#Ukraine: Today's latest news from #UkraineWar: 1. Small-scale UA counterattacks taking place around #Bakhmut. In W UA forces pushed RU troops from industrial college & advanced at #Khromove & E of #Bohdanivka & #Stupochky. #tweet100 (Map: @WarMonitor3)
#Ukraine: 2. #Prigozhin again lamented loss of RU flanks at #Bakhmut: "Those territories, which were taken with the blood and lives of our fighting comrades for many months, every day - walking tens or hundreds of meters - today are abandoned almost without a fight." #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. ISW points out that the RU units falling to hold the #Bakhmut flanks are once again from the 72nd Motor Rifle Brigade, who have already suffered 2 crushing defeats in #Kharkiv & #Kherson regions at the hands of UA forces. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 4. Apart from successful counterattacks, indications that UA forces are in contact with RU airborne troops at #Klishchiyivka. Another RU ammo depot was destroyed in #Bakhmut. #tweet100 (Map: @ChuckPfarrer)
#Ukraine: 5. Igor Girkin (RU critic & wanted war criminal for MH17 downing)+ others mock RU's "latest" fighting tank seen in UA - a T-55 tank with a double cope cage from 1950s. "Meet the new miracle of RU military equipment - T-55-MPK-2 (modernised with 2 spring beds)" #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. Ben Wallace #UK Defence Minister, confirms in Parliament that Storm Shadow long-range missiles have been sent to UA. Delay has been to work out how to get this missile attached to Soviet Mig-29s for air launching. Export models have range of 155miles/250km. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. Storm Shadow is only slightly inferior to #US ATACMS with range of 185 miles. StormShadows will allow UA to hit RU targets in #Crimea & almost all the way to the RU border. #tweet100 (Map: @NOELreports - expand for 250km yellow target rings)
#Ukraine: 8. #UK Intel says RU forces (NOT Wagner) likely recruited 10,000 more convicts for UA war in April. RU MOD is using convicts to avoid another unpopular mandatory national mobilisation. RU losses yesterday included 610 dead, 14 artillery systems & 4 tanks. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. Near #Bakhmut, UA 45th Brigades destroys another RU Pantsir-S1 air defence system belonging to Wagner. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 10. A team of #US surgeons has arrived in UA to perform complex surgery on facial wounds of UA wounded troops. Slava #USA! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 11. Just in a day’s volunteer evacuation work! A dog & 2 wolves!
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