Tuesday, April 12
☣️ Yesterday afternoon, an avalanche of coverage over the possible use of sarin gas took off.
☣️ Main stream media started to cover the *reports* that this happened. Still no confirmation that it actually happened.
☣️ The initial report for this attack came from an Azov Regiment Telegram channel. They, of course, have a vested interest, and are not an impartial third party source.
☣️ Russian troops in Rubizhne, Luhansk destroyed a nitric acid tanker in order to cause extreme toxic exposure to the local population. But the wind was facing their direction and the toxic cloud spread over the Russian position instead.
☣️ Ukraine is investigating the sarin gas claims. (Reuters) I believe this will be nearly impossible due to the shelling and strikes in the area
☣️ Nothing related to chemical weapons has been proven yet.
🇺🇦 Mariupol might be in it’s final hours. The 36th Marine Brigade is fighting to its last person, trying to hold out pockets of defense, to buy Ukraine time to get reinforcements into the city. This help will likely not be able to make it. The city is encircled and Ukraine has not been able to resupply them with food or ammunition. They got a message out and said they’ve held their position and will hold their position until the last person.
🇺🇦 Large amounts of Russian forces are flowing into eastern Ukraine.
🇺🇦 Ukraines Prosecutor General is building more than 5,800 cases of warcrimes
🇺🇦 Japan has frozen assets of 385 oligarchs
🇺🇦 Putin seems to be preparing for a military coup
🇺🇦 Somebody sabotaged the railway tracks near Belgorod, a Russian border town close to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. It will put a stop to Russian troop redeployments from Kyiv to the Donbas for a while.
🇺🇦 According to Zelensky via BBC, New mass graves are found every day, hundreds of new warcrimes found every day.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian defenders repulse six enemy attacks in Eastern Ukraine today
🇺🇦 Multiple unconfirmed reports that Russia is planning false flag ‘terrorist’ attacks inside of Russia to bolster support
🇺🇦 Pictured: Ukraine’s Secret Service captured one of Putin’s top allies…….It’s kind of a boring story but it makes an awesome headline. Also, the picture sourcing was Zelensky’s Facebook page lol
🇺🇦 Hearing the last message from the 36th Marine Brigade, as they fought to the very last man, was heartbreaking. They never gave up…
🇺🇦 …but then as I was about to push *publish* on this post, it appears that after a special operation, a unit was able to break encirclement and link up with Azov. I’ll keep following this thread.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian troops arriving in UK for British weapons training
⚠️ If you ever hear anyone say “What about America…” in an effort to redirect attention away from Ukraine and onto America, that is called “Competitive victimhood” and the associated meme is *always* created by Russian-backed media. Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the third.
⚠️ Note: I’m getting lazy with my citations and I apologize. It’s all the same sources as it’s always been…NATO planners, official statements, major news, other open source researchers, people who send me leads, reputable pundits like Aaron Parnas, Kyiv Independent, etc. Thank you especially to CP Scott, former Army and former NATO planner.
⚠️ Note: War happens fast and even high fidelity news needs a ton of corrections after the dust settles. Also, I’ve been spoiled by social media’s format where I can update the final product every time I find a typo. While that’s still the case, that poses a problem when…
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