Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands; an African delegation that visited here is now in Moscow.
Our main character today is Svetlana Goi, who risks her life to take care of left-behind animals in an area that is now a focal point of the counteroffensive.
@timkmak
Praise be to the #FlyingSpaghettiMonster (Parmesan be upon Him) for memes. I'm old enough to remember when #Russia was supposed to be this 500 pound gorilla in #InformationWarfare. Meanwhile #Ukraine'ians have been #trolling the Russians so hard you can't help but admire their handiwork.
There was a video that stirred outrage last year when one of these horrible incidents made it to the web.
What appeared to be the work of a small group of sick sadistic fucks was actually part of a pattern of institutionalized torture. We've all seen UA #POW's come back emaciated, with injuries from physical abuse, now this literal #Nazi shit.
@KevinLikesMaps
The link is just a news article from The Times describing the experience of #Ukraine#POWs who were castrated while in #Russia'n captivity. The video I was referring to was floating around social media last year & I refused to watch it.
If I recall correctly @Bellingcat or some other #OSINT sleuths managed to ID the perpetrator of that particular incident.
Sadly it appears it wasn't a one-off, but something that has been happening on a wide scale.
He explains how minimal #Russia'n war demands are incompatible with anything #Ukraine or its allies would accept, so the war will likely last as long as #Putin is still president.
Keep this video in your back pocket for "peaceniks" & "realists" (who somehow continue to get platforms & airtime despite its now obvious failures).
The "as long as it takes" messaging from UA's allies makes more sense with this perspective.
@anderspuck
I know it's crazy, but I was secretly hoping for #SannaMarin to be the next #NATO Secretary General now that #Finland is a member & she's between gigs.
🧵I usually love #NPR, but this #BothSides framing of the disaster at #NovaKakhovka#Dam in #Ukraine is SOOO frustrating. Now I have to give credit to them for at least reporting on the issue. NPR was also one of the only US media reporting concerns about the level of the reservoir going back months. But this report borders on #malpractice of #jouralism as it literally presents #Russia'n denials of culpability with almost no context beyond "Ukraine blames Russia" 1/N
@juddlegum
Salon run by the CIA? That's rich! Somebody better tell all the Red Brown tankies screaming "EsCaLaTiON!!!" about #Putin invading #Ukraine over there.
Thinking about how long it's taken to prepare for this counteroffensive... I'm going to crack up if #Ukraine pulls a page out of #NorthKorea's / #ElChapo's playbook and has spent this time tunneling under the Dniper. ;)
Fully 294 pages into the 316-page #Durham review and then it just concedes that the predication of Cross Fire Hurricane was validly predicated because of the low standard required, as was independently confirmed by OIG, and that it could have been opened under any of several different justifications ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Got leafleted by Code Pink while out at a street fair in Morningside Heights today. Was tickled to see that they're still around.
Was way less tickled to find that apparently these days they're busy recycling Putinist propaganda about how "NATO expansion" forced Russia to invade a country that was... not a NATO member nor applying to become one.
Fiona Hill is giving the Lennart Meri Lecture at #LennartMeriConference . She’s only been speaking for 5 min and already made extremely interesting points on the reactions to the war in Ukraine having become “a proxy rebellion against US hegemony.
Was the drone attack on the Kremlin a Russian false flag operation? In this video I offer some suggestions for what to look for. #Russia#Ukrainehttps://youtu.be/jabKKr3pstU
