Thread by @TWMCLtd

Monday. Day 47 of #Russia's illegal and dirty war on #Ukraine with more and more executed civilians being found and rape allegations piling up.

Overnight bombing raids and fighting in the east continued.

All the details in the daily 🧵 updated throughout the day

The attack on transport continues with more Russian missiles targeted on railways during the night.

The Head of Railways released only this photo, while admitting 5 locomotives had been damaged along with some tracks. Thankfully no deaths or injuries. Locations not revealed.

#Ukraine also has Intelligence saying #Russia will attack road connections soon too to further limit supply lines.

With Russia's army massed in the east and south near the Russian border (or the puppet states) in all cases, their supply lines are far easier than in 1st phase

#Ukraine is sticking to its story that this massive blast in the city of #Mykolaiv was just a missile being brought down by their air defences with no injuries.

I saw info suggesting direct hits on the port causing stored saltpeter to ignite and explode

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1513260857249214466

The British are warning of likely further civilian casualties.

Phosphorous bombs are outlawed, but it seems #Russia is growing increasingly impatient at being held up in #Mariupol'. They need these battalions to join the fight in east #Ukraine.

The graphic shows the estimated losses for #Russia in its war of choice on #Ukraine.

Now these are likely to be slightly exaggerated, but Russia's look preposterous. They now claim they've killed over 32,000 Ukrainian soldiers

#StandWithUkraine

Wow, a quick update from Vitaliy Kim, Governor of #Mykolaiv. He now confirmed my info - missiles did hit to a Qatari business. This can only be Olvia, which I reported last night, and it now seems v likely saltpeter was stored there causing the huge blast

qterminals-olvia.com

#Ukraine has announced that 183 children are now known to have been killed in #PutinsWar. The figure is likely much higher as many likely perished in #Mariupol' and will never be found.

342 other kids in Ukraine have been treated for injuries in the almost seven weeks of war.

After reports the airport in Transnistria was being prepared for action, the nearby city of #Odesa is on full alert.

#Ukraine intelligence suggests the likelihood of a "staged provocation" from the breakaway part of Moldova, precipitating a full attack on #Odessa.

On the ground, #Ukraine advances have been repelled in #Kherson oblast, but #Russia's attempts to gain ground in #Donbas also look to have failed

Ukraine reports constant shelling of its positions around #Vysokopillya, which is actually nearer the cities of #KryvyiRih + #Nikopol

After almost 7 weeks of #PutinsWar media often tend to go back to interview the same contacts

One MP who comes across well and is underused in my opinion is @mezentseva_dep who warned CNN today of further war crimes being discovered & appealed to the US for longer range weapons.

One "success" #Ukraine achieved last night was targeting an enemy munitions store in #Luhansk region.

This happened in Novoaidar, around 30km east of #Severodonetsk.

#StandWithUkraine

9 humanitarian corridors hoping to be active today for evacuees in #Ukraine.

However escape from #Mariupol' will again only be by private car. I imagine almost anyone left there with a car and fuel has already left.

President @ZelenskyyUa is today speaking to a 20th overseas parliament.

This time it's #SouthKorea, which could be interesting. The Koreans have point blank refused to help with supplying any weaponry for #Ukraine in its fight for freedom.

Big new settlements of #Russian troops have been seen on less than 20km from the border with #Ukraine.

"Skhemi" and @SvobodaRadio have published satellite images which show the change in just 6 days

Another temporary "bridge" is open in Romanivka. This embankment construction helps connect satellite towns such as Irpin, Vorzel and Hostomel with the capital #Kyiv.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

In #Kyiv itself, Mayor @Vitaliy_Klychko (Klitschko) has announced one of the main bridges is re-open to private vehicles for the first time.
South Bridge (Pivdennyi Mist) connects the left and right banks in some of the most populated areas of #Ukraine's capital.

#Russia soldiers inspecting an abandoned piece of #Ukraine equipment. They could see many things, but there was one thing they didn't see coming.....

Location and date unknown. source: TG ukraina24tv

Oh yeah. Already more and more new Twitter accounts posting crap here.

Important to remember - the primary aim of disinfo is not to get you to believe it, it's to get people to question if any info can be trusted. This allows Russia to avoid punishment

https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1513411287992180739

#Ukraine's security service published supposed intercepts from demoralised RUS troops calling home.
However these are impossible to verify and very open to propaganda. The latest audio recording "captures" a young soldier telling his mum 130 out of 150 of his unit refuse to fight

Air raid sirens have just sounded yet again in #Kharkiv.

During the night another 60 rockets and missiles rained down on #Ukraine's second largest city and its environs.

#SaveUkraine #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

Diplomats from #Denmark and #Lithuania have both said in the last few minutes that a 6th round of sanctions on #Russia is coming

There are hints it could include much tighter restrictions on oil imports from the terrorist state 🫰🙏

Nazis in Ukraine you say?

https://twitter.com/FreelFreel/status/1513266489410867204

Doesn't sound too good in #Kharkiv right now

https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/1513435792777138176

President Zelenskyy told South Korea's Parliament that "tens of thousands" likely to have died in #Mariupol'

Previous estimates were around 5,000 but I can fully believe it's much higher than that.

#SaveUkraine

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1513426200399646721

Almost 200 religious figures in #Ukraine have joined a campaign to get the Head of the Moscow Patriarch in front of a tribunal.

The Russian Orthodox leader has been strongly condemned for praising the war. He is widely seen as an extension of the FSB.

pravda.com.ua/news/2022/04/1…

A group of around 20 gendarmes from #France has arrived in #Ukraine. They will be helping to independently investigate allegations of war crimes.

https://twitter.com/EdePoncins/status/1513429247393767425

In the photo you can see in western Ukraine town of #Mukachevo they're removing a 1969 statue for Soviet-era tanks.

Meanwhile #Ukraine's Minister of Culture, Oleksandr Tkachenko, says #Russia's army has destroyed or damaged 166 cultural monuments.

#StandWithUkraine

Another video purportedly showing #Ukraine destroying a column of #Russia's equipment.

Because they've messed around with edits and music there's no way to verify, but it may be genuine and linked to the attack Ukraine reported yesterday on the 8 mile column heading to #Izium

Here's another view of #Ukraine's strike on a Russian armament store in #Luhansk region.

The aerial drone footage with a heat/night cam matches the earlier footage I posted but shows the scale better.

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1513424560028221441

This video is from #Kharkiv, where #Russia stands accused of placing mines, IEDs and booby traps around the city to terrify the civilian population.

We've seen 100s of similar devices on domestic equipment in Kyiv region as Russia retreated. This clearly a new war tactic.

Excellent graphic here from @Gerashchenko_en
This is the sort of thing that's finally, surely, going to get through to Russians, especially as the sanctions bite and war drags on.

These two villages are just 10km apart. One is in #Finland, one in #Russia. Guess which!

Der @SPIEGEL_English is reporting a German tank manufacturer is ready to supply #Ukraine with 50 Leopard-1 tanks.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

This video from #Russia troops is worth showing simply for the scale of destruction.

Almost impossible to count the tanks littered in the countryside. This is supposedly new, from Kamenka village near #Izium, but Russians removed all metadata

Thx @TomCortes_CZ for the tip

Who remembers the film Hachi?

The #Ukraine village of #Makariv has its own tearjerker. This is "Rini" another faithful Akito.

He's been waiting for his owner to return for over a month, but tragically Tatyana died in the war. He refuses to move, locals bring him food.

Prime Minister of #Lithuania is in #Kyiv today and looking at the horrors of #Borodianka for herself.

https://twitter.com/IngridaSimonyte/status/1513494605844647938

From 1942 a book called "Blood for blood, death for death"
This chapter "In Bloody Mariupol"; remarkable reading

"From the first days Nazis drove around in tanks shooting old men, women, children"
It even mentions the Azovstal plant

80 yrs. Putin=Hitler

https://twitter.com/SolominaTatiana/status/1513492688317861894

#Ukraine's Parliament is proposing a law which forces nationals abroad to return home during martial law.

The punishment for those liable for military service who refuse to return would be 10 years jail.

Some loopholes include accidents, business trips, hospitalisation

* Graphic video *

"A lot of people died today from shelling in #Kharkiv" writes UkrainaOnlline Telegram channel.

Here one body lies outside a residential apartment block.

#SaveUkraine #ArmUkraineNow #StopRussia

Seems that the meeting between #Austria's Chancellor @karlnehammer and the head of the Terrorist state went exactly as most predicted.

Over in 75 mins. Talks were "very direct, open and tough" but no agreement

The last thing Putin wants is peace, he wants elimination of Ukraine

Dramatic close up drone footage of #Mariupol' theatre from @CBSNews

Between 700-1,000 people were unaccounted for after the Russian missile strike on this building, being used as a bomb shelter by women and children. Russia just thinks we've forgotten about them.

#SaveUkraine

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Russian troops have tried to take the city of #Severodonetsk. It's been the acting capital of #Luhansk oblast for #Ukraine since 2014 when Russia's first invasion saw the puppet states set up.

Ukraine has held out, amid heavy bombardment saying the initial push was repulsed.

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30km south of Severodonetsk, in #Popasna Russia again used a Tochka-U tactical missile

This was the type which killed 57 civilians at #Kramatorsk train station. You may remember Russia pretended it didn't have Tochka-U, until videos were found of them being tested in Belarus

In six days sifting through the rubble in #Borodianka, rescue crews have recovered the bodies of another 19 people.
#Kyiv #Ukraine #SaveUkraine

Wow! One of the most important figures in #Putin's leadership has been arrested today in #Russia it seems.

Vladislav Surkov's power was legendary, featuring in an excellent @ggatehouse podcast, dubbed "The Puppet Master"

bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

You may be familiar with the term "The #Surkov Leaks" - this website was the source of the leaks, and google translate does a good job here to throw some background light for English speakers.

informnapalm.org/51853-surkovle…

Another very high profile arrest today is of this man.

An hour after CNN aired this interview with Vladimir Kara-Murza he was detained. A colleague of assassinated Boris Nemtsov, he's never backed down from criticising Putin and "a regime of murderers"

edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2…

At least one person has died in the village of Mykhailivka in Dnipropetrovsk region.

Russians were shelling most of the day in the region. 30 houses were damaged according to emergency services who recovered the body

#Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, reveals the country has now opened 5,800 cases of war crimes.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia #PutinIsaWarCriminal

The onslaught and bombardment of #Kharkiv today is possibly as bas as anything in the seven weeks of war.

Children are among the dead today. Exact totals are unknown from the numerous missile attacks.
Here's one caught on camera from a few minutes ago:

#SaveUkraine #WarCrimes

Reports of a chemical attack in #Ukraine

I didn'not want to report this until there was proof, but #Ukraine govt is still "verifying" and no update for over 90 minutes.

One of the leaders of Azov claims 3 soldiers have clear signs of chemical poisoning

https://twitter.com/arestovych/status/1513614960185729027

Azov battalion in #Mariupol say:

"Three people have clear signs of chemical poisoning, but without catastrophic consequences"

Two ways of looking at this:

Ukrainians: the "Butcher of Syria" is now in charge in Ukraine

Russians: guys in Mariupol desperate for help try anything

I don't know if this is true or not and sadly we're almost certainly never going to find out

Russia wouldn't let anyone, even @ICRC into Mariupol' before they'd "cleaned" the theatre, so they won't let anyone near the site of a chemicals weapon attack if it is true

#SaveUkraine

#Mariupol chemical weapons allegation:

Azov leader Andriy Biletsky in a video message says
"They (RU) can't take Mariupol, or Azov, Ukrainian defenders. They despair and they have nothing left ... except to use indiscriminate prohibited weapons. They show weakness in this way"

The illegal "breakaway states" in #Ukraine are holding more than 700 Ukraine soldiers and over 1,000 citizens in prisons.

The numbers confirmed by 🇺🇦 govt tonight.

Speaking of war crimes. The most gruesome map has been drawn up by the @nytimes

Remember the numbers in the mass "communal" grave as well as the ones Russia didn't have time to dispose of

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia #PutinIsaWarCriminal

Russians claim they've found a simple way around @Apple restrictions on their iPhones using #ApplePay

Apparently putting the phone into "lost" mode. Then unlocking it with your Apple ID password gets it working again with your Russian bank.
Hope Apple sort this out!

Another day gone, another nearer the defeat of Russia - certainly if NATO grows some balls.

No update on the chemical weapons story yet.

A difficult day, but I want to end it by trying to put a smile on your face from a TV news bulletin in #Ukraine - so much for being discreet