This is going to be an extended 🧵on consequences of Russian casualty rates on its culture and what it means for Russo-Ukrainian War termination.
What was notable about the 2014-to-2015 Donbass War/ATO was that more Russian troops were killed than the total number of...
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Right at the time of writing this, the #Russian army is shelling one of #Ukraine's largest cities, #Kharkiv. The city plays a huge role in the origins of the #FountainofExhaustion. Kharkiv is the hometown of artist Pavlo Makov, curator Borys Filonenko,ist publishing,and 3z studio
Two of my very close friends are Chechens who survived both Chechen wars. I've heard their stories, I've seen the tiny, dank cellar where one of them slept for months to avoid the artillery strikes, and have seen how they have struggled watching the war in Ukraine unfold. 1/
"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
В «ДНР» прошла принудительная мобилизация — «мужчин отлавливали, как собак». Мы публикуем свидетельства очевидцев и молодых жителей Донецка, оказавшихся на сборных пунктах
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