Russia is turning the internet censorship screws further. Yesterday reports suggest YouTube, a key information channel, had been blocked. Now Signal, a confidential messenger service, reportedly being blocked too. https://t.co/khSFPgqQhz
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) August 9, 2024
Between the Prigozhin mutiny and Kursk, the Kremlin has now faced two major challenges to its narrative of “stability and peace” in Russia within slightly over a year. Even in the 90s Russia had not been invaded. Tell me again how Putin has made Russia stronger. He is a failure.
— Bakhti Nishanov (@b_nishanov) August 9, 2024
The silence of the peacemongers is the best evidence of where their actual sympathies lie. https://t.co/HKgwMNVE4v
— Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social (@KuldkeppMart) August 9, 2024
Ukrainian forces tracking the movement of Z-forces in the Kursk region. pic.twitter.com/VEJgCkBeZY
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 9, 2024
One of the arguments used by Russian propaganda during the occupation of Crimea was that the local population didn’t resist the invasion. Following that same logic, it seems that Kursk has been waiting for years to join Ukraine.
— Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA) August 9, 2024
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