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Day 191 of #Russia's full invasion of its peaceful neighbour.

But #Ukraine wouldn't lie down and the fightback is underway.

All the news and analysis in one handy thread ⬇️

Here's the link for yesterday's 🧵in case you missed anything:

First confirmation of one late story last night.

Many collaborators, police and even FSB reported dead in #Kherson when an explosion hit a police school still widely used by the occupiers.

This is the site this morning

Following the latest death of a prominent Russian critic of the war, thereve been a lot of memes and jokes.

This one cuts deep on different levels and Defence Minister Shoigu must really be worried

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopPutin
Still high daily losses (on both sides) as #Ukraine advances in the south but strong resistance shown by some #Russia units too.

All the first four daily totals remain above average for Russian losses.

We're on course to reach 50,000 dead by Tuesday at current rates
Britain's MoD today has a pop at the level, and usefulness, of #Russia's military exercises.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
Inspectors return to the Occupied #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant today. It will be interesting to see if the @iaeaorg team convinces #Russia to allow
1) unfettered access rather than a tour of certain parts
2) independent journalists to attend

reuters.com/world/europe/u…
A big fire on occupied #Crimea this morning.

The Yumashevsky market in #Sevastopol went up in flames.

I am on the look out for more local acts of sabotage in Crimea and wouldn't be surprised if this was one, but hard to prove either way. No injuries but a lot of damage.
Adding to the previous tweet, there's also a video of the fire in #Sevastopol's Yumashevky market

#Crimea #CrimeaIsUkraine #StopRussia
#StandWithUkraine
Overnight #Russia bombed a kindergarten in #Sloviansk

No injuries as the "Teremok" nursery was reduced to rubble.

#StopRussiaNOW #RussiaIsATerroristState
Also in the #Ukraine held part of #Donetsk, the town of #Kostiantynivka was hit with heavy artillery.

#Russia's rockets struck the right bank of #Konstantinovka, near Tikhii Park (ironically meaning Quiet Park)

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
As new Chechen conscripts are sent off to fight in #Ukraine, it's laughable what they're told.

Basically if we don't want our children to grow up with LGBT we need to fight.

It occurs to me many of these guys' relatives will have been killed by Putin in #Chechnya.
There was a very big attack by #Ukraine in occupied #Melitopol overnight.

12 missiles counted arriving in the town, the first couple hit an ammo dump near the airfield where locals say "fireworks" lasted several hours.

Another #Russia base also targeted.

#SlavaUkraini
I've highlighted in these threads how #Melitopol is especially vulnerable now after the invaders withdrew a lot of air defence machinery to assist in "protecting" #Kherson

In recent days #Russia's been pouring masses of new military hardware to the area

ru.krymr.com/a/news-cherez-…
#Russia's Defence Minister (at least for today) says 3,000 "foreign mercenaries" have been 'destroyed' since the beginning of its "special operation".

Is he including Wagner mercenaries in that figure? I think we need to know😉😆
Shoigu has also said #Russia:

Has gained #Pesky in #Donetsk (5th time official Kremlin voices said that - but I think they mean total control this time)

Does not have heavy weapons at the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant nor surrounding areas.
(Likely they moved ahead of the visit)
#Russia also claims to have captured the village of #Blahodatne (RU: #Blagodatnoe) north of #Kherson city, and has reached the state border with #Mykolaiv.

Unverified but plausible, but holding any such gains west of the Dnipro will be tough in coming weeks.

#StandWithUkraine
What???

#Russia's Olympic Committee announces it has been invited to the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees.

If this is true it's both staggering and shameful @iocmedia
Back to #Kherson now and #Russia may be repeating false-flag tactics in #Donetsk.
The occupiers seemingly start to fire on occupied cities to "prove to locals" Ukraine is firing.

So in Kherson two dead after this missile strike. Misdirected 🇺🇦rocket or 🇷🇺deliberate hit?
Another terrible story of arbitrary detentions, exploitation, torture and #Russia's manipulation and disinformation.

#StopRussia #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiansGoHome

khpg.org/en/1608811108
Uh oh!
No wonder the big uptick in "positive" spin stories coming out of Peskov and Shoigu today.

Waiting now for more cavalcades to the Kremlin, more ministerial casualties.

Levada's data have always been trusted.

A sports complex in #Kharkiv is the latest civilian infrastructure to be demolished by Russian missiles.

Governor Synehubov says S-300 rockets hit the Lokomotiv sports complex overnight, destroying a swimming pool and a new boxing club, which was only opened in February.
Right now explosions reported in occupied #NovaKakhova as #Ukraine keeps up the pressure.
Reports of an ammo dump having been hit.

Earlier looks like #Ukraine hit a Russian warehouse near the #Antonivskyi railway bridge about 6km east of the road bridge.

#RussiansGoHome
#ZaporizhzhiaNPP in #Enerhodar, occupied #Ukraine

I'm open to correction here but it seems as though @iaeaorg inspectors are asking why the missile sticks out so much as if it didn't travel far (i.e. from the Occupiers themselves) and the Russian boss says it did a 180 turn?
A lot of rockets landing #Nikopol again today, just across the river from the nuclear plant.

The Tryxa channel reports this as "the moment of today's arrival in Krasnohrihorivka district"

The CCTV stamps says it was yesterday, but that could be wrong and it could be today.
In #Donetsk a couple of rockets seem to have hit something as smoke begins to rise.

This is the #Petrivskyi district of the occupied city.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine️
A prisoner swap deal has seen 14 #Ukraine soldiers released from Russian captivity.

These men are from the 30th and 58th brigades and we're captured towards the end of May.

#SlavaUkraini #StopRussia
Is this strange?
Remember the first ship permitted to leave #Ukraine's Black Sea ports with food products, and how the #Razoni switched off its locator signal and turned up in #Syria?

Just done a check and found it's now going to #Russia, currently by occupied #Crimea.
More and more strikes on #Donetsk city today.

Three plumes of smoke can be seen in this clip. One in the distance beyond the Donbas Arena, the other two nearer the centre and the camera.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNOW
After the 48 hour intense bombardment, #Ukraine is confident that all routes over the Dnipro in #Kherson region are not useable having hit pontoon bridges as well as the main structures.

Spokeswoman for The 🇺🇦Southern Command says some roads are available but under fire-control
I missed this little thread and video from Hollywood star @JessicaChastain posted yesterday.

She met with Volodomyr Zelenskyy and posted details to her 4m Instagram followers and another million here on Twitter:

Recently I highlighted problems for Ukrainians trying to cross a checkpoint between occupied and free #Zaporizhzhia

It seems from reports in #Latvia that #Russia is doing the same. A deliberate go-slow if you hold a #Ukraine passport, leaving many stranded in squalid conditions
All sorts of speculation about what this tweet implies from #Ukraine's Presidential Adviser!

ATACMS is a state of the art, precision missile system.
I'm scouring cameras and reports!

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

As I wrote yesterday, @rafaelmgrossi has confirmed they will have a permanent presence at the nuclear plant in #Enerhodar.

The Head of the @iaeaorg is holding a press conference now.

#Russia has effectively turned off gas supplies to Europe. The 3-day stoppage for "maintenance" seems likely to be extended.

No doubt a response to the G7 nations agreeing a price cap on Russian oil. Moscow says it will only sell oil to "friends" who pay real market prices.
The press conference from
@rafaelmgrossi
about the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has ended. He was very diplomatic as one would expect with no blame or outright criticism.
He said he "has seen everything he requested to see" contradicting #Ukraine's view.
Apparently it's a Twitter "thang" to describe yourself/mood in one word.

@ZelenskyyUa chimed in with "Freedom" while Defence Sec @OleksiyDanilov wrote "PutinKaputt"

The front page of Saturday’s International NEW YORK Times is interesting:
“Hard-liners seethe as Putin avoids setting draft”
Just north of #Kherson centre, around Kozatsky, #Ukraine hit another Russian base earlier.

The blaze and subsequent explosions lasted quite a while.

#StopRussia #SaveUkraine #RussiansGoHome
Two people are said to have been killed and another badly injured in the centre of #Donetsk today.

Rockets landed near the theatre.
#StopRussia
In #Zaporizhzhia, a couple of news sites are reporting a Russian base has been hit.

The photo is said to show the town of #Tokmak.
Unconfirmed.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiansGoHome
#RussiaOnFire

A suspicious blaze to report at a well known site in the far east of #Russia

Fire broke out early on Saturday morning in the former "Breeze" cafe and Chinese restaurant in #Nakhodka. Soon the roof collapsed, but the building was empty and there were no injuries.
The Head of a kindergarten in #Russia has been fired for giving kids certificates featuring the national symbol of #Ukraine

It happened in #Chita, 200km from the border with Mongolia

Officials will remind teachers "about the inadmissibility of negligence in professional duties"

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