Twitter: You can be one of the world's most renowned weapons inspectors who oversaw the discovery and destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and get suspended twice in one week for telling the truth... Or you can be a no-named douchebag calling for global thermonuclear war and enjoy complete social media protection. HEIL TWITLER!

HEIL TWITLER!

I'd like to ask you all to keep sharing my Telegram channel link in social media. Please encourage your followers to join us here on Telegram. I'm going to start posting more here now that I'm locked out of Twitter for at least a week. Thanks... strength in numbers!!! t.me/blackstoneintel

My household here in NC just got hit with Covid. None of the 7 of us have had it since the start of the pandemic. But as soon as my daughter's college lifted the mask mandate, tons of students started spreading it. She brought it home this past week and was sick a few days, then my 17 year old son got it and was knocked out for 2 days, then my wife got it yesterday and is very sick, and my two twin girls (19 months old) have fevers and are sick with it. Only my 11 year old son and I haven't tested positive yet, but with 5 people in the same house already sick, I doubt that my son and I will be able to avoid getting it. If there was any good time for me to get Covid, the week I'm banned from Twitter is probably the best time! We'll see how it goes. 😊

Footage of a Russian Uran-6 being deployed in Donbass. It is a multi-functional mine-clearing robot used to clear areas, detect anti-tank mines (or other explosive ordinance) and remove them.

Air raid sirens have been going on and off in Lviv and all over western Ukraine for the last hour. The Ukrainian alert system has given the "all clear" in the last 20-30 minutes. I remember in the opening 24 hours of the war, every air siren throughout the country was going off. It's unusual that so many would now be sounding the west where Russia isn't carrying out operations. Makes me wonder if Ukraine isn't just conditioning its citizens to keep them in a state of fear even if there is no imminent danger.

Looks like air raids were sounding all over the country, not just in the west...

Some of this footage of a Russian naval infantry BTR-82A in Mariupol looks like a POV war video game. The BTR-82A is an 8×8 wheeled fully amphibious armored personnel carrier (APC). It requires a 3 man crew but can carry up to 7.

According to this Reuters chart, as of 2020 nearly 40% of Ukraine's fighting force were paramilitary fighters. Russia has a dramatically larger military, but a large percentage is also paramilitary.

Another photo of Ukrainian forces writing "for the children" on projectiles. Photo: artillery of the first separate battalion of the Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps.