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Mar 12, 2022 17 tweets 8 min read Read on X
Russia-Ukraine war: 12 March updates ⤵️

Air raids sound across major Ukrainian cities, as Kyiv braces for an all-out assault and the US tightens sanctions on Russia.

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Ukraine accuses Russian forces of abducting Melitopol mayor aje.io/4usbar
Moscow also opens criminal case into Instagram’s owner, Meta, for allowing posts calling for violence against Russian forces ⤵️ aje.io/ykbgvp
Footage captured by journalists shows Ukrainian soldiers coordinating an operation on the front lines, battling to push back Russian forces ⤵️
As the world’s second-largest arms exporter, we look at the weapons Russia sells aje.io/69fh3m
What do we know about Ukraine’s use of Turkish Bayraktar drones? aje.io/b9mhz7
Russia is prepared to resume arms control talks with the US if Washington is, says Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

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Russia shells mosque in Mariupol housing more than 80 adults and children, says Ukraine’s foreign ministry aje.io/ve6b9n
"We believe that risk is worth taking right now."

The US and NATO rush shoulder-fired missiles to Ukraine aje.io/kx2u5r
Belarus has said it is deploying five combat units to its southern border to prevent “nationalist armed formations” from Ukraine from entering the country.

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Russian forces have captured the eastern outskirts of the besieged city of Mariupol, says Ukraine’s military.

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“Around 1,300” Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia invasion, says President Zelensky.

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Analysts say Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatars indicates likely tactics towards dissent in newly-seized Ukrainian territories aje.io/8xcarj
Germany will take in 2,500 refugees who have fled to Moldova from Ukraine, says Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

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Which companies have left Russia so far?

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Ukraine’s intelligence service accused Russia of firing at a convoy that was evacuating women and children from the village of Peremoha in the Kyiv region, killing seven people including one child.

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Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is braced for an all-out Russian assault as fighting intensified on the outskirts of the city aje.io/h8yp8t

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From boasting about torturing Palestinian detainees to cheering as they bomb Gaza, Israeli soldiers have shared videos that are being used as evidence of war crimes.

Al Jazeera’s @AJIunit documentary GAZA exposes these atrocities.

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"Burn Gaza! Neighbourhood after neighbourhood."

Israeli soldiers have frequently expressed genocidal intent, often making statements on camera about plans to destroy all of Gaza or its places of worship.

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🧵 THREAD ⤵️

Israel has killed a child in Gaza every 45 minutes in the past 17 months.

At least 17,400 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel since October 7, 2023, with many more presumed dead under the rubble.

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A generation of Palestinian children killed before they could grow up:

🔸 825 were under one year
🔸 895 were one-year-olds
🔸 3,266 were aged 2-5
🔸 4,032 were aged 6-10
🔸 3,646 were aged 11-14
🔸 2,949 were aged 15-17

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About half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are children. To put this into perspective, if you had a room of 100 children:

🔸 2% killed
🔸 2% missing
🔸 3% critically wounded
🔸 5% orphaned or separated from parents
🔸 5% acutely malnourished

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Hamas calls Israel’s strikes a ‘treacherous’ attack on defenceless Palestinian civilians, accusing it of trying to overturn the Gaza ceasefire. Netanyahu says he acted due to stalled truce talks.

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Report says at least 308 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air attacks across Gaza. The number of people killed so far included 154 in the northern part of the territory.

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“Hamas could have released hostages to extend the ceasefire, but instead chose refusal and war”.

The US has laid the blame for Israel’s surprise attacks on Gaza, which have killed more than 300 people, on Hamas.

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