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Hello again. A new week begins and Day 467 of Europe's war.

All the important stuff from #Russia's illegal war and #Ukraine's defence is here in one place, as always!
Updates throughout the day, each day.

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Sunday's thread was a bit crazy and very long!

#Russia army was in the novel position of having prisoners of war taken by three different factions!

Mass brawls in Russia & a very sad story about dolphins.

Yep all those stories and more. Catch up here⬇️
#Russia's losses a little more stable today but troop deaths pass 210,000.

Also, it's not clear if these estimates from #Ukraine include Kremlin losses to Russian rebel units and #Wagner 😜🤣 Image
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Day 466 of the daily thread covering the #UkraineRussianWar begins here.

All the news and analysis, throughout the day and night - looks like little sleep again tonight as it's believed #Russia has fired cruise missiles, currently an hour away from hitting #Ukraine.

#StopRussia
The situation is still developing. We hope the missile launch was a fake, or dummy warheads to "draw out" #Ukraine's air defence.

For all yesterday's news, including the terrible attack on #Dnipro, click and scroll here:
#StandWithUkraine

Also hearing now that cruise-missile laden ships are in the launch zone in the Black Sea. This is not uncommon, but #Russia's current tactic of a mixed missile attack increases the likelihood of ships being involved.

Estimated time of arrival of rockets: 03:10 Kyiv time.
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1/ "If you have Putin, you have rivers of blood": Moscow court sentences Russian opposition activist to 7 years in prison. His crime? "Justifying terrorism" and "issuing threats of violence." His offense? Comments and posts on Facebook. Image
2/ On May 17, 2023, an pro-democracy activist Mikhail Kriger, a member of the Solidarnost movement, was sentenced by a Russian military court to seven years in prison. He was convicted of "justifying terrorism" and "issuing threats of violence."
3/ Prosecutors claimed that Kriger put the lives of FSB officers at risk and advocated for the hanging of Vladimir Putin. According to his supporters, Kriger's offense involved comments and posts made on Facebook.
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1/ Russian School Teacher Sentenced to 5 Years for Referring to Crimean Bridge Explosion as "Putin's Birthday Present" Image
2/ On May 11, 2023, Nikita Tushkanov, a 29-year-old history teacher from Russia's Komi Republic, was sentenced to 5,5 years in prison on charges of "justifying terrorism" due to a social media post about the bombing of the Crimean bridge.
3/ Tushkanov has been a longtime supporter of Russian opposition politician @navalny. In 2021, he was fired from the school where he taught history after organizing a picket and posting online in support of political prisoners. The dismissal order accused him of "immoral conduct"
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1/ The number of acts of sabotage in Russia has surged in 2023, more than doubling compared to the previous year, according to the independent news site Vyorstka, which reported on May 15, 2023. Image
2/ Publicly reported incidents of attacks on Russian railways, military enlistment centers, energy sites, and other targets have reached at least 57 between January and May 2023. Railway tracks have been the primary target, accounting for nearly two-thirds of this year's attacks
3/ This is a significant increase compared to the 21 similar attacks in 2022 and the lone attack in 2021.

At least 26 Russian regions, including annexed Crimea, have experienced at least one such attack, with the Moscow region leading with nine incidents.
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Rusko:
závěrečná řeč moskevského zastupitele Alexeje Gorina u soudu, který ho potrestal sedmi lety v trestanecké kolonii za to, že odsoudil ruskou válku na Ukrajině :
„Můj otec se vrátil z druhé světové války jako invalida. Stejně tak jeho bratr. Ale oni plnili a splnili 1/n
svou povinnost. Svou posvátnou povinnost bránit vlast před nepřítelem.
Moskvu jsem zažil ještě v 60. letech.
S veterány, bez rukou, bez nohou, slepé.
Ti, kdo válku přežili, o ní mluvili velmi málo. Jak jsem dospíval, pochopil jsem proč. Protože válka jako taková, ať už ji 2/n
nazýváte jakkoli, je ta nejposlednější, nejodpornější a nejšpinavější věc. Věc, která není hodna člověka, kterému vesmírem a evolucí byla svěřena péče o udržení a rozmnožování veškerého života na naší planetě. Jsem přesvědčen, že válka je nejrychlejším prostředkem 3/n
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On May 4, in Moscow, the prosecution requested a 1.4-2 yrs of penal colony for teenage activists for attaching a banner and dousing the building of the Prosecutor General's Office with pink paint. Olga Misik, 19, wrote a remarkable last statement, translated below. #FreeRussia
Olga Misik, Ivan Vorobievsky and Igor Basharimov will be sentenced on May 11, 2019. Olga is known for reading the Constitution to riot police and was the leader of a group of 45 teenagers protesting in August 2019.
"ABOUT FEAR. I was often asked if I was scared. More often they ask me about this abroad, not in Russia. Abroad, they do not know about black KGB prison vans that arrive after midnight, detentions, and prison sentences without any rhyme or reason."
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These are real heroes. This doctor just spent over a month under home arrest (first w/o the right to seeing her kids.) Now, she & her colleagues are going to the penal colony to insist on the right to treat #Navalny. His condition is deteriorating; the colony is struck by TB.
This is the same doctor who played Beethoven while her house was being searched. Here's my interview with her lawyer from 2 months ago only. Now she's risking her life again...
#Navalny is on a hunger strike and lost 13 kg (26 lbs). He's showing symptoms of the coma and toxic poisoning aftermath, according to the doctors in the video above. #Putin is killing people in the broad daylight and in front of the whole world. Share a word.
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Russia: mass protests against #Putin's regime. Far East: Khabarovsk (Chant: Putin is a thief!), Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (No more tolerating Putin's crimes! Off with the Tsar!), Magadan (iconic Gulag city), thread ... #Navalny #FreeNavalnyNow #PutinsPalace
2. Vladivostok (Putin is a thief, Putin, resign!), Irkutsk (We are the power here! Go away!) Yakutsk (in -58F), Chita, Ulan-Ude, Novosibirsk and counting through the timezone.
3. Police is dispersing protest in Vladivostok (video)
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