Eerik N Kross
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Ex intelligence director & adviser in Georgia, Iraq, Ukraine, Moldova. Head of the Estonian delegation to PACE. Silence is the real crime against humanity
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A rare document. Estonia expressed interest in NATO on the day of its creation in 1949. It took 55 years to join.
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A joke from Moscow: "According to Putin the special military operation is really a conflict btw Russia and NATO about World dominance. Whats the situation now?" "Russia has lost 15000 troops, 6 generals, 500 tanks, 3 ships, 100 planes and 1000 trucks. NATO hasn't arrived yet."
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We know where you are. Passport data of the 🇷🇺 64th motorized rifle brigade, the butchers of Bucha, on Google maps. Thanks to Estonian geeks.
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For God's sake, could everyone just stop apologising and explaining away what prez Biden said about Putin. He stated a simple truth every sane person agrees with. Nothing less. Nothing more. Live with it. All of you.
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Multiple sources say that 🇺🇦 forces knocked out the whole command of 🇷🇺 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade BTG in an ambush. This would mean the BTG is out. This unit was part of the little green men in Crimea in 2014.
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Meet Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. He commands the Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkiv-Izyum operation. He was made a Hero of Ukraine in April 2022. Now he should me made a Hero of the Free World.
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A joke from Moscow.
- As a reservist you have been mobilized!
- Who are we fighting with?
- The Nazis
- Yes, but against whom?
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A joke from Moscow:
Patriarch Kirill announces that all Russian soldiers dying in war in Ukraine will immediately go to heaven.
Hearing this Heaven immediately applies for NATO membership.
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Russian chatter confirms that 🇺🇦 Forces have knocked out 🇷🇺 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment. At least their commander, colonel Zizevski, is buried today in Pskov. The unit took part in both Chechen wars and the invasion of Georgia in 2008.
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A friend asked for an explanation why "It's just Putin" is wrong and dangerous. I felt it needs a longer response. Here it is:
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FSB arrests the commander of the 🇷🇺 Black Sea fleet vice admiral Igor Ossipov. Obviously for the bad weather and an accidental fire on board of Moskva. 8th general out of commission by 🇺🇦 action in this war.
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The whole command of the 🇷🇺331st Guards Airborne Regiment is KIA in 🇺🇦. The commander, colonel Sukharev was killed March 18. Now the chief of staff Lt Colonel Igor Sukharev with several staff officers is confirmed killed. This unit was responsible of Ilovaisk massacre in 2014.
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Meet German Barinov, the first Estonian soldier awarded the Ukranian Order for Courage by President Zelensky. Barinov has been wounded twice and is still fighting in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion. "The job needs to be finshed here" he says.
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🇺🇦 forces have killed the commander of the 🇷🇺8th Guards Combined Arms Army, Lt Gen Andrey Mordvichev, in an attack at Kherson airport. Highest ranking 🇷🇺 KIA in the war. 8th army commands the Russian forces in Donbass since 2017.
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It's confirmed by several sources that the 🇺🇦 forces have indeed killed the commander of the 🇷🇺 29th Combined Arms Army, major general Andrei Kolesnikov. That's 3 generals lost in 2 weeks. Plus a Kadyrov "general".
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🇺🇦 forces have knocked out the deputy commander of the 🇷🇺 61st Naval Infantry Brigade col Dmitry Safronov. In 2016 this unit was intensively used in Syria as "one of the best trained and most combat experienced units of the Russian military."
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Another Estonian delivery of vehicles for the Ukrainian freedom fighters on its way. With love from the people of Tartu. 🇺🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇪
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Swedish PM just announced that they will apply for NATO membership in June. Coupled with Finnish membership, this will be a truly huge shift in European security. As important as German reunification in 1990.
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A joke from Kyiv. A Russian soldier calls home from Ukraine.
- Did you take Kyiv?
- No.
- Did you take Harkiv?
- No
- What did you take then?
- A blender, a washing machine and two fur coats
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Since the beginning of renewed 🇷🇺 agression against 🇺🇦, in the last 20 days, 🇪🇪 has sent to 🇺🇦 more than 2000 tons of military, humanitarian and medical assistance. Javelins, ammunition, 8 new ambulance vehicles. The whole society is participating and the assistance will continue
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A joke from Moscow:
- Remember when Putin said he had no plan to invade Ukraine?
- Yes….
- I’m starting to think he was telling the truth.
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🇷🇺 commander of the 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, colonel Yuri Medvedev was run over by a tank of his own unit after casualties in 🇺🇦. In 2021 one of his tank commanders won the 🇷🇺 national tank teams competition.
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NATO is not "expanding" into Finland and Sweden. Finland and Swdeden apply for membership and join. The same happened with all newer members. "NATO expansion" is another Russian fairy tale.
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Of course, it's not going to happen. At least not with the current bunch of leaders we got. The best outcome will be another short period of a Yeltsin after which it’s all going to come to something like we have today, again.
Hope you enjoyed the optimistic note from Estonia.
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The Estonian military has been wearing a Slava Ukraini badge together with the Estonian flag badge since February. It is not part of the official uniform but a grassroots initiative.
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Reading reports that the 🇺🇦forces have destroyed the 🇷🇺 488th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 144th Division. Thank you for that! They used to be part of the Soviet occupation force in Estonia, based in Klooga.
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The Estonian Parliament just unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It entails important language. I encourage everyone to read it and think about the gravity of what is said.
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🇷🇺 commander of the of engineer troops of the 1st Guards Tank Army, colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko of 45th separate engineering brigade + 18 of his unit were killed by 🇺🇦 forces near Izium. 46 WIA. This unit spent 1980-89 in Afghanistan.
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The problem is immeasurably deeper, wider and older than Putin and his band of gangsters. Generation after generation has been raised in a lie. And the despots who have ruled Russia have always gotten away with it internationally.
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Since most media seem to be unable to stop stigmatising the Eastern European nations with the "former Soviet" qualification, they should go all the way. This is a chart on how to call other nations from now on. Additions welcome.
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Stalin's generals and NKVD bosses were not tried at Nuremberg or Moscow process for co-conspiring with Hitler and Ribbentrop in 1939, for Katyn, for invading and illegally annexing all or parts of the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, Romania, Hungary etc,
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So. No. It’s not about Putin. It is very much about the state of Russian society. It's not Russians' "fault", there are too many factors, but to fix this means a process of national breakdown, regrouping, redemption and re-education for, well, 80 years.
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Current national myth of Russia & the core of Putins ideology is the lie about Russia as liberator. All of us between Russia and Germany are watching Ukraine being liberated and hope that for once the West understands that this is how the Russian liberation has always looked like
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The terror of Bolsheviks, Stalinist purges, the GULAG as a system have never been criminalised, there was never a national, leadership-led redemption attempt. The opposite, all this is now, again, officially preached as a proud process of national cleansing and strengthening.
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Even the proposal of EU banning tourist visas for Russian passport holders infuriates the Kremlin. This is not because the Kremlin cares of "ordinary Russians." Ordinary Russians don't travel to Europe. 70% of them dont even have travel passports. 1/4
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🇷🇺 sources confirm that 🇺🇦 forces killed the deputy commander of the 🇷🇺 Black Sea Fleet captain I rank Andrei Paly. He deserted Ukrainian navy in 1993, took part of 🇷🇺 invasion of Georgia in 2008 and occupation of Crimea in 2014.
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The commander of the 🇷🇺 144th Motor Rifle Division major general Oleg Tsokov was seriously wounded in Svatove by a 🇺🇦 missile hit of his HQ. Several KIA. In March the 488th Regiment of this division was destroyed. Thank you! This division used to occupy Estonia until 1994.
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The Baltic Russians have started to organise rallies against Putin, war and mobilisation. In front of the Russian embassy in Tallinn today. Not huge yet, but significant.
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It's tragic but funny. This is indeed how a lot of Western pundits (and some governments) have been explaining the war on Ukraine
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🇷🇺commander of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, colonel Denis Kurilo was killed and 2 BTGs of his unit we knocked out by 🇺🇦 forces under Kharkiv yesterday. This elite unit took part of the 🇷🇺invasion of Finland in 1944 and E 🇺🇦 in 2014.
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Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine were all independent democratic nations back then whose future was crushed by Moscow. All these countries were betrayed by the Paris Peace Conference first and at Teheran and Yalta for the second time. By the West.
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And jail every and any Westerner who tries to engage in corrupt business with them. And help them rebuild Russia not Russian imagined expansionist interests.
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When the Russians talk about "denazifying" Ukraine, always rembember: In WWII more Ukrainians fought and died on the allied side than the French, British and Amercians put together.
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Moldova’s deputy interior minister said the grenades that were used in the mysterious explosions in Transnistria are produced by Russia and are only used by the armies of Russia, Transnistria and Gabon. “I don’t think these were the Gabonese,” he said….
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This is definitely one of the best denials Kremlin has recently published.
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Hence the deep suspicion in these countries that it’s going to happen again. If Ukraine would have not fought or fought but lost in a week, Ukraine would have been betrayed in a second. By Macron, Scholtz, Biden. Realpolitik and all. New Minsks, new mediations, soon new wars
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When looking at the horror of Bucha or anything else left of Russian occupation, remember that the Balts, Polish, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians, Georgians carry exactly this in living memory. And they are less scared of the Russians than the "old West" of today.
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80% of weapons, fuel, supplies for the 🇷🇺 invasion forces in 🇺🇦 is transported by the
#RussianRailways
. ALL RR cars are marked with letter Z. Why have I not heard about EU sanctions, ban to enter EU for their trains? BTW, RR uses
@Siemens
software, Siemens built locomotives etc.
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🇺🇦 forces battalion Azov announced killing the commander of 🇷🇺22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade, a major general, near Mariupol. Already 5th 🇷🇺 general KIA. This unit participated in murdering more than 150 civilians in Baku in January 1989.
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All that is needed is help Ukraine win, set strict cold war rules relating to Russia until the war crimes have been tried, by them, and a representative government is in office. Let them demilitarise. And then take it slow. Very slow
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Everyone jumping to critisize the Baltic states for not promising preemtive asylum to all Russians in danger of being mobilised, please take a breath.
This is a thread on our policy:
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President of Estonia 2006-16
@IlvesToomas
is an active member our our territorial defense organisation - the Defense League.
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This is what was done to us either in 1918-21 or 1939-45 or both. And it kept going until 1991. And it began again in 2008 and the West pretended, again, that it was not happening.
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never tried for genocide in all these countries nor for war crimes anywhere they went. I'm not even talking about the wave of Bolshevik aggression against all neighbours in 1918-24…
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I keep getting calls from Estonians driving ambulances to Ukraine being stopped and harassed by German police. Wrong number plates. Dont like lights etc Being stopped for hours while the Russians drive around with Soviet flags in Berlin. Was ist los?
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While its underastandable that Germany still feels war guilt for invading Russia, it's unforgivable that they dont seem to feel any real guilt about Ukraine. Not back then, not now.
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Germans have apologised for 80 years but I still felt a bit uneasy listening to Scholtz saying: wir werden uns remilitarisieren. Thankfully, for once, the Germans r on the right side of things because even there, after 80 years, the demons are not entirely dead under the surface.
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I keep wondering if they do it intentionally or is history actually laughing at them.
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Another 🇷🇺 general beats the dust: Major General Andrei Simonov, 2nd Combined Arms Army, was killed by 🇺🇦 artillery fire in a command post near Izyum. He was probably the commander of Electronic Warfare of the 2nd army, used to be EW commander of the Western Military District.
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A joke from Moscow:
- I'm calling from a polling company, may I ask a question
- Sure
- Do you, Pyotr Sidorov, residing Moscow Suvorova 23-46, engineer at factory Dinamo, 3 unpaid parking tickets, 1 speeding violation, support Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine?
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It can only be done by the Russians themselves and the best thing we can do is not get in there to tell them how. Because we don't know better.
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I keep hearing that "the people" in the West are getting "tired" of the war against Ukraine. In case any of these tired people read this, I tell you a story. Its about not getting tired.
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Good morning! Impatiently waiting for intel on the 🇷🇺 army level command post reported as destroyed by 🇺🇦 artillery in Kherson region yesterday. Up to 50 🇷🇺senior brass was in there including the army CoC, according to UA prez adviser.
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Another 🇷🇺regimental commander knocked down by 🇺🇦. Col Yuri Agarkov, 33rd Motor Rifle Regiment (Kamyshin) of the 20th Guards MRD. This unit took part of the 1968 Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia and the First Chechen War. Funerals in Pskov on March 6th.
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A joke from Moscow:
7 year old son: Dad, the TV said that Ukrainians are not even human.
Dad: Exactly
Son: But yesterday they said we are the same people
Dad: Exactly
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Estonian forest brothers in 1953. By that time the guerilla war against Soviet occupation forces had lasted for 8 years. Without outside help.
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So Gerasimov is now wearing a black leather coat at official ceremonies. Why does it look so familiar...
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Estonia is still finding unmarked graves of our forest brothers, the guerilla fighters against the Soviet occupation. Today, we buried three of them at Kose cemetery with full military honours. For the first time at an event like this the Ukrainian flag was raised as well.
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The 🇷🇺 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, Berlinskaya, fought in Chechnya in 1994-96 and lost 120 troops in 2 years. In Donets river crossing attempt in 🇺🇦 it lost at least 485 troops in 2 days.
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BTW, General Valery Gerasimov, the 🇷🇺 CoD, now alllegedly in charge of the war in 🇺🇦, was the last commander of the 🇷🇺 occupation forces in Estonia in 1994. So at least he knows how to withdraw from a country.
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Tallinn Freedom Square today, March 21, 2022. 36th day.
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A sign near the Estonian-Russian border: Russian tourist, return to your country. Your country is killing innocent people. Your place is not among European residents.
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In memoriam captain Ivo Jurak, Estonian Army.
Ivo was killed in battle near Bakhmut on March 7, 2023.
Glory to heroes. For your freedom and ours!
🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦
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New design of the EU tourist visa for Russian passport holders.
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No longer big news but still. The commander fo the 🇷🇺 346th Spetsnaz Brigade of GRU colonel Sergey Podgursky was killed by 🇺🇦 forces near Mariupol. This highly trained unit was used in Crimea and the invasion of East Ukraine in 2014, being probably created for that purpose.
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In 2006 Ukraine was forced to scrap 423 Kh-22 missiles & 60 strategic bombers as part of the "Budapest memorandum" deal. By the West. We promised them security for this. This type of missile was used in
#Krementschuk
by 🇷🇺.
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Another delivery of vehicels for Ukraine defenders getting assembled. This is part of Estonia's private effort beyond widely reported government support. We keep going until victory!
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Travelling to Europe is popular among the Russian elites and Moscow & St Peresburg middle class. These are the people Putin tries to convince he has everyting under control. And some of them Russia uses for corrupting the Westerners, projecting Russian "soft power".2/3
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Germany is "ready" to act as "security guarantor" for Ukraine but is not ready to "speculate" whether this guarantee has a military component. Seriously guys?
What other "components" does a security guarantee have.
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Also. Russia has put all member states of the EU on an"unfriendly countries" list. Why are they whining that the unfriendlies are not friendly? 4/4
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A joke from Moscow:
Rumors started to spread that the Moscow mayor Sobyanin is viewed by many as a good replacement of Putin. Sobynin quickly moved his top floor office to a windowless basement.
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My father was a political prisoner twice. Almost a year in Nazi prison and 8 years in the GULAG. He received the
@amnesty
Golden Flame award. He would return it if he would be still alive.
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🇺🇦 Today might be the best day of the 21st century so far. Just wait for tomorrow. 🇺🇦
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For unknown reasons, haven't heard anyone blaming the Baltic states for russophobia. For 3 days already. Go figure.
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Estonia just banned broadcasting of Russian TV channels RTR Planeta, NTV Mir, NTV Mir Baltic, Belarus 24 Rossia 24 ja TV Centre International (TVCI).
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I really like the new flag of free Russia. Same colors as Finland. Northern. Blood washed off. The World would welcome this flag in mast anywhere. Once the Russians really hoist it in Russia.
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Many of them don't support the war but most of them think they ave nothing to do with it. This is why they need to feel at least some discomfort. We all have something to do with it and we all have a responsibility. 3/3
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Marina Ovsyannikova, the Kremlin TV fake war protester is hired by
@welt
as a correspondent. Seriously guys. What's next? I suggest Schröder as a business editor and Zaharova as a borscht expert.
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A joke from Moscow: Zelensky just met Boris Johnson but Putin is soon to meet Boris Yeltsin.
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Several reports that 🇺🇦 army has forced the Oskil river today and controls Dvoricha, Kupyansk ans Ssosnove on the left bank. This would mean 🇷🇺 defense line is not holding and further liberation of Kharkiv oblast looks realistic. Slava Ukraini!
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Hitler's speech on "Ostmark" annexation March 1938, Putin's speech on "Novorossiya" annexation September 2022. Summary. Identical in spirit and similar in wording.
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