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Institute for the Study of War

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ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar

Reported Followers

102,672

7 days:175

14 days:264

30 days:586

Reported Followers by date

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Actual Followers

98,125

7 days:116

14 days:3,171

30 days:3,392

Actual Followers by date

2026-04-29:98,12539

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Reported Following

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Reported Follows by date

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Actual Following

414

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14 days:0

30 days:1

Actual Follows by date

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Blocking others

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Blocks by date

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Liking others

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Own posts

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14 days:231

30 days:531

Posts by date

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Likes earned

7 days:9,253

14 days:18,187

30 days:40,594

Likes by date

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Reposts earned

7 days:1,442

14 days:2,571

30 days:5,794

Reposts by date

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Top 5 Most Liked Posts (14 days)

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SPECIAL REPORT: Ukrainian forces have defeated the 2026 Russian campaign to seize Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkraineDisru...

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NEW: Russian milbloggers recently acknowledged Ukrainian advances east of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, possibly after months of battlefield shaping efforts similar to those conducted in the months leading up to Operation Vivaldi in the Lyman direction. 🧵(1/7) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar100826

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NEW: President Trump announced an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Oct 9 to waive sanctions on Russian diesel to increase diesel supply to the US and global markets — a decision which will fund Russia’s war effort and protract Russia’s war in Ukraine.🧵(1/) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar100926

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NEW: Ukrainian forces appear to be shifting their counteroffensive tactics toward systematically targeting Russian efforts to reinforce initial Russian infiltrations rather than focusing on clearing the infiltrators immediately in various sectors of the frontline Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar092626

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5/ There no basis to assess that Russian forces will be able to take the rest of Donetsk Oblast in any short period of time, as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to claim, or even to forecast that Russian forces will ever be able to complete their seizure of this region by force.

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Top 5 Most Reposted Posts (14 days)

1.

SPECIAL REPORT: Ukrainian forces have defeated the 2026 Russian campaign to seize Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkraineDisru...

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NEW: President Trump announced an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Oct 9 to waive sanctions on Russian diesel to increase diesel supply to the US and global markets — a decision which will fund Russia’s war effort and protract Russia’s war in Ukraine.🧵(1/) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar100926

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NEW: Russian milbloggers recently acknowledged Ukrainian advances east of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, possibly after months of battlefield shaping efforts similar to those conducted in the months leading up to Operation Vivaldi in the Lyman direction. 🧵(1/7) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar100826

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NEW: Five Russian drones, including Banderol loitering munitions, crashed in Moldova on the morning of October 3, exceeding the number of aerial vehicles involved in the last Russian violation of Moldovan airspace. (1/4) Read the full report: isw.pub/UkrWar100326

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NEW: The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) presented its main rhetorical framing to justify what will become Russia’s brutal Fall-Winter 2026-2027 strike campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure. (1/10) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar100426

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