Russia's "irrecoverable losses" in the war with Ukraine have just become known: according to an FSB source, that figure is 90K. This includes troops who were killed, went missing, died from wounds, or were disabled and cannot return to military service.https://t.co/paAUqNL5u8

— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) October 12, 2022

A Ukrainian military officer says hundreds of Russian convicts offered pardons for combat have already showed up on the battlefield in Ukraine, and that some have gone AWOL with their weapons to carry out crimes back in Russia.

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) October 12, 2022

Judging from UN voting, Putin's only friends in the world-- Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua, Syria. Embarrasing for Russia.

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) October 13, 2022

While the UN remains useless at best in things that matter most, this isolation of Russia is not meaningless. The message to Putin's elites is that there's no way back with him anymore. Even most reliable puppets and cronies went against him. https://t.co/IbvEzRrp8e

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) October 12, 2022

143 countries voted in favour of condemning Russia's illegal annexation of 4 Ukrainian territories#StandWithUkraine #russiaisateroriststate https://t.co/m4uveGVKOs

— Stratcom Centre UA (@StratcomCentre) October 13, 2022

Grateful to 143 UN member states who supported UNGA resolution "Territorial integrity of Ukraine: Defending Principles of UN Charter”. The demand is clear: Russian decisions on attempted annexation must be reversed; Russia must withdraw its forces from all of Ukraine’s territory. pic.twitter.com/6FF5UBPUjX

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) October 12, 2022

NEW: US officials confirmed to @nytimes that members of #Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are in Russian-occupied #Crimea to train #Russian forces on how to use the Iranian drones they purchased, thereby enabling likely Russian war crimes. https://t.co/wjSRKhGvOE pic.twitter.com/ptGhHu2o9j

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 19, 2022

I've just updated my list of Iranian cargo flights to Moscow.

The new list has *62 FLIGHTS*, 22 more than my previous update.

"Iran Air Cargo" EP-ICD: 12 flights
"Qeshm Fars Air" EP-FAA: 24
"Pouya Air" EP-PUS: 23
"Saha Airlines" EP-SIH: 3https://t.co/hB030oi9zO

— Gerjon | חריון | غريون | ኼርዮን (@Gerjon_) October 10, 2022

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday spoke with his Russian counterpart for the first time since May, as Ukrainian forces seek advances ahead of winter, and Russian drone and missile attacks have terrorized civilians. https://t.co/oCrKGCeVqX

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 21, 2022

Details of the call were closely guarded by both sides.

The Pentagon, in a one-sentence summary, said Austin “emphasized” to Russia’s defense chief, Sergei Shoigu, “the importance of maintaining lines of communication amid the ongoing war.” https://t.co/oCrKGCeVqX

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 21, 2022

The Kremlin issued an equally terse recap of the leaders’ “telephone negotiations,” saying only that they discussed “relevant aspects of international security, including the situation in Ukraine.” https://t.co/oCrKGBWMcP

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 21, 2022

OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/fuzcViBnk5

— SkyeJet (@SkyeJetFL) October 24, 2022

I haven’t seen anyone post it, so I’m gonna post my favorite Leslie Jordan video. The time he questioned Putin’s sexuality. Effortlessly hilarious. pic.twitter.com/xOXVxTBsfU

— SuperFreakyGrandpa (@KirkWrites79) October 25, 2022

U.S. officials have previously declared that Griner was "wrongfully detained." https://t.co/a22gU1JfVI

— reason (@reason) October 30, 2022