Rob Lee

Rob Lee @RALee85

@Haruspexut It has been hard to track, but clearly Russian volunteer units did much of the fighting since May and have taken heavy losses. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Blake_Allen13 I think he's talking about the current force in Ukraine, not the aggregate force they've deployed. Volunteers have taken heavy losses. — PolitiTweet.org

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Looks like they took some losses. 11/ https://t.co/G0kRCtrEC8 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Union of Donbas Volunteers, a veterans' organization that currently maintains three battalions of 400 men and two detachments of 250 men in Ukraine. About 1,500 of his men have already fallen, Borodai admits." https://t.co/wcosVJN0uP https://t.co/IUrY2V6SQU — PolitiTweet.org

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Wagner fighters reportedly in Mali with a Mi-171E helicopter. 376/ https://t.co/Xb0Ja1qBZN https://t.co/MHd0tnLB1a — PolitiTweet.org

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@vfroloff Interesting point. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reporting confirms this. The withdrawal may have emboldened Putin, but he was already moving forward with plans to invade Ukraine. Given how much he underestimated Ukraine, I doubt any external event would have seriously influenced his decision-making. https://t.co/zBEJMcbmGb https://t.co/5kG4zAjFRG — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem is that this doesn't match the timeline. Russia started a buildup near Ukraine with units from Siberia in Feb 2021, and started the BARS reservist program in July-early August to increase the Russian military's manpower, which preceded the fall of Kabul. — PolitiTweet.org

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Photos of a catastrophic Russian BTR-82 loss in Kherson Oblast. https://t.co/7gKts9c56v https://t.co/yaJ2XFoshZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Video from Ukraine’s GUR of a UAV dropping two munitions reportedly on a Russian EW system. https://t.co/4DugDOSBaM https://t.co/hHRh9T8KEP — PolitiTweet.org

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Video of Ukrainian UAVs dropping munitions on Russia soldiers. https://t.co/1JjoCwcuOE https://t.co/rme4U8yk4p — PolitiTweet.org

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@mangalani I'm saying that Lavrov is a poor person to quote on Russia's intentions given that he didn't know Russia was going to war and didn't know Putin's aims. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ukrainian officials were publicly floating concessions in March, including no NATO membership and military limitations. If that had been Russia's ultimate goal, Putin would have accepted them. His goals were more ambitious. https://t.co/GyYV9Cq0rD https://t.co/yZVCPIk8O9 https://t.co/Bf9JdyXZKa — PolitiTweet.org

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You can cherry pick statements from Russian officials to justify various arguments, but in 2021 there was a clear shift in how Russian officials talked about Ukraine, which emphasized that Ukraine was not a sovereign country and that its leaders were illegitimate "vassals." — PolitiTweet.org

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There was no recent push for Ukrainian membership in NATO. Sergei Lavrov had no idea Russia was planning on invading, whereas Putin wrote, "true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia" last July. The war was about Ukraine. https://t.co/yi9t3g60WK https://t.co/l4VUznA6nF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PjotrSauer: "I don’t see truth here." @Andrew__Roth met with the ex-paratrooper Pavel Filatyev in Moscow days before the soldier fled.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Video from Ukraine's National Guard reportedly of an artillery strike (looks like something less powerful) on a Russian tank, though it doesn't appear the tank was badly damaged. https://t.co/BgBBRIz8Fs https://t.co/2Kn0Z3qJzv — PolitiTweet.org

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Video of a Ukrainian UAV dropping munitions on two abandoned Russian T-72B3M tanks. https://t.co/nXnEBkz73z https://t.co/l5G3khWwQ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Video from Ukraine's 110th Territorial Defense Brigade of a Russian vehicle on fire (l think it is a BTR-82). https://t.co/txHe0M2ASG https://t.co/lDOFJ5MIsT — PolitiTweet.org

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Armenia made a similar decision to build underground bunkers after the 2020 Karabakh War. Going underground is an obvious solution to counter a side with greater air power or fires. Many of the adaptations in modern warfare are actually just a return to previous practices. https://t.co/XeAaD0D4w4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Soldiers from Ukraine's 28th Mechanized Brigade said they shot down a Russian Eleron-3 UAV and Lancet-3 loitering munition. https://t.co/hjmgqPBpxJ https://t.co/DOj91f3WkK — PolitiTweet.org

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Continued. 2/ https://t.co/OIUBW0gN1n — PolitiTweet.org

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Video of artillery strikes from Ukrainian Marines on Russian positions in a treeline, including an Ural truck, BMD/BTR-D, and ammunition storage. https://t.co/8B3IH8MyN8 https://t.co/SAFQL8uZJt — PolitiTweet.org

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Video from Ukraine's 54th Mechanized Brigade's K2 unit showing artillery strikes on Russian ammunition and 120mm mortar position in the Marinka area. https://t.co/kKhlX2CEZq https://t.co/I14kzofQqk — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian news confirms that Admiral Igor Osipov has been replaced by Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov as the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. 2/ https://t.co/Zvnn95X2iW https://t.co/cC5JW6BIfC — PolitiTweet.org

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