Thread by @JulianRoepcke

#NewsMap
Massive Russian forces with close air support, trying to storm #Barvenkove and #Sloviansk.
Confirmed by Ukrainian general staff and Russian propagandists.
#PutinAtWar

One video source.
Close air support make ambushes like we have seen them in Chernihiv and alike impossible.
Ukrainians would need to stage more complex attacks with a combination of MANPADS and ATGM to kill air and ground forces.
Such attacks are so far not happening it seems.

Three Russian BM-21 firing salvoes at Ukrainian forces in Donetsk oblast.
Bayraktar needed ...

More Russian staff entering #Kharkiv region.
SBA-60K2 Bulat in the front, but the background is much more important.
This is massive!

Russian terrorists in #Shyrokyne shelling #Mariupol city with Grad rockets today.
#PutinAtWar

Putin regime mouthpiece Murad Gazdiev (RT) is unethical enough to first go into Mariupol, filming "all is good" with playing kid and mum, then leaves Mariupol again and films Grad rockets, being fired at the city.
What a piece of ... .

#Breaking
Ukraine calls on 3,5 million people to leave eastern Ukraine "while there is a possibility".
Seems like Ukraine fears the worst for the East.
#PutinAtWar

Two Russian Su-25 over Donetsk oblast this evening.
Russia has absolute air superiority in the region, which must be challenged by hundreds of Stinger and Strela deployments to the area asap.

Ok, not “absolute”, but wide. Of course they fear Ukrainian attacks (low altitude and flares). Still, their fighters roam the sky widely unchallenged.

Russian forces with some Western leftovers in #Izyum, Kharkiv oblast.

Near Severodonetsk today.
While Russian propagandists film destroyed Ukrainian hardware (from March), three fully-loaded BM-21 pass them towards the front. Putin uses all firepower he has to "liberate" (destroy and conquer) Donbas before May 9.