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Alexander St. Leger retweeted
A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
The “president” of Transnistria Krasnoselsky was decorated by Putin yday. He managed to get to Russia due to talks facilitated by OSCE about winter gas in the region. Chisinau says it will restrict Krasnoselsky’s exit from Moldova for 5 years. Why the exit and not the entrance?
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby is heading to Romania Wednesday after today's meeting in Poland with a group of NATO allies.
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Notable how many vessels bound from Russia to US are sanctioned by EU/UK. said sanctions tend to have less global effect than those under US sanctions.
Being bound to US could still divert to other countries, including regular buyers of Russian diesel (Brazil) or of US (Mexico)
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Many lingering mysteries from these transfers. One that lingers: post-2022 transfers of wind tunnel test data for a flying wing design between Chinese land systems major Norinco and Russia's TsAGI. Rosoboronexport was involved, so military use presumed. But what was it for?
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Absolutely. Also important to note that Sandu (and other highly-ranked officials like speaker Igor Grosu) almost always qualify support for RO unification by saying that there is no majority support for it in MD and that EU integration is the priority (deschide.md/maia-sandu-despr…).
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
A rough October for Moldova as Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine: 19 airspace violations last month overall, including 6 that resulted in explosions. The figure also shows dates and localities. Now at 104 incidents since 2022. Source here (army.md/index.php/ro/comunic…).
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
"The Blob" is such a beautiful distillation of the Obama years because it was coined by one of the most powerful people on earth at the literal heart of the national security establishment, whining that a bunch of academics did not see the wisdom of his boss's 5d chess moves (i.e. backpeddaling about letting Assad gas civilians)
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Romania is selling bonds on the international market for the first time bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
🇧🇪 Belgium’s opposition to using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine is increasingly indefensible. Brussels has offered to mutualise the financial risks, but Belgium has failed to specify what guarantees it actually needs. The problem is political, not legal. A thread 1/
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
‼️ Alertă aeriană majoră, în aproape toate județele din nordul Moldovei, sâmbătă seara. Două drone au venit dinspre Republica Moldova, la interval de o oră, fiind ridicate de la sol patru aeronave F-16, atât de la Câmpia Turzii, cât și de la Fetești, precum și un elicopter.
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Waited until our team crossed the border (back into UA) before commenting on this report, which got me pulled off air yesterday...
But viewers should be aware of the perils and pitfalls of reporting from Russian-occupied Ukraine, where information is tightly controlled and independent journalism faces serious constraints.
.@Shelby_Wilder of Newsmax on Russia’s Oleshky stint:
“Russia is using this humanitarian operation as a propaganda opportunity.
Moscow wants to portray itself as the rescuer of civilians in a city that it occupies, one it has destroyed and plunged into this humanitarian crisis.
And we need to be clear, Russia controls what we are going to be allowed to see.
Moscow appears to have brought in numerous Russian media compared to just the one American news outlet.”
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Începând cu toamna anului 2027, Republica Moldova va achiziționa gaz extras de România în cadrul proiectului Neptun Deep.
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Major data breach in Moldova: a colossal cyber attack withdrew info on 750,000 personal identification numbers egov.md/ro/node/41145
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
NEW: We got the list of “Business Deals” the US and Russia are discussing.
They include a potential return by US companies to the Russian oil market as part of wider talks to end Putin’s war, including JVs in Sakhalin and restoring the Druzhba pipeline:
ft.com/content/d703aaae-f607…
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
A few Ukraine-related stories in Moldova recently, including illegal border-crossing data, pro-Russian propaganda targeting Chișinău's ties to Kyiv, and brainwashing of ethnic Ukrainians in Transnistrian schools. First, Radio Free Europe has some informative data ...
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
🚨 SCOOP: @jemberga and I are revealing new details about sabotage at Milrem Robotics' facility in Tallinn. First, a previously unreported detail: the perpetrators actually broke inside the building to start the fire, pointing to security flaws.
balticflank.substack.com/p/t…
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
An indicator of the threat Russia poses to Moldova during its invasion of Ukraine: Moldova and Ukraine have jointly-run border checkpoints located in Ukraine. Chișinău has withdrawn its border guards from four of these checkpoints in fear of RU attacks at the border...
Alexander St. Leger retweeted
Moldova's National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) has a really cool interactive mapping feature now, where you can visualize data all the way down to the local (commune) level. An example: the % of people who normally speak Romanian (the darker blue, the more Romanian speakers) ...
