Samuel Ramani

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DPhil/PhD Intl Relations @UniofOxford. Assoc Fellow @RUSI_org Bylines @ForeignPolicy & @washingtonpost. Email: samuel.ramani@gmail.com

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Tweet Mar 8, 2022

I completed my doctoral thesis at Oxford last year on Russia's military interventions in Ukraine and Syria. Based on that research, I am sharing some thoughts on why Russia invaded Ukraine and what Putin might do next /1

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Tweet Jan 21, 2023

German intelligence shows that Ukraine could be losing triple digit numbers of soldiers per day in Bakhmut This is not necessarily higher than Russian casualties, which are also steep, but plays into Yevgeny Prigozhin's strategy of creating a meatg

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Tweet Dec 23, 2022

The US now estimates that there are 50,000 Wagner Group affiliated operatives in Ukraine 40,000 convicts and 10,000 PMCs. Enough to give Yevgeny Prigozhin a parallel structure to counter the Russian Defence Ministry

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Tweet Dec 15, 2022

Ukraine's Armed Forces chief Valery Zaluzhny claims that Russia built up supplies for the war for 3.5 to 4 years before it began Putin was re-elected in 2018 and the failure of his domestic agenda plus the pension reform protests could have encourag

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Tweet Dec 3, 2022

The Wagner Group is achieving extraordinary propaganda success on TikTok Wagner Group videos on Tiktok have collectively received over 1 billion views

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Tweet Dec 3, 2022

Victoria Nuland says that Russia has pivoted away from nuclear escalation threats to civilian infrastructure strikes Nuland believes the reason for this pivot was international pressure on Russia not to use nukes

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Podcast episode Mar 25, 2022

Samuel Ramani On Deciphering Russia

by Andrew Sullivan and Samuel Ramani