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Gosh this is brutal 🔥

Rees-Mogg's photos of Churchill and Thatcher like they're his parents

You came to me as 1997 but when you leaned in for the hug I smelled 2016 on you

Latest Levada 'support for the war'. Moscow support - 56%. Small towns and villages - 35%, 30%. 'Surplus populations' and 'internal colonization' spring to mind. Also... 'Moscow is not Russia'. Maybe we should be saying 'this is Moscow's war'?

During this morning’s Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, at least one missile detonated in the vicinity of the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital, causing severe damage to the building.

Awful scenes from inside okmadyt children’s hospital as the rescue effort continues. The smell of burning is immense.

Awful read. European Hospital “only trauma center for well over 1.5m people, an impossible task even under the best of circumstances. It is likely the safest and best-resourced city block in the entire Gaza Strip — and yet its horrors defy description.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

Over a year and a half ago, I wrote multiple posts and threads about the persistence of Soviet-style command within the Ukrainian army. At that time, many dismissed my concerns, arguing that war is not the time for change, or outright attacked me for criticism. Unfortunately, the

Good from a consortium of non-London newsletters about the riots and Farage’s central role in mainstreaming asylum seeker conspiracism. tinyurl.com/dk8uhn27

Every point that has been bombed by Israel in Gaza so far. (UN Satellite Centre, July 6th)

I went on a road trip to a NE district in Kursk a few years ago. It took longer to get there from Kursk city than the trip from Kaluga to Kursk itself. Terrible roads, incredible poverty, total isolation. And I say this as someone studying 'provincial' Russia for a living.

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