A small tactical Russian drone crashed in the Kharkiv region (likely an Orlan-10)
(This is from an Orlan-10 destroyed in Ukraine in 2014 - seems to match today's picture)
After releasing this claim below, Russia shelled the Sumy chemical plant (Sumykhimprom), leading to an ammonia leak. The leak has since been eliminated, but this shows some of Russia's wild claims do actually lead to a Russian attack.
Last night, Russia struck the Retroville Mall near Kyiv, destroying most of it (including this smaller building but not only). At least four people died in this attack.
This is NOT an isolated incident. Russia is systematically destroying food depots/grocery shops.
⬇️This is from Severodonetsk this morning (pictures released by #Ukraine's firefighters)
Pictures: Ammonia tank destroyed by Russian shelling in Sumy #Ukraine
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims to have hit a "training center for Foreign Mercenaries and Ukrainian nationalists" in Novaya Lyubomirka, in the Rivne Oblast, with cruise missiles.
Local authorities in Rivne had reported earlier that two Russian missiles hit a training facility in the Rivne Oblast.
The Ukrainian operational command North, captured a Russian 2S19 Msta self-propelled artillery
(They also seem to have photoshopped a soldier that was standing in front of it out the picture)
#Russia has begun using the port of Berdyansk near Mariupol to unload military equipment
The ship visible in the video is the "Orsk" landing ship, of the Black Sea Fleet
Russian forces appear to be forcibly dispersing the protest in Kherson in this video
🚩Ukrainian forces have reportedly recaptured Makariv near #Kyiv, putting the Ukrainian flag back in the town (not going to post a geolocation, but this is geolocated). This further isolates Russian forces south of the E40 highway
Another picture of the same location. This is part of a broader counter-offensive that was reported before, but confirms it.
Multiple injuries reported in Kherson - Russian forces shot protesters
A protester is wounded, appears to have been hit by a bullet/projectile in his leg
Railway bridge between Irpin and Kyiv has been destroyed (possibly by Ukrainian forces)
Another video from the moment Russian forces forcibly dispersed Ukrainian protesters in Kherson
Nalyvaikivka near Makariv - west of Kyiv (picture posted by the Mayor of Makariv)
🚩The US ambassador was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, and handed protest note over Biden's recent remarks about Putin.
#Russia warned that ties with the US are on the verge of being severed, promised a "Decisive and firm" response.
Ukrainian forces have recaptured two villages north of Mykolaiv (pictures by Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov)
The Israeli field hospital near Lviv will open tomorrow according to the Israeli Ambassador to #Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers of the 24th Mechanized Brigade captured a Russian tank in the Luhansk region
🚩The Mayor of Kyiv announced another curfew starting today at 20:00 (now) up until March 23 at 07:00
🚩Zelensky reportedly stated that any final agreement between Russia and Ukraine will have to be approved via a referendum - statement was made during an interview with Suspilne, which will be released tonight.
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As of now, Gantz and the opposition do not have the votes necessary to pass such a bill, unless there are defections within Netanyahu's own coalition. The question is whether this is an effort to encourage such defections or Gantz does have an indication that there are already defectors? It might also be a gamble, with no real plan.
As a reminder, Gantz has given Netanyahu a deadline (until June 8) to respond to six key demands. Netanyahu rejected the ultimatum moments after it was issued, and there were voices inside Gantz's own party who called to simply leave the government even ahead of the deadline
Advancing a bill to dissolve the Knesset would suggest Gantz is on his way out of the government.
Another Go-pro footage of #Hamas militants going house to house in Sufa, near #Gaza, during the October 7 attacks, shooting at civilians inside houses (a civilian can be seen in the living room, and falls after being shot).
In this video, a #Hamas militant fires at an ambulance stationed within the border community to make sure it cannot be used.
In this one, #Hamas militants enter a house, they hear a phone ring and try to find people inside the house.
They shoot upstairs, then one of the militants shouts "mother" trying to mimic a child, possibly to attract civilians hiding in the house.
#Israel, #Gaza: Over the past day/two there have been conflicting reports about a possible #Egyptian warning that "something big" was going to happen.
Here is my understanding (based on various accounts and info in Israeli and Egyptian media) of what may have happened - with the Caveat, that we don't have the full picture yet:
1. The report that the Egyptian Intelligence Minister spoke to Netanyahu about this upcoming threat is wrong about at least one thing: Anybody involved in diplomatic protocole knows that cooperation is done on the same level. If Egypt's intel minister spoke to someone, it's unlikely to be Netanyahu but a minister.
2. There was from what I understand, a warning from #Egypt. The warning was passed to the Israeli security apparatus (unclear to me exactly who).
3. This warning was based, in part, on increased military exercises, training and mobilization from Hamas. The message Egypt received is that Israel knew about all of this.
4. Israel, however, had a different interpretation, and felt Hamas was just flexing its muscle. It took some measures, on Friday evening and was about to discuss more in the next day. That's when the attack happened. Israel did not get that this was going to happen now.
5. This interpretation was based on the overall assessment that Hamas was still deterred, and focused on fueling tensions in the West Bank rather than Gaza. This assessment, served to negates signs on the ground that Egypt picked up, but that Israel had also picked up - but misinterpreted.
In the end, Egypt's interpretation, proved right, in the worse way.
BTW, this is a textbook case of intel failure, one routed in the processing of info and in the analysis. @AnshelPfeffer noted the similarities with the Kippur War and the "concept" (I recommend his thread on this).
I can also say, as an analyst working in the field of intelligence (in a much more limited way to be clear), and having studied the intelligence cycle, this is an even more broadly reported intel failure. Collection drives analysis, and collection should be allowed to overturn analysis and assessments, not the opposite.
Major intel failures can result from prolonged (or short) periods in which analysis inadvertently overrules collection. The main assessment is validated and reinforced by "collected facts" because contradictory evidence is ignored by design.
Same with the second part of the cycle, which is tied to the dissemination of information to the political echellon. If it works in reverse, it trickles down, and you open yourself up for major failures in intel.
That's true and a good point. Collection in itself isn't "facts", and analysis vets and reshapes collected intel, which makes the mistake I mentioned even more likely to happen.
(GRAPHIC) Remains of what appears to be a young child, burned in his home in Kfar Aza, posted by South First Reponders.
I did very much hesitate to post this. But given the astonishing debates and discussions about whether children were killed and how, I did decide to post this.
On the source: South First Responders is a group of emergency personnel who are identifying corpses - something I have verified.
Additional pictures of a young woman shot in her bedroom
For some reason, Putin is giving him this win, but I don't see Lukashenko as more than a figurehead.
There could be several reasons, including because a decision to resettle Wagner to Belarus without really consulting Lukashenko would show him for the puppet he is.
Or because Luka will now have to live with the fact the the mutineers of yesterday are on his own territory
🧵Here is more info I received on the risks posed by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant
When reactors are in production, the plant uses the waters in the nearby pond to cool reactors
When the reactors are not in production, or in case of an accident, cooling is ensured through smaller cooling "fountains" situated closer to the cores.