Clowns of Russian state news agency TASS call the ammo depot in Nova Khakhovka "saltpeter warehouses", RIA Novosti earlier claimed that it was a strike on hydroelectric plant. In Donetsk oblast they told earlier that the detonating shells were "gas cylinders" ))
Morning at Nova Kakhovka's ex ammo depot: Russians try hard to avoid any shells in the frame (saltpeter warehouses, uhu), but failed as usually.
CCTV fotage of the ammo depot explosion in Nova Kakhovka, via @GirkinGirkin
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"#Donetsk. The city centre is under MLRS Grad shelling Near Ukraina dept store, seven died. Almost a direct hit on shuttle minibus 25. Again Rusnya decided to paint a picture of ostensibly 'Ukrofascists' respond to an attack on 'ZSU facilities' by shelling Donetsk civilians"
This time, Russians shelled Donetsk not only to have talking points in the evening news, but to push the narrative "war bad, all bad" to deflect attention from the deadly Russian missile strikes on Uman and Dnipro.
It reads, #Makiivka - although it's unclear whether it's just a checkpoint/position's name or the settlement (if the settlement, then probably the one in the area of Svatove, Luhansk Oblast - not yet its namesake near Donetsk)
Luhansk's (#1) and Donetsk's (#2) Makiivkas. Plus, there are several more in other regions. Welcome to the mess of the Ukrainian geography ))
(the legendary founder of Donetsk's Makiivka is Zaporozhian Cossack Makiy. There are 7 Makiivkas all round Ukraine in total - looks like Makiy had a lot of work to do)
#Kherson Oblast: Several Russian Telegram channels claim that the Ukrainian forces broke through in the northeast of Russia's Kherson pocket-to-be yesterday and today, and that Russian defenses rolled back to Dudchany - if true it's a 20km deep breakthrough.
Screenshots of a few original messages ("Russia's AF are now holding defense near the settlement of Dudchany", "In the course of today the stabilisation of the front failed in this direction" etc)
The clown says there's "an ancient Russian word" "goida" which is a call to action - he doesn't know Russian, goida (or rather hoida) is a Ukrainian interjection for rocking cradle, what he means is Ukrainian haida meaning "let's go [and do something]" which is aida in Russian.
It's awful how many Russians don't know their own language.
Re: H/G - historically, the Ukrainian H corresponds to the Russian G in most cognates, thus non-existent "goida" => corresponds to the Ukrainian hoida (the same about Sergei vs Serhii etc)
Russian Telegram channel says as of this morning #Lyman (Donetsk oblast) has been encircled - Russian reinforcements were cut off from the city. There are BARS (Russian "cossack volunteers"?), "lnr people militia", Russia's 20th Guards Combined Arms Army.
Yesterday's map before the alleged encirclement, the comment reads, "Sometimes it seems that ZSU is doing it on purpose" (there's also the same map with more hmm... anatomical details added, but I don't think I'll post it here)