Thread by @TWMCLtd

Day 181 of #Russia's war on #Ukraine.

Yesterday, the thread was interrupted by @TwitterSupport banning me for 12 hours and their Execs refusing to reply to requests. Thanks to those who tried to help but the whole system is crazy

So what was my "crime"?

Errr.. I wrote about this story which is all over Twitter and international media.

It may have been Kremlin trolls, but I was almost instantly banned when mocking the FSB's videos.
Apparently I released "intimate details". WTF??

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

When @TwitterSupport's arbitrary ban expires you have two options.
Only at that point can you dispute Twitter's ban.
If you challenge the reason for the ban you stay banned for two weeks while they "investigate"
If you accept your tweet was wrong it's deleted and you're "free"

Anyway, on with the news. I've not published the UK's Intel report for a few days, but today's is interesting.

There were photos of barges being moved to #Kherson's Antonivskyi bridge. It's unclear whether yesterday's attack by #Ukraine was targeting these.

#StopRussia

Also about time we had an update on the estimate of #Russia's losses in the war.

Nothing spectacular in today's figures - indeed the death of 150 troops is among the lowest for a couple of weeks.

* #Ukraine's figures may be overestimated.

So true...
@TwitterSupport

I get a temporary ban for journalism, while a ruSSian "ambassador" in Vienna can write "no mercy to the Ukraine population" and continue to tweet lies and extremist hate-filled stuff. Nice!

https://twitter.com/Signsoflife27/status/1561979793742393345

Thank you guys💙💛

https://twitter.com/Andy_Scollick/status/1561983520699973634

If the daily figures from #Ukraine really interest you, you can find a history and nice graphs from Ragnar and the datastudio on the links below.

https://twitter.com/ragnarbjartur/status/1561989305672896513

#Ukraine's Premier League returns today. In just a couple of hours @FCShakhtar_eng will be taking the field against @FCMetalist in #Kyiv

Amid real threats of #RussianAggression let's hope the day passes peacefully. This means such a lot to the people of #Ukraine

My friends will kill me if I don't also wish good luck to @DynamoKyiv today.
They're not involved in the UPL just yet as they are in Portugal, with a tough task to come from behind against @SLBenfica to qualify for the #ChampionsLeague

Today is #FlagDay in #Ukraine 🇺🇦

Another lovely football related story - the start of the new season will see a special🇺🇦raised
The very one used by a protestor in the 1976 Olympics when Ukraine was under occupation by Moscow/USSR

president.gov.ua/news/mi-nikoli…

Even #Serbia is stopping imports of #Russia's oil.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine

telegraf.rs/english/354445…

The Russian soldier who was part of the original invasion 6 months ago, but now criticises #Putin + #Russia, has done a sit down interview with CNN.

Pavel Filtyev says "we are simply destroying towns and not actually liberating anyone"

edition.cnn.com/2022/08/22/eur…

Explosions have hit #Dnipropetrovsk region in the last hour.
Awaiting further details but #Nikopol has been struck again

The official HQ of the #Russia's puppet #Donetsk "government" has been shelled.

Leader of the local puppets, Denis Pushilin was not injured in the bombing, in the centre of the occupied city.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

This is what the centre of occupied #Donetsk looks like now.

The Central hotel and plaza was hit in the rocket attack this lunchtime. Authorities say a 25 year old man died.

#StopRussiaNOW #StandWithUkraine

Here are a couple more photos of the Central Hotel in downtown #Donetsk.

The occupied city has been rocked by multiple shelling

#Donbas #Ukraine #SaveUkraine #StopRussia

And now a video shot in the immediate aftermath of the shelling of the #Donetsk Administration building - the HQ of Pushilin and his fake "government"

#DonetskIsUkraine #StandWithUkraine

Shelling in four different areas of #Donetsk so far, and now reports of missiles landing in #Makiivka, also in the occupied zone.

#StopRussiaNOW #StandWithUkraine

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Before everyone leaps to conclusions about the bombing of the #Donetsk HQ, I'd like to express doubts & worries.

Look at the damage to the building and where it's hit.
This is not a HIMARS or anything really destructive. Also Pushilin wasn't there:

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1562027384886419456

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Compare #Donetsk with the destruction of the #Mykolaiv regional HQ in March.

This could easily be another false flag. Remember maniac Simonyan's call to bomb #Kyiv's government buildings and intelligence that #Russia is likely to strike cities.

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1508708862026731524

More damage from shelling in centre of #Donetsk. This is near the Central hotel - a little to the west on the ludicrously named "prospect of the 25th anniversary of the Red Army" (I'm not kidding)

#StopRussia #Donbas #Ukraine

#Donetsk
Another shell landed about a kilometre to the south-west of the Central Hotel.

This is Prospekt Dzerzhynskoho.
#StandWithUkraine #DonetskIsUkraine

Also #Russia has just confirmed news of yesterday's assassination attempt on a collaborator in #Kherson.

Igor Telekin, the Occupiers' Deputy Head of the department of internal policy, survived the explosion.

📷TG hueviyherson

Shells now reported to be landing in #Kakhovka in occupied #Kherson.

No further news yet...

#SlavaUkraini

Update on the consequences of the missiles in #Dnipropetrovsk region.

In #Dnipro city (photo), a private house was destroyed, another damaged. There were no casualties.

In #Nikopol, 3 kamikaze drones & 20 grads hit several houses and a water sports complex was also damaged.

Obvious, but amusing for Russian speakers.

Instead of saying "#Kherson forever with Russia" it now says "Dick forever with #Russia"

#KhersonIsUkraine #Resistance #Partisans

"One or more @Twitter employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service"

Now the random bans for #Ukraine reporters are starting to make sense!

edition.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tec…

New "arrivals" in #Kharkiv this lunchtime too.
The Shevchenkivsky district was shelled. One person was injured.

Meanwhile this was the size of the crater left by an overnight attack on #Chuhiev near the frontline.

#Kharkov #Chuguev #Ukraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

More damage in #Kharkiv oblast.

#Russia's missiles smashed two more private houses in the Zolochiv community

This in the village of Odnorobivka in #Zolochiv area. No civilians were injured.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

Never forget
#Azovstal #Mariupol
#StandWithUkraine️ #RussiaIsATerroristState

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1562059537963786240?t=kYnJpnzUfd0hyKZzFFyPPg&s=19

#Ukraine has shot down another of #Russia's helicopters. The K-52, known as the Alligator was hit in the east of the country, exact location unknown.

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#Ukraine is alleging #Russia is deliberately shelling waste material at the thermal power plant in #Enerhodar to raise radiation levels for citizens.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine

A Ukrainian woman is due in court in #Cyprus after threatening a group of Russians with a knife.

A police spokesman says the 55 year old (named in Russian media as Irina Krivous from Kyiv) appeared drunk.

#StopRussia

#Turkiye's President unequivocally states #CrimeaIsUkraine

President Erdogan says they will never recognise the annexation by #Russia.

#StopRussiaNOW #Crimea #Ukraine

If someone tells you #Russia won't attack The Baltic States, that Putin has no intention of expanding & other such nonsense, just ask yourself why has the Kremlin opened a criminal case on #Latvia's decision to remove Soviet statues?

Today Russians in #Riga held an angry protest

Just 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#Russia now blames "hot weather" for ammunition exploding in #Belgorod

#StandWithUkraine

Smoke seen in occupied #Kherson again this afternoon.

This was in #Beryslav - no details yet of if this was a Ukrainian attack.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia #RussiansGoHome

Also in #Kharkiv something seems to have been burning outside the city.

#StopRussianAggression #SaveUkraine

After 6 months of war, oops, sorry, "special military operation" it appears more and more people in #Russia think it's far from special.

This is what one guy thought when the national anthem blared out in #Podolsk, 30km south of #Moscow.

Naturally he's in the cells now.

#Russia accuses the @UN of "unscrupulous games"

"Moscow deeply regrets that the IAEA mission to the ZNPP has not yet taken place due to unscrupulous games of the UN Secretariat."

Russia claims they will allow inspectors to the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in #Enerhodar.

Night in #Ukraine
Among friends who follow the international news and journalists, there is a fair amount of tension. Intelligence reports predict a real possibility of major attacks.

We all know Putin likes symbolism.
🇺🇦Independence Day in 40 mins and 6-month war "anniversary"

One city which has been hit so far is #Kharkiv... but there is some speculation this may even have been a plane hitting the ground after air defence was firing.

Looks like a missile but let's wait for confirmation

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia

#Kharkiv - these guys are convinced the missile came from the plane.

#Kharkov #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

More from #Kharkiv

This was a little earlier in the evening

#Kharkov #Ukraine #RussiansGoHome

#Kharkiv - whatever the impact was due to, there is now a fire where "it" landed.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia

#Kharkiv

Security camera footage of the moment of impact

#Ukraine #Karkov #StopRussianAggression

At the @UN Security Council urgent meeting re safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear plant:

Russia's Vasyl Nebenzya said safety has worsened, accusing #Ukraine of the shelling.

#UK+#USA blame Russia and demand removal of troops.

#China called on both sides to allow @iaeaorg visit

Another video from #Kharkiv and from this it does look like air defence hit something - likely a missile, which still hit the ground. Hopefully it lessened the damage.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine
#Kharkov

Explosions reported in #Zaporizhzhia and #Dnipropetrovsk regions.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

In #Zaporizhzhie (RU: #Zaporozhe) social media seem to agree about 5 explosions.

You can hear a couple in this video, supposedly made in the city tonight (time stamp checks out).
But if you understand Russian, beware some "choice" language!

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SaveUkraine

In #Dnipropetrovsk oblast, explosions confirmed in #KrivyiRih and #Nikopol, but reports of strikes in #Dnipro city itself do NOT seem to be true.

Many Nikopol residents report an unusual missile being used tonight. As usual, rockets seem to come from the ZP Nuclear Power Plant

Also some reports of phosphorus munitions being used in #Nikopol and in #Vuhledarsk, a #Ukraine held town in #Donetsk region.

#StopRussia

Governor of #Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandr Starukh, says #Russia has hit infrastructure facilities in the Shevchenkivskyi and Komunarskyi districts.

#Zaporozhe #Ukraine #SaveUkraine

In the occupied part of #Zaporizhzhia region, it looks like #Ukraine has hit another of the invaders' ammo stores.
This is in occupied #Tokmak

#StopRussiaNOW

So far we have seen attacks in the following regions of #Ukraine on Independence Day

#Dnipropetrovsk
#Donetsk
#Kharkiv
#Zaporizhzhia

In #Donetsk city this is happening at 'Dom na Gvardeiske'
Not heard of that place, but seems it's to the east of the occupied city on the way to Makiivka.

Beginning to look like more than just "a fire" being reported on local Russian media.

#StopRussiaNow #Ukraine