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Day: June 27, 2023
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Tweets On the Russia – Ukraine War
LATEST: Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, has appeared in a video released by his ministry for the first time since a mercenary uprising demanded his ouster.
According to the video, he was inspecting troops in Ukraine. https://t.co/Av8egJ7LDM
— DW News (@dwnews) June 26, 2023
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 26 June 2023.
Find out more about Defence Intelligence’s use of language: https://t.co/KaElmA4XrT
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/0GzUXS0JnC
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) June 26, 2023
Here are today’s control-of-terrain maps of #Russia‘s invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats.
Interactive map, updated daily: https://t.co/hwgxTnU2Tr
Archive of time-lapse maps, updated monthly: https://t.co/IT6FiqwgGO pic.twitter.com/IlAd94ZY5O
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) June 25, 2023
While not revealing any details on his location, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday defended his aborted mutiny as a bid to save his mercenary outfit and expose the failures of Russia’s military leadership, not to challenge the Kremlin.https://t.co/Tfu0dkTu88 pic.twitter.com/wG2p0uskX1
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 26, 2023
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the country had faced ‘a challenge to its stability’ and must remain united behind President Vladimir Putin following Saturday’s aborted mutiny by heavily armed Wagner mercenary fighters https://t.co/voUpGghkqG pic.twitter.com/nbO3W0bMnf
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 26, 2023
US President Joe Biden said a brief uprising by Russian mercenaries against the Kremlin was part of a struggle within the Russian system and the United States and its allies were not involved in it https://t.co/oZoUqOC390 pic.twitter.com/khHop88JY5
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 26, 2023
EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg today have decided to increase the joint military aid fund for Ukraine by a further €3.5 billion ($3.85 billion).https://t.co/F36h47ZhzV
— DW News (@dwnews) June 26, 2023
Russia’s Defense Ministry released footage of Sergei Shoigu calmly touring a command post, just days after an uprising by Wagner paramilitary forces. The footage comes after Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin called explicitly for Shoigu’s removal. pic.twitter.com/prhoIkQbPy
— DW News (@dwnews) June 26, 2023
Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: One of the cybercriminals behind 2020’s major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O’Connor (AKA “PlugwalkJoe”), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pl…