London-based geopolitical analyst focused on
#Russia
,
#Ukraine
,
#Belarus
,
#Eurasia
.
I tweet in personal capacity. All views are my own. Retweet ≠ endorsement.
Voters in
#France
should be reminded of this photo before they vote in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday.
If you are in France, please retweet.
I’ve been cautious about
#Ukraine
’s President
@ZelenskyyUa
and was not a fan of many of his domestic policies. However, he has so far performed with dignity and bravery as an unexpected war leader of a nation under a foreign attack. Kudos to the Ukrainian president!
Hello
@Twitter
@TwitterSafety
. Please suspend the account of
@RussianEmbassy
for urging deaths to Ukrainian prisoners of war. This is a clear violation of Twitter rules and should not be allowed.
Just look in the eyes of this poor doggo rescued by the emergency services in
#Kherson
region, south
#Ukraine
, now partially flooded due to
#Russia
destroying
#Kakhovka
dam.
Photos by Serhii Korovayny
Daughter of the prominent
#Russia
|n Nazi ideologist Alexander Dugin, Darya Platonova (Dugina) publicly described Ukrainians as “subhumans” and called for the Russian occupation of
#Ukraine
and extermination of Ukrainian identity. I am sorry if I am not sorry about her death.
It is rather curious that once
#Ukraine
’s armed forces entered
#Kursk
region of
#Russia
and started quickly capturing territory, the Russian officials immediately started talking about “international borders” and “sovereign territory”.
What a difference to February 2022!
It’s time for the
#West
to provide
#Ukraine
with weapons which can hit
#Russia
|n air bases from which it launches its strategic bombers for missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, including as far as Kaluga, Saratov and Stavropol.
Hello
@WhiteHouse
@JoeBiden
: it's time to authorise
#Ukraine
's armed forces to use the
#US
weapons to strike Russian military airfields from which
#Russia
launches aircraft to bomb hospitals, schools, universities and homes in Ukraine.
THREAD on
#Belarus
:
Yesterday, it was exactly 30 years since dictator Alexander Lukashenka came to power in Belarus on 20 July 1994. He campaigned on the platform of being a young and energetic leader in his late 30s who wanted to replace the 70 year olds in power.
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In
#Moscow
,
#Russia
, there is a
#protest
rally taking place tonight on Arbat Street against the mobilisation, announced by Putin earlier tonight. Protesters chant “No to War!”.
On this day in 2014, a
#Russia
|n Buk shot down a passenger aircraft
#MH17
flying at 10 km from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over
#Donetsk
region in eastern
#Ukraine
.
All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed.
Hello
@TwitterSafety
@TwitterSupport
. Why does a terrorist organisation, which is engaged in crimes against humanity in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other countries, has presence on your platform?
Remove Wagner from
@Twitter
immediately!
@elonmusk
Are you aware that millions of Ukrainians were displaced from Russian-occupied areas in south and east Ukraine? Are you aware that Russia moved more than 500,000 of its citizens to occupied Crimea since 2014?
In
#Russia
, in at least five locations, unidentified individuals set of fire
#military
registration and enlistment offices (voyenkomats).
A peculiar development amid the ongoing spring military conscription campaign.
In
#Tyumen
,
#Russia
, the local authorities put up posters celebrating the Russian Navy Day.
Yet the posters feature USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier of the
#US
Navy:
Yesterday, Putin delivered a speech in which he reiterated his vision for a "new world order" in which
#Russia
has the right to conquer all countries previously ruled by the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
So much for those who talk about "negotiations".
Strong 1984 vibes.
In
#Belarus
, the state TV is showing visibly terrified detained protesters. They were probably beaten up before their public promises to no longer take part in anti-Lukashenka
#protests
.
This is happening in
#Europe
in 2020. Just terrible.
In this video from
#Grozny
,
#Chechnya
, south
#Russia
, 16-yo son of Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov is “gifting” to his father three Ukrainian POWs captured in
#Ukraine
.
If this is not a theatre but real life situation, this is modern slavery.
In the
#BlackSea
, 12 nautical miles from
#Ukraine
's coast, a
#Romania
|n flagged vessel was reportedly hit by a missile/shell launched from a Russian navy vessel.
#Russia
is attacking commercial vessels of NATO member states.
In
#Belgorod
, south
#Russia
, a Russian missile launched a target in
#Ukraine
, failed and hit a residential building in this Russian city instead:
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Today is the birthday of Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych who in 1916 composed ‘Shchedryk’ or ‘Carol of the Bells’, based on a Ukrainian folk chant.
Here it is performed by Helena Androsova:
#Estonia
has revoked a residence permit from a pro-Kremlin activist Paljamar and issued a 10-year Schengen ban to her. She is currently in
#Russia
, whose cause she has been trying to advance in Estonia for years.
This is a very right move.
In
#Russia
, Kremlin’s propaganda released a short animation showing a Russian nuclear strike on the
#US
, with devastation of American cities including San Francisco and New York City.
Kremlin’s wet dreams about the world they want to live in.
As a
#UK
citizen I want to say that arming
#Ukraine
is the single best use of tax payer money for decades.
My only criticism is that the West aren’t sending enough, fast enough.
Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters.
This is
#Kharkiv
, east
#Ukraine
, on 6 March 2022.
Before Putin began his barbaric war against the Ukrianian people, Kharkiv was a vibrant city of 1.5 million people. How can the world let this happen?!?
Russian-language segment of Twitter is full of reports that this
#Russia
|n soldier named Aleksey Bychkov from Stavropol has raped toddlers (!!!) in
#Ukraine
and shared videos of these rapes. These videos are now circulating on social media.
This is horrific. I have no words.
In
#Moscow
,
#Russia
, the police are detaining protesters against the mobilisation at an unauthorised
#protest
rally taking place tonight. The protester who is being detained is chanting “No to War!”.
In
#Russia
|n-occupied areas of
#Ukraine
, the occupiers are replacing road signs. They remove signs in Ukrainian (with transliteration in English) and replace them with those in Russian.
Classic colonialism.
In
#Lyman
,
#Donetsk
region, east
#Ukraine
, the Ukrainian forces removed the
#Russia
|n flags from the building of the city administration. They also raised the Ukrainian banner over the building.
This is photo from the funeral of Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, Nobel peace Prize laureate and human rights activist, in December 1989.
This is what the Kremlin is trying to avoid by not allowing a public funeral of Alexey
@Navalny
.
In
#NYC
,
#Switzerland
’s president Cassis
@ignaziocassis
held a meeting with
#Russia
’s FM Lavrov. Lavrov represents Russia, a country conducting a barbaric war of territorial conquest and genocide against
#Ukraine
.
Very bad optics, Switzerland. Very bad.
@amnesty
@Mike_Eckel
Russian forces put Ukrainian civilians in harm's way by shelling and bombing Ukrainian cities, and by occupying ~20% of Ukrainian territory.
Russia is the problem, not Ukraine. Are you guys at
@amnesty
on Russian payroll?
In
#Russia
, Telegram channel of Wagner PMC is urging conducting missile strikes on the dam of the
#Kyiv
reservoir, which is upstream from the capital of Ukraine, home to some 3 million people now.
Russia is conducting a barbaric and genocidal war.
Media reports claim that the Kremlin is allegedly plotting to liquidate Lukashenka, the de facto ruler of
#Belarus
in order to seize control of Belarusian army to use it in
#Russia
's invasion of
#Ukraine
:
Today in
#London
, outside the
@RussianEmbassy
to the
#UK
, the police are protecting this banner following a call by the Ambassador, Andrey Kelin, to hang Ukrainian prisoners of war because "they deserve a humiliating death".
Via
@notowarprotest
One more video from
#Kherson
, south
#Ukraine
, where local residents are holding a protest rally against the
#Russia
|n invaders who occupied the city several days ago.
Extraordinary defiance of ordinary Ukrainians!!!
In
#Russia
, several radio stations and even local TV networks appear to have been hacked to broadcast a deep fake address allegedly by president Putin.
This fake address announced mass mobilisation and introduced martial law in border regions.
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Another photo from
#Ukraine
that will leave you speechless.
A woman is saving disabled dogs from a shelter in
#Irpin
,
#Kyiv
region, which has been under heavy Russian shelling and air strikes.
Today in
#Madrid
,
#Spain
, there was a pro-Russian rally taking place.
It’s sickening to see this monstrosity while
#Russia
continues its barbaric and genocidal war against
#Ukraine
:
People on Red Square, central
#Moscow
,
#Russia
, celebrating Putin’s declared annexation of 4 regions of
#Ukraine
.
Now tell me that this is “Putin’s war”, not Russia’s war.
The best response to the proposal to negotiate with
#Russia
’s Putin was given by
#Ukraine
’s Foreign Minister Kuleba:
“[Prigozhin] had a conflict with Putin, he had successful negotiations: ended the conflict, agreed to security guarantees. And then Putin killed him.”
If you remember this dog saved from the flooding in
#Kherson
, south
#Ukraine
, she is now safe in a shelter in Odesa.
Please donate to the shelter if you can to help those saving animals from Kherson:
In
#Russia
, one of the top Kremlin propagandists Solovyov says during his talk show: “With the sanctions like these, why should we stop at the borders of
#Ukraine
?”
Translation: Kremlin propaganda is promoting invasion of NATO member states.
In
#Riga
,
#Latvia
, members of the local Russian-speaking community held a rally today to condemn
#Russia
’s barbaric war against Ukraine, and to show solidarity with
#Ukraine
:
In
#Russia
, the FSB security service found alleged assassins of Nazi propagandist Dugina in less than 2 days.
Yet, the FSB are searching for killers of politician Nemtsov for 2,733, of civic activist Estemirova for 4,786, and of journalist Politkovskaya for 5,798 days.
In
#London
,
#UK
, the New Year fireworks featured
#Ukraine
’s winning ESC 2022 song Stefania by Kalush Orchestra. The words of Slava Ukrayini were part of the NYE fireworks display:
This memo was reportedly found with the documents of a Russian servicemen KIA in Ukraine.
Some points are fairly standard, but some are curious. Short thread:
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This was filmed at
#Kyiv
railway station (first half) and at Universitet underground metro station in
#Kharkiv
,
#Ukraine
(second half), on New Year’s Eve of 2023.
Ukrainians can’t be defeated as they have an unbreakable spirit:
In
#Russia
|n-occupied
#Kherson
, south
#Ukraine
, local residents again hold a
#protest
against the ongoing Russian occupation.
Amazing courage and defiance!
In
#Kherson
region, south
#Ukraine
, another dog is saved by rescuers amid flooding caused by
#Russia
destroying the
#Kakhovka
dam on the Dnieper river.
So thankful to the rescuers for saving all the people and animals affected by this disaster.
#Afghanistan
in two screengrabs:
Same TV channel (
@CNN
), same reporter (
@clarissaward
), same city (Kabul). Before Taliban capture of Kabul - and after:
In
#Russia
|n-occupied areas in southern and eastern
#Ukraine
, Russian occup.authorities urge civilians not only to switch from Ukrainian to Russian citizenship/passports but also to Russify surnames.
This ad from Melitopol advertises surname change from Halushko to Glushkova:
@RussianEmbassy
Russia’s embassy to the U.K. is inciting violence against Ukrainian prisoners of war. Typical Nazi behaviours by Russia’s “diplomats”.
@TwitterSupport
, please suspend
@RussianEmbassy
account for breach of Twitter rules.