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[British Army 🇬🇧 @BritishArmy]

A team of Army Educators has successfully completed the @marathonDsables, one of the world's toughest endurance races, finishing 14th out of 44 teams 🏃‍♂️ 🏆

A fantastic achievement showcasing resilience, teamwork and the determination to keep moving forward 👏

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/RaAg6JGA31

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Reform UK's candidate for Clacton:

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

Looking at the new UK Defence Investment Plan, with its commitment to shiny new kit, from GCAP to drone mother ships, while scaling back on fixing up soldiers' housing, I can't help but feel there are parallels with Russian military 'reform' programmes. A thread 1/

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Syrskyi: Our main objective is to ensure that the enemy loses more than 1,000 personnel killed or wounded every day.

Ukraine’s war aims: hold territory, kill Russians faster than they can be replaced, destroy logistics with mid-range drones, and bleed Russia’s economy with long-range strikes. 1/

[Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rima_medUA]

Hello my friends ♥️

What are we doing for Ukraine today?

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Farage on #BBCBreakfast: “If Andy Burnham becomes PM we need a General Election, no mandate!”

Sally Nugent: “Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?”

Watch the chancer’s face as his own logic gets rammed straight back down his throat. Pure gold.

This is the exact line every interviewer should use on him from now on.😂😂😂

RT if Sally Nugent deserves a medal 👇👇👇👇

[Gabriele Molinelli @Gabriel64869839]

This is (unfortunately) one of the most interesting and enlightening articles i've ever seen on British Army Review. I say unfortunately because it is a tale of literal regression and drips with frustration caused by procurement reforms that have only made everything even slower.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Again and again, Russia kills the people and destroys the cultural sites it says it went to war to protect. These crimes will end when the US supplies missile defense to Ukraine and enforces sanctions on Russian energy.
https://t.co/Ujp26Hoy0A

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv shares video of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in flames.

“We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction,” he writes.

He calls the Russian attack: “Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity.”

[Jack Watling @Jack_Watling]

HMG is lining itself up for a punishing month with its allies. The UK has been at the heart of designing NATO's defence plans. Those plans specify what allies agreed was necessary to ensure deterrence. Allies made commitments as to what part of the plan they would resource. 1/9

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Hard to fathom that the war in Ukraine has now endured longer than World War One. I am looking forward, as ever, to meeting doctors & health care teams striving with such tenacity, courage and humour, to keep providing care for patients 🇺🇦

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

A depressing milestone: the First World War lasted 1568 days, but today (11 June) Putin’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 1569th day, with no sign of coming to an end.  Donald Trump thought it would be so easy to stop, he could do it on his first day as US President.

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

My letter to the Prime Minister

[Larisa Brown @larisamlbrown]

The situation inside the MoD is so bad that Britain is second bottom in a Nato league table that ranks member states based on the extent to which they are meeting their rearmament promises.
The UK is currently 31 out of 32 countries on a list — which may be published by the end of the month — detailing how each country is progressing in hitting the alliance’s capability requirements. The only country below the UK is understood to be Iceland, which does not have a military.
https://t.co/9ElwHkYPL6

[Rima Med 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇺🇦 @rima_medUA]

While I was briefly back in the US, I was disheartened by how many would say "oh is that still going on?" when referring to the war in Ukraine.

It was incredibly frustrating for me especially as an active duty medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At that point its just willful ignorance. Everyone has a cellphone, laptop, tablet, etc. Information is literally at your finger tips. But instead of informing oneself properly, the choice seems to be watching AI slop, mainstream media, and other short attention span apps.

The was is not over, it has not slowed down, we are still working and fighting for freedom in Ukraine, the frontline is still 1000 km long, civilians are still being killed by r*ssia every day. We can only go so far to inform you. The rest is up to you. Up to date sources, @KyivIndependent @KyivPost @saintjavelin @U24_gov_ua

Stay informed and inform others.

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

For the first time since the invasion, Russia is losing more troops than it can recruit. Net territorial movement over the past three months has favoured Ukraine. Part 1 of my new assessment, I explore how Russia is "Losing on Every Dimension" - military, cognitive, moral, industrial and economic. 1/7 🧵

[Rebekah Maciorowski @bekamaciorowski]

Guys,

Every tourniquet, every bandage, every donation, large or small, has helped keep our medical point running and has directly supported the soldiers under our care.

This raffle is my way of giving back to the community that made it possible.

Every ticket helps support the continued care of wounded soldiers, and every participant has my sincere gratitude.

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[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat.
https://t.co/O9he74xiEL

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

This is an image from @I_W_M of British Commandos on a landing craft approaching Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th June 1944. 82 years ago today.
War is a horrific thing; these men left their loved ones to enter its hellish cauldron. Some never returned. We remember their immense bravery and sacrifices to defeat fascism so that they should never be necessary again.