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Oct 23, 2022 36 tweets 33 min read Read on X
It's Day 242 of #Russia's war on #Ukraine - you know that war where Moscow bragged it would be in Kyiv in 3 days and have control on Day 4.

This is the daily news thread of all the relevant developments as we complete the 8th month of the illegal conflict.

#StandWithUkraine️
A lot of interesting news came in late last night, including explosion and deaths at a gunpowder factory in #Russia and freedom for two more villages in #Kherson.

If you want to catch up on yesterday's stories, here's the start of Saturday's thread:

The #UK update today takes a look at the "Wagner Line" of defence.

I covered this a few days ago and Whitehall also concludes #Russia has accepted that its defence needs to be way behind current front lines.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
After some quiet days, numbers are moving up again quite rapidly in #Ukraine's daily total of losses incurred by #Russia in its' disastrous war.

Before the end of October we should reach 70,000 Russian troops killed.

2 more helicopters downed as well as many drones/missiles.
The US is raising the alarm about what will happen to world oil supplies and prices "in a few weeks" when Europe's sanctions fully bite at the Terrorist State.

A shadow fleet of tankers ready to try to bust the restrictions on #Russia's ships.

canadatoday.news/ca/russian-oil…
In Occupied #Enerhodar an hotel has been hit with 3 shells.

#Russia says an American M777 howitzer caused the devastation but they claim there are no victims.

The building is at the entrance to the town. Invaders have repeatedly taken over hotels in the occupied territories.
Last night #Ukraine arrested the owner of a well known manufacturing company Sich.

Security Services have now announced that Vyacheslav Bohuslaev and another employee are charged with collaboration with #Russia.

Media allege Sich illegally supplied goods for🇷🇺 attack aircraft.
#Ukraine shot down 16 more of #Iran's "Shahed-136" UAVs overnight, according to its Air Force Command.

11 of the "Kamikaze" attack drones were intercepted over #Mykolaiv oblast in particular, although the region suffered heavy damage in cruise missile attacks...

#StopRussia
This time yesterday morning Kalibr cruise missiles hit critical infrastructure in #Mykolaiv, but this morning it was back to anti-aircraft S300 missiles used to hit residential buildings.

Here a 5 storey apartment block destroyed by #Russia

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Here's an alternative video of the devastation brought to #Mykolaiv this morning.

Officials say only one person was injured. Air raid warnings were sounding at the time.

#Nikolaev #StandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Overnight, the illegal administration in #Luhansk reported that 8 #HIMARS missiles had been fired on the Occupied territory.

Six were said to have arrived in #Novoaidar with others in #Zolote and #Svatove - yet somehow not one photo of damage or the downed American missiles.
A new dashcam video has been published on the internet showing the moment one of #Russia's military jets flew into a tower block in #Yeysk, #Krasnodar region last Monday.

15 people died in the incident.
#Bakhmut, #Donetsk region.
More shelling, more damage.
Little change in the front-line with #Russia supplying huge pressure from the south and east.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiansGoHome
Damage is being assessed in #Zaporizhzhia after more shelling and drone attacks in the city.

#Ukraine says "a public building" was hit by a kamikaze drone in the regional capital but no injuries reported.

Meanwhile S300s hit villages in the oblast.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Also in #Zaporizhzhia, the armed forces of #Ukraine claim to have killed around 100 Russian fighters and destroyed 5 units of weapons + military equipment in strikes on #Russia's positions in the occupied part of the region.

#SaveUkraine
The Scum count is really high right now.
This is #Russia's state propaganda news channel, still broadcast by many countries around the world, and not banned in #UK though no longer transmitted via satellite.

OK everyone, especially my UK followers. Let's track down who the real owner of this van is.

I reckon it's been stolen by #Russia after a humanitarian mission; #Newcastle area dialing code, #Consett written on the side.

Fleeing invaders used this lorry to loot in #Kherson y'day
#Belarus' Ministry of Transport and Communications has switched off live stream of hundreds of traffic cams in the country.

#Ukraine journalists report they did this once before, in January this year, a month before the invasion.

#BelarusIsATerroristState #BelarusIsOccupied
In the trace for the owner of the truck originally from the north-east of England, this is the best suggestion so far. Thanks Hannah

I've never seen helmet-cam footage of a pilot surviving being shot down. Here one of #Russia's air force serviceman ejecting moments from death in #Ukraine a few months ago.

A new "gesture of goodwill" from #Russia's air force as another military jet smashes into a residential building.

This happened in #Irkutsk. 4 people live in the house but amazingly they were out and no-one was hurt on the ground but both pilots died.
Here's another video taken a little later in #Irkutsk, #Russia where a military plane crashed into a house.

Both pilots died.
New video from #Irkutsk - the Russian military jet descended almost vertically into the house, and was caught on a dashcam.
1/2

Seems #Russia is now being hit with a wave of bomb scares.

Two more that I've just seen in the past few minutes after an incident Friday in #Volgograd.

First #StPetersburg at the famous Church of the Savior on Blood

#StopRussia

gazeta.spb.ru/2507078-iz-za-…
2/2

Yesterday in #Perm' three people died in an explosion at a gunpowder factory.

Today the popular Leroy Merlin home furnishings/garden store is hastily evacuated after a bomb threat.

#StopRussia
3/3
oh let's add a 3rd post - another bomb scare.

This time #Moscow, where the Troika shopping center is being evacuated.

rossaprimavera.ru/news/426b80bc
Back to the plane crash in #Irkutsk.

Another video showing the crazy descent of the Su-30 jet of #Russia's Air Force.

Preliminary investigations say the pilots were unconscious, which may explain the trajectory, especially if it ran out of fuel.
A suspected attack by #Ukraine Resistance Movement in #Kherson.

#Russia's occupiers say an IED was attached to a lamppost. One person died, three injured.

The target may have been the Head of the city's pre-trial detention centre, but he escaped unharmed.

#RussiansGoHome
Some trouble at a fairly large protest in the capital of #Moldova.

Demonstrators against the President Maia Sandu almost broke through police lines in #Chisinau.

The Shor party is pro-Russian
📹NewsMaker.md
Earlier #Ukraine confirmed Russia's military stayed at this hotel.

However Moscow now claims the only people staying there were workers from the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

Really? But they live in #Enerhodar. Weren't they staying in their own houses?

Remember the #Israel strikes on #Syria a couple of days back? Straight after Israel refused to send defensive weapons to #Ukraine... well it may be the next best thing, destroying Russian weapons/drones before they even get their hands on them!

glavred.info/world/izrail-u…
One of #Russia's best known war-propagandists, Semyon Pegov has been wounded in #Donetsk.

Founder of WarGonzo, he's previously been arrested for being drunk/abusive in a Moscow hotel, caught faking reports but has now supposedly just come round from surgery after this incident
Nothing to do with the war, but it did happen in #Moscow, at a warehouse for internet store Wildberries.

I shouldn't laugh, oh too late! LOL
More newly mobilised Russian troops enjoying life in the "second army of the world"

These conscripts say they were left in a hangar without food, water, electricity or heat.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia
In #Kherson locals say there's been a hit on an address used by #Russia's FSB.

The Occupiers reportedly used an address on Krymskaya where these photos were sneakily taken.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiansGoHome
#Ukraine's Minister of Defence tonight:

Reminder #UK and #USA were signatories of the #BudapestMemorandum.

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You can see photos and video from those reports at the end of yesterday's thread, which began with more daytime strikes by Moscow's war criminals...

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