Thread by @TWMCLtd

Day 398 of #Russia's full war on #Ukraine + this is the start of the daily thread for Tuesday.

Already today another drone attack by the aggressor - details coming up, plus all the rest of the news as it unfolds throughout the day.

Yesterday's 🧵is here:

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So first let's get to the drone attack. #Ukraine has shot down 13 UAVs which mostly attacked #Kyiv.

#Russia released 12 of the Iran kamikaze Shahids and one reconnaissance drone.

There were explosions in the capital but there are no injuries.

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In #Kyiv a three-storey building was hit during #Russia's attack. It's possible it was struck by downed drones; fires started in two places.

This is in the Svyatoshyn district of #Ukraine's capital.
#StandWithUkraine

#Olympics chief Thomas Bach may be forced to abandon his attempts to allow athletes from #Russia and #Belarus to compete at @Paris2024

The IOC meet today to discuss the subject again days after Athletics upheld the ban on athletes from the two nations.

news.sky.com/story/olympic-…

"Thank you very much #UnitedKingdom from #Ukraine."

Yesterday we were not allowed to reveal the location of the Challenger-2 tanks. But the Ukrainian Defence Minister has already taken them for "a spin!"

#StandWithUkraine

During the night #Dnipropetrovsk region was also hit by #Russia's drones.

A huge fire erupted (covering 4,000 sq m) when one hit "a private enterprise"
#Ukraine's air defence says two other UAVs were brought down and there were no casualties.

#StopRussia

A lot of artillery systems continue to be destroyed by #Ukraine, but numbers elsewhere seem on a slight downward trend.

570 more of #Russia's invaders killed in the last 24 hours.
All data are estimated by Ukraine

#Avddivka and #Vuhledar are the focus of the UK Intel update for Tuesday:

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

A convoy of old BRDM-2MS reconnaissance trucks and armored vehicles has been spotted heading from the 103rd Armored Tank Repair Plant in #Buryatia, south east #Russia.

The barrel is being scraped.

Thanks to my long time Twitter mate @AngryFil who put aside his anger, and seeing England beat Ukraine in the footy, to buy me a coffee today via the Ko-Fi link in my profile.

Dyakuyu Seryozha! Slava Ukraini!

Personal news and why there've been a few delays in updates to the thread!
Representing myself in court this morning.

I do hope the great and good (and not so good?) of the IOC are shown stories like this when they decide if #Russia's Olympians, fresh from fighting in the illegal war, killing Ukrainians, should be allowed at the @Paris2024 games.

Hero. RIP 🇺🇦

Quick update on yesterday's car bomb attack in #Mariupol'

It's confirmed by occupiers that the victim is the so-called "Head of Police" for the city.
Mykhailo Moskvin is reported to be seriously ill in a local hospital.

More things blowing up around #Melitopol.

There's no electricity in the #Terpinnivska district 15km north of Melitopol after a substation known as "Discoteka" exploded.

Locals now also report sounds of explosions further south around Molochnyi Liman.
#Counterattack coming?

In #Russia, a man walking his dog found wreckage of a #Ukraine drone.

The UAV was discovered 100m from railway lines in the town of Novaya Moskva (New Moscow).

The wingspan of the drone is 2m and it had the words "#SlavaUkraini" on the wings.

IOC President Thomas Bach, often seen shaking Putin's hand, says #Russia and #Belarus athletes CAN compete in the Olympics.

Spineless. Many Russian Olympians are in the army, killing Ukrainians.

The word "Kompromat" is in my head for some reason.

A single father in #Russia, who was arrested and saw his daughter snatched from him and put in care for drawing an anti-war picture at school, has fled house arrest.

Aleksei Moskalev was today sentenced to 2 years in prison in absentia. His daughter remains in care.
#StopRussia

More photos from #Avdiivka which continues to suffer huge shelling and ongoing bombardment.
#Ukraine is hanging on to control of the town as #Russia's forces continue to gather.

#SaveUkraine

#France has officially recognised the #Holodomor as genocide.

Around 5 million Ukrainians died in #Moscow's forced starvation policy. The 2019 film "Mr Jones" is a good starter if you want to know more and be entertained at the same time.

#Russia claims two people were killed when shells hit occupied #Donetsk early today.

#DonetskIsUkraine

Unconfirmed reports that a Russian fighter jet has crashed in #Zaporizhzhia region.

It's not known if #Ukraine's air defence shot down what seem to be a Su-35, according to locals near #Tokmak where the place is said to have fallen.

#SlavaUkraini #StopRussia

#Ukraine's Armed Forces have set the record straight after @TheStudyofWar claimed #Russia had made some advances in #Bakhmut.

Spokesman Serhiy Cherevaty said there are often advances, then retreats, describing the situation as "dynamic", adding 86 Russians were killed today.

Still on #Bakhmut (and #Avdiivka), the arrival of Leopard-2 tanks from Germany, Sweden and Portugal, plus the Challenger-2s from UK, could help tip the balance in #Ukraine's favour.

But the terrain is still tough, muddy, with drier weather another week away.
#StandWithUkraine

In the Russian Republic of #Chechnya there's been an armed attack on a police station.

There are gruesome photos of some of the dead, which I am not posting. It's not exactly clear what's happened, but the city of Gudermes has been shut off with extra military brought in.