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Aug 14, 2022 55 tweets 59 min read Read on X
I hope you get the chance for a peaceful and relaxing Sunday. That's something many thousands in #Ukraine haven't had for almost 6 months.

It's Day 172 of #Russia's invasion and here's the daily thread with all the news and analysis you need, updated throughout the day⬇️
Quite a bit of late action on yesterday's thread. You can scroll through yesterday's thread here if you need a catch up:

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

Potentially good news from @amnesty

The organisation's pledged to have its' "#Ukraine report" examined by independent experts.

Amnesty International says it "wants to understand what exactly went wrong" according to Deutsche Welle.

Appointing @AgnesCallamard perhaps?
The #USA has finally raised with #India the subject of dodgy sanction busting deals.

New York received a tanker of Russian crude via India.

#StopRussiaNOW

india.com/news/india/ind…
Still no official confirmation about the latest #Ukraine attack on the Antonivskyi Bridge in #Kherson overnight.

A video has been published showing hits on the bridge, but I cannot 100% verify if this is new.

#StopRussia #SlavaUkraini
#Ukraine has again blasted as fake news #Russia's claim it's in control of #Pisky, the bombed out town in #Donetsk

Army spokesman Serhiy Cherevaty told 🇺🇦TV "the situation there is difficult and intense fighting continues. Last night Russians again tried to storm the village."
Today's update from Britain backs up #Ukraine's claim to still be fighting in #Pisky (RU: #Pesky)

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
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#Russia continues to fire from the grounds of the nuclear power plant in occupied #Enerhodar

I've had some people confused about the names so I hope this quick guide helps.

Enerhodar (RU: #Energodar) is the town built in 1970 specifically for the then thermal power plant.
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The nuclear power plant in Enerhodar was built in the 1980s. It's called the #Zaporizhzhia NPP (RU: #Zaporozhe), as this is also the name of the larger region/state.

The power plant is about 60km from Zaporizhzhia city, but Nikopol and Marhanets are just across the river.
So, geography/history lesson complete, let's report on the latest violence!

#Nikopol was hit with at least 20 shells: 9 apartment blocks, 8 private houses, a school and shops damaged, but no injuries.

Several thousand have lost electricity after #Russia's attack
#StopRussia
#Ukraine's Intelligence publishes details of pilots in #Russia's Air Force whom they say carried out bombing raids on civilians.

This statement says 🇷🇺Commanders try to hide the orders to avoid war crime investigators, but pilots keep copies as insurance

gur.gov.ua/content/rosiis…
What a surprise! Guess where that first ship of #Ukraine foodstuff ended up after leaving #Odesa a fortnight ago?

None other than the Soviet Republic of #Syria!
Reuters reporting it's turned up at Tartus after turning off its AIS (location ID) 2 days ago

The wife of an #Azov commander strongly criticises @ICRC after reports her husband is held in #Russia

Denys Prokopenko was among those surrendering in the UN/Red Cross brokered deal at #Mariupol's Azovstal plant. But Kateryna says ICRC don't answer her:

suspilne.media/270668-bulo-ro…
On the #Luhansk-#Donetsk regional border, the exiled Gov of Luhansk claims #Ukraine troops have "pushed back" #Russia's soldiers

Serhiy Haidai names the villages of Serebryanka + Spirne which I highlight on the map. It technically means there's still a small grey zone in Luhansk
As well as destroying all the #HIMARS in #Ukraine, #Russia's forces must be close to killing every soldier too, according to daily reports

Todays claims are 300 "Nazis" eliminated plus 5 Command posts. This is for their domestic market of course, where all is "according to plan"
At the nuclear plant in occupied #Enerhodar, I think #Russia may allow inspectors soon. That's because they've announced they have the remains and evidence of "Polish attack drones, NATO-caliber shells"

Almost certainly these just arrived after being brought from other areas.
#RussiaOnFire

A blaze to report in one of #Russia's most historic cities.
This fire at a cafe in central #Yekaterinburg. It was empty at the time, apparently undergoing repairs and may have been arson.

#StopRussia
#Avdiivka in #Donetsk region now resembles #Bucha #Mariupol #Severodonetsk #Pisky and all the other places the Russian army of war criminals left their calling card.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia #SaveUkraine
The list of countries wanting to stop visitors from #Russia is growing.

#Poland joins #Denmark, #Estonia, #Finland and #Latvia so far, in wanting an EU-wide ban on tourist visas.
Plenty of rumours of #Russia already using drones from #Iran and now a war expert claims the Kremlin has ordered 1,000.

Dealing with the devil as the realisation desperate times call for desperate measures.

ejmagnier.com/2022/08/13/rus…
Nice one #Albania!

This is the street in capital #Tirana where you will find the Russian embassy. The road is called "Street of Free #Ukraine" and note the yellow and blue kerbstones!

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
In the far, far east of #Russia they know #Moscow doesn't really care about them.
Primorsky Krai is 9,000km from The Kremlin.

But locals complain Russia ruined their holiday with live firing exercises resulting in falling debris - this car badly damaged (a lot of RU swearing)
In occupied #Kherson more examples of garages and lock-ups being ransacked. Supposedly searches for signs of #Ukraine Partisans. But once the Orcs are in, anything can be damaged or stolen.

The Z or V calling card is left on the doors🤮
#Ukraine has confirmed the attack on the #Antonivskyi Bridge in #Kherson.

A spokeswoman for the Southern Defence Force says it "was again struck in order to secure its status as completely impassable.”

#Ukraine's mayor of #Enerhodar says the Yacht Club and outskirts of the town have been shelled today.

Dmitry Orlov says there are civilian casualties.

This is reported to be from the scene - a victim can be seen on the floor

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Yes another one to avoid really. For many years pretending to be a liberal Russian, but when it comes to the crunch, spouts nonsense... almost as if the FSB wrote the script, which of course it would not!

In #Zolochiv, #Kharkiv region, an 84 year old woman suffered shrapnel wounds after #Russia shelled the village.

A technical workshop of the lyceum and a canteen were partially damaged.

Just more civilian targets for ahem, "unguided" missiles

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Well would you look at #Berdyansk right now!

This is one of the first places captured by #Russia in the war. It's the only big port in #Zaporizhzhia oblast, on the Sea of Azov.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Just waiting for the bus in #Mariupol'

What a wonderful photo - disappointingly I don't know who took it to give credit.

But it shows a little of how life is under #Russia's occupation.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussiaNOW
#RussiaOnFire
This one in #YoshkarOla, about 750km east of #Moscow.

The fire happened in the roof of a new construction in the Zapadny district of the city.
This blaze is "under investigation"
Occupying authorities in #Donetsk say casualties after a strike on #Makeevka.
After the mystery smoke in #Berdyansk earlier, Telegram channels now report the same at the port in #Mariupol'

This is getting interesting. Popcorn at the ready!
UPDATE on #Berdyansk

The smoke was due to "a violation of safety procedures" hahaha!

Apparently by workmen during welding. This report and photo claims to have been made 14 minutes ago.
The fire is out.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
#Russia's sources say they have captured the village of #Vershyna near #Ilovaisk

Vershyna is 15km from #Bakhmut. If true, #Ukraine really needs to hold the small town of Zaitseve, otherwise #Bakhmut will be under attack on different fronts.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Prominent pro-Russian channels reporting a base of #Russia's "Wagner" private military contractors has been hit.

It's reported they've been struck in #Popasna, quite recently captured by the mercenaries.

#SlavaUkraini
Busy day for #RussiaOnFire watchers!

#Kazan in #Tatarstan

Khiton specialises in "industrial organic chemicals" - but won't be doing for a while now.

Some officials say a roof collapsed in one of the workshops.

Makes a change from breaking safety protocols 😉
Video reportedly from #Popasna where it's said #Ukraine has hit a base of the Wagner mercenaries.

Unconfirmed. I'm still cautious but every chance it's genuine.

#Wagner

This is escalating quickly now and does look like a huge hit for #Ukraine on the mercenary band of Russian soldiers in the #Luhansk town of #Popasna.

These photos just obtained from the scene match the location of the previous video, but there's no time-stamp
Less than a week ago a careless "journalist" (propagandist) published photos of his warm welcome to the Wagner headquarters.
The next visitor appears to be a Mr H.I.Mars
🤦🧐

#StopRussia
#WAGNER

I cannot verify this either but it's a video submitted by a #Ukraine patriot, claiming this is #Russia rescuing its dead and wounded following the strike in #Popasna on the Mercenary Wagner group.

The time stamp is accurate

#SlavaUkraini #StopRussia
#Wagner

The immediate reaction from #Ukraine media speculation that "Putin's Chef", the Founder of Wagner PMC, had died in the blast.

While this is pure speculation, a number of Russian channels now say "communication has been lost with Yevgeniy Prigozhin"

#StopRussiaNOW
Here's the #Russia death scoreboard.
The number of dead soldiers shows how little Putin cares for a region.

#Dagestan 260 dead
#Buryatia 230
#Krasnodar 193
#Bashkortostan 181
#Volgograd 166
#Transbaikal 136

Guess which area's lowest?
Correct!
#Moscow 16
then #StPetersburg 38
Russian sources reporting that #Prigozhin was NOT there... but I guess they would say that anyway.

#Wagner #Popasna #Luhansk #SlavaUkraini

#Moscow

I have no idea what's happening here
TASS reports a mass poisoning at a house in #Russia's capital.

Initial reports that three people were poisoned but then medics who attended also became very sick.

westobserver.com/news/europe/re…
Stirring words in his regular evening address to the nation tonight from #Ukraine's President @ZelenskyyUa

Russians who are silent are backing #PutinsWar.
The stronger Ukraine is, the shorter the war will last.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
#Ukraine sources confirm Russian military bases were attacked today in:
#Popasna (#Luhansk) - #Wagner mercenaries
#Tokmak (#Zaporizhzhia)
and
#Beryslav (#Kherson)

Looks like another bad day for #Russia. Even worse day for relatives of Wagnerites who get not a kopek compensation
Update on this #Moscow "poisoning" story:

Officials say it was a Carbon Monoxide problem, which does sound plausible.

The fight for #Bakhmut (RU: #Artemovsk or #Artyomovsk) is likely to be long and bloody.
#Ukraine has very defendable positions and a good network of trenches.

However the artillery fire is just incessant. Listen to this from a couple of hours ago

#StopRussia #SaveUkraine
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People are dying in queues trying to leave Occupied territories.

That's the conclusion of a harrowing report by an independent group of journalists in #Donbas.

They say #Russia's deliberately slow at checkpoints. Many thousands are in queues but they process just 200 a day
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Residents trying to flee Russian rule have to queue for days to reach free #Ukraine according to the report.

The Occupiers refuse to supply toilets or even water. Many suffer in the heat; some even reported to have died.

The full report is here:

Earlier I saw this video and was a little sceptical, but people assure me it's genuine

It shows a group of soldiers supposedly from the so-called "#Luhansk People's Republic", refusing to fight for the "#Donetsk Republic"

Not sure how #Russia's propaganda machine explains this!
Discontent in St Petersburg after a huge wave of conscription starts.

A woman saw many mailboxes stuffed with official summonses to an enlistment office by Thursday.

A red stamp "appearance is required" while recipients are told to bring their passport.
credit: @Fontanka_spb
I understand that another Russian led show trial will start tomorrow.

Three Britons, John Harding, Dylan Healy & Andrew Hill are due in a #Donetsk court alongside #Ukraine defenders from #Croatia and #Sweden

There seems to have been a block on releasing further details/photos about #Ukraine's #HIMARS attack on #Wagner mercenaries in #Popasna

But I did find one statement from the group itself admitting "there are losses"

Maybe some of the murderers + hooligans recruited from prisons

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So the least you can do is read it all 😂😇
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