Thread by @PeterClifford1

#Ukraine: Latest updates from #UkraineWar: 1. A lot happening in #Kherson and #Kharkiv regions. Videos/pics suggest UA forces are gaining ground & making substantial progress. Suggestion UA has acquired so much equipment that Russia is now UA’s biggest supplier! #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. As we await confirmation from UA General Command, UK intel says heavy fighting has taken place in the last 24 hours nr #Kharkiv, #Donbas & #Kherson regions. Russia facing threats over 500 km which will test their operational ability, as earlier in the war. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 3. Claimed that UA forces have wiped out a Russian Special Rapid Response Unit at #Balakleya , #Kharkiv region
and many Russian prisoners taken elsewhere, including a lieutenant colonel. Reports some Russian units surrounded. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 4. On their way to #Balakleya it is said UA forces discovered a concealed storage site for 20+ missiles used in the S-300 SAM system. UA artillery said to have eliminated it. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 5. Reports that UA forces brought down 2 x Russian SU-25 jets today, + 1 Ka-52 helicopter and 2 drones, all destroyed in different regions where UA is on the offensive. Lviv paratroopers also said to have shot down another Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter #tweet100

#Ukraine: 6. Reported that UA forces destroyed a barge containing Russian troops and equipment as it was crossing the river nr #HolaPrystan in the #Kherson region, a crossing mentioned yesterday. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 7. UA forces have also destroyed a large concentration of Russian troops in the #Kherson offensive during their offensive and ammunition has been detonating for hours. More details awaited. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 8. UA Air Force says it believes Russia’s ammo/missile reserves are starting to run out which is why it is using more outdated equipment which is less accurate, such as S-300 systems and KH-22 & KH-59 missiles. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 9. The US has decided not to register Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, believing that the label could jeopardise the export of badly needed grain via the Black Sea. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 10. According to UA General Staff private military companies operating in Ukraine on behalf of Russia suffer significant losses as high as 40% seriously wounded or killed. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 11. #Kahovska hydro power station, which Russia disconnected yesterday, was restored to the UA grid this morning. UA maintenance teams will be allowed to service the facility twice a week. Not ideal, but keeps power flowing. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 12. Recent equipment captured by UA includes, a T-72B3 tank, a Ural cargo truck and a vehicle mounted IED drone jammer nr #Balakliya, 2 T-72B3 tanks nr #Izium, and a BM-21 Grad multi missile launcher in the #Kharkiv region. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 13. Yet more hardware captured includes a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, a Shturm-S ATGM anti-tank guided missile vehicle, a R-149MA1 command & control vehicle, and a 100mm MT-12 Rapira AT gun with HE-Frag shells. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 14. In addition, a BTR-4E armoured vehicle which was lost to Russia in March 2022 has just been recovered and returned to its rightful owners, UA forces, in the #Kharkiv region. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 15. Explosions being reported nr the airport at #Mariupol this evening. #Lithuania is reported to be sending some of its 105 mm M101 howitzers to UA. And the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is saying Russians have been driven eastwards in #Kharkiv region. #tweet100