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Feb 21 22 tweets 14 min read
Not happened yet, but I will be very surprised if Russian tanks are not on Ukrainian territory by the morning. Initially in Donbas territories.

A few more made up "atrocities" or staged attacks will be broadcast by 21st century Lord Haw Haws and then a hot war on the frontline.
My guess is #Ukraine's forces are likely to be pushed back beyond the current frontline, which has been frozen for years. I doubt it will extend to Odesa, Kharkiv or even Mariupol' yet.
It will be symbolic advance, a few small villages, maybe Slovyansk.
I've not been wrong so far
President @ZelenskyyUa is to address the nation

#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine
It appears Russian tanks have already rolled into #Ukraine, this time without needing to deny the second invasion.

Thx @madzialemma

People are not fleeing #Ukraine

Victor Yushchenko won the first genuine free elections in #Ukraine. Moscow was so outraged they poisoned him and rigged the result, which led to the first Maidan protests.
The election was re-run, Yushchenko won!

OMG, flicked on to RT to see what propaganda is being spewed. Appalled to see @johnsuchet1's son Rory spouting the Kremlin's crap.
Surely there comes a time, no matter how much you need a job, when you realise you are helping to enable mass murderers?
But what sanctions? Not the paper tiger nonsense Biden "announced" earlier?
Stop being afraid. Act now.
Stop ALL money laundering. Revoke visas of anyone connected with the terrorist state's leader.
And EU commit to destruction of NS2.
#SaveUkraine

18 minutes into the main 10 o'clock news bulletin, @BBCNews finally mentions #Ukraine.

Totally shocked at the editorial judgement.
Very good point. Although it is rather easy to punch holes in #Russia's tissue of lies and made up "arguments" for invading #Ukraine.

Or maybe Putin should put himself on his own "Ukraine death list" for supporting Ukraine's independence?

Still waiting for this by the way.
It's heading towards 2am in #Ukraine.

Meanwhile in Britain, Boris Johnson will chair the COBRA committee at 06:30 in the morning. Busy times.

#StandWithUkraine #FreeUkraine

American broadcaster ABC is reporting White House Sources urgently telling #Ukraine's President
@ZelenskyyUa to leave the capital Kyiv and head to the relative safety of L'viv.

The US must be 100% confident of their intel, but I'm still sceptical.

Awful conundrum for Zelenskyy
At 02:00 GMT The United Nations will convene for an urgent meeting on the #UkraineRussiaCrisis

That's 9pm EST in New York, 04:00 in Kyiv.

Penny for @BarackObama's thoughts. Wonder if he and Biden regret being soft after Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine?

#StandWithUkraine
What most experts/journalists seem to have overlooked in Putin's deranged ramblings today is not just the declaration of war on #Ukraine

But the fact he said it was "a mistake" to give independence to ANY former Soviet state. A direct threat to NATO's #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania
Zelenskyy is speaking to the people of #Ukraine right now.
Zelenskyy live
Zelenskyy "Ukraine reserves the right to individual and collective self defence"
Zelenskyy
"We are not afraid of anyone or anything.
Glory to Ukraine"
President of #Ukraine Zelenskyy also said in his national address:

"Ukraine is ready for whatever comes but is committed to political resolution. We won't fall for provocation.
It's important to see who is our real friend, partner" as he called on @UN #OSCE #EU for support.
This is interesting - a call for #USA, #UK to be involved in negotiations. Both were signatories (+ Russia) to the Budapest memorandum when Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons.

Most Ukrainians feel let down by #GER + #FRA in "Normandy" format

#Turkey comes down firmly on the side of #Ukraine and outspoken in its criticism of #Russia.

A huge relief for @NATO that Ankara has issued such a strong statement.

#StandWithUkraine #FreeUkraine

This is the culmination of a short thread by @edwardlucas

For my money he's the number one expert on Putin/Russia/Eastern Europe. Spot on here as always.

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

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Here is the #Covid19 round up for Wednesday. All the facts which matter in one handy thread.

Starting with the recently published #UK figures which show a surprisingly large fall in cases, bucking the recent trend of smaller reductions...
Wednesday is usually the day with the highest newly reported #Covid19 cases in the #UK, but numbers are down today, indeed by 27%.

However, I believe it's probably a blip and we may see higher numbers tomorrow and/or Friday.

But Covid deaths continue to fall. From 199 to 164
Looking at new #Covid19 cases by country within the #UK, good to see Scotland falling again.

#England 29,703 (-30.5%)
#NIreland 2,294 (-20.6%)
#Scotland 6,756 (-9.3%)
#Wales 903(-19.7%)
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Now confirmed. State of Emergency declared in #Ukraine.
More details later...
Govt pledging most citizens won't be unduly affected
Secretary of the Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov says "it can be restricting traffic, additional transport checks, documents checks. These issues are preventive, so that the country remains calm."

pravda.com.ua/news/2022/02/2…
#Ukraine's parliament has ratified the State of Emergency.

It is effective for 30 days from tonight.

#StandWithUkraine
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All the important data and news updated in this thread throughout the day
However I am commentating on tennis again today; 3 matches, long day.

I do try to reply all your queries but @SimonCalder here answers many that I'm repeatedly asked, using his judgement on the regular Q "when will xxxxland drop testing requirements?"

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#UK's figures today show another slowdown in the falling numbers with only 6.6% fewer new #Covid19 cases than at this time last week.

And big differences in the different countries:
#England 30,080 (-17.5%)
#NIreland 2,951 (-1.2%)
#Scotland 6,427 (+10.7%)
#Wales 1,672 (+81%)
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Another very late start for the daily #Covid19 thread.
I have been keeping an eye on things in among my tennis commentary from the Qatar Open tennis.
The only story in the #UK is confirmation of an end to self isolation requirement from Thursday.

Free testing will end on 1 April
#Covid19 cases in Scotland are UP today while the slowing of falling numbers continues in the rest of the #UK

The nationwide fall is only 7.8% with 38,409 registered new infections.

#England 29,753 (-6.9%)
#NIreland 2,235 (-9.3%)
#Scotland 5,307 (+3.7%)
#Wales 1,114 (-47%)
The rest of the day's #Covid19 stats of interest later. Need to get home, eat, follow Ukraine story.
My friends and colleagues there are getting very nervous now.
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Wednesday's #Covid19 megathread makes an early start as there's so much news to bring you!

#Omicron takes centre stage in Europe with a raft of records (recap coming up), but #UK ministers are increasingly confident the NHS won't be swamped despite England's lack of restrictions
It turned out to be a terrible Tuesday, not just in #UK, which was just one of TEN European countries to hit all time high daily #Covid19 infection numbers.

#Cyprus #France #Greece #Iceland #Italy #Malta #Montenegro #Portugal and #Spain the others to set new records.
Concern in #Norway. The #Omicron wave looked to be beyond the peak; is it making a comeback or is it still delayed Christmas cases?
4,702 new #Covid19 infections, fewer than 100 down on last Weds.

Better health data. 315 in hospital, down 13 since y'day, although 120 are in ICU
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This is the start of the daily #Covid19 thread for Tuesday.

So despite big increases in cases and hospitalisations, no further restrictions for #England. How bad will the data be today? We'll find out later and I'll update and analyse all the data worldwide as often as possible:
Boris has urged you all to be cautious in the packed bars and nightclubs on New Year's Eve, so that's ok then!

First to South America where #Argentina has just topped 20,000 new #Covid19 cases in a day for the first time since July.

20,263 is the daily total, up 280% compared with the week before.
31 deaths.
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