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Sunday is Day 438 of #Russia's catastrophic full invasion of #Ukraine

Each day you've been able to find all the news of Europe's war in one place with these daily threads.

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I forgot this yesterday (thanks Dave for remembering!) so let's do this straightaway!

As I post so much, people couldn't find the start of the previous day's thread, which they found handy to review what they missed. So here's the start of Saturday's feed
#Ukraine was attacked last night. Here's a summary:

#Dnipropetrovsk region - again huge artillery fire on #Nikopol with one dead and 3 injured.
#Mykolaiv region - a ballistic missile hit "an industrial enterprise"
#Kyiv - a reconnaissance drone was shot down in the region.
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Welcome to the daily news thread for 3 October.
Day 222 (Richie Benaud day?) of #Ukraine's defence of its homeland against the full scale invasion by Putin's #Russia

For a catch up on yesterday's here's the start of Sunday's thread for you to scroll thru:
Yesterday I wrote about two horrific and needless land mine tragedies & already two more today in #Kharkiv oblast.

Regional Gov Oleh Synyehubov says an ambulance driver was killed and a paramedic injured near #Balakliia, while another 26yo man was wounded in a separate incident.
As I suspected, #Russia's losses subsided a little in the last 24 hours. That's directly due to the invaders' retreat from #Lyman.

However with #Ukraine advances in #Kreminna and #Kherson region, they could rise again.

#Kyiv's forces likely also be suffering heavy daily losses
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Hello There!
Today, russians are going to suffer... nice surprises to come, everywhere...
2/ yesterday being very cautious, Ukr intel assessed :
"The enemy has recovered a little bit more from the shock in the #Kharkiv region and began to put up a, more or less, reasonable defense past the #Oskil.

There is also a tangible new front line that is emerging approximately
3/ "along" the Oskil River, down east of #Izyum.
We push from #Slavyansk to the north. (Steadily & with determination but trying to not "overreach" or get caught being reckless & receiving more damages than inflicted)"
"Our task is to take full control of #Liman and then go to
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This is Thursday's thread with news, views, analysis on #Russia's unprovoked war in #Ukraine, updated throughout the day.

Day 204 starts with a recap of the main story which broke very late last night:
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy is ok despite a car crash

If you missed that, or just want a recap of Wednesday's news from #Ukraine and beyond, then just click here and scroll at your leisure!

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

The other big story was #Russia's deliberate bombing of a dam, trying to flood #Ukraine's 7th biggest city, #KrivyiRih (RU: #KrivoyRog)

It's the home town of President @ZelenskyyUa
Late in the evening authorities evacuated houses of those living closest to the river.
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It's Day 203 of the war. #Russia's inhuman, unprovoked, not to mention illegal war in #Ukraine.

The UN is powerless, some would say pointless. It's purely up to Ukraine and its' supporters to #StopPutin

Live updates in this 🧵, or catch up on y'day here

Big attack on the southern #Ukraine city of #Mykolaiv overnight.

The mayor has so far only said some private houses were hit. No news on casualties yet.

#Nikolaev #RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine
Once again we've seen far fewer attacks than "normal" from #Russia in the last 12 hours. In fact it's newsworthy that there was not a single rocket fired on #Kharkiv overnight.

#RussiansGoHome #StopRussia
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1/n Jaki będzie następny ruch Ukrainy? Moje spekulacje.
1. Patrząc na szczegół należy ciągle mieć na uwadze ogół.
2. Gwałtowny spadek aktywności to też aktywność.
...🧵
#WojnaWUkrainie #RussianUkrainianWar
2/n RUS siły, które uciekły z Katastrofy Charkowskiej są takim samym stanie (fizycznym i psychicznym) a nawet gorszym niż te spod Kijowa, bez sprzętu i amunicji. Zajmie wiele tygodni RUS, by przywrócić im zdolność bojową, nie są wstanie od razu wejść do boju. #KharkivOffensive
3/n Ukraińcy natomiast mimo poniesionych strat mają bardzo wysokie morale, zdobyli dużo sprzętu na chodzie i bogate magazyny amunicji i mogą straty w ludziach uzupełnić. #KharkivOffensive #Izyum
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I'm starting a daily thread on #Russia's illegal war for the 200th time.

Yes, we made it to Day 200, but Putin's 4-day "special operation" to take #Kyiv and 10-days to control all of #Ukraine is going "according to plan"😉🤥

All the Ukraine news, all day every day right here⬇️
First, notice the date, 11 September or "9/11"
Please remember all the victims of that horrific day in the U.S.

Hopefully #Russia's terrorism is being beaten thanks to the heroes of #Ukraine, at the front, protecting a free country.
Saturday was amazing:

Last night Pres @ZelenskyyUa announced that two more villages in #Kharkiv had been liberated; #Vasylenkove and #Artemivka.

In truth it's just that #Ukraine's forces only just walked in there. Here's @TheStudyofWar's new map showing how much land is confirmed reclaimed in Kharkiv
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Vorsichtige #GoodNews aus der #Ukraine

Auch #Lyman (Oblast #Donezk, etwa 50 Kilometer südöstlich von #Isjum und etwa 100 Kilometer südöstlich von #Balakliia) soll wieder unter ukrainischer Kontrolle sein.

#Russland sei auch dort geflohen. /TN
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Day 199 of #Russia's genocidal war on #Ukraine
My daily thread for Saturday starts here.

But what an evening and night it's been already.
So many emotional videos, small victories for Ukraine and another big fire in #Russia.

Missed anything? Catch up:

I've understandably been concentrating on #Kharkiv region, but there is still fierce battles elsewhere.

In occupied #Donetsk, the roof of a hospital caught fire when a rocket hit the building in #Kalininsky area.

Impossible to tell who fired it, but may be a false-flag attack
It's a well known tactic by #Russia to use a false flag attack to change the news agenda.

When they commit an atrocity, or if they're losing and have nothing "good" to report back home, make up a new horrific crime, blame #Ukraine

All patients here in Donetsk were led to safety
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You've found the start of Friday's thread on the war in #Ukraine.

It's Day 198 of #Russia's illegal war which has resulted in 1000s of war crimes.

Updated throughout the day, one thread for all the news (today I'll try not to mix up the threads!)

Any coffee donations welcome!
Lots of very interesting and emotional news yesterday as a tide of villages became liberated in #Kharkiv region.

I did mix up the threads but if you missed the videos and flag raising, you can join the thread here and scroll down:

Another all time record number number of #Russia's soldiers killed on the battlefields of #Ukraine yesterday.

Also a very high number of additional (support) vehicles and fuel tanks destroyed.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
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This thread is about the fall off #Balakliia. Also about the #Russia|n bloggers and commentators that are seeing now the end coming and that everything is lost. Who calls for general mobilisation and use of nuclear weapons. This pisses me off, so that I, AGAIN, am forced
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to interrupt my Twitter pause. If it goes on like this, I'll delete my account again, to have my peace 🤣😅
Okay. First of all... Everything is okay. There is no panic among the #Russia|ns or their leadership. Why?
#Balakliya is a buffer area for the bigger Russian formations
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around #Izyum. You always need buffer areas around strategically important assets to be able to maneuver and apply mobile defense, if needed in the depth.
Now unfortunately #Balakliya did, what buffer areas do... Buy time and buffer off the first shock of an assault.
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1/ Operational situation update / #russian_invasion in #Ukraine on September 08, 2022
No changes were recorded on the front line
Sorry just kidding ! 😅😉
Situation is evolving fast, Ru are getting their ass kicked & we r still waiting for results ongoing ops.
#UkraineMap Image
2/ last gen staff report. part 1&2 ImageImage
3/ So this could be the map of actual situation #Balakliia #Kupiansk #Shevchenkove #Izyum
to be updated tomorrow.
just for ref.
#UkraineMap Image
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#Ukraine Le drapeau ukrainien flotte sur l’hôtel de ville de #Balakliya #Balakliia
#Ukraine Le drapeau ukrainien est levé à Volokhiv Yar #VolokhivYar
#Ukraine Les soldats ukrainiens se photographient à l’entrée de Schevchenkove (repeinte aux couleurs de l’occupant russe). #Shevchenkove Image
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1/ So... today is quite hot! isn't it?
#UAarmy command report - "Currently, Ukr military has penetrated the enemy's defense to a depth of up to 50km !v. In the course of conducting active actions in the #Kharkiv direction, more than 20 settlements were liberated."
20! 20! 20!
2/ "In the course of active actions in the Kharkiv direction, more than 20 settlements have been freed," - Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Brigade General Alexey Gromov.
3/ and then you read some people.. "ouin ouin we only have reliable russian sources, Zoooka said that, zozovs said this.. Suyakrynbar shows it!!" Go Fy!
(that was my rant of the week. sorry not sorry, days 'im witnessing epic failure among "osintlol" account clearly no ex mil)
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Thursday. Day 197 of #Russia's war

Serious concern among those that know in Russia. The majority of the population chooses to live in ignorance or denial.

Some dramatic developments as the #Ukraine fightback gathers pace.

All the news in one handy 🧵 right here:

#StopRussia
Plenty of dramatic news late last night including another attack on Russian party HQ in occupied #Melitopol, more failures for #Russia and more successes for #Ukraine.

If you missed it, scroll through yesterday's thread:

#StandWithUkraine

Having emphasised the good points for #Ukraine, I do feel the need to inject a note of realism into the thread.

Momentum is with the Defenders of liberty in many parts of the frontline. But Ukraine is suffering very heavy casualties too, likely higher than at any point so far
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1/ Operational situation update / #russian_invasion in #Ukraine on September 07, 2022
Some real changes were recorded on the front line for the last 48h. Situation is evolving fast, and we are still waiting for (geo) confirmed locations
Ukr pushed back all Ru attacks
#UkraineMap Image
2/ Last gen staff report.
about Ru attacks same old same old.
that's it for today. i'll try to catch up tomorrow for accurate map. no need to produce only "guess maps". it's useless. we can wait 24h. Image
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Weiter unten ist die Geobestätigung.
Augenscheinlich ist die Ukraine bei #Balakliia durchgebrochen und gen Norden bereits bis #VolokhivYar vorgestoßen. Weitere größere Gefechte soll es östlich von Balakliia bei #Sawynzi geben.Lage der Front zwischen #kharkiv und #izium unklar 1/3
Wir müssen abwarten was sich dort tatsächlich abspielt und ob die Gebiete gehalten werden können. Insgesamt scheint RUS dort aber deutlich zu wenig Soldaten zu haben. Es kann hier zu sehr großen Gebietsrückeroberungen der Ukraine kommen, speziell wenn sie gen Osten den #Oskil 2/3
Fluss erreichen. Dann steht der Norden gen #Belgorod offen. Sobald die Lage klarer wird, werde ich ein genaues Update geben 3/3
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Wednesday 7 September.
Day 196 of #Russia's war on #Ukraine.
This is the start of the daily thread with news updated throughout the day.

If you want to catch up on yesterday's happenings, click here:

#StandWithUkraine

Who likes Wednesday to start with a record?

Looking at #Ukraine's estimates for #Russia's losses, I think the 460 illegal invaders they "liquidated" in the last 24 hours is an all-time high - I'm sure this war's stat-man @ragnarbjartur can confirm.

All first 4 totals above avg
#Ukraine officials have said the figures for RU losses do NOT include Private Military Contractors

Of course #Russia loves to pass death sentences for mercenaries but hires its own.
But 40% of RU PMCs in #Kharkiv region are dead/injured according to Kyiv

facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…
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1/ Op situation update regarding the #russian_invasion in #Ukraine on September 06, 2022
no major changes on the front line. On #Kherson Oblast, fights are raging / fluid situation / need more infos.
Ukr forward moves were recorded in other directions.
#UkraineMap #CarteUkraine Image
2/ Last gen staff report - part 1&2 : ImageImage
3/ "Our military successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of settlements valley, #Soledar, #kodema, #zaitseve (...) noticed that yesterday Gen staff reported that #Semyhirja & part of #Pokrovske were shelled by Ru. So this 2 areas remain uncertain. no notification today. Image
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Related to this front around #Balakliia, and the #Izium supply hub, which I spoke about in the quoted thread, I wish to speculate about another possible future development. The forests west of Izium are scenes of some of the fiercest & least reported aspects of the war recently.
As I have mentioned, UA forces' ability to operate in dense wooded areas has steadily increased. It is clear to everyone that the Izium supply hub, road & rail junctions, and river/forest passageway to the south are critical to the RU offensive. While RU forces achieved an
important & impressive victory in its capture, which UA forces fought desperately to prevent, the breakthrough remained narrow for a long time. Only recently has Russia widened it towards the east (less dense territory) & connected it by rail to the Kupiansk line as discussed.
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Day 48 of #Russia's "military operation" aka genocide of a peaceful neighbouring state.

This is Tuesday's thread with the news and analysis from #Ukraine and beyond.

The big question: have chemical weapons been used in Mariupol' overnight?
Read on...
There is no proof yet, and it's going to be almost impossible to get any, but #Ukraine troops in besieged #Mariupol' claim chemical weapons were dropped by drone onto the Azovstal plant

The first overseas acknowledgment of the allegation has come from UK

Another huge column of Russians spotted close to, and heading towards, the Ukrainian border in Rostov region.

The driver says it's the same column that was in #Kyiv

#SaveUkraine #NATOActNow

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We've reached 6 weeks of full scale war and arguably #Russia is in a worse position than after Day One in #Ukraine.

This is the daily thread on the major developments and my analysis after 20 years working in Ukraine and studying Putin.

Thanks to everyone for tip-offs. Read on!
Bombing and shelling continued in many Ukrainian cities overnight.
Late yesterday #Ukraine said that #Russia was preparing to surrender #Kherson, the only major city it controls.

The UK's daily intelligence update doesn't add much new information.

Following the horrors of #Bucha, the hints from #Borodyanka - I imagine we will get more from other settlements around #Kyiv today.

The capital's police says they've already recorded 1,200 alleged instances of war crimes committed by Russia.
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