#Ukraine: Latest news reports from #UkraineWar: 1. Pres. Zelensky confirms that UA forces have now liberated more than 30 settlements in the #Kharkiv region. Believed to be 1,000 sq. km now back in UA hands. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Pres. Zelensky also confirmed that fierce battles are continuing in the #Donbas and #Kherson regions. Report that #Blahodativka in the Kherson region is also now under UA control. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. I don't know how accurate this animation is, but an outstanding advance by UA forces towards Kupyansk and Lyman, where fighting is reported this evening. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 4. If UA can consolidate and protect the regained territory in #Kharkiv region then Russian forces in #Izium are at risk of being surrounded. Their supply routes are already under attack. Slava Ukraini! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. Latest reports coming in from #Kupyansk say that one of the bridges there over the Oskil River has been destroyed. Bridges, supply routes and ammo depots in eastern #Kharkiv are now all within UA artillery/rocket range. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. In retaliation for the UA advance, Russia launched a barrage of rockets against #Kharkiv city last night, wounding 10. Believed fired from Belgorod in Russia. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. One of the Russian rockets fired from #Belgorod fell back on the city (again) last night and is believed to have set fire to the city's electrical station causing a blackout! (You can't make this stuff up!) #tweet100
#Ukraine: 8. The scale of UA's advance is again reflected in UA's reported Russian deficit today (9th). 51900 Russians killed (+650), 2122 tanks destroyed (+10), 4575 armoured vehicles (+18), 1237 artillery units (+11) - +s all in one day! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. Continued shelling on #Enerhodar today, the nearest town to the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, caused a blackout, compromising its safe operation. Generators will have to be used to keep reactors cool. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 10. As Russians fled from their overrun positions in the #Kharkiv region, it appears they didn't want to take their collaborators with them. Head of #Ivanivka village arrested. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 11. To be confirmed, but Russian Lt.Colonel captured yesterday in #Kharkiv advance, may be in fact Lt.General Andrei Sychevoi, Commander of Russia's eastern forces! UA trying to verify. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 12. Apparently, UA special forces have destroyed the Moskva-1, a $57 million Russian military radar complex able to identify airborne targets at 400 km, one of only 9 in Russia. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 13. The letter Ї — which only appears in the Ukrainian alphabet, not the Russian, is appearing across #Mariupol as a symbol of resistance. (Sure to appear elsewhere, shortly!). #tweet100
#Ukraine: 14. Today's UA score card 1. : Another Tor-M1 SAM missile system captured in #Kharkiv advance as well as a valuable 1L261 radar vehicle +a counter battery complex and a fully loaded 122mm Grad multi-rocket launcher. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Today's UA score card 2. : Another BTR-82A armoured personnel carrier in good condition was captured in the #Kharkiv region + BMP-1 and MT-LBVM armoured vehicles, a Shilka anti-aircraft gun destroyed. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: Latest updates - lot's happening in #UkraineWar: 1. In the NE #Kharkiv region UA forces have liberated 700 sq km, taken 20 settlements & penetrated 50 km into Russian defence positions today. Freed villagers in tears. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. UA forces have confirmed they now have control over the city of #Balakliya, #Kharkiv region and the UA flag has been restored to #Borschivka just to the north-east. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Russian troops ran away so quickly from #Balakliya that they left a lot of equipment and ammo - much of which will be shot back to Russian targets. Raising the flag over Balakliya:
#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: 2. This evening UA strikes are reported in #HolaPrystan , another location which the Russians are trying to use as a port for barges and ferries to supply their troops on the #Kherson frontline. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. In #Berdyansk, currently Russian occupied, the Russian appointed commandant of the Azov port city was severely injured today when his car was blown up nr the civil-military admin building. Partisans busy. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Today’s news from #UkraineWar: 1. UA forces are taking territory from Russia in the South, but at a heavy cost. Russians are reported to be fighting hard with lots of equipment, but few men. “They’re throwing everything against us,” said UA soldier. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Despite UA having recaptured a number of villages, Russians are not fleeing without a fight say UA troops & are attempting to hold off UA advances with tanks, artillery & helicopters. Western analysts say UA is achieving its tactical objectives. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Natalia Humeniuk, spokeswoman for the Southern Military Command, said today that Russia had suffered “significant losses” in the #Kherson counter offensive and promised more details shortly. #tweet100
#Ukraine: The latest posts on the #UkraineWar: 1. Shortly after the IAEA nuclear inspectors left Kyiv for the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Russia shelled their approach route. The inspectors have made their 1st checks and 5 will remain there. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. At the same time Russia is claiming that Ukraine sent 60 commandos to “recapture the nuclear plant and 3 were taken prisoner”. None of which makes sense. UA intel says long term Russia is planning to evacuate the #Zaporizhzhia plant altogether. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Earlier, Energoatom, the UA atomic operator said it shut down 1 of the 2 operational reactors because of Russian shelling in the area. Rafael Grossi, director of the IAEA said, “There was a lot more to do” & they were “establishing a continued presence”. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Latest updates from #UkraineWar: 1. UA Operational Command now says it has killed 117 Russian troops in the #Kherson offensive & RUS equipment destroyed includes 9 T-72 tanks, 3 Grad multi-missile launchers, 1 Giantsin-S howitzer & 18 armoured vehicles. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Following above, UA forces report they also struck 4 Russian control points & 4 transportation/supply routes including again the Antonivsky Bridge nr #Kherson. Possible Russian column hit this afternoon in the Oleshki district outside Kherson, locals say. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. In #Mykhailivika in the #Zaporizhia region explosions and fire were reported last night at a Russian base/warehouse. At #Tomak in the same region there was a detonation of Russian ammo early in the morning nr the railway station. #tweet100