Michael Weiss
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Editor @insidereng, @foreignoffpod. ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: https://t.co/zOgJMJGUl5. Next book: GRU @vikingbooks. [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined December 2008
Exclusive: We have emails and documents from members of GRU Unit 29155–Putin’s assassination and sabotage squad—proving their culpability for a 2011 bombing in Bulgaria. The IEDs were planted in Czechia.The target was ammunition bound for Georgia.
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The memes coming in hot from Ukrainians tonight… Here’s one.
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This is what happens when a bunch of South African tech bros try to grow their own redneck in a lab in California.
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Elon Musk naturally promoted nonsense peddled by Tenet Media, which was financed by now-indicted Russian operatives.
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NEW: A Western intelligence source has told me the intelligence on GRU Unit 29155 offering the Taliban money to kill U.S. or British soldiers is correct.
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I’m not sentimental by nature, but my God. What a country. What a people.
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North Korea becoming a co-combatant in the largest land war in Europe since World War II seems like a front-page news story to me, but maybe I'm wrong. .
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The Kremlin and its surrogates are asking you to believe that after 8 years of not invading occupied Donbas, Ukraine waited until more than 150,000 Russian troops were stationed at its border to do just that -- with chemical weapons. You know what? Some of you will believe it.
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Just got back from a week in Europe. I was in four cities. Everywhere I went, I was asked for my vaccination card. I happily proffered it, as I did my passport. Most were pleasantly surprised I had three Pfizer jabs. I experienced no inconveniences and I carried on with my life.
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Tucker Carlson pushed a fake version of a U.S. intelligence document about Ukrainian war casualties. It was doctored by a fraud podcaster who claimed to be a Russian woman from Luhansk. In reality, Sarah Bils is a former U.S. Navy clerk from New Jersey—and she pocketed all the.
A major disinformation and Russian propaganda channel called "Donbass Devushka", which published a fake version of "secret Pentagon documents," is hosted by a former U.S. Navy officer who was recently discharged from military service. The "Mila Girl from Luhansk," who hosts
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Pinged a senior Ukrainian Ministry of Defense official just now about these stunning long-range strikes on a Russian air base in Crimea. His reply: "It's just warming up.".
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Reminder: Putin just announced a military operation to "de-Nazify" a country whose president is Jewish.
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Look, you can be sober and even skeptical about Syria’s future without being an asshole to people who are emerging from decades in regime dungeons, returning to homes and being reunited with their families for the first time in years. This isn’t about you and never was.
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New: Spoke to a senior European intelligence official just now. The official says so far Russia’s attempts to draw Ukrainian retaliation have failed, “local warlords in Donbas are increasingly frustrated that Ukrainian troops are disciplined and not falling for provocations.”.
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🧵 A Ukrainian intelligence source has passed along the following, which has already begun to trickle out in some form in the Ukrainian media. *All the usual caveats apply.* I cannot verify. But it is apparently based on human intelligence and concerns Russia’s play for Kyiv.
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🧵Just off the phone with an officer from Ukraine's military intelligence service (GUR). Someone I've known now for four years who's often rolled his eyes at official Ukrainian government pronouncements. A few observations/comments:.
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Russia's Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov says Russia has already destroyed 4 Bradley Fighting Vehicles in Ukraine. Which is indeed remarkable in that none have been delivered yet.
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Viktor Medvedchuk's arrest by Ukrainian intelligence really can't be overstated. He's not just close to Putin, who is godfather to his daughter; he's long been rumored to be one of Putin's "wallets." What secrets he may tell. .
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The Prime Minister of Canada says under oath that RT, which the U.S. State Department alleges is engaged in "information operations, covert influence, and military procurement," is funding Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson.
Under oath, Trudeau says Russia (RT) is funding disgraced Psychologist Jordan Peterson. Turns out Jordo’s 3 month Russian sponsored Benzo rehab coma was good for business. 😉🇨🇦.
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Russia nearly killed Greece's PM in Odesa with a missile. So he's sending Ukraine 32 F-16s. Well done, Russia.
Greece to transfer 32 decommissioned F-16s to Ukraine. A near-miss missile incident in March involving the Greek Prime Minister in Odesa has spurred Greece to increase its military aid to Ukraine.
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A big drop today of two ex-Wagner fighters testifying to mass killings, including of more than 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers. Azamat Uldarov and Aleksey Savichev are both former prisoners. They say they blew up a pit with 50+ wounded Ukrainian POWs and the so-called.
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Unconfirmed, but am now hearing that Ukraine has captured "more than one" Russian general.
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Twelve angry New Yorkers not about to be cheated out of “Summer Friday,” you’re God damn right there’s a verdict.
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Very intrigued by how Macron approaches Ukraine now that the domestic pressure is off. Already Paris greenlit the transfer of Milan anti-tank systems and Caesar artillery systems (originally intended for Morocco) to Kyiv. And Macron is said to be very impressed with Zelensky….
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It was a slow news day yesterday, so you're all forgiven for not appreciating that a U.S.-made missile old enough to have seen Nirvana in concert whistled blissfully past Russia's state-of-the-art air defense systems in occupied Crimea and hit its target perfectly.
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🧵I spoke this afternoon to a senior European intelligence official. The picture shared about what's happening in Ukraine differs from U.S. government assessments, especially on Russian losses. So let me present (without commentary) what this source said:.
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The totality of what the U.S. has done for Ukraine won’t be known for a spell. And that’s OK. Does Joe Biden deserve a lot of credit? Even more than that, I’d wager. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that Ukrainians are fighting this war themselves. This is their victory.
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Just off the phone with a European diplomat with extensive Ukraine experience. Says:.- Russia's campaign "not going well at all.".- Ukraine "has completely won the information war.".- For Ukrainians, the failure to fight back at Crimea is a "national trauma" now being righted.
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Lindsey Graham will be visited on Christmas Eve by three ghosts. They will all be John McCain.
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DoD should now confirm the extent to which U.S. national security remains dependent on Musk and his technology and there should be a Congressional hearing as to whether or not this in America’s best interest.
Musk has confirmed the story that he turned off Starlink to thwart a Ukrainian military operation in fall 2022.
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Javelins getting a good workout, a Ukrainian military official told me just now.
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None of this would have happened but for the expansion of the CSTO, which many of us warned you about. Ukraine was provoked into invading Russia.
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He also confirmed the majority of Ukraine's Air Force is still in tact, on Day 12, including fixed wing and rotary aircraft. I asked how many operational Bayraktar TB2 drones Ukraine has in its arsenal. He laughed. "OK, Michael, can I just say: 'It's enough.'" // END.
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Whatever they're putting in his beef bourguignon lately, double the dose.
Emmanuel Macron being brutally honest in Prague today:. "Who launched the war in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin. Who threatens us, whatever we do whatever we say, with nuclear weapons? President Putin. If every day we explain what our limits are in the face of someone who has none and
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Prague. Zelensky is addressing foreign citizens remotely
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The Ukraine aid bill passed by a margin of nearly 200 votes. A gang of morally compromised ideologues held up the will of the American people to support an ally in the fight of its life. Remember the “nay”votes today and render them unemployed tomorrow.
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Navy pilot with 40 combat missions against Saddam under his belt. Built like a brick shithouse. Kelly can also say he got closer to Mars than Elon Musk ever will.
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New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @InsiderEng has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russia’s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban in Afghanistan to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. GRU Unit 29155 was behind this operation. We.
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It's not even that this was the one document doctored by pro-Russian Telegram users, inverting Ukrainian and Russian casualties. (I have the original, which shows Russian losses are greater.) It's that Carlson's team knows it and still let him run with this lie.
Tucker Carlson: "The second thing we learned from these slides is that despite direct U.S. involvement, Ukraine is in fact losing the war. Seven Ukrainians are being killed for every Russian. Ukrainian air defenses have been utterly degraded. Ukraine is losing."
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Exclusive: Tatjana Zdanoka, a Latvian member of the European Parliament, has been an agent of Russian intelligence for at least twenty years, @the_ins_ru can reveal, based on emails we obtained between Zdanoka and two of her FSB handlers.
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The Democratic convention is turning out to be the most bipartisan event of the last four years.
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Leaked footage of Vladimir Putin from inside the Kremlin today.
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"Our mood: Everything is OK. We are defending our soil, our Motherland. We have nothing to lose. They are conquerors. They are the fascists. And we will win. I have no doubt.".
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Still no explanation as to why likes on this critical thread about Elon Musk keep getting deleted every three hours, as even a Twitter Community Note now confirms.
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives. 1/24
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This would be the third fire of strategic infrastructure inside Russia this week.
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NEW: @InsiderEng and its partners @lemondefr and @derspiegel have identified the French chef arrested on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence to disrupt the Paris Olympics. Meet Kirill Griaznov, a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, reality TV star and FSB officer. We have his
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So it seems Zelensky convinced the EU to impose greater sanctions and help Ukraine in a way it was otherwise not going to do.
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Overnight Ukraine hit Sevastopol, one of its Russian-occupied, ports damaging or destroying two Russian landing ships. Comparing such an operation, of which there have now been several, to "Pearl Harbor" demonstrates Musk is both a moral and historical idiot.
👀 Elon Musk Says the Request to Turn on Starlink in Crimea Came from the Ukrainian Government in the Middle of the Night. "We figured out that this was kind of like a Pearl Harbor like attack. So they really asked us to proactively take part in a major act of war". @elonmusk
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The FBI is searching Scott Ritter's home as of an hour ago:
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Fiona Hill: "They are thinking less about U.S. national security, European security, international security and foreign policy, and much more about how they can humiliate Biden."
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.@michaeldweiss obtained a recording of an oligarch close to the Russian government saying Vladimir Putin is “very ill with blood cancer.” Is this the truth, a rumor or clever disinformation intended to make a paranoid dictator look ripe for removal?
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NATO allies should think twice about sharing critical intelligence with the United States going forward.
Trump has named former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as his pick for Director of National Intelligence. Will be interesting to see how lawmakers on Capitol Hill react to this pick .
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This is incredibly touching to witness. Listen to what the veteran tells Zelenskiy and what Zelenskiy says in reply.
🔴 80 ans du Débarquement. Volodymyr Zelensky salue un vétéran de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ⤵️
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Carlson cost Fox News almost $800 million for spreading lies he didn’t believe. He lost his job. His first Twitter episode (yes) is all about blaming Ukraine for blowing up the Kakhovka dam, which he falsely describes as “effectively Russian,” and Russia’s “own infrastructure.”.
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A pro-Kremlin Twitter account tweets a nonexistent Turkish newspaper, claiming “NATO soldiers” have been killed in Ukraine. @elonmusk, evidently very concerned about media corruption and fake news, takes the bait, then is asked by the account to “mediate.”
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"Yesterday, they lost 30 helicopters in the vicinity of Kherson where our marines destroyed them. The government announced this. Frankly speaking, it's true.".
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THREAD. Welp. I think I've found the former beauty queen Trump is rumored to have gotten to know perhaps a little too well in Moscow in 1996. The SSCI leaves several clues about the "Miss Moscow" pageant winner, even amidst all the annoying redactions.
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We're reaching the point in the war in which Putin calls Macron asking him to intercede with Zelensky to stop.
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The U.S. government affirms for the first time that a Russian spy close to Trump's campaign chair in 2016 not only received privileged Trump campaign information but did indeed pass it along to the Russian Intelligence Services. In case you thought Mueller was the last word. .
Treasury further confirms that not only is former Manafort associate Konstanin Kilimnik a "Russian Intelligence Services agent" but that he "provided the Russian Intelligence Services with sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy" -- the campaign being Trump's.
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Ukraine apparently croaked another Russian general today. Major General Sergey Goryachev, Chief of Staff of 35th Combined Arms Army of Russia. Missile, Makarivka.
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I asked how his spirits were holding up. Answer: "Now is not the time for crying; now is the time for laughing." . He meant at Russia's military performance and its enormous losses in manpower and firepower in the field.
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NEW: A yearlong investigation by @InsiderEng, @60Minutes and @derspiegel has uncovered evidence suggesting that Havana Syndrome may have its origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by the Russian GRU’s infamous Unit 29155.
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Wow.
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What a fucking crock. Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX says it can no longer pay for critical satellite services in Ukraine, asks Pentagon to pick up the tab | CNN Politics
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NEW: So you know how Lukashenko blamed the Ryanair diversion to Minsk on a Hamas bomb threat? Well, we got the email "Hamas" sent to airports. The problem? The timestamp shows it was sent 24 minutes *after* Belarus told the pilot a bomb was on board.
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"As long as the Western resupply channels remain open and Ukraine still fields a decent number of fighters, then they're OK.".
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If you pass by a poster displaying a person kidnapped by terrorists and your instinct is to blame the people who put it up for “baiting” you into tearing it down, you should check yourself into a psychiatric institution.
SCOOP from the amazingly talented @taliaotg: Are posters of Israeli hostages creating awareness or baiting people into getting canceled for tearing them down?
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More attention should be paid to the sadistic delight Russia takes in cooking up its disinformation tropes. It is now expending a good deal of energy accusing Ukraine of arming Hamas while Iran, which actually arms Hamas, is providing Russia with weapons to kill Ukrainians.
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"They have lost far more than they expected. That is why they started peace negotiations on the second day of the war.".
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"The CIA director provided a vital piece of intelligence that helped Ukraine significantly in the first days of the war: He warned that Russian forces planned to seize Antonov Airport in Hostomel. and use it to fly in troops for a push to take Kyiv."
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"Russia doesn't have the power to keep going like this for very long. Time isn't on their side, nor do they have a recipe for winning. They can't win hearts and minds, that's for sure.".
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All the "just imagine if Putin had done this" tweets in the last two weeks have several things in common, but the most salient is: He did. Repeatedly. And fools tweeting this stuff now were either silent at the time or tried to obfuscate and blame Putin's victims for it.
Just imagine the headlines if Putin had bombed a hospital in Kharkiv killing 500 people, many of them kids, and then blamed it on the Ukrainians. Nothing makes Vlad happier than watching the West's touching attempts to overtake his callous cynicism. .
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Exclusive: a consortium of international investigative journalists including @holger_r and myself have obtained the Russian Presidential Administration’s strategy document for Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Belarus by 2030.
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No U.S. politician was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent (twice) by the FBI and then tortured and murdered in a U.S. penal colony. Those with a visible hard-on for Russia want to pretend America is Russia—or ought to be. Again: Don’t say you weren’t warned this time.
On Navalny, Trump says: “It’s happening in our country, too.”. No, it isn’t. The US is better than Putin’s Russia—and if you can’t see that, you don’t really understand America. Infuriating. I don’t get how any red-blooded American can sit & nod to this.
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Not independently verified but… Ukrainian military intelligence tells me Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of the general staff, was “lightly injured” in an artillery strike in Izyum. Gerasimov was evacuated. Another general and “dozens of high staff officers were killed.”.
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Very impressed seeing those who insisted a Russian invasion of Ukraine would never happen and was tantamount to a U.S. conspiracy theory now insisting that it will lead to World War III.
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Didn’t even bother to Photoshop the white guy’s shoulders for this shit.
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Day two of Russia's invasion and Ukraine still appears to have capable air defenses.
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The only sign of stability and continuity in the Russian government I can detect is that Dmitry Medvedev appears to be drunk.
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Ukraine is famously facing no existential threat.
Israel is facing existential threat. Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately.
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The CEO of the company that makes the Switchblade drone —now in use in Ukraine — is an Afghan refugee from the Soviet invasion. 👇.
A quick thread on poetic justice for russia. AeroVironment is the company that makes the #Switchblade kamikaze drones. /1
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Er, so Putin caved to a putschist with an army and agreed to make the MoD more amenable to him, after the putschist showed how well he can challenge the regime. And the guy gets to live? Things are wild, weird and unpredictable in Russia but this doesn’t quite convince.
BREAKING: Reports there will be major changes in Russian Ministry of Defense leadership in exchange for Wagner halting its advance on Moscow.
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"We also have evidence that even when the Russians occupy villages and towns they face resistance. In Kyiv they will meet extremely tough Territorial Defense.".
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Exclusive: A controversial aide to Bundestag deputy Eugen Schmidt, of Germany's far-right AfD party, is an agent of Russian intelligence. Oh, and his handler raps!
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I have never seen such shade as Finnish shade.
A Finnish general reacting to Putin’s threats if Finland joins NATO: . “You are most welcome here to join the 200,000 Russians that are already in Finland buried a few meters in the ground after your last attempt in 1939" #Finland #NATO #UkraineRussianWar .
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Scoop: @YahooNews has obtained a U.S. Air Force assessment of how two Ukrainian pilots did in a 3-week course on F-16s at Morris Air National Guard Base in Feb/March. Conclusion: it’ll take 4 months to train them, not 18, as the Pentagon has said:
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Senior adviser to EU parliament says that jets given to Ukraine will be airborne “within the hour.”👇.
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.@SeanPenn, who has been in Kyiv throughout the invasion filming a documentary, sends a message: “Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken, and if he doesn’t relent, I believe Mr. Putin will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind. " 1/2.
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Hard to see how Israeli-Russian relations recover from this. Putin hosts Hamas in Moscow weeks after Hamas perpetrates the worst mass atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust. Now a pogrom unfolds in Makhachkala on the occasion of a flight landing from Tel Aviv.
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