#Odesa, #Kharkiv & #Mykolaiv among 🇺🇦 cities hit again overnight but not always with missiles designed for the job. The Kremlin orders more weapons out of "deep storage" and prepares for a #Ukraine counter attack in the south
Here's the🧵
1/2 First to those weapons on the move in #Russia.
It started with this video capturing what's believed to be
2S7 Pion heavy artillery being transported west.
They are Soviet machines, at the time state of the art high powered guns with a range of almost 50km,
2/2 Some excellent sleuthing on the internet found the source - a diminishing supply of stock.
Google Earth images show there were 170 of the Pions stored at this location in #Russia early April, down to 135 at the start of June; last week only 110 remaining.
In #Odesa region the village of #Zatoka has been hit.
This is right on the coast where the bridge was previously targeted by #Russia.
President @ZelenskyyUa released this video this morning of the damage to the market
Meanwhile in #Mykolaiv/#Nikolaev air defence missiles were used on the city early this morning. These were 9 in total fired from occupied #Kherson region.
Again #Ukraine's at pains to point out there are zero military facilities in the area. They say an enterprise, a multi-storey building and a car dealership were damaged. No injuries reported - even the cat survived!
Not so good news in the #Kharkiv region (as opposed to the city)
A woman's body was found under the rubble of a recreation centre in #Chuhuiv (#Chuguev), which was destroyed by a missile attack.
The search for two more people continues, four were rescued.
Puppet Donetsk government says the whole of #Donetsk will be taken before the end of August. That smacks of a desperate message for their own army and people becoming demoralised/fearing defeat.
Meanwhile, less far fetched is #Ukraine's hope to liberate #Kherson by September.
Russians in #Donetsk have released this video which they say is a successful attack on #Ukraine's "Foreign Legion". They claim many fighters, mainly Poles, were killed.
No location or time given. Not possible to verify.
A media darling of the west in the war has been @kiraincongress
The leader of the "Golos" party, Kira's the latest to be caught up in political trouble. It seems she may have had a passport problem at the border. She denies her citizenship was revoked
The travel bans and asset freezes are on many regional governors, but also on the list is former director of @Everton Sarvor Ismailov, nephew of Alisher Usmanov, and Sarvor's brother Sanjar - both of whom have "significant" UK interests
No real surprise, but #Russia has just announced it is withdrawing cooperation with the International Space Station, from 2024.
The country's Cosmology department says it will build its own orbital outpost.
The EU has agreed dramatic cut its use of gas if #Russia halts its stream. However it's a voluntary deal, not obligatory which the Union hoped for.
Not sure if you saw this a little earlier, but in one of his parting measures, Boris Johnson gave the "Churchill" award to #Ukraine's President Zelenskyy.
A petition has been started in #Ukraine to give @BorisJohnson Ukrainian citizenship and also submit his candidacy to become Prime Minister of the country!
Welcome to the weekend, and Day 934 of #Russia's illegal war.
I'm trying to overcome technical problems all this morning, hence the later start.
But I will not be stopped in bringing you the news from, and about, #Ukraine every single day, in one handy thread.
Here's the link to the start of yesterday's thread, for those catching up.
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Overnight there were strong explosions near occupied #Mariupol.
It would seem #Ukraine has hit one of #Russia's ammo dumps.
🇺🇦advisor Petro Andryushchenko says it happened between the villages of Portovskoe, Rybatskoe and Melekino.
#RussiansGOHOME
#Russia expels 6 UK diplomats, accused of spying. The FSB says the group attended NGO meetings!
State TV Rossiya-24 published photos of the six, naming them as Jessica Davenport, Callum Andrew Duff, Grace Elvin, Catherine McDonnell, Blake Patel, Thomas John Hickson Stevinet.
Day 922 of #Russia's attempt to wipe #Ukraine from the map. As Putin become more desperate and fearful, the actions of the little Hitler and his commanders becomes even more brutal.
Thanks for joining me for another daily news🧵- all the news all the time. It's a tough job..
Please be aware, I did make some extra posts at the end of thread 921 which you may have missed, after being offline for most of the afternoon.
So here is the link for the start of Sunday's thread, scroll through at your leisure.
I was going to say "unfortunately" there is more destruction and injuries in #Ukraine, but this is not misfortune.
We all know, and expect, a permanent flow of war crimes from #Russia because no-one stops them. It's not unfortunate, it's disgraceful, that countries appease Putin
Hello again and welcome to Sunday's thread on the first day of September. This is the 32nd month which has seen fighting since #Russia chose to invade its peaceful neighbour.
All the news from, and about #Ukraine in one place, updated throughout the day, every day. It's Day 921
Sorry for the abrupt end to yesterday's thread. I still don't have @TMobile data, but they have promised me a refund when I get back to Vegas. This night is my last in Mexico. All work done, starting the long journey home
The big news this morning is of #Ukraine successes inside #Russia. No civilians killed, no apartment blocks hit. Just military targets, even in #Moscow region.
The Kremlin says over 150 drones were shot down in the biggest Ukraine UAV attack of the war.
Welcome to Tuesday's daily thread on #Russia's unprovoked war in #Ukraine, with all the important news in one place.
It's Day 916.
The last 24 hours have shown us maximum pressure now has to be put on the U.S. to #LetUkraineStrikeBack. Let's show Biden public-opinion demands it!
#Russia has continued to terrorise #Ukraine during the night and attacks still continue right now.
Yesterday's mammoth 15-hour assault formed most of Monday's thread, which saw an equally big 73-posts (more than one tweet every 20 mins)
Catch up here⬇️
A new week, but the same old death and destruction in #Ukraine and also in #Russia as perhaps soon it will dawn on the people of the latter it's not a good idea to launch imperialistic needless wars on innocent, peaceful neighbours.
This is THE daily thread, Day 915, let's go!
A dramatic start to Monday. We will get to that in a minute, but first I have to give you the link to Sunday's thread.
Sadly, another tragic day, as a British member of a Reuters team covering the war in #Ukraine was murdered by #Russia's missile attack