#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: 4. Busy evening! Reports just coming in of another explosion inside Russia at the #StaryOskol airfield in the #Belgorod region 150 km from the frontline (& just 381 miles south of Moscow)! Details to come. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. UA's Southern Command says it hit another Russian ammo depot at #Blahodatne - several villages of that name, but thought to be in the south. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. Very early this morning (18th) UA forces also hit yet another Russian ammo depot at #Amvrosiivka in the #Donetsk region, 63 km from the front. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. An adviser to Pres. Zelensky, Mikhail Podolyak, vowed today that the Kerch bridge from #Crimea to Russia would be destroyed. This satellite pic is from ICEYE, which UA now has military access to following a generous donation. (Maybe tonight's the night?) #tweet100
#Ukraine: 8. In the #Donetsk region near the village of #Krynchna, railway lines and bridges have been blown up and made unsafe - presumably by partisans or UA special forces. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. According to a shaky video, Russia has placed army vehicles, equipment and ammunition inside the #Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant adjacent to the turbine room. Madness! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 10. A Russian missile destroyed a dormitory home for elderly people, some with hearing loss, in #Kharkiv last night. 1 of those killed was the mother of UA athlete Kateryna Tabashnyk, her awards scattered in the rubble. 10 killed, 17 wounded including a child. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 11. Pres. Zelensky said last night that 55 diplomatic missions have re-established in Kyiv. UA General Staff also said this morning that there were no major changes, Russians exhausted & all their attacks have failed. (Tomorrow's report may be different 😆) #tweet100
#Ukraine: 12. From today's score card: The UA 44th Artillery Brigade has wiped out a Russian 2S5 Giatsint-S 152 mm self-propelled gun with counter-battery fire, the 1st Russian loss of its type recorded.
#Ukraine: 13. Ominously, Russia's military today (18th) says that it has deployed aircraft armed with hypersonic missiles in Russia's #Kalingrad region. Quite what this threat means at this moment in time is not clear. #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 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
#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