Jimmy Rushton
@JimmySecUK
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Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Sometime journalist - opinions mine alone
Kyiv
Joined December 2015
Dublin, Ireland. Angry crowd harasses a car carrying the Russian ambassador as it tries to enter the Embassy. Ireland, I am proud of you.❤️🇮🇪.
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Two Marines defeated the AI detection system of a military robot by. hiding in a cardboard box and walking right up to it.
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Thousands of Russians moved to Sri Lanka to avoid conscription after the outbreak of war, tried to implement their own version of apartheid - banning locals from the businesses they set up - and are now being deported.
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Watching videos of Ukrainian farmers stealing Russian military equipment worth tens of millions of pounds - in this case a Tor-M2 SAM system - will absolutely never get old.👇🇺🇦.
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I can't quite believe what I'm seeing here; a Ukrainian farmer apparently capturing an abandoned Russian 9K33 OSA surface-to-air missile system by simply hooking it up to his tractor and driving away with it.🇺🇦.
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One of the last photographs taken inside the Azovstal Steel Plant, Mariupol.
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This is what the replies to any large account now look like; AI generated and low effort copypasted replies from "verified" accounts trying to game Twitter's revenue sharing scheme. Musk claimed his "verification" would stop spam; it's in fact made it vastly worse.
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Some pretty incredible footage of Macron talking to Zelensky on the morning of the invasion, when the scale of the full-scale Russian assault on Ukraine was becoming clear.
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An extremely large explosion as a probable Russian ammunition dump in Southern Ukraine is destroyed by artillery fire.
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The head of the DNR, Denis Pushilin, awarding a medal to Lieutenant Colonel Timur Kurilkin for "destroying 250 Nazis" - which is ironic, considering Kurilkin has two neo-Nazi patches clearly visible on his uniform.
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A children’s hospital. They blew up a fucking children’s hospital.
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"Children’s shoes for sale. Never worn.”. Russian Telegram channel mocks the death of six-year-old Sophia Holynska who was killed in Russia's missile strike on Chernihiv yesterday. The post has nearly 47,000 "laughing" reactions from Russian social media users.
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Congratulations, @amnesty, you've now allowed the Russian government to declare open season on any school or hospital in Ukraine.
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People keep talking about the "greatest ever tweet", and so far they're all wrong. There's only one candidate, and it isn't even close.
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Imagine if the CEO of Blackwater publicly declared his intention to march on Washington D.C., shot down multiple USAF aircraft and killed an unknown number of American soldiers, and then was given legal immunity and allowed to maintain his huge private army by the President.🙃.
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Imagine being such a pathological liar that even the Kremlin - the fucking Kremlin - feels the need to call you out.
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A reminder that you don't get to invade someone's country and then dictate the terms under which they can resist your invasion. Ukraine has every moral and legal right under international law to take the fight to Russia on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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Pictures from inside the completed NHS Nightingale hospital at Excel Centre, which was built in *one week*. This is an incredible achievement and everyone involved should be very proud👇
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Reportedly filmed in Crimea, this video shows a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 heroically demilitarising itself in a demonstration of solidarity with Ukraine.🔥🇺🇦.
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Spare a thought for Nigel Farage who has to wait till 7pm to see if his team gets into the semi finals.
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An entire column of Russian T80U tanks from the elite 4th Guards 'Kantemirovskaya' Tank Division stuck in the mud and abandoned by their crews.🇺🇦👇.
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Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelenskyy going walkabout in Kyiv (and probably causing Johnson's close protection detail to age about 20 years in the process).
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Video circulating of Palestinian terrorists gunning down Israeli civilians in their homes and pulling drivers from vehicles and slitting their throats. This isn't war, or "resistance", it's deliberate slaughter of innocents.
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A man portable canine detection device (MANCADD) - also known as a "very good boy" - being deployed to sniff out unexploded ordnance in Ukraine.🇺🇦🐶
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We heard from a source in the Ukrainian government this was happening last year. "Hundreds" of prisoners of war had been returned, alive, but castrated. We didn't report this at the time, as it was deemed it could add to the trauma the men had suffered.
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Just today: . • Prigozhin and Utkin killed by their own side. • Ukraine blew up an S-400 battery in Crimea. • A Russian pilot and his Mi-8AMTSh is confirmed to have defected to Ukraine. • At least one Ukrainian drone struck central Moscow. Not a bad day for Ukraine.🇺🇦.
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Civilians coming out to cheer advancing Ukrainian soldiers who have just freed them from Russian occupation. 🇺🇦.
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Ukraine destroys a Russian landing ship, so Russia bombs a maternity hospital, shopping centres, apartment blocks and other civilian targets all over Ukraine; there's no other description for this than state terrorism.
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Putin is making a live address. He's currently whining about how Hollywood refuses to make movies about the Russian contribution to defeating Nazi Germany and claiming "progressives" are trying to "cancel Russia".
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In the last 24hrs:. • A video is published online of a Russian soldier castrating a live Ukrainian prisoner. • Russia launches a cluster munition attack on Ukrainian civilians queuing for a bus. • Russia in all likelihood murdered 40 Ukrainian POWs and tried to blame Ukraine.
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The reason Zelensky made a big deal of the fact he was still in Kyiv in Feb 2022 as Russia closed in on the Ukrainian capital was that a suggestion of leadership fleeing would have been catastrophic for army morale; an effective indication Ukraine had already conceded defeat.
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@elonmusk You're under the mistaken impression that Russia has any claim to any of Ukraine.
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Artillery shells in Ukraine. "Revenge for MH17" - the commercial airliner carrying 193 Dutch passengers that was shot down by Russia in 2014 - written on the shell in Dutch.🔥
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And note that Zelensky's first instinct was to ask Macron and others to speak to Putin in order to try and end the war via diplomatic means. "Warmongering" he certainly wasn't - he just wanted to stop the killing.
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"After Bucha, Borodianka, Mariupol, there can be no business with Russia" - Polish President Andrzej Duda, speaking now to the Ukrainian parliament (but probably aiming his comments at his French, German and Hungarian counterparts).
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A reminder that Russian state media lies about everything. The zoo that doesn't exist according to TASS is clearly visible on Google Maps, around 800m away from the Kakhovka dam.
Ukrainian media reports about animals who were killed by a flood at a zoo in the city of Novaya Kakhovka are untrue, because the city has no zoo at all, a spokesperson for the city’s emergencies services has told TASS:.
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Watching Americans reacting to commercial aircraft flying above them like members of an uncontacted tribe deep in the Amazon jungle is. quite amusing.
Please make the US east coast drone hysteria stop. When did people stop being embarrassed by being so obviously uninformed?.
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Elon Musk's new Twitter: a "verified" account that was previously suspended for spreading disinformation about the Bucha Massacre now spreading completely fictional quotes from Volodymyr Zelenskyy with over a thousand retweets and nearly 300,000 views.
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Svitlana and Khrystyna, the two young women killed in yesterday's Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhia. This video was taken hours before the attack that killed them. They were just 19 and 21 years old.
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Some of the cartel gunmen in #Culiacán are incredibly heavily armed - here we see an M249 Para machine gun and an M72 LAW anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher (!!!) amongst other weapons.
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It's now been 16 days since Ukraine started striking Russian targets inside Belgorod with M142 HIMARS and other Western provided weaponry and in response Russia has done. nothing.
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Congratulations to Wernher von Braun on his posthumous promotion to "second-most problematic foreigner building rockets for NASA".
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More Russian soldiers with neo-Nazi patches on their uniforms; the top patch is a modified "Totenkopf" - used by the S.S., which also features the unit insignia of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
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Apparently a verified Russian embassy account talking about prisoners of war - legally protected under the Geneva Conventions - being subjected to "execution" and a "humiliating death" is not against Twitter's rules.
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More Ukrainian prisoners of war returned from Russian captivity looking like inmates of a Nazi concentration camp. These men were freed on June 25th.
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I just spoke to someone with contacts inside Wagner - he confirmed that this wasn't theatre, and that Prigozhin is making a move. "It's not clear exactly what's happening right now, but it's not nothing.".
Wow. Now Prigozhin says that the council of Wagner commanders have decided to deal with the military leadership of Russia adding that he will destroy everyone who appears n his way. "I ask everyone to stay calm at home, do not go outside.".
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Erdogan needs to understand that for many, a NATO without Turkey but with Finland and Sweden would be seen as a win/win. He should proceed carefully. .
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Elon Musk's Twitter/X is attempting to discourage people from viewing Bellingcat's open source investigation into the Russian missile strike on Okhmatdyt children's hospital by falsely claiming the "link my be unsafe".
Latest: An analysis of open source evidence, as well as multiple missile experts, have pointed to a Russian launched Kh-101 cruise missile being the weapon that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv
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To give you an idea of how badly the information war is going for Russia, the Russian Ministry of Defence just locked their Twitter account.🙃
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Kazakhstan: A vehicle bearing the Russian "Z" is heavily vandalised by Kazakh anti war protestors.👇
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It's crazy how, in the middle of the biggest war in Europe since WW2, the Ukrainian railways are not only maintaining their current services with little to no disruption, they're also reopening decades closed international rail links.🤯.
Finally! UZ and CFR have restored international railway connection between Rakhiv (UA) and Valea-Višeului (RO) in the Carpathians. After a more than 10-year break, this region ceases to be a railway dead end. We have been waiting for this for a long time!
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Footage from Israeli television showing IDF veterans training Ukrainian forces in Ukraine.🇺🇦 . Shows once again how ridiculous the Russian mischaracterisation of the Ukrainians as 'Nazis' actually is.
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Pro-Russian outlet "Rybar" now suggesting the Ukrainian military has completed a physical encirclement of Lyman and several surrounding settlements - trapping a significant number of Russian troops in a pocket.
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Ukrainian sources are claiming this artillery strike on a 2nd Army Russian command post near Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast, killed Major General Andrey Simonov. It's yet to be confirmed by Russian sources but it's significant they named a specific general.
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Funny how you'll never see pro-Ukrainian protestors disrupting a talk about the conflict in Gaza, despite the fact a huge number of "pro-Palestinian" activists are also vocally pro-Russian.
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protestors at a @ucl campus in London derail a speech by Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavský who was talking about the perils of Russia’s war in Ukraine. They shout “free Palestine”, accuse him of “genocide” “shame shame, all the crimes in your name”
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A Ukrainian SOF operator - armed with an indigenous Ukrainian "Malyuk" bullpup assault rifle, and wearing a very sophisticated set of GPNVG-18 night vision goggles (that cost around $40,000). No wonder they're having such success in night battles.🔥🇺🇦. Image via @AbraxasSpa.
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Is there a German word for making a political decision in the most damaging, self defeating, humiliating way possible?.
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According to Ukrainian sources the Russians once again attempted to ford the Siverskyi Donets river, near Bilohorivka, earlier this afternoon. It went about as well as their previous attempts.
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A lot of people who talk loudly about 'punching Nazis' now mocking the death of someone who actually fought them.
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When judging the effect of the recently delivered HIMARS are having on the battlefield remember this; both the Ukrainians and the relatively few Russians that can speak freely are saying the same thing - they're devastating and the Russian military simply has no counter for them.
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Reported events tonight:. • Explosions at munitions depot, Timonovo, Belgorod.• Fire/explosions at Stary Oskol Airfield, Belgorod.• Explosions in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson.• Explosions/UAV shot down near Belbek airport, Crimea.• Air defence activity near Kerch strait, Crimea.
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Russia moving to "all out war" (aka some form of mobilisation) really doesn't solve anything. It doesn't suddenly give them air superiority, it doesn't suddenly let them counter Ukrainian HIMARS/MLRS, it doesn't solve crippling morale and leadership issues in the Russian army.
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More incredible bravery from unarmed Ukrainian civilians - completely halting the advance of a Russian armoured column by standing in the road.🇺🇦. And what is also significant is how the Russian soldiers were unwilling to violently force their through.
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Remember when Argentina used French Exocet anti-ship missiles to sink British warships during the Falklands War which inevitably led to the great Anglo-French war of 1983?.
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Ukrainian explosive ordnance disposal pull the fuse from a live, unexploded Russian bomb whilst shells land nearby.🇺🇦 . These people are astonishingly brave.
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Kyiv says goodbye to Iryna “Cheka” Tsybukh, the well-known combat medic from the “Hospitallers” volunteer medical battalion, who was killed in action on Wednesday. She was 25.
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None of this is true. Gonzalo Lira has not been tortured, neither is he in prison for the crime of "criticising Zelensky" - he is in prison because he attempted to skip bail after being arrested for multiple offenses, including filming the location of Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv.
Ep. 47 Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who’s been tortured in a Ukrainian prison since July, for the crime of criticizing Zelensky. Biden officials approve of this, because they’d like to apply the same standard here. The media agree. Here’s a statement from Gonzalo Lira’s
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Putin's regime arresting Yelena Osipova, survivor of the Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, for protesting against Putin's war in St Petersburg. What sort of government is scared of a little old lady holding placards? .
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I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Ukraine with the Ukrainian military. I’ve also written extensively about Western military aid to Ukraine. It’s pretty clear to me that Amnesty Interational’s @DRovera is either horribly misinformed or deliberately lying about Western aid.
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Is anyone at Amnesty International asking themselves why they're getting approvingly retweeted by Nazis, Stalinists, and pro-Russian propagandists, whilst being condemned by pretty much everyone else?.
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In a liberated village in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian soldiers found a poor dog who had a "Z" carved onto his snout by Russian soldiers.
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kharkiv is the type of action that'll be written about and analyzed for decades - maybe centuries. A truly masterful piece of strategic thinking, executed perfectly at the tactical level. We are watching military history unfolding right now.
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I live in Ukraine and hear Russian every day. I spent three days last week touring the front-line with a Russian speaking Ukrainian from Luhansk (who doesn’t speak any Ukrainian) and is the most patriotic man I’ve ever met. The suggestion Russian is banned here is ludicrous.
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German activists have won court approval to park a destroyed Russian tank directly in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin. .
Gewonnen! Das VG Berlin hat das @BA_Mitte_Berlin im Wege der einstweiligen Anordnung verpflichtet, die straßenverkehrsrechtliche Ausnahmegenehmigung zur Aufstellung eines Panzerwracks auf der Kreuzung Schadowstraße/Unter den Linden vor der 🇷🇺 Botschaft zu erteilen.
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Russia has been "firing missiles" at Ukraine for the past 1000 days of this full-scale war. You're completely unfit to be a Labour MP.
Is there a plan if/when Russia fires missiles back?.Hope is not a policy.
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Ukrainian artillery struck the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson again last night. Some of the engineering equipment the Russians were using to repair the bridge was probably also destroyed. 🔥.
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Something very interesting happening in the city of Kherson, where Russian flags at checkpoints and over the city administration building have disappeared. Checkpoints that were once manned by Russian troops are now abandoned. .
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Ukrainian soldiers transformed this Peugeot cabriolet into a stripped down battle-buggy complete with bull bars and a space for a machine gunner. 🔥
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This is the "Russian journalist" in question, Glenn.
Gee, I wonder who carried out this terrorist attack on a cafe in St. Petersburg where a Russian journalist was killed as he held an event on the war in Ukraine, along with 12 others who were wounded. Wonder if it might be the same people who murdered Darya Dungina in her car?.
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A long column of abandoned Russian vehicles, now captured by the Ukrainian Army, around Kharkiv.🇺🇦. This conflict already has so many parallels with the First Soviet-Finnish War (the Winter War) - it even looks like it now.👇.
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Mercurial head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, releases a video titled "Plans love silence", showing him sitting silently in his office at HUR headquarters for thirty seconds.
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It's no coincidence General Kirillov was charged by the SBU a day before he was assassinated. The message is clear; Ukraine isn't going to wait for international courts to arrest the countless Russians who have committed war crimes; they're going to seek justice themselves.
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I see the "free speech absolutist" is once again threatening to sue people for saying things he doesn't like.
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The resilience of the Ukrainian people will never cease to amaze me. 🇺🇦.
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The German Consulate was also hit in today’s Russian missile attacks on Kyiv.
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A suicidal mass infantry charge across open terrain with apparently no armour or artillery support. And no winter camouflage meaning they're perfectly silhouetted against the snowy terrain. Whoever this is, they don't really know what they're doing.
As claimed, North Korean attack on the Kursk front.
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@elonmusk @RenataKonkoly What was the population difference between the British Empire and the American Colonists, Elon?.
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Elon Musk’s company - that receives sensitive Defense Department contracts now working actively against very publicly declared United States national interests. Hmmm.
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Ukraine has now been hitting Russian targets inside Belgorod Oblast with U.S. provided weapons for four days and unless I'm gravely mistaken, it has not led to the start of World War Three.
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There's currently every indication the Russian "withdrawal" from the west bank of the Dnipro has degenerated into a rout. We'll only know for sure at daybreak, however.
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Update: they were neither military nor psychologically prepared.
I really don't think Russia is either militarily or psychologically prepared for when Ukraine manages to mass produce their own cheap, long range "suicide drone". Because they will, it's just a matter of time.
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Obviously everyone is speculating what Ukrainian weapon was responsible for the attack on Novofedorivka airbase in temporarily occupied Crimea - but in a very real way, it doesn't matter WHAT it was - it simply matters the Ukrainians now have this capability.
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