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Aug 27 39 tweets 41 min read
You've found the start of the daily thread covering the important news as #Russia continues to attack #Ukraine.

This is Day 185 of the full and illegal war on a peaceful nation.

Updated throughout the day - scroll ⬇️for the main stories
#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
If you missed any of yesterday's developments, here's the start of that thread.

(Thanks very much to Bryan, David and Michael for buying me a coffee - personalised email to follow)

Once again #Kharkiv is already experiencing attacks early this Saturday morning.

It looks as though there are no civilian casualties so far after explosions near the centre of the city in NE #Ukraine.

#StopRussianAggression #SaveUkraine
Shelling occurred in #Kharkiv's Osnovianskyi and Kyivskyi districts, near the centre, shortly after 2am.

The air raid warning there tonight was the 1,000th time the siren has been sounded in #Kharkiv.
Still some people are unpleasantly surprised...

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#Ukraine's Southern Command was busy Friday.

In addition to well reported bridge attacks, 2 ammunition dumps were hit in ​Chornobaivka + Inzhernerny areas of #Kherson

In addition they claim 24 Russian soldiers died, 2 anti-aircraft guns + 5 pieces of heavy artillery destroyed.
Late last night it emerged that a deputy head of a village in #Kharkiv region was taken away from his home by occupiers with a bag on his head.

Ihor Poznyanskyi had been one of the leaders of Borova, near #Izium

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SaveUkraine

facebook.com/PosBorova/post…
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#Zaporozhzhia welcomed in the weekend with sirens and explosions.

Some locals counted 14 blasts in the city. Missiles look to have been fired from the occupied south of the region.

No word on damage or casualties from #Ukraine's authorities yet
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#Zaporizhzhia is being targeted as much as #Kharkiv recently.

News just in that attacks y'day killed 5 in #Kamianka. It's possible more are still under the rubble after a 4-storey residential building was hit.

Among the dead Anastasia Borovyk and her children aged 2 and 8
#Ukraine partisans have been busy again with some nice trolling of the Occupiers in #Melitopol.

The Resistance has been putting up these posters:
"WARNING - paedophiles use these signs to recognise each other. Be careful!"

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine
#Zaporizhzhia update

Governor Oleksandr Starukh says 16 missiles hit the city. Infrastructure was damaged in the Shevchenkiv district. No initial reports of injuries.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNOW

In occupied #Donetsk very strong explosions in the centre reported right now.

It's the Voroshylovs'kyi district - sounds like HIMARS or other very heavy artillery fire.

Russia's puppets also say #Makiivka #Pastukhivka and the Kyivsky + Kalininsky districts of Donetsk may be hit
#Montenegro, has proved a reliable ally for #Ukraine in the war.

Now a NATO member and strongly in favour of anti-Russian sanctions, the small Balkans country is under cyber-attack from #Russia

#RussiaIsATerroristState
apnews.com/article/russia…
#RussiaOnFire

Today's chapter comes from #KomsomolskOnAmur over 8,000km east of #Moscow.

Officials say a fuel depot burns and the roof has collapsed.
Mysteriously they also say "paints and varnishes were stored in the warehouse"

#StopRussia
First video from central #Donetsk and the strong explosions reported in the occupied city.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNOW

Despite the early reports from locals in #Donetsk, the strikes in the city centre don't seem to be anything near as big as #HIMARS strikes.

A few plumes of smoke all that can be seen so far as dawn breaks in east #Ukraine
Still in #Donetsk region, but this time in #Ukraine controlled #Sloviansk.

A fire has broken out, presumably following a missile strike, but this is currently unconfirmed.

#RussiansGoHome #StopRussianAggression
Now unverified photos, said to be taken 3 days ago at the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

The Telegram Channel "Printer Fort" questions how the @iaeaorg can see "no immediate danger" when viewing these pictures of the site in occupied #Enerhodar.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia
Earlier I wrote about the shelling of #Kharkiv

One woman was injured by flying glass as two rockets landed in the centre of the city.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine

If #Ukraine's figures on #Russia's losses are accurate they continue to kill a lot of invaders.

However little equipment.
The number of liquidated personnel is the only figure above the daily average(mean)

#StopRussia
Today's British Intelligence update says that #Russia has "made some progress towards the centre of #Pisky" yet @TheStudyofWar and I both think (remains of) the village has been captured.

Overall though #Ukraine defends very well despite being hugely outnumbered.

#HeroiamSlava
#Russia tries to pretend it is so principled. Sanctioned FM spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova again saying they "will me never forget #Kosovo is #Serbia"

Independence clearly such a bad thing!

Oh, unless it's in Ukraine.
Oh, or Chechnya.
But it's good for Catalonia & Scotland right?
Over 1,815,000 people have signed the online petition to try #Putin for war crimes.

You can too
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/pr…

The pontoon bridge across the Dnipro river in #Kherson appears to be undamaged despite the latest strikes on the #Antonivskyi bridge.

Maybe Ukraine just biding its time before hitting this one at the last minute to truly frustrate the Russian occupiers.

One of the many, many war crimes and morally bankrupt actions #Russia stands accused of.

#StopRussiaNOW #SaveUkraine

#Russia has only about 20% of its cruise missiles remaining.

That's the view of #Ukraine's Head of Military Intelligence. Vadym Skibitsky also added "they have no more than 45% of the missiles that were there before the start of the war."

rbc.ua/ukr/news/vadim…
At times @AP has come in for criticism from some #Ukraine watchers for being "too close" to the Russians.

So today's report saying there was no evidence of military among the victims in the #Chaplyne massacre looks credible, leading to more war crimes.

apnews.com/article/russia…
#Putin has told his invaders in #Ukraine to provide armed guards at schools in occupied #Luhansk, #Donetsk, #Kherson and #Zaporizhzhia when the new school year begins next week.
Another "private house" is on fire in #Donetsk.

Remarkably similar to yesterday, far more black smoke and fierce flames than one would imagine for a regular house with regular contents it seems to me. This is in the Kalininskyi district of the occupied city.

#StopRussiaNOW
Video of the situation in frontline #Vuhledar (RU: #Ugledar) in #Donetsk oblast.

The town, as with all others, is just mercilessly bombed by #Russia with no regard for civilian objects or infrastructure.

#Donbas #Ukraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Near the start of this thread I reported on the explosions in central #Donetsk.

Looks like quite a bit of damage was caused. Here's a video of the scene from this morning.

#Donbas #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
#Kharkiv's authorities have spent the day cleaning up the night time damage.

Again S-300s were used - ground to air missiles, impossible to guide these properly, so they land "somewhere fairly near" where they are aimed with a lot of collateral damage.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Ukraine should soon have MiG-29 fighter aircraft.

Slovakia signed an agreement for fellow NATO neighbours #Poland and #Czechia to patrol its skies.

This allows #Slovakia's stock of Soviet era aircraft to be sent to Ukraine - but Bratislava has indicated it wants some payment.
Explosions in occupied #NovaKakhovka in #Kherson Oblast.

On this video you can just about see the flash and hear the blast a little while later.

#Ukraine #RussiansGoHome
A fire rages in occupied #Donetsk after a suspected missile strike.

This is in Zapereval'na district in the east of the city.

#Donbas #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
A little further east heading away from #Donetsk, there's also been a fire in the village of #Zuhres (RU; Zugres)

I've not heard about rockets here, but still the most likely reason.
The #Ukraine defence ministry account continues its run of great trolling tweets this evening.

A touch of the Harry Potters about this!

Explosions heard in #Mykolaiv this evening.

There is an electric storm in the region, but this doesn't sound like thunder.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Seems as though #Ukraine's artillery is busy this evening.

Multiple loud bangs in occupied #Kherson, seeming to be near the city centre, in addition to the rockets in Nova Kakhovka I wrote about a while ago.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiansGoHome
Another collaborator in #Zaporizhzhia is dead.

Andriy Ryzhkov, Head of Police in the town of Mykhailivka was found hanged - supposedly suicide.

He was previously a border guard with #Ukraine before retiring. After the invasion he offered his services to the invaders.

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Day 187 of Europe's war. In truth war has been in the continent for over 8 years.

A new week begins and my daily threads continue, documenting the main news of #Russia's illegal invasion of #Ukraine

Plenty of news yesterday. If you missed it, check here:
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This big explosion just one of the blasts heard right in the centre of Kherson itself, on vulitsya Parovozna.

#Russia has suffered big losses in Kherson region the past 24 hours.
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Sunday 28 August, it's Day 186 of #Russia's full scale invasion.

The day begins with the usual sounds of shelling and terror by the Terrorist State upon #Ukraine. Updates to follow..

Here's the link to the start of yesterday's thread

#Zaporizhzhia once again a focal point for #Russia's invaders.

There are indeed reports of firing in both directions, across the frontline which separates free and occupied ZP.

Reliable reports of explosions in occupied areas, while #Ukraine says its' air defence is working:
In #Kharkiv there are conflicting reports.
Some channels say air defences working well here too.
However others posting on social media about "arrivals" in the area, and the audio on this video clip is convincing

#StandWithUkraine #Kharkov #StopRussia
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Welcome to Friday's daily thread on #Russia's unprovoked war.

It's Day 184 of #Ukraine's fight for survival against the full invasion. All the news, all day in one place.

Thanks to BB for buying me a coffee this morning, you can too - see my profile!
First, I know a few people like to see what they missed from the night before, lost in the mass of Tweets!

Here's the start of yesterday's thread, scroll down to see what you missed.

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They won't run out soon, but cannot replace as quickly as they were firing.
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It's Thursday, it's Day 183 of #Russia's 3-4 day plan to capture #Kyiv, and the timetable to control all of #Ukraine is 173 days behind schedule!

Quite a lot of news late y'day, read on for today's developments, or click here to scroll through y'day's 🧵
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#Russia even tried to block President Zelenskyy from speaking via video link at the #UN

Here's the UK Intel briefing for Thursday

#StopRussia
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Tokyo says it's for energy security as Mitsubishi + Mitsui seek to remain in Russia's key LNG export plan in the far East.

Moscow may yet reject the offer.
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🇺🇦Happy 31st birthday #Ukraine🇺🇦
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This is daily thread number 182. All the news all the time

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The British PM has just 10 days left in Office.

#SlavaUkraini #UkraineIndependenceDay

📷@AP
Not directly related to the war (unless sabotage) but a breaking story in #Russia

Three ships have been ripped from anchor in a storm at Baidukov Island in the #Amur Estuary - that's the very far east of Russia near #Sakhalin

54 were on board and a rescue operation is underway.
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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"
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