of ballistic missiles fired at the city.
Tomorrow is a day of mourning 💔

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

Two excellent points in this report:
1. Russia continues to deliberately target Ukrainian civilians.
2. Western countries continue to enable Russia’s war machine by allowing Russian shadow fleet ships to deliver Russian oil around the world.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Russia is already lying about Kyiv, pretending this was about “military targets.”

Hotels are burning. Apartment blocks are burning. Civilians are still trapped under the rubble.

I went on @SkyNews to say the obvious: Russia is talking absolute shit.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Ukraine is the EXPERT on drone warfare and we should learn from them and help them leverage this advantage over the Russian invaders. https://t.co/PtlPpyYRMg

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Rescuers are pulling people from the rubble in Kharkiv after Russian guided bomb struck a residential building at dawn.

Russia’s terror against Ukrainian civilians continues.

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

(2/2) And since Ukrainian midrange drones already control the land routes into Crimea and have destroyed hundreds of logistics vehicles on those routes this year, once the bridge goes down, Russia’s military position in Crimea will be severely compromised.

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

(1/2) Striking air defense systems on the Kerch Bridge is likely a shaping operation before striking the bridge itself. Since Russia is facing a mounting shortage of air defense systems, those lost on the bridge will be hard to replace.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

❗️Four radar stations from the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system and two Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun systems located directly on the Kerch bridge were disabled last night in an operation by the Security Service of Ukraine and Ukrainian Defense Forces.

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

@maria_avdv

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Putin has presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about leading a traditional society

In reality, divorce is very high, abortion is common, very few Russians go to church and less than 5% have ever read a Bible. It's not a traditional culture at all 1/

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

Summary of 🇷🇺n milblogger reactions to the strikes on the Kapotnya oil refinery in Moscow.

Several argue for escalation, including use of nuclear weapons. One says 🇷🇺 should take off the “white gloves”, as if it hasn’t been systematically killing Ukrainian civilians for 4 years.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Ukraine's massive drone strike against Moscow – with a reported 555 drones and missiles fired, and 180 claimed to have been shot down over Moscow – has prompted anger, defiance, and resignation from Russian warbloggers. "Tehran is safer", one says. ⬇️
https://t.co/4AbBn5QoNz

[Bob Hamilton @bobham88]

Damn

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

According to language that has been reported about MOU with Iran, there is:

🔴 NO mention of dismantling the nuclear program or the ballistic missile program.

🔴 NO commitment to ending support for Hamas, Hezbollah, or other terrorist organizations

But remarkably, the MOU with Iran reportedly includes:

🔴Immediate sanctions relief from the moment the MOU is signed. This means $3 BILLION a month into the coffers of Iran.

🔴A pledge of $100 billion in Iranian frozen assets being freed up based only on “progress” in negotiations

🔴The U.S. & others to arrange for a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran.

The reported MOU with Iran smacks of the kind of appeasement that we saw during the Obama years, the kind of appeasement that Joe Biden tried to accomplish and was ignored by the Iranians, and the kind of appeasement we categorically rejected during the first Trump administration.

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

Day 565 of nonstop #GeorgiaProtests.

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

An 87-year-old woman in a wheelchair is among three civilians killed in a Russian drone strike on Nikopol today.

No military target. No battlefield.

Just another Russian attack on ordinary Ukrainians.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

KALLAS: Moscow has no intention to end the war. Overnight Russian attacks killed civilians in Ukraine and damaged Kyiv's historical cathedral.

This direct assault on Ukraine’s 1,000-year-old heritage also exposed absurdity of Russia’s claims to be the defender of Christianity.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Firefighters are rescuing paintings from a burning art museum in Kharkiv after a Russian Shahed strike.

This is Russia’s Biennale material.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Ukraine hits Russian refineries that finance and sustain the war.

Russia hits ancient monasteries, museums, homes.

They believe destroying our culture and terrorizing civilians will break Ukraine.

They are wrong.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

A terrible loss in Kharkiv. Five first responders killed in a Russian double-tap Iskander missile attack.

Thank you for your service. Condolences to their families and the entire SESU community 💔

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

BREAKING!!! The U.S. House is set to pass H.R. 7668, the Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act tonight

The bill reflects a growing anxiety in Washington that the Georgian Dream party is drifting into an orbit controlled by the United States' primary adversaries.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

“Deep concern” again?
Russia deliberately targets spent nuclear fuel storage in Chornobyl while debate is still about “how far Putin can go”.

As far as you let him.