Thread by @TWMCLtd

You're in the right place for all the news that matters, both the battlefield and the politics, as #Russia continues to attack #Ukraine

It's Daily🧵#142 of #PutinsWar

If you want to buy me a coffee, the link's in my profile. Thanks to all who have, I'll write personally ASAP.

Overnight #Russia complained of "an attack" by drones inside its borders. Obviously it blamed #Ukraine + published these photos.

Why Ukraine would choose to fire something tiny at a library in a non-descript town in #Belgorod they couldn't explain!

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

#Russia closing in on #Siversk in eastern #Ukraine's #Donbas region according to UK Intel.
However the daily update from London highlights more failings of Putin's war machine.

#StopPutinNOW #SaveUkraine

Reports from @business claim #Russia is creating its own reference grade of oil. They expect trading on their own oil will be launched in October.

I'm surprised, but maybe the expected lower price is the point - to highlight savings countries can make by trading with terrorists

Congratulations to @the_ins_ru and @bellingcat which are among four organisations declared as "undesirable activities on the territory of the Russian Federation"

The order came from the office of #Russia's Prosecutor General.

Most Russians still think they're free!

Two universities have been destroyed this morning in #Mykolaiv.

Regional head Viitaliy Kim reports at least 10 Russian missiles rained down on the city (#Nikolaev) - the impact was caught on CCTV.
Casualties unknown.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SaveUkraine

This video just in from #Mykolaiv too following the multi-missile attack on the #Ukraine city this morning.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

One of the last tweets on yesterday's thread was about 600 people, locals and pilgrims, trapped, sheltering in the sacred #Sviatohirsk lavra.

This video of the site was filmed yesterday

#Donbas #Ukraine #StopRussia

130 more Russian soldiers killed yesterday, according to #Ukraine's official update.

The total now liquidated in #PutinsWar hits 38,000.
In addition the President's office has already said over 12,000 Wagner (private military) contractors, meaning over 50k have needlessly died.

In #Melitopol' the Occupiers claim they've prevented a "terrorist attack" (i.e. #Ukraine's Resistance)

Russian officials say a local resident was detained, who kept a home-made bomb and 15 weapons at his home.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNow

The British update earlier mentioned #Siversk in #Donetsk Oblast.

#Russia's Armed Forces this morning claim the town has "almost come under operational control." The invaders reckon ##Ukraine troops are undergoing a phased withdrawal. This may well be true, but no word from Kyiv

Oleksiy Arestovych from the President's office, confirms #Ukraine's successful hits in occupied areas in the last 24 hours.

They took out weapons, ammo and soldiers in #Daryekva + #NovayaMayachka in #Kherson region and #Kaviivka in #Luhansk oblast.

More photos from the missile attack on #Mykolaiv/#Nikolaev which occurred just before 8am this morning.

The city's two largest universities were hit. Still no word on casualties.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

Intelligence officers in #Ukraine arrest a collaborator whom they say was assisting the bombing of #Mykolaiv

The "Fire adjuster" reports back on secure chat about enemy rockets landing sites so future hits can be more effective.

He helped recent attacks on Mykolaiv + #Bashtanka

11 people are still missing following the devastating Russian attack on #Vinnytsia yesterday.

The death toll remains at 23, but obviously the fear is that will rise. Police have not been able to identify four of the bodies recovered so far.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

Awful news to report from the warzone from a British perspective. An aid worker had died in captivity, Foreign Office has confirmed.

Condolences to Paul's family. His death is on Putin's hands. He wouldn't have died if not illegally held captive

news.sky.com/story/paul-ure…

Dutch Foreign Minister @WBHoekstra has called for a War Crimes tribunal to be held, to prevent crimes committed in #Ukraine from going unpunished.

"The International Criminal Court doesn't have jurisdiction. So I imagine we look into coming up with such a tribunal."

#Ukraine government issues denial in response to accusations their missiles killed civilians in #Donetsk.

"Russian Federation kills civilians for fun"

😢 #SaveUkraine

The brave Resistance in #Kherson continues to work hard. A whole array of new patriotic posters appeared in the city, as shown by this Telegram channel in Kherson.

#StandWithUkraine #KhersonIsUkraine #RussiansGoHome

#Russia has convened a meeting of the permanent members of the @UN Security Council.

China, France, UK and USA are the other permanent members.

Putin's spokesman says the meeting will happen this after in New York (evening in Europe).

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine

A Turkish media company is reporting that #Turkiye will have a representative in #Ukraine's ports to help the safe export of grain.

Details of the agreement, planned to be signed next week, were secret - until this report gave more details.

yenisafak.com/gundem/iste-ka…

The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed #Russia's appeal against the decision of FIFA and UEFA to ban them from international football competitions.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

#Donetsk - more shells have been landing in the region in the #Donbas today.

This is the scene after strikes in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk itself.

#StandWithUkraine

Damage also seen north-east of #Donetsk city, in #Yasynuvata. It's claimed shelling again.

#Donbas #Donbass #Ukraine #StopRussia

The trolls are really trying to silence me now!
Hopefully the "person" responsible is charged with wasting the time of German police.

#FightingNazism #StandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState

While #Putin insists "everything is going to plan" in his special operation to destroy everyone in a peaceful neighbour, I saw something interesting

Authorities in #Novosibirsk are "asking" doctors to go for month-long working trips to #Donetsk + #Luhansk
All according to plan😉

The artist of these drawings was under house arrest for 6 months for "distributing porn"

Yulia Tsvetkova wanted to "normalise the female body" - prosecutors demanded 3 years jail.
Amazingly she won, a Russian court actually dismissed her case.

Missed this y'day, but I doubt #Putin will have demanded a UN meeting to admit to these and give himself up as a war criminal.

Remember, no other war crimes could have been committed without the first crime, the illegal invasion of #Ukraine by #Russia.

osce.usmission.gov/response-to-mo…

#RussiaOnFire

Overnight a mysterious fire broke out at a police station in the far-east city of #Vladivostok.
"All circumstances are being investigated" say authorities though the source of the blaze was quickly found and extinguished without casualties.

#StopRussia

#KryvyiRih
Unconfirmed reports of explosions in the city in southern #Ukraine. This Telegram channel has published this photo (unverified)

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNow

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#Russia claims the #Kursk village of Dronovka was fired on by #Ukraine.

Officials there say more then 25 mortars landed, but there were no casualties.

When seeing reports like this we need to ask who benefits and what is gained by such attacks?

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#Ukraine gains nothing by senselessly firing mortars into villages of zero strategic interest. It risks angering western partners. Same with strikes on civilians in #Donetsk. So, no reason for🇺🇦to do this

#Russia meanwhile gains hugely if western powers stop sending weapons

#Russia tells its people it spends so much time, effort, rubles, lives, fighting for freedom.

Yet at home every single person who preaches freedom is mercilessly dealt with. Ex-head of OpenRussia democracy group is jailed for 4 years.

#StopRussia

rferl.org/a/russia-pivov…

#Sloviansk reportedly shelled this evening. Sadly we can expect a lot more of this here in the coming weeks as #Russia does its usual trying to destroy a city before "liberating" it.

No news on casualties yet.

#StopRussiaNOW #SaveUkraine

HIMARS - "cutting off the Russian Hydra's heads on a daily basis"😅😅

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussianAggression

As soon as one sees the words "Russian peacekeepers", we know trouble is coming!

#Azerbaijan #Armenia #Russia

#Dnipro #Sloviansk and #Kramatorsk have all been hit by missiles in the last hour.

This is a photo of the skyline in Dnipro.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

#Sloviansk #Slavyansk
Unverified photos posted on social media.
Casualty lies next to their bike after shelling in the city.
#Donbas #Ukraine

Still not allowed to identify the exact sites where missiles have landed in #Ukraine this evening because of martial law, so media is limited right now.

This is in #Kramatorsk, just a few km from Sloviansk. Broken glass all around after rockets landed there.

#StopRussia

So this is now known the very centre of #Kramatorsk has been hit. Ploshcha Myru (Myru Square).

Thankfully the rocket landed in an open space and casualties seem few despite this usually being busy at this time in the evening. Hopefully air raid sirens did their job

#SaveUkraine

The moment of impact in #Dnipro this evening

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

Terror on the streets of #Dnipro this evening when the missiles began to rain down.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

The moment you know your city is about to be hit by a Russian missile.

#Dnipro, #Ukraine this evening.

#StopRussianAggression #RussiansGoHome

It's clear there has been a coordinated terrorist attack on #Ukraine this evening. Many feared dead in different towns and cities. Many fires now after the strikes.

This is the frontline town of #Bakhmut right now

The civilised world MUST #StopRussia NOW!

Emotional video as a woman in #Bakhmut sees the devastation outside her home.

#StopPutinNOW #SaveUkraine

This has been posted by a contributor in #Kramatorsk saying this is a body bag after the attack there this evening.

#StandWithUkraine #UkraineUnderAttack

credit: TG Оперативный Краматорск

#Dnipro - after the missiles, many cars are on fire in the city.

#Ukraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #SaveUkraine

#Bakhmut - the air raid sirens ended.
Emergency services already starting to tidy up - no news on casualties.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #Donetsk #Donbass #Donbas #SaveUkraine

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Unconfirmed but it's reported by some that people were in this car

#SaveUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

#Sumy today: one person died, seven others were injured after shelling throughout the region.

#Kremenchuk/#Kremenchug in #Poltava oblast - explosions reported there too this evening

This has been posted online. Supposedly a missile on a parachute in #Kramatorsk, so it explodes above the ground to cause maximum damage (to citizens)

There's no date stamp (suspicious), but no match on 3 image search engines

credit: Александр Гончаренко/KramSlavNovosti

#Dnipro as the killing began.
#Russia's killing machines began to fall.

#StandWithUkraine #StopPutin #PutinWarCriminal

Some terrible images in #Ukraine. Especially in the city of #Dnipro.
Confirmed deaths - some say many

I can't verify this image. It does not have a time stamp, so an extra warning about veracity, but it could be because they edited/blurred photo

Bus driver lost part of his head

Seems it could have been worse. At least some of the missiles over #Dnipro were shot down it seems.

Bits of wreckage were found away from the impact sites

#Dnepr #StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNOW

#Ukraine govt official @arestovych, reacting to the killing of civilians said "It's necessary to kick #Russia out of the UN, assign it the status of 'state sponsor of terrorism'."

Better weapons help he says:
"Today M270s arrived - HIMARS have 6 rockets, these have 12."

President @ZelenskyyUa acknowledged the country's under attack as he spoke:

"The occupiers realise we become stronger, the goal of their terror is simple - to put pressure on our society, intimidate people, cause maximum damage to our cities while the 🇷🇺 terrorists still can"

Insane video - that's a car blazing in a crater from one of #Russia's missiles on the central #Ukraine city of #Dnipro

Stop this madness #StopRussiaNOW #RussiaIsATerroristState

More cars burn in #Dnipro following the devastating multiple strikes on the city. At least one driver did not manage to escape according to witnesses.

#WarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #ruSSia

Jeez... this even shocked me.
What was the taxi driver doing?

#Kramatorsk a little earlier this evening

#SaveUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

In his evening address, #Zelenskyy mentioned #Kyiv as among the places targeted by #Russia this evening.

We've now learned that #Ukraine's air defence forces shot down a missile over the Bilotserkivskyi district, south of the capital. No damage/casualties

#Kramatorsk - a local coffee shop among those damaged by the missiles

#Ukraine #StopRussia

Three dead, 15 wounded in #Dnipro so far.
These figures likely to rise.

#StandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsTerroristState

Air defence says it shot down 4 of six missiles which were aimed at #Dnipro.
Thankfully, the death toll is still at three.

The warheads hit an "industrial enterprise" and the street next to it where most of the injured public were.

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

There's been a mass shooting in #Russia tonight, just 10km from the border with #Ukraine

The incident happened in Novoshakhtinsk, #Rostov region.

3 adults and a boy were killed when a man shot a family of five people in a house. Just one girl survived, with serious injuries.