In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation. It's fairly long but worth your time so I've added subtitles.
„And remember: You are not a chicken. You are biological weapon. Your task is twofold. First, fly to the Kremlin & drop an egg. It’s not an egg, but an A-bomb. Second, fly further East & shit on Russia as a part of #infowar. Good luck, special agent!”
#StandWithUkraine#нетвойне
"We were the last journalists in Mariupol. Now there are none." The remarkable story of how an @AP team hid from Russian troops in a hospital, wearing surgical scrubs, to continue telling the world of the city's destruction. https://t.co/nAlsyl6rpN
The total defence concept is subtly visible if you know where to look. Every Finnish building exceeding 1200 square meters of floorspace has to have a fallout/bomb shelter. The shelters are equipped with air filtration and they have to be ready to be occupied in 72 hours. 12/
Slovakia kicked out GRU spy (="assistant military attache") Lt. Col. Sergey Solomasov. Slovakia's security agency was able to videotape Solomasov during his cringeworthy recruitment of a Slovak asset (who was apparently wearing a wire). Do these bad movie lines ever work?
The actual location of the photograph used by @israel_mid_ru to support their claim the Azov battalion was operating at the Mariupol maternity hospital bombed by Russia was geolocated by @digitaljonah to 47.101092, 37.671539, over 10km away from the actual hospital site.
Russian State TV Just Blew Up Putin’s ‘Nazi Ukraine’ BS
Russian lawmakers suddenly blab what Putin actually wants in Ukraine—and it has nothing to do with “Nazis.”
https://t.co/cWShDLjA0K
Pregnant women and mothers with their newborn babies hide at the basement of a maternity hospital in Odesa, a port city in southern #Ukraine, during an air raid alert.
Video: Journalist Oleksiy Matsuka's Telegram channel.