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Jul 3 • 30 tweets • 22 min read
Thread: 3 July 2022: Day 130 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia is moving towards the annexation of #Kherson. This area of #Ukraine has been occupied since February and the Russians are planning to stage a referendum. One way Moscow is preparing for this is by arresting opposition elements.
#Ukraine's President Zelensky marking Navy Day with those who have, especially in recent days, shown such courage and effectiveness against #Russia's invading forces.
Anthony Albanese has become the first of #Australia's Prime Ministers to visit #Ukraine on 3 July 2022.
#Russia: Dmitry Kolker, 54, a physicist suffering fourth stage pancreatic cancer who was arrested by the FSB on 30 June from his hospital bed in Novosibirsk, accused of high treason (allegedly passing secrets to #China), died in custody on 2 July. meduza.io/news/2022/07/0…
#Slovakia seems as if it is about to send its MiG-29 fleet to #Ukraine - at long last - and the #Czechs will take over protecting Slovakian airspace.
#Russia left a Pantsir air defence system on Snake Island
There is quite a lot about #Russia's "special military operation" contained in the Red Fox story
#Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, during his visit to #Ukraine, visited Bucha and Irpin, the towns around Kiev that were ravaged during #Russia's brief occupation in March. abc.net.au/news/2022-07-0…
#Bulgaria's government alleges that significant figures in its journalistic sector, civil society, and political sphere were on #Russia's payroll.
#Russia's staff at the Embassy in #Bulgaria burned documents after the expulsions of spies under official cover
#Turkey has, at #Ukraine's request, detained a #Russia-flagged cargo ship, the Zhibek Zholy, because it was carrying stolen Ukrainian grain. reuters.com/world/ukraines…
#Ukrainian guerrillas appear to have derailed two #Russian trains travelling from #Crimea to occupied zones in southeast Ukraine.
After the fall of Lysychansk, #Russia has turned on Slavyansk in eastern #Ukraine and begun massively shelling it.
#Ukraine's use of #HIMARS in #Russia-occupied zones at night
The knowledge that this is so underlines the problem of delaying the transfer of HIMARS and other weapons: #Ukraine has had to leave areas under #Russia's control - with all the atrocities against civilians that entails - longer than is necessary
#Australia's new government continuing to perform well on #Ukraine
Potentially another #Russian ammunition dump blown up by #Ukraine, this time in Snizhne in the Donetsk Oblast.
Some dark signs, from geography to demography, for #Ukraine's plans to retake Kherson from #Russia
Quite a quote from Dmitry Glukhovsky on #Russia's post-Soviet/imperial complex, the curious mix of recognising eternal individual powerless but lamenting that there used to be collective power
A #Russia blogger says #Ukraine handled its situation in Lysychansk well, fighting on as long as it could to extract costs from the Russians and pulling back when necessary to defensible positions, while avoiding losses to their combat power.
Thread on the crucial issue of #Russia's naval blockade in the Black Sea of #Ukraine
A stats version of why #Russia, having failed to decapitate #Ukraine by capturing the capital, will not succeed in conquering Ukraine with an east to west invasion
#Russia has tortured and murdered Andriy Honcharuk, a worker at the nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia
#Putin's warlord-president of #Chechnya wanting the "deshaitanization" (de-Satanization) of #Ukraine, another sign of the religious aspect of this war.
#Australia announces a new package of support for #Ukraine after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to Kiev. pm.gov.au/media/visit-ky…
A group of amateur sumo wrestlers from #Ukraine have visited #Japan as part of a tour in preparation for the 2022 World Games. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…
#Taiwan, at official and popular levels, has been very supportive of #Ukraine
Pictures from #Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meeting in Kiev with #Ukraine's President Zelensky on 3 July.
Latest asinine comments from Patriarch Kirill (born Vladimir Gundyayev), the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Thread: 4 July 2022: Day 131 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Latest @DefenceHQ update:

- #Russia has taken Lysychansk. #Ukraine managed to withdraw without being encircled. The Russians now have the Luhansk Oblast, likely their focus will now turn to Donetsk.

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Thread: 2 July 2022: Day 129 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Special Report: Dozens of Russian weapons tycoons have faced no Western sanctions reuters.com/world/europe/d…
In #Russia, a professor from Novosibirsk, Anatoly Maslov, was arrested and flown to Moscow on 27 June to face charges of passing state secrets to #China. Another professor from the Siberian town, Dmitry Kolker, was charged just before that. novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/…
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#OTD 1916: The first day on the Somme, a terrible bloodletting for the British and French, with 20,000 killed and 40,000 wounded. The campaign, however, nearly broke the Germans on its own, and was crucial in setting up the Allied victory two years later in the Great War.
The Franco-British Somme offensive in the west combined with the Russian "Brusilov Offensive" from the east. Had several other factors gone differently, e.g. the Romanians had come into the war a couple of weeks earlier, it might have shattered Germany in the summer of 1916.
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Thread: 1 July 2022: Day 128 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Russia bombed a block of flats in Odesa overnight, killing at least ten civilians
Great move from #Canada. The worries about depleting Western weapons stockpiles are largely misplaced: what is happening in #Ukraine - defending Europe from #Russia - is what these weapons were acquired for in the first place.
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Thread: 30 June 2022: Day 127 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
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