This 25 tweet by my Australian friend MG (ret) Mick Ryan @WarintheFuture is succinct, descriptive of campaign planning & operational art, and a phenomenal discussion of Ukraine's potential plans in the south. Hope Mick doesn't mind, but I'll add a few additional comments. 1/
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Zelenskyy: Russian occupiers destroy homes and sense of home
@ZelenskyyUa
: “Each person has a home space. #Russian occupiers fire at residential buildings with tanks or cover city blocks with artillery, they target missiles at houses to destroy the entire life space, to destroy people’s sense of home.” https://
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Information on the Russian invasion and losses in Ukraine
Information on the Russian invasion.
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Initiative ukrainienne de storytelling à amplifier
this volunteer initiative by @Boochelnikova and @TheStanislawski has quickly emerged as one of the most critical storytelling projects explaining ukraine to the rest of the world. maximize amplifying it, please
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Zelenskyy vows to liberate every meter of Ukrainian land
@ZelenskyyUa
: “For us, to live without freedom is not to live. To be dependent is not to be. Therefore, we will not give up until we drive the last occupier out of our home. And we will not stop until we liberate the last meter of Ukrainian land.” https://
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Russia reacts to Crimea blasts, Ukraine’s determination, sirens in Kyiv
Here’s how Russia reacts to blasts in Crimea, as well as Ukraine’s determination to fight off the invasion. Kyivites and those who live in northern Ukraine only had 4 minutes free of the sirens going off. In the previous attack two Russian missiles landed in Zhytomyr region
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Explosions reported at Russian military base near Simferopol
Explosions reported at Russia’s military base near Simferopol in annexed Crimea – RU Kommersant newspaper
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Russian military losses in Ukraine, Aug 16
Days of full-scale #Russia’s war on #Ukraine. Information on #Russian invasion.
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Arms depot fire in Crimea questions Russia’s war failures
Arms depot is on fire in Maiske near Dzhankoi in annexed Crimea. Will Russia say it itself violated fire safety rules yet again? Because how on earth can one explain that ‘the 2nd army’ is not winning the cruel war it’s started in a neighboring country?
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Putin refuses withdrawal like Hitler, Russians trapped west of Dnipro
…while using terrain/rivers to their advantage. It also appears Putin refuses to allow his generals to withdraw (like Hitler before him w/ Marshall von Kluge) Back then, the Germans were trapped west of the Seine. This time, it will be the RU west of the Dnipro. 2/2

