Our @newshour story on Ukraine’s use of ATACMS in Crimea, with previously unreported/unconfirmed details from US officials:
— Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) August 9, 2024
- US has sent Ukraine “hundreds” of ATACMS;
- Ukraine first used ATACMS in mid-April on a Russian airfield in occupied Crimea;
- ATACMS sunk a Russian…
Russia just introduced "KTO" (Counter-Terrorist Operation) in Bryansk Oblast "due to an increase in the level of sabotage and terrorist threats from Ukraine".
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) August 9, 2024
Bryansk Oblast is to the north-west of Kursk Oblast where Ukrainian Armed Forces are carrying out a special operation.
What counter-terrorist operation (KTO) means.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) August 9, 2024
◽️temporary resettlement of citizens living within the territory where the KTO regime has been introduced;
◽️unhindered penetration of persons conducting KTO into residential and other premises and land plots;
◽️check documents,…
Last time a "counter-terrorist operation" was declared in Russia was during Prigozhin's March for Justice in 2023. So they consider the threat as serious.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) August 9, 2024
Dmitry Grinchy is 87. His father was executed in 1938 by Stalin’s NKVD as an “enemy of the people” on bogus espionage charges. Earlier today in Moscow, two men attacked him on a bus when they thought they heard him refer to Wagner Group mercenaries as “murderers.” pic.twitter.com/1NvCeXoqai
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) August 9, 2024