#Ukraine: Latest news updates from #UkraineWar: 1. Today started with more explosions in #Crimea, this time an ammo depot nr. #Azovske 200 km from the front. 2 injured and 3,000 evacuated. Russia blames "saboteurs". #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Twenty km from the ammo fire at Azovske in Crimea, an electrical sub-station at #Dzhankoy also went up in flames at the same time. Odd that! Slava Ukraini! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. According to Ukrainian Channel 24 this evening in breaking news, Russia has shut down the Kerch Bridge from #Crimea to Russia until 6.00am tomorrow morning, fearing a Ukrainian strike. Rumours that Russian officials are fleeing the Crimean peninsular. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 4. Traffic on the Kerch Bridge from Crimea to Russia was heavy today and pics show queues of people at the #Simferopol railway station in Crimea trying to leave after being spooked by the second round of major explosions. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. And in Russia's Kursk region today (16th), "unidentified individuals" blew up part of a railway system used exclusively by freight trains, reports Russian media. Carry on friends, good work! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. Local people in #Kherson are reporting that the Russians are carrying out repair work on old barges in the shipyard, possibly to carry equipment across the Dnipro River. Preparing for evacuation? #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. Latvia has confirmed that it has transferred 2 MI-8MTV-1 and 2 Mi-2 helicopters to Ukraine. Finland has also sent 120mm heavy mortars, now being seen used by UA Navy for the 1st time. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 8. The Association of Seaports said that the largest cargo of grain left Ukraine today since the war started, 110,000 tonnes. Some of it will get to the Horn of Africa where people are now starving. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. UA Airforce reported that a Russian Sukhoi SU-34 struck a UA airfield in the #Zhytomyr region today with 2 guided missiles, damaging the runway and several cars. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 10. As Russia is a major supplier of diamonds and earning $ billions, there is now a call to label these as "conflict" or "blood diamonds" and have their purchase banned. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 11. One of the latest videos shows a Russian BMP-1 armoured infantry fighting vehicle taking what it thought was the safest route between 2 other destroyed Russian tanks - and being blown up by a UA anti-tank mine.
#Ukraine: 12. The SBU Security Service has been busy again, this time arresting a Russian citizen who was collecting info on the location of military equipment used by UA forces. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: Latest updates from #UkraineWar: 1. Following UA attacks on #Crimea, Russia today moved 38 aircraft from Belbeck Airfield (attacked yesterday) to Russia. Planes included 3 SU-34s, 3 SU-355s, 5 CU-27s and possibly 3 Mig-31s. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Western intel says UA's ability to strike in #Crimea has rattled Russia both operationally and psychologically, having lost half of its Black Sea naval aviation resources, the flagship Moskva and Snake Island. bbc.in/3A1sz7i
#Ukraine: 3. UA forces have again bombed the car bridge over the Dnipro river nr #NovaKakhovka which the Russians had only just finished repairing just outside #Kherson. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Vast amounts of action in UA and beyond today! 1. Explosions are being reported from the Belbeck Airfield nr #Sevastopol in Russia occupied #Crimea this evening (18th), multiple emergency vehicles on their way. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Ten separate explosions reported also from the area of #NovaKakhovka dam in #Crimea this evening and Russian air defences are also said to be shooting missiles at UA drones conducting reconnaissance above the #Crimea/Russia Kerch bridge. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Inside Russia's #Belgorod region an ammo depot has caught fire and is exploding nr # #Timonova, cause "unknown". Nearby villages have been evacuated.
#Ukraine Latest headlines from the #UkraineWar: 1. A UA video has been released that claims to show the remains of the destroyed Russian base at #NovaKakhovka nr #Kherson. 12 Russians were reported dead & 10 seriously wounded. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Reports that UA official sources now admitting 3 strikes on Russian positions in #Crimea. Effective! On Aug 15th a record 38,300 cars used the Kerch bridge in a rush back to Russia! #tweet100