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Aug 5 28 tweets 28 min read
Hello, welcome to Friday and to Day 163 of #Russia's war on #Ukraine

Critical days after The Kremlin's tactic of carpet bombing the front line, then throwing 1000s of cannon fodder into the "grey zone" seems to be pushing Ukraine back in #Donetsk.

All the news, all day, here⬇️
The @TheStudyofWar last night reported #Ukraine "is likely seizing the strategic initiative and forcing #Russia to reallocate forces" due to threats in #Kherson.

However their maps don't include the news about #Avdiivka and #Bakhmut which I brought you in yesterday's thread
Also last night I showed the scenes in #Nikopol - and I'll tweet a new video in the next post

UK's MoD's update highlights the sheer recklessness of #Russia firing on Nikopol from a nuclear power plant in #Enerhodar, storing weapons there knowing #Ukraine can't risk firing there
So here is a new video from #Nikopol where I think thermite MLRS were used, lighting up the sky. It may have been phosphorus munitions. This is CCTV footage - just watch the top of the screen.

No casualties reported, but fires and damage.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia
This morning three more boats of #Ukraine grain have left ports on the Black Sea.

The first boat to leave, #Razoni, is now navigating through the Greek islands, en route to the port of Tripoli in #Lebanon.

#StandWithUkraine
A few photos emerging from last night's attack on #Kharkiv.

A young man is in intensive care, another man and woman are also in hospital. But if anything, the consequences are not as bad as first feared.

#Kharkov #Ukraine #StopRussianAggression
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Video's been published of #Ukraine blowing up the pillars of the bridge across the Seversky Donets in #Sviatohirsk.

Russians have been on the lower bank of the river for several weeks, while the high bank (together with the sacred Lavra) is controlled by Ukraine.

#StopRussiaNOW
A little glimpse now of the tortuous "road to life" as some call it for evacuees in southern #Ukraine.

This is believed to be near near #Berdyansk in the occupied territories.

#StopRussia #SaveUkraine
credit: TG channel brdVP
A famous ex-Spartak ice-hockey player gave an interview to #Russia's sport channel "Match TV"

But Czechia's Dominik Hasek spoke truthfully about fascism in Moscow and appealed for fans to help stop the attack on #Ukraine. The interview was not broadcast!

ruski.radio.cz/dominik-gashek…
#Mykolaiv didn't escape attack overnight of course!

This time #Russia mainly fired on the Korabelnyi district of #Nikolaev. #Ukraine's authorities say cluster munitions were used, sent from MLRS.
No known casualties.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Looks like another fuel dump has been hit in occupied #Donetsk.

This in the Kuibyshevskyi district.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Here's another view of the likely #Ukraine hit on #Donetsk this morning.

#Kuibyshevskyi raion, just west of the centre of the occupied city.

#StopRussiaNow #RussiaIsATerroristState
A car cemetery in #Mariupol after the "Nazi invasion"

The city will takes years to recover. Families and citizens will never recover.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussianAggression
Some sources say #Russia has taken total control of #Pisky (RU: #Pesky) in Donetsk region. It's a little west of the city of #Donetsk and south of under pressure #Avdiivka.

If Pisky has fallen, and I suspect it has, then it's hard to see Avdiivka holding out for too much longer.
Air raid warnings in occupied #NovayaKakhovka.

At least one missile has been shot down and landed in the water (video) in #Kherson region. But unconfirmed reports that others may have landed on target.

#StopRussia
Air raid warnings active in #Mykolaiv region right now too.

A few minutes before, the regional Governor for #Nikolaev announced the need for a curfew lasting the whole weekend.
It will start at 11pm tonight and end 05:00 on Monday morning.
The railway station in #Donetsk is on fire now

#StandWithUkraine️ #StopRussiaNOW
22 people are injured by fresh Russian shelling in #Mykolaiv

They again attacked the Korabelnyi district of #Nikolaev, with high rise and other residential buildings damaged according to #Ukraine

Among the injured, a 14-year-old who was hit by cluster munition outside a church.
Traitor Volodymyr Saldo, Russia's "head" of #Kherson, is reportedly in a medically induced coma in #Crimea.
He may be flown to Moscow.

Saldo, who survived an assassination attempt in July, yesterday handed over powers to his deputy.
Some speculate he was poisoned or had a stroke
#Ukraine is accusing #Russia of shelling the Nuclear Power Plant in #Enerhodar.

Energoatom states "the Russian military again resorted to provocations. As a result of their shelling at 2:30 p.m., three 'arrivals' were recorded near the ZNPP industrial site."

#StopRussia
#Donetsk - as well as the railway station being on fire, shelling has hit four other districts of the occupied city this afternoon.
Great work from the @Bellingcat team to identify the animal who castrated then executed a #Ukraine Prisoner of War.

They don't name him, but the @the_ins_ru does, a member of a Chechen paramilitary Akhmat battalion.

#RussiaIsATerrorristState

bellingcat.com/news/2022/08/0…
It's reported that #Bulgaria has stopped issuing visas to Russians. This applies to property owners and tourists alike.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
#Ukraine's Nuclear operating company, Energoatom says #Russia shelled the power plant in #Enerhodar for a 2nd time today.

3 missiles "seriously damaged the nitrogen-oxygen station & the auxiliary building. There's a risk of hydrogen leakage + smattering of radioactive substances
#Russia of course has a different point of view:

"At the hydrogen station at the nuclear power plant, a flare fire occurred, the fire was promptly eliminated

"Russian calls on organisations to condemn the criminal actions of Zelenskyy, who carries out acts of nuclear terrorism"
#Ukraine may have hit the Dar'ivka bridge again in #Kherson region tonight. This is the road bridge over the river Inhulets, north-east of Kherson city

The Occupiers say air-defence stopped Ukraine's rockets, but separate sources report at least two landed, on or near the bridge

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Aug 4
Day 162 of #Russia's war with a country which has never invaded, or fired upon, another country once.

#Ukraine continues its proud defence, but masses of new cannon fodder are arriving on the fronts to help #Russia pressure new fronts.

All the news, all day in one 🧵, read on!
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First to the murder of #Ukraine's #Azovstal defenders in the missile strike on the #Olenivka prison.

The @ICRC put out a statement saying they could not guarantee the safety of the Ukrainians despite negotiating their release from #Mariupol'

icrc.org/en/document/ol…
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The Red Cross statement says they had no access to prisoners in #Olenivka before the strike. This contradicts Russian propaganda channels which claimed they visited 4 days before.

US Intel concurs with my assessment Russia is delaying UN/ICRC visits to plant evidence.
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Aug 3
Wednesday 3 August. Day 161 of #Russia's full scale invasion of peaceful #Ukraine

Welcome to my daily thread, with all the news from, and affecting the war. DMs open for tips (anonymous if preferred)

Thx to those who already supported me.
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Still big problems for #Russia in the occupied south of #Ukraine. British Intel today highlighting the transport links which will hinder their attempts to fend off a Ukraine assault in #Kherson or counter attack here towards #Mykolaiv.
The #Ukraine land assault in #Kherson will come, but #Russia adding 1000s of extra (untrained) conscripts + Wagner mercenaries to the warzone, complicates matters

The invaders now threaten #Zaporizhzhia having failed to take all of #Donetsk

So for now 🇺🇦continues to hit 🇷🇺bases
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Aug 2
You've found the start of the daily thread covering #Russia's illegal war on #Ukraine

We've reached day 160 of #PutinsWar.

All the news in real time in one place. Scroll on!⬇️
First, the death toll from last night's awful attack on a minibus of evacuees, has grown to three.

In case you missed it, details here:

#Dovhove #Kherson #Ukraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

I've not published #Ukraine's estimate of #Russia's war losses for a few days.

Yesterday troop deaths passed 41,000

#StandWithUkraine
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Aug 1
Welcome to August. Welcome to Daily thread number 159 documenting #Russia's war on #Ukraine.

Good news already to report today - Ukrainian grain has finally been allowed to leave #Odesa.

All the news, all day, every day, right here. Read on⬇️
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So a Sierra Leone flagged ship, named Razoni has left #Odesa this morning.

#Turkiye/#Turkey made the announcement and has said the ship will be in #Istanbul tomorrow. After inspection it will head to #Lebanon.

#StandWithUkraine Image
Here is video of the ship, loaded with #Ukraine's grain, leaving #Odesa/#Odessa.

Many other ships are lined up to follow.

But let's not forget this is NOT happening due to Russia's goodwill. It's because The Kremlin is allowed to export goods and Kaliningrad was unblocked.
Read 33 tweets
Jul 31
The last day of July is Day 158 of #Russia's war of choice.

Each day I document the major news and events, along with analysis. I've been working in #Ukraine for 20 years and studying the relationship with its neighbour as Putin became more and more aggressive.
Enjoy the thread
Of course not only Putin and #Russia involved in the illegal aggression.

#Belarus is playing an active part too. I am disappointed that Britain's @DefenceHQ does not acknowledge that Lukashenka is the ILLEGITIMATE president. @Tsihanouskaya won the 2020 elections
Today the number of Russian Armoured Personnel Carriers destroyed by #Ukraine in this war so far ticked over 4,000.

Also a lot of artillery systems are being taken out in recent days. Plus another 160 soldiers eliminated.

(All figures Ukrainian estimates)
Read 35 tweets
Jul 30
Welcome to the weekend.
Day 157 of #Russia's illegal full-scale war on #Ukraine, but it's 8 and a half years since the start of the invasion when Putin's troops appeared on #Crimea and then later east 🇺🇦

Ukrainians fight on for freedom.
Here's the daily🧵
All the news in 1 place
The condemnation of both the castration/murder videos & bombing of #Ukraine POWs in Russian held territory, continue at high levels.

The UN says it is "shocked by the recent videos" in a statement about the torture and shooting in the head of a prisoner

facebook.com/UNHumanRightsU…
The #EU Vice-President @JosepBorrellF, commenting on the killing of around 50 #Ukraine POWs in #Donetsk is "appalled"

#Russia's Wagner mercenaries are accused of bombing the prison camp in #Olenivka, trying to make it look like a Ukraine strike.

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