Bombing the shit out of Ukraine 364 days a year? A+ totally okay, Jesus approves.
Bombing on Christmas? Russia would never do something so un-Christian.
In #Russia, president Putin ordered Defense Minister Shoigu to implement a temporary ceasefire along the entire front line in #Ukraine from midday on 6 January to midnight on 7 January, for 36 hours. This is according to Russian state media agency RIA Novosti.
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1611028019472404480
Life in the trenches for Russian conscripts is not fun.
By talking to locals in a frontline village and going through a discarded Russian military notebook, I pieced together the miserable existence of an Luhansk/Donetsk mobik, for @[email protected]: https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/ukraine/2023/01/03/an-unexpected-glimpse-of-disillusionment-in-russias-trenches/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1610664024940634117
This, from someone who knows Russian society and its politics well and from the inside, is well worth reading.
Military options can have much broader political and security considerations. https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3795699-theres-a-way-to-end-putin-for-good/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/1610527607891628032
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