Thread by @michaelh992

Thread on the Russian invasion of #Ukraine - March 5

Aftermath of the shelling of power plant in Okhtyrka in eastern Ukraine. The power plant was shelled during the night of March 3-4. The city is without power since.

During the night, the mayor of Slavutych near Chernobyl, warned that the Ukrainian team at the nuclear plant are exhausted as they have been working for 10 days and cannot be replaced due to the lack of a safe corridor for them to go through.

In other news, Ukrainian farmers are well on their way to being the third largest army in Ukraine, if not the second.

Aftermath of shelling in Kharkiv (reports suggest this is a military base)

Meanwhile, some sources are concerned that, after the incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Russian forces are now also approaching the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant north of Mykolaiv.

There have been reports of clashes near Voznesensk, south of the plant

A Ukrainian official from Interior Ministry claims the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is now back under #Ukrainian control, after it was confirmed to have been captured by Russian forces yesterday

I would not consider this to be confirmed as of now - let's wait if it does get confirmed over the coming hours.

Different military markings here (beyond the "Z") - Occupation forces ?

https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1499979799917436930

Chernihiv: More Smerch rockets fired indiscriminately at the city by Russia

The Ukrainian military intelligence has released a list of Russian pilots who, they say, are carrying out attacks in #Ukraine from the Lida airbase in Belarus
gur.gov.ua/content/spysok…

Municipal employees and Mayor of Enerhodar came to work at the city council this morning, but the building has been locked by Russian forces.

#Breaking Russian media claims that the Russian Ministry of Defense will declare a "ceasefire" at 10:00, Moscow time, in Mariupol and Volnovakha in the Donbass, in order to open "humanitarian corridors" for the evacuation of civilians

Video from Kherson shows Ukrainian protesters blocking Russian forces, including one laying on the road

Shots (likely warning shots) can be heard, yet protesters are undeterred.

That's the nation Putin claimed did not exist.

Very worrying: Reports that Russian forces blew up the railway tracks in Irpin, near Kyiv.

People are still using trains to evacuate.

Aftermath of Russian airstrikes in Bela Tserkva. 20 houses were damaged according to the Kyiv region police

Protest in Kherson, in front of the Regional State Administration building - you can see the Russian troops in the background

Kyiv regional administration released a statement regarding the areas most at risk due to the Russian attack:
- Zhytomyr highway
- Bucha-Irpin-Hostomel
- Makariv
- North of the Vyshhorod district.

🚩Warning shots being fired in the air by Russian forces at the Kherson demonstration

https://twitter.com/Milana69018581/status/1500035567131758596

On the incident Irpin ⬇️. Shells damaged the train track and two empty train cars. Irpin mayor confirmed the incident, says evacuation be carried out by bus.

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1500040944229486596

Head of #Ukraine's Donetsk Regional Administration confirms the local ceasefire in the region, which is supposed to have started at 10:55. He says they are still negotiating with Russia to make sure the entire evacuation route is confirmed

Source:
facebook.com/pavlokyrylenko…

On cue: Just as Mariupol corridor is being set up for evacuation, the head of #Russia-backed "Donetsk People's Republic" Denis Pushilin claims that an explosion took place in Mariupol, blames a Ukrainian drone.

Typical Russian disinformation/tactics.

Now Russian news agency RIA quotes the Donetsk People's Republic as saying that Ukrainians are "refusing" to provide a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol.

No signs that this is the case. Ukrainians, have, however asked to clear the whole evac route

Ukrainian military intel posts this video (previously circulating on social media) of a plane being shot down above Chernihiv. Reports had claimed that Ukrainian forces were able to shoot one down before this video emerged.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1500052710544093187

Right out of #Russia's Syria playbook.

Despite an official ceasefire and effort to evacuate the city, the Deputy Mayor of Mariupol tells BBC that Russians are still bombing the city.
bbc.com/news/live/worl…

Evacuation postponed

https://twitter.com/uacrisis/status/1500086290737414144?t=tAejlAV1Ar2K8tJRqUaXjw&s=19

Russian helicopter shot down near Mykolaiv.

https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1500085022237278213

Russian armored column destroyed near Kharkiv, amidst reports of Ukrainian counter-offensive

Protest in Bilokurakyne in the Luhansk province against the Russian occupation

Russian Orlan-10 recon drone shot down by forces belonging to Ukraine's Operational Command North

Residents of Berdyansk near Mariupol protest the Russian occupation

Geolocation
google.com/maps/place/%D0…

Putin says there are no plan to introduce martial law in #Russia. Martial law is only introduced in case of an external aggression, and the country is not in such a situation now, and hopefully will not be

Putin says #Russia will consider any attempt by external countries to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine as a participation in the hostilities

Putin claims that the Ukrainian military infrastructure has been almost entirely destroyed, and the destruction of #Ukraine's air defenses is almost complete

(that's absolutely false)

Russian bombardment on March 3 effectively wiped out part of the small village of Yakovlivka in the Kharkiv Oblast, completely destroying 21 houses, and severely damaging 24.

President Putin

Protest in Melitopol

Near Mykolaiv, another Russian aircraft downed, pilot captured according to another video.

There were reports earlier today of a possible air assault towards the South Ukraine Nuclear Plant - still unconfirmed, but lots of helos shot down there

https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1500105980801130497

Residents of Irpin were evacuated by car today, after Russian forces shelled the train tracks and damaged two train cars. You can hear the fighting in the background.

The leader of the Zelensky's party says that talks between #Russia and #Ukraine will take place on March 7

Ukrainian officer claims Volodymyr Zhoha (aka Vokha) the leader of the separatist "Sparta" battalion has been killed during the battle in Volnovakha in the Donetsk region

Israeli PM Naftali Bennett is on his way to Berlin to with meet German Chancellor Scholz after a three-hour meeting with Putin to discuss the crisis in #Ukraine

Klitschko brothers posing with @elonmusk's starlink system. They say the system is ready for use in #Kyiv

Aftermath of heavy shelling on Kharkiv's Saltovka neighbourhood

Pro-separatist channels are confirming this ⬇️, sending mourning message praising "Vokha" as the successor to the infamous "Motorola" commander of the Sparta battalion

https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1500173840898473984

Second such incident to be reported since protests began

https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1500177887487578123

The Ukrainian security service claims to have detained a Russian-backed cell that was supposed to pave the way for the creation of a new so-called "Federal Republic of Ukraine".
facebook.com/SecurSerUkrain…

Aftermath of Russian shelling in Kharkiv. Shells hit and destroyed sports complex.

Geolocation
google.com/maps/place/50%…

The claim that Russian forces have left the city of Enerhodar and the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is not true according to the Mayor of Enerhodar. Russian forces are still present in both the city and the nuclear plant (claim had circulated earlier)

Source (Mayor's telegram channel)
t.me/orlovdmytroEn/…