“People are ready to lead their children, husbands and sons to the slaughter. It’s downright evil… People don’t need therapists anymore; they need psychiatrists.” https://t.co/p6Ku5dA9D8

— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 29, 2022

The Red Square was really crowded during the Putin's speech. Here is the context. All these buses had been bringing here бюджетники (government employees) to serve as the Putin's audience. pic.twitter.com/hkjrZuaqFO

— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) October 1, 2022

Truly a degenerate political culture. Perhaps I have ancestral bias. But no less true. https://t.co/FIhiRHZ8P8

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2022

“My wife is Ukrainian. I can’t look my own mother-in-law in the eye,” said one man fleeing Russia.

“I served. I don’t understand why we’d go and capture a foreign land,” said another.

“My wife insisted on leaving to save me,” said a third.https://t.co/4PMJvWcC4a

— emily l (@laskin) October 5, 2022

Something is brewing in Dagestan, Russia.

: Mikhail Khodorkovskiy @mich261213 pic.twitter.com/rq76maiZOY

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 5, 2022

WATCH: The Crimean Bridge, which connects Russia and Crimea, is on fire and has partially collapsed pic.twitter.com/EGaGF0Eb25

— BNO News (@BNONews) October 8, 2022

Russians in Chornobyl: they entered it the very first day of war.

In a story by @Hromadske locals amd employees of the nuclear power plant tell about their maraudership and what Russians left after them pic.twitter.com/Ysr8TveBTI

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 9, 2022

“All of Putin’s actions today are aimed at getting out of this corner from which the only way out is the nuclear button,” Vladimir Pastukhov, a Russian analyst said in a phone interview. “In a sense, what has just happened really increases risks for him.”https://t.co/TWW584vMWz

— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

Hard-liners in Russia have been pushing this strategy for a very long time, said @YudinGreg “Like, we have to scare them into submission,’’ he said of the hard-right viewpoint. “So, in order to do that, we have to be really, really violent.”https://t.co/TWW584vMWz

— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

In his speech, Putin made one notable omission: He did not mention the West as the ultimate culprit behind Crimean bridge explosion or other suspected Ukr attacks. That's a departure from typical Kremlin rhetoric that portrays DC/London as puppeteers behind Ukraine’s resistance.

— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

The shift was a possible signal that the Russian leader was interested in controlling the escalation of the war, and that he was not on the verge of provoking a direct conflict with NATO.
Today's story, with @antontroian https://t.co/TWW584vMWz

— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022