J. Suho

Author | Consultant | Crisis Management | Contemporary Warfare | Hybrid Threats | Mine Action 🌍 rt≠endorsement, opinions my own

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️West must 'let go' of 'irrational fears' of escalation with Russia, FM Kuleba says.

"Putin does not require any reasons to escalate. Instead, we must take the initiative and make Putin fear our next move, not the other way around."
https://t.co/aboauBfdJA

[Pekka Toveri @PToveri]

Samaa mieltä.
Kommentti: Kohta kellot soivat Putinin Venäjän Ahvenanmaan-konsulaatille https://t.co/XpGiekKAMT

[Pekka Toveri @PToveri]

Turkulaiset tuskin pahastuvat vaikka Venäjän konsulaatti suljettaisiin. Ahvenanmaalaisetkaan tuskin menettäisivät yöuniaan...
Diplomatia | Venäjä sulkee Suomen pää­konsulaatin Pietarissa, presidentti Niinistö vahvistaa tiedon: https://t.co/HnjUfXRq3K

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

78% of Ukrainians have relatives or friends who were wounded or died because of Russian invasion into Ukraine.

64% of Ukrainians have at least one close relative or friend who was wounded.

63% of Ukrainians have at least one close relative or friend who died in the full-scale invasion.

This is an incredible amount of individual and collective psychological trauma and a collective grief experience that the whole country is going through. And this shows just how much pain Russia has inflicted on Ukraine.

Source: all-Ukrainian public opinion poll conducted by Kyiv International Sociology Institute
https://t.co/5vxUqoM2Bw

📷: aleksandrovaaaa_ph/Instagram

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

These are comments from a Russian Telegram group on the news that a baby was injured during Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk:

"Guys, f**king kill the Ukrainian cattle, yes, this is open fascism and I'm undoubtedly happy about that!"

"Well, some Ukrainians got killed, I don't give a sh*t. Everyone dies there all the time."

"They say a one year old child died there, as well? Question - will he sing a song about Bandera in hell?"

"Normal parents wouldn't take their kids to a Ukrainian daycare. There's no one to be sorry for there."

"The baby is all right already. It'll get better eventually."

"I don't f**king care about that Nazi child. These bastards don't deserve sorrow. How many Russian children did Ukrainian bastards kill. Their offspring and the Anglo-Saxon offspring are biowaste, just like their lice parents."

"It's right to start with children. They need to bomb a daycare, too."

It seemed important to me to translate this and show you who we're dealing with.
These creatures just want to kill all Ukrainians. Starting with children.

[Kristi Raik @KristiRaik]

Russia wants us to believe that it is ready to do anything to avoid defeat in Ukraine.
West must make Russia believe that it can gain nothing by any kind of use of nuclear weapon, apart from ending us all, which it hardly really wants.
Defeat in Ukraine will not be end of Russia

[Kristi Raik @KristiRaik]

On toki hyvä nostaa esiin erilaisia näkökulmia, ja Forsberg hyvin kyseenalaistaa Charapin kantoja.
Tekee mieli kuitenkin lisätä, että Charap on hyvin laajalti arvosteltu ja tunnettu Venäjälle suosiollisista tulkinnoista. Kuten 2022 alussa esittämästään https://t.co/6tecEFYBnH

[Pekka Virkki @Virkki5]

Tärkeä teksti @RusiAlpo lta: @Ulkoministerio n lausuntopyyntö, jossa todettiin @TarjaHalonen mahdollisesti löytyvän #Rosenholz-aineistosta, on kadonnut kaikista arkistoista.

Miksi?

#Lustraatio vietävä loppuun ja listat avattava.

https://t.co/VdkEv8pKoj

#Venäjä #Nato #Turpo

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

There are signs that Russia has realized its imminent defeat in Ukraine and now wants to undermine Ukraine economically as much as possible.

The destruction of Kakhovka HPP was a strike on Ukraine's economy. Agricultural capacity of Ukrainian South has suffered unbelievable damage that will take decades to restore. Heavy industry in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions will also be impacted greatly by this act of terror. Damage to the environment is huge and lasting.

North-Crimean canal was also left without water as a result of the explosion. This means agriculture in Crimea will be virtually impossible and residents will continue facing a shortage of drinking water.

Furthermore, @DI_Ukraine has information that Russia has placed explosives inside Titan plant in Crimean Armiansk. If Russia decided to blow it up, a cloud of about 200 tons of ammonia would cover the nearby areas.

Plants, coal mines, fields etc that are in the areas of Donbas occupied by Russia, have also been destroyed, severely damaged and/or heavily mined.

Russia wants Ukraine to become economically unsustainable, unable to support herself. Reconstruction, rebuilding, de-mining and other restoring of territories will take a lot of time and money before they are able to function again. All this time, Ukraine will need to rely on external aid for survival.

Russia is hoping that it will be able to restore its army and weapon stocks to attack Ukraine several years later, and succeed this time.

Ukraine needs strong and sustainable security guarantees to ensure this doesn't happen. A bloody war in the center of Europe must not repeat.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Putin's many weaknesses as a ruler is now becoming evident. The truth about Putin is that he has had tremendous luck, but not been particularly able. He has thrived on loyalty & slow deliberate decision-making, But now his many shortfalls are becoming costly.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Uman

📷 - Carlos Barria / Reuters

[Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh]

1/22 This is Svetlana Maniovich. She is your guide to the world of extreme Russian glamour. She radiates richness. Diamonds, furs, Rolls Royces - she has it all and more. In summer you can find her in St Tropez where she rents a villa for €150k/month, or on a yacht in Naples🧵

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

When we think of terrorists, Russian soldiers should come to mind.

Russia is a terrorist state. Wagner is a terrorist organization.

Terror was always deeply rooted in the arsenal of the Red Army and it lives on - the collapse of the Soviet Union did not change a thing.

[Tiina Vuolle @tiinaadasofia]

Hei @Finnair, olisi ollut asiallista mainita tässä mainoksessa myös se, että uusiutuvan polttoaineen osuus teidän kaikista tankkauksista oli viime vuonna noin 0,2 prosenttia. #viherpesu

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

My mother was deported to Siberia today 74 years ago as a 6-months old baby. Russia hasn’t changed.

[Matthew Light @MattLightCrim]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a necolonial war: two examples. 1) Russia's systematic looting of Ukraine's artistic heritage in the regions it occupies is both an act of plunder worthy of King Leopold and a malignant attempt to erase Ukraine's cultural heritage and identity. 1/

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Several kids that Russia kidnapped were returned to Ukraine. Listen to what they say.

They were told their parents abandoned them, promised adoption into 🇷🇺 families and told they are now forever "children of Russia"

And Russian discipline: getting beaten with a metallic rod.

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

🐅THREAD: Two Dubai-based influencers with millions of followers have been posing with tiger and lion cubs in private homes, despite strict UAE regulations on exotic animals. Who's behind these photoshoots? Let's dive in.👇 https://t.co/myrc5zXsPM

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Russia: No children have been taken from Ukraine to Russia & the ICC charge is meaningless.

Also Russia: We are going to return the children we totally didn't take, not that we are scared of the OCC charge.

[Jussi Halla-aho @Halla_aho]

1/4 This is a correct step, if long overdue. Mr Putin is a dictator and has the power to prevent any Russian crime on the ground. Thus, every Russian crime that takes place has his blessing and authorization.

https://t.co/LRxbhChCeZ