💬 #Zakharova: July 21 marked 85 years since the establishment of the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian SSR.
Despite the significant advantage of large-scale Soviet investments and subsidies, these nations have been reduced to Europe’s economic periphery today.
@APHClarkson I get the impression that Israeli planners are taking advantage of how well its going and expanding the operation. Just working down the list of targets they have.
Kherson today. Freedom square. We end each of our trips to Kherson here. A sacral place where Kherson civilians were protesting against Russian occupation, fearlessly. Now attacked by the Russian bombs. Russians are 3-5 km from here, on the other side of Dnipro river. Despite regular shelling, life continues here, including cultural life. We made several literature / cultural events here, underground, with @PenUkraine. Russia responds to each Ukrainian attack against its war machine with an attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure. This shows how sadistic but also how helpless Russia is today. It’s a thanatocracy, government by death, cruel but increasingly helpless thanatocracy
Kherson. Human safari. This morning:
an 80 y.o. injured by a Russian drone
an ambulance attacked, 2 paramedics injured
Public buses stopped running downtown due to the high risk of being hit by a Russian drone.
Now, read it again. It happens every day, for 10 months.
1/ Developments in Syria going so fast that reports become obsolete moments later.
I've reported from inside Syria since 2011 and I live in the MidEast. So, let me explain in this thread what the implications could be for Syria and wider region in case the Syrian regime falls:
#Kherson A Russian drone dropped incendiary load on a school in Antonivka, a suburb of Kherson; the building that burned down today.
As firemen arrived to extinguish the fire, another Russian drone attacked the them.
#DroneAttacks
Always take this sort of thing w/ a grain of salt. People in these situations say anything to ensure their safety. Not saying she's insincere, but there is clearly fear in some of these videos, warranted or not. Seems the #ZSU is behaving so far, as they largely have in the war.
"Putin is a bastard!"
A Russian elderly lady thanks a Ukrainian Warrior in Russia's Kursk region. The woman says she was abandoned in the village and had nothing to eat, but the Ukrainian military provided her with food.
After the events in Kursk region, it turned out that some locals understand and speak Ukrainian well.
Ukrainian information cesspools claim Russia hit granaries near Odessa, destroying the grain supposed to be supplied to Asia and Africa.
Look at the black smoke in the picture. Is this how grain burns? More likely, Russia hit a tank with diesel used as fuel for tanks.
❌ Ukrainian propaganda is becoming less and less convincing.
Russia has repurposed S-300 and S-400 air defense systems to strike ground targets near civilian areas in Ukraine with terrible accuracy. They'll replace them pretty quickly, but maybe this will make for a few quieter days and nights in the south.
Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 ATACMS strike on Dzhankoi Air Base today was likely one of the most successful strikes, if not the most successful strike of the entire war
~12 Mi-28, Ka-52 Helicopters were stationed there, in total costing $210 million, and an S-400 was hit too, worth $500 million
Someone explain to me why Congress is allowed to roll up what should be several separate bills into one shit bill that no one wants. #HR815 is a joke. This is why I have zero faith.
Besides the direct victims of the attack, lots of innocent people in #Chechnya and #Ingushetia are liable to suffer because of the #MoscowTerrorAttack. Russian intelligence and Kadyrov will come down hard on any and all opposition, as they have in the past.
Murder and terror attacks on civilians are horrible. Ultimate shame on Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin for staging such an awful act right after elections to gain further conscript numbers to send to Ukraine.
If you don’t believe this is a false flagged terror attack, you don’t know Russia.
Look, either Russian intelligence didn't know (failure) or they did know and they couldn't prevent it (failure). Given they made arrests earlier this week, it's most likely they knew something would go down in #Moscow.