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Aug 8, 2022, 9 tweets

🔴 Russia is highly likely to be deploying anti-personnel mines along its defensive lines in the Donbas region of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence has said.

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🇺🇦 Two more grain-carrying ships sailed from Ukraine's Black Sea ports on Monday, Turkey's defence ministry said, as part of a deal to unblock Ukrainian sea exports

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🗣️The head of Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom has called for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to be made a military-free zone and said there should be a team of peacekeepers present at the site

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⚡️ The Kremlin has accused Ukrainian forces of firing on the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant, warning against potential "catastrophic consequences" for Europe

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🔴 Russia is forming 40 'volunteer battalions' to make up for losses in its regular army, offering high pay and short-term contracts to lure new recruits onto the battlefield.

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🗣️ Russian forces want to cause electricity blackouts in southern Ukraine by shelling its Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, Ukraine's ambassador to the IAEA nuclear watchdog said on Monday, calling for an international mission to the plant this month.

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🔴A Russian soldier has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after a Ukrainian court found him guilty of violating the laws and customs of war by firing tank shells at a multi-storey apartment block, an interior ministry official said.

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➡️The United States will provide an additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine's government, bringing its total budgetary support since Russia's February invasion to $8.5 billion, the US Agency for International Development has said
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🔴The Kremlin has empowered regional officials to raise the recruits by offering high salaries and short-term contracts, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday, citing public records.

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