Knowing US MAGA Republicans, Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson have procedurally blocked all US military aid to Ukraine, Putin is depleting Ukrainian Air defenses by overwhelming it with missiles; 110+ Russian rockets last night alone across Ukraine!
Putin and the Republicans will leave the Ukrainians defenseless against the Russian barbaric onslaught!
Today we review ‘20 Days in #Mariupol , #Moscow is struck overnight, and we visit a Ukrainian refugee center in #Poland.
It’s the screaming that gets me.
As a former #U.S. #Army combat medic, the blood and gore doesn’t affect me very much nowadays. I trained for that, studied it, and feel as comfortable as one can get, really, in its presence.
New: It is reported that the Wagnerians broke through the barricades on their way to #Moscow.
The governor of the Lipetsk region confirmed that the columns of Wagner PMCs are already in the region
Around 15:00 Moscow time, it became known that the militants had passed Yelets. It is 340 km from Moscow. The rebels can enter the capital by 19:00 Moscow time.
The thug oligarchs Potanin, Manturov, Rotenberg and presumably the younger Kovalchuk could have flown out of Russia amid the mutiny.
Dictator Putin plans to eliminate Prigozhin and promise amnesty to Wagner militants.
The leadership of the Russian Federation is discussing the possibility of recognizing "Wagner" as an extremist and terrorist organization.
Russian Telegram channels are spreading video of the alleged Wagner PMC disarming the first Akhmat fighters.
He wants control over the military.. He wants Putin to give him that control.
Putin may be in on this to get rid of Gerasimov and Shoigu without dirtying his hands... Call the troops back from Ukraine once they're gone.. And try to save his own ass by riding the coattails of Prigozhin...
The Russian military has turned to “mass recruitment” of women from prisons and detention facilities to fight in the Ukraine war.
The first group of 50 incarcerated women was sent to the front in January from a detention facility in the Luhansk “people’s republic”, according to Olga Romanova, founder of the Russia Behind Bars human rights organisation. #AureFreePress#Ukraine️ #Russia#Putin#EU#NATO#Zelensky#war#news#Moscow#USA
Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.
One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.
There is a story circulating that during his long and continuous stay on the Ukrainian front, Prigozhin met with Ukrainian intelligence officials and representatives of the CIA.
#Russian state media showing pictures / footage of defence minister Sergey #Shoigu supposedly visiting Russian #army positions on the frontline in #Ukraine (not clear when the footage was filmed)
Meanwhile, the rouble hit 15 mths low, and anti-terror measures have been lifted in #Moscow
32 years ago today #OTD , on the second day of the #1991#Soviet#GKChP coup, after a day spent in fear (for crushing the very gentle first results of democratisation), witnessing the #tanks of the Tamanskaya or Kantemirovskaya divisions rolling into #Moscow from the south-west direction, i felt for the first time this day that the #coup leaders just might not get away with it... (cont.)
I am wondering whether Putin doesn't have a PR problem, he was clearly warned for the attack in Moscow, so if he doesn't blame anyone else, he clearly has made a mistake? #moscow#russia
VP of Russian bank Kristina Baikova, 28, falls to her death from window of Moscow apartment (www.lbc.co.uk)
A Russian banking executive, 28, has died after falling from a window of her Moscow apartment.