Thread by @TWMCLtd

It's Saturday. Day 339 of #Russia's war in #Ukraine.

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Starting in traditional way with a chance for you to check back through yesterday, in case you missed Orban's undiplomatic words about #Ukraine, the latest big blaze in the series #RussiaOnFire or anything else during Friday.

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Speaking about Orbán's stupid remarks, he's not alone in the region with #Russia also having culivated useful political idiots in #Croatia #Slovakia + #Czechia

Hopefully an election in 🇨🇿 today will sideline one more (Babiš) as @motytchak explains here:

The total of dead Russian soldiers* passes the 125,000 mark today. Another 800 sacrifices - though #Ukraine is also suffering heavy losses in the east.

A lot of equipment destroyed in the last 24 hours too, including two more of #Russia's aircraft.

*estimated by #Kyiv

The UK Ministry of Defence intelligence update today randomly goes back four weeks to the #Ukraine hit on #Makiivka.

The British confirm "over 300" casualties, most dying.

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#Zaporizhzhia was hit again by #Russia's rockets overnight.

The area is under an air attack warning once again right now.

#StopRussia

#BakhmutHolds but the intensity of #Russia's attacks is getting worse and worse.

This video is said to be from #Bakhmut this morning. The time stamp, weather and lighting check out. I cannot verify more than that, but I suspect it's genuine and within the last few days.

No shelling in #Dnipropetrovsk overnight, which is a welcome change.

But free #Kherson is still being hit.
The local authority says there were 19 attacks by #Russia.

Two people were killed and seven civilians injured.

Three residents have been killed in #Kostyantynivka (RU: #Konstantinovka)

Two more people were injured when #Russia's rockets hit more civilian targets. Apartment blocks, a hotel, garages and cars were all damaged in the town in the free part of #Donetsk region.

#StopRussia

#Leopards having been released, are on the move east.

Some saying this is filmed in #Poland, others believe it's in east #Germany before crossing the border.

#Russia's war bloggers aren't happy, eager to know the location and track the route to hit them as soon as they reach🇺🇦

#Russia claims it has shot down one of #Ukraine's MiG-29 planes in #Donetsk region.

Mind you they've shot down more planes than Ukraine has ever had according to their MoD.

#Russia has destroyed a memorial to Finnish soldiers who died in the war between the countries.

This was reported a few days ago by this site in #Finland, and new photos show the site now at Primorsky/Koivisto north of St Petersburg.

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#Ukraine sources claiming they've hit another Russian base in #Kakhovka.

This factory was used by soldiers of #Russia according to some locals in occupied #Kherson.

Name and shame.
Report by the Mail proves @RollsRoyce @TheMissAP and @PaulSmithDesign all happily trading in #Moscow.
This not only breaks laws, it's blood money which helps Putin kill the people of #Ukraine.

Phew! Good news from #Czechia.
It was predicted but always nice to see the reality.

#Ukraine asks FIFA and UEFA to clamp down on these matches.

Ex-Leeds boss Kevin Blackwell once told me he was threatened with a life ban when he inadvertently agreed a friendly in a banned territory.

Occupiers claim #Ukraine smashed a hospital in #Luhansk region with #HIMARS missiles.

The strike reportedly happened in #Novoaidar roughly 40km east of #Lysychansk and about 60km north of #Luhansk city.
They claim 14 patients and medics were killed, 24 injured.

If #Ukraine has hit a working hospital it's a war crime.

But let me give a timeline:

Occupiers in #Luhansk say the attack was at 07:30 today

13:10 Russians report "shelling" in #Novoaidar - no mention of #HIMARS or a hospital.

14:30 suddenly a video of the hospital appears
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LOL 🤣

Small protest against #Putin and #Russia in #Cyprus today. This multilingual picket happening in Limassol.

📷 @Sota_Vision

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#Ukraine has a cheeky dig at the #IOC and its Head

German man with links to 🇩🇪 Intelligence, arrested for passing intel to #Russia.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

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It's been a quiet evening in #Ukraine thus far.

Fair play to the guy who's taken his whole drum kit out on to Maidan in central #Kyiv in sub-zero temperatures.

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The founder of the illegal mercenary group, Wagner, says they've captured another village near #Bakhmut.

Yevgeniy Prigozhin's Telegram channel claims they now control (RU: #Blagodatnoye)
It's just along the T0513 road from #Soledar and will now increase pressure on Krasna Hora.

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Just over an hour ago #Russia says #Ukraine hit the railway station at #Ilovaisk with #HIMARS

The Occupiers claim Ukraine "launched two strikes on Ilovaisk from the MLRS in 10 minutes, firing a total of seven missiles."

This presumably was the moment one hit.

#Ilovaisk is an important transport hub, so this strike, if confirmed, is much more likely than the supposed hit on a public hospital Russia reported earlier.

The town in Donetsk is also etched in all #Ukraine's memory as the site of a "humanitarian corridor" massacre in 2014.

Looks like a concerted attack on #Donetsk region by #Ukraine once the curfew was underway.

Just north of #Ilovaisk in the Occupied territory is #Khartsyzk where this is visible.

#RussiansGoHome

And in #Donetsk city it is also lively by the look of things.

#RussiansGoHome #StandWithUkraine

#RussiaOnFire

This one is about 100km from the border with #Ukraine in the #Rostov region.

Land in #Semikarakorsk has been blazing most of the day, clouding the town in smoke and is now raging uncontrolled at night.

Thx Ali for spotting this.

meanwhile #Russia has announced that yesterday's entry to the #RussiaOnFire collection has only just been extinguished.

A warehouse and adjoining buildings at the Sindika market on the #Moscow ring road were destroyed in the blaze. Cause unknown.

Occupiers going big on the hospital claims today

Locals in #Kherson have long said #Russia fires on its own in #NovaKakhovka: the sound between launch and explosion just seconds apart.

Today 5 shells hit the children's & women's departments at the town's hospital. No casualties

#Kherson oblast - more thermite munitions fired by #Russia on the civilian population.

This is from #Beryslav on the liberated right bank.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiansGoHome

Thanks again to Renée for her tip this evening.

I wish you all a peaceful night (or day) wherever you may be 💙💛

Subscribers to anti-regime TG channel IranintlTV report many explosions in #Iran tonight.

This was one submitted by a member of the public. You can see the flash and a few seconds later hear the blast.