Latest @DefenceHQ update takes note of #Ukraine's advances against #Russia in the Kharkiv Oblast, which the Russians had only lightly defended; there was also likely an element of surprise. The Ukrainians are pressing on in Kherson, too. 
#Ukraine has liberated Kupyansk, the crucial city of #Russia's occupation administration in #Kharkiv. Her troops can be seen here in the city centre.
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1568493582549680129
Igor Girkin, #Russia's man in occupied eastern #Ukraine after 2014, says the situation is effectively already a strategic defeat. Ukraine has won the battle for the initiative, and now threatens to encircle and annihilate large numbers of Russian troops.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568502187835404289
A #Russian Telegram channel reports that the crucial logistical node of Izyum has been liberated from Russian occupation and is now back in #Ukrainian hands.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1568502706557296641
#pt: While it is not yet confirmed Izyum has been liberated by #Ukraine, this did happen yesterday:
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1568369338578599938
Those who tried to legitimise #Russia's occupation of parts of #Ukraine by pretending it was the humanitarian option because the Ukrainians just can't recapture territory - better "painful political concessions" than lose people pointlessly fighting - need a new talking point.
Explains everything
https://twitter.com/TermitesTurd/status/1568328909791395840
Andrey Rudenko says #Ukraine's advances in the Kharkiv area threaten the Donbas and could bring total collapse to #Russia's occupation zone in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1568512140213878784
Last night, the #Russian collaborationist regime in Kharkiv tried to encourage #Ukrainian civilians to flee from the zone into Russia, all while insisting there was no reason to panic.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568374505357320193
There is a feel to what #Ukraine is doing of Operation STORM, the Croatian recapture of her territory from Serbian occupation, after long preparation to isolate and weaken the enemy, and build up its own strength to sustain the offensive.
Ukraine does not have the same sectarian issue, though: the Krajina in eastern Croatia was under Belgrade's control but it was physically occupied by Croatian citizens who were Serbian Orthodox Christians; the liberating force was largely Roman Catholic.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1568520334927691776
#Australia has contributed significantly to #Ukraine's defence
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1568209101624168448
If the #Russians have fled Lyman, too ....
https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1568529953393676290
An unusually self-reflective post from #Russia's neo-Nazi-core "Wagner" unit about Moscow's failure, over 30 years, to build an army capable of modern warfare.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568524159675781120
Unclear if the fat lady is clearing her throat over Lyman or has finished the rendition
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1568544126831927296
All analysts have hits and misses, even neo-Nazis planning wars of aggression.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1568564885008646144
Pretty extraordinary. The main #Russian Telegram channels at the front in #Ukraine asking the leadership in Moscow to cut the shit in its messaging, seeing the pretence that all is well (or the silence) as detrimental to their own mission.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568579775966466049
The only reason the Asad-Iran-Russia coalition ever took Palmyra back was due to (indirect) US assistance, too. From March 2017: "The West Helped the Assad Regime and Its Allies Take Palmyra" kyleorton.co.uk/2017/03/04/the…
https://twitter.com/HKaaman/status/1568584905566593025
A vote of confidence ... #Russian Telegram channels see the only way to rescue the situation as #Ukraine's counter-offensive obliterates their lines as using tactical nuclear weapons.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1568563650201264128
Very moving video of #Ukraine's troops preparing for what we now know to have been an extremely effective counter-offensive against #Russia.
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1568533226678788096
#Russia has "regroup[ed]" from Balakliya and Izyum. God willing, the Russians will regroup to within their own borders soon.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1568603848008421377
Seven Duma (Parliament) deputies from Saint Petersburg who proposed a bill to charge Putin with high treason have been summoned by the police to fill out protocols on a charge of "discrediting Russia's Armed Forces". rferl.org/a/russian-puti…
#US State Department spokesman Ned Price called for #Russia's government to immediately release imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who was recently sent to solitary confinement. rferl.org/a/us-calls-rus…
Confirmation that #Russia's army is leaving Vovchansk, suggests the reports from an hour ago, that the collaborationist administration had fled the city, were true.
https://twitter.com/mattia_n/status/1568607639713550336
Had wondered as #Ukraine's counter-offensive in Kherson began whether there would be a chain-reaction collapsing #Russia's lines. The whole edifice of Russian power is just so hollow, seemed possible a couple of serious blows would bring the lot down.
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1565628398952714241
The ferris wheel #Putin opened this morning in Moscow has broken down, which seems like a very on-the-nose metaphor for the functionality of his state right about now.
Had to be done
https://twitter.com/beaver_why/status/1568626767685947392
The "Head" of #Russia's puppet republic in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, gives a rousing speech to boost morale from a speeding care, while definitely not running away.
#Ukraine pressing in on #Lysychansk in the Donbas
https://twitter.com/serhey_hayday/status/1568618305614757890
#Ukraine captures a vast haul of #Russia's equipment in Izyum
https://twitter.com/golub/status/1568679563219066881
Seems that in addition to all the ghanima #Ukraine has captured in the liberated areas, there was a raid across the border into #Russia itself to take some more
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1568667777631748099
#Ukraine's President Zelensky remains very good at this. The right substance and style for the moment.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1568678364202008579
A novel proposal
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568682705969111040
The statement by #Russia's Defence Ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, with its heavy "Baghdad Bob" overtones, explaining away a catastrophic collapse of defensive lines in #Ukraine as a "regroup", seems likely to live on in meme and song going forward.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1568615332612378626?t=4N4C-sh_51LT7V8nr7mOMA&s=19
Pre-invasion police chief in Kupyansk arrested effectively for treason. #Ukraine is cracking down, which might well impact calculations across the occupied areas: traitors who come back to Ukraine before the army arrests then will have an easier time.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1568691643553021952
Apparent intercepted call: #Russian soldier approaching #Ukraine to surrender, wants to be sure, and double sure and triple sure before he does, that his balls are not going to be cut off. @DefenceU tries to explain the concept of a law-bound army to him.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1568691611844116480
#Russian state TV reporter Andrei Medvedev, with a significantly change in tone, says Russians alive watching the disaster in #Ukraine, now know how Russians felt during the darkest days of the Great Fatherland War.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1568667363624603648
#Ukraine's President Zelensky met with @TimothyDSnyder
https://twitter.com/marci_shore/status/1568667225548292098
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