Latest @DefenceHQ update: Britain not saying #Ukraine attacked Saki Airbase, but says "almost certainly" five Su-24 FENCER bombers and three Su-30 jets were seriously damaged or destroyed. Airfield probably usable. #Crimea clearly not a "secure rear-area" as #Russia believed. 
#Ukraine thanks #Britain for delivering on its promise of sending more M270 MLRS.
https://twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/1557992937006448640
Video going around of a #Russian soldier camped in a forest in #Ukraine having the rudest awakening of all
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1558075681833193472
#Ukraine's President Zelensky in his speech last night said #Russia is "putting all of Europe under the threat of a nuclear catastrophe" with its occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1558005366134390785
#pt: Rather underlining Zelensky's point that #Russia's occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is a threat to all of #Europe, Putin's placeholder president "deniably" threatens all of Europe is anything is done about Russia occupying the plant.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1558041068834258944
#pt: The #US called on 11 August for the zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by #Russia, to be demilitarised. reuters.com/world/europe/u…
Satellite pictures from #Russia's Saki Airbase in Crimea after the 9 August explosions that we are presently assuming were caused by #Ukrainian strikes.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1557692786224267264
If only #Britain were plotting this ...
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1557691791050215426
#Ukraine's intelligence reports #Russia's special services have set up a "new informational task force" to spread disinformation about Ukraine's President in Europe, including through creating a fake "Zelensky Foundation".
understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
Morale is extremely high in #Ukraine and, unsurprisingly, Ukrainians' support for President Zelensky is sky-high.
https://twitter.com/katielaroque/status/1557822168674799618
#Russia continues to get mileage out of Amnesty International's shoddy report attacking #Ukraine's war conduct.
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1557992104969789440
Reports that #Russia has fired the commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1558062505590652928
#Ukrainian guerrillas have injured one of #Russia's officials in Melitopol, who is preparing the staged annexation of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1558075985525866500
A Meduza investigation of video footage from polling stations of 3 million ballots in #Russia's Sept. 2021 election found that one-third of them were fake; only 2 million people entered those stations. Extrapolated, could mean 17 million votes were fake. meduza.io/en/feature/202…
The #Ukrainian staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant work at gunpoint, as effective #Russian hostages, with the ever-present threat of being "disappeared", and the dangers of the Russian army basing soldiers and weapons all around them. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Gruesome report about #Russia's prisons, where torture is endemic and rape is a systematic feature, usually carried out by prisoners, who are given bodycams and handcuffs by guards to film these sexual attacks, which can then be used to coerce confessions. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Well worth your time
https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1557610043507441664
Amnesty/HRW "are not experts" and deal in "what are often ... pre-determined conclusions. Their judgments on international humanitarian law ... are no more than opinions, exploiting the ambiguity and largely theoretical nature of this discourse." quillette.com/2022/08/11/fal…
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